Golfing lesson

Golfing lesson

A flat left wrist

exists within

a quantum realm..

A flat dimension

amid a dimensionless field

of Being..

The wrist has control

of the body's

shifting and sequencing

in time..

But in the downswing

the wrist melts

as quantum reality merges

 wrist and ball and target:

A settled relaxing

as the ball compresses...!

for any golfers out there...!  :)

Coloring the Light

Coloring the Light

A photo's dark background

is ofttimes overlooked..

It fills the spaces between

and we might assume

some darkness is replaced

with the flowers and tree

which so pleasantly 

treat the eye..

What a difference though

if the appearing dark

hides an eternal light and

 out of its own brilliance

this beauty does appear...

Needles

Needles

“When one is able to mingle practice with the activities of daily life, these activities will then be beneficial and devoid of any harm whatsoever. That is if one has already recognized one's essence correctly. Without the correct recognition one will get carried away by the daily activities - one will have no stability. Lacking stability is like a strand of hair in the wind bending according to how the wind blows whereas a needle will be stable no matter how small it is. Even a very thin needle cannot be bent by the wind. Once one has truly recognized one's essence one cannot be carried away by the activities of daily life, just as a needle that is stable. Dualistic mind is completely unstable, like a hair that is just ready to move by the tiniest breeze; it falls prey to the five external sense objects. Awareness, on the other hand, when properly recognized, does never fall subject to sense objects. It is like a needle that is unmoved by the wind.”

~ Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, excerpt from ‘Vajradhatu Sun’, 1985

After Death

After Death

"It is the same mechanism which wants to know what will happen after death. For some reason that mechanism, that movement of thought, does not want to come to an end. But, if you want to know if there is anything beyond, you have to die now." U.G. Krishnamurti

Not Two

Not Two

Some say that our shadows and pain

result from denying the One

finding our separated world..

Others deny the separation

and claim finding our upper self..

What if we were to proclaim

Not Two

as no-thing

which becomes

One and All...!

Time's Purpose

Time's Purpose

15. THE PURPOSE OF TIME (p347-p347, A Course in Miracles)

Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties,but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is FOR; to learn just that and nothing more. God’s Teacher cannot be satisfied with His teaching until it constitutes ALL your learning. He has not fulfilled His teaching function until you have become such a consistent learner that you learn ONLY of Him. When this has happened, you will no longer need a teacher or time in which to learn.

Certain Awareness

Certain Awareness

Still searching in our time
 a question of finding that which
is certain..
A theory of everything seems
now and then
quite beyond grasping
not least of those scientists
spending their days
engaging their search..
But it truly seems
that we and our scientists
are still immersed 
as a separation continues
 its desperate hold..
Where is the hope..?
In those few becoming many
who of a sudden in time
glimpse their Awareness
and know at last
we must search
in unexpected places...!

Wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, the collapse of the wave function, and entanglement all point to awareness being an intrinsic aspect of reality. Yet we are still trying to understand them in terms of a worldview that believes the real world to be that of space, time, and matter, and relegates consciousness to some artifact of brain processes.

Yet the one thing of which we are certain is that we are aware. And it is the one thing the current worldview cannot account for. is profound anomaly will ultimately lead to the full paradigm shift to which contemporary physics is, unwittingly, pointing.

~~~Peter Russell

- See more at: http://www.scienceandnonduality.com/the-reality-of-consciousness-peter-russell/

The Stuff in Between

The Stuff in Between

We seemingly spend our time

riding on thoughts, feelings, perceptions

never to consider what lies between

each of these risings..

But in our years now we might

take note that Between is found

by Sages in centuries past

and by modern discoveries

as  stuff out of which all is made..

Between is the Space of Awareness

our Self really before the rising

of all of the seeming others 

others made only of our Stuff...!

Stimulation

Stimulation

She prayed for adversity

a non-logical wish for most of us

but a help in understanding

how all of life's black holes

might serve as stimulation

for a new recognition

here and now

of our true Self...

Sublime

In our rocky mountain vistas

and certain landscape

paintings

Our imaginings are captured

sometimes clear and ordered

in others stormy patterns

hiding then revealing

dark and jagged forms

almost hearing the hawk's

invisible circling call

Imagining ourselves on

precipitous mountain paths

blown by shifting icy winds

vertigo and dark crevices

fearsome obstacles foreshadowing

impending loss     then

most suddenly we return

to our observation places

warmth safety comfort

as before

our imagined landscape fears

now engulfed transformed

within a joyous

pervading light

a jolting new experience

mysteriously named by some

as the sublime

The word a gentle quiet

merging

of beauty and twin terrors

of fear and loss

Might we then find

in this our landscape viewing

a rehearsal

for life's dark confrontations

and on a promising day

enfold transmute and

with ecstatic labor

discover true beginnings

new births

reaching this time

to a friend

we know and name

Our Sublime

Duality's grasp

Duality's grasp

“Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. 

Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.”

Eckhart Tolle

Science within Consciousness

Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being.

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religous values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

Quantum physics is the physics of possibilities. And not just material possibilities, but also possibilities of meaning, of feeling, and of intuiting. You choose everything you experience from these possibilities, so quantum physics is a way of understanding your life as one long series of choices that are in themselves the ultimate acts of creativity.

Consciousness is not mind; it is the ground of all being, the ground of both matter and mind. Matter and mind are both possibilities of consciousness.

Consciousness, not matter, is the ground of all existence.

When we are aware of our inner-growth potential yet have no pretensions about ourselves, when we are vulnerable, then we can change.

The idea that consciousness is the ground of being is the basis of all spiritual traditions.

It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.

Consciousness comes first; it is the ground of all being. Everything else, including matter, is a possibility of consciousness. And consciousness chooses out of these possibilities all the events we experience.

Quantum physics presents a new and exciting worldview that challenges old concepts, such as deterministic trajectories of motion and causal continuity. If initial conditions do not forever determine an object's motion, if instead, every time we observe, there is a new beginning, then the world is creative at the base level.

Evolution is fundamentally creative, and when we align ourselves with the evolutionary movements of consciousness, the universe itself puts wind in our sails. Quantum thinking goes beyond the thoughts we're aware of; it includes unconscious processing, which doesn't just expand our boundaries, but can also free us from the suffering that conscious processing (sometimes known as 'the monkey mind') creates.

It is not just do do do. It is not just be be be. It is do be do be do.

What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is already a class of people who think in this way. They are called mystics, and they say it is all God. Finally, a few scientists dared to say that some of the characteristics attributed to God are similar to what we describe as consciousness.

Amit Goswami

Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/38915-Amit_Goswami

Smoky skies

Smoky skies

Wildfires rage 

and in our distance we share..

The smoke veils clarity

and we reject

with cough and watering..

Small particles conspire

to mask details

and mountain outlines 

appear and depart..

The clarity we lack

this summer represents

climate change perception..

With William Blake

we need heed and

our perception doors

soon cleanse...

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite." 

The rumble of a distant truck

The rumble of a distant truck

This August morning

the titled rumble with birds chirping..

The cat's interest aroused

by a bird's arrival 

and eased by departure..

Pink August blossoms 

criss-crossed by bees..

Inner sensing 

of what appears to be external..

Space of Awareness alive with

movement and color and sound..

perceptions

perceiving

Awareness...

Dark Matter

Dark Matter

Deposits remain from beliefs

of dualistic separate-selves..

Dissolving these locates 
life's greatest task..

Our Awareness discovery 

finds a quantum burst of joy

but lifetime's habits and beliefs

of separation deeply rooted

have deposited dark matter

in minds, organs, and cells..

This darkness need be brought forth

for dissolving in the expanse

of Awareness' bright transparence..

Continuing..let us inquire of

 deep cosmological past
of historical suffering

where deposits seem vast..

Awareness must witness

the same dissolution  

here and now
in our recognition of an 
ever-present Big Bang...!

Electricity

Electricity

Simply defined as

relationship

Wave and particle

Simultaneity..

It's a declaration

of a transcendence

of the duality we

sense and see..

This flash of news:

Our Awareness is electric

particle shines

as Wave is found

to be All...

Do not judge

Do not judge

Judging is separation

a duality creation

when unity is

our real need..

Judging stimulates

separation

worsens and multiplies..

No celebration

of That which Is...

We are the space

We are the space

It is most surprising

when space

of a sudden

is noticed..

The whiteness between

letters on a page

and the white beneath

the surface markings..

The metaphoric whiteness

is What we are..

One more surprise

the surface markings

are simply

made of the space...

Practicing Awareness

Practicing Awareness

It's what we are

without effort

transparent and infinite

empty and full

subjective Self

without center

available always

Now

Abide in these

As these...

Pointers

Pointers

There are those

pointing to splits and separation

and those

pointing to gathering and union..

Seemingly..

Splits and gathering

as we Awaken

point to each other...!

Razor's Edge

A celebration here 
of this teacher
on my path..
His simplicity for us
to find our real Self
as 
Awakened Awareness
and marking this
 different approach
for fulfillment
beyond mindfulness...

Stephan Bodian

June 7 · 

Here's an excerpt from my new book in progress, "Dancing on the Razor's Edge":

Perhaps the greatest paradox of the spiritual life is that we ultimately realize ourselves to be eternal, limitless, and all-pervasive, yet we wake up each morning in a particular body and mind, experiencing life through a particular set of eyes and ears, called upon to relate to particular people and circumstances. Though we know that we’re essentially nothing and everything, we still find ourselves answering to one name and not another, prefering strawberry to chocolate, laughing at some jokes and not others, and having certain feelings and thoughts but not the feelings and thoughts of the person next to us. Our essential nature is unconditional and free, but our bodies and personalities have been deeply conditioned over a lifetime and may react to life in automatic, preconditioned ways that do not accurately reflect the profound understanding we’ve awakened to. Unlike the proverbial hermit on the mountaintop, we’re called to live our inherent perfection through these imperfect human forms, dealing with the “karmic bundle” we’ve received from a combination of early experiences and genetic endowment.

As long as we’re fully established in the nondual truth that subject and object, self and other, are inseparable and that the world we encounter is merely an expression of our essential nature, this paradox poses no challenge whatsoever; it’s just a description of the extraordinary mystery of being human, the word made flesh, spirit taking human form. Life unfolds in its magical and perfect way, and who we really are remains both intimately engaged yet profoundly serene, in the world but not of it, touched, bemused, but undisturbed. Everything we encounter is welcomed and embraced as an equal expression of its source and essence, our very own self; nothing is left out, rejected, or refused. Embodiment, in other words, takes care of itself.

But as soon as there’s even a hair’s breadth of separation, subject and object are set infinitely apart, and we’re thrust back into the realm of self and other, of me and you and the world outside, where we’re compelled by fears for personal survival to do everything we can to protect ourselves from forces beyond our control. This is the realm the Buddhists call samsara--and most people call home. One moment we’re feeling at one with the flow of life, completely surrendered to the nondual field; the next moment we’re feeling hungry, frightened, and alone, gripped by deep feelings and disturbing thoughts we forgot we had.

This place where nirvana meets samsara, where the universal merges into the personal, I like to call the razor’s edge. In fact, it’s just another name for this timeless moment, where emptiness endlessly bursts into form. One of my awakening experiences occurred while I was doing a body therapy session. As I was lying on the mat, breathing deeply, I had the clear, embodied, deeply felt recognition that I was the infinite ocean of Being gushing forth through the heart as the boundless multiplicity of the manifest world. In other words, I realized through direct experience that each of us is the meeting place of the universal and the personal, the absolute and the relative. This is not some abstract concept; it’s a lived reality happening right now, through every body and mind. Consciousness and its objects are one, and they join in the seamlessness of the now.

Nonduality of the Cross

The Nonduality of the Cross

“Like a bridegroom, Christ went forth from his chamber… He came to the marriage-bed of the cross, and there in mounting it, he consummated his marriage. And when he perceived the sighs of the creature, he lovingly gave himself up to the torment in place of his bride, and joined himself to [her] forever.”

– St. Augustine

 

The crucifixion as a celebration of life? As a marriage? What the hell is going on?

When we wake up from our childhood dreams and stop taking our religious and spiritual metaphors literally, when we stop believing that the literal son of a literal “God” literally died on a literal cross and then was literally reborn and literally ascended to a literal heaven, the crucifix reveals its deeper and more intimately human truth: that when pain is no longer resisted, when we remember who we really are as the vast, open, spacious capacity for all of life, when we remember our true identity as consciousness itself, then our humanity, with all its beauty and messiness and its pains, is seen to be inseparable from the divine, undivided from grace, and therefore embraceable, even when it hurts.

The symbol of the cross points to that which cannot be crucified. It reminds us who we truly are prior to the story of time and space. In this place of presence, the bride and the bridegroom, the father and the son, time and the timeless, emptiness and form, even life and death are merely imaginary mental opposites, swimming in a love and a silence and a wholeness beyond comprehension.

The wild torture of the cross sucks you into its infinitely calm centre.

And so, the crucifixion, understood in its deeper spiritual sense, points beyond theology and even psychology, and becomes this ultimate invitation to awaken; in other words, to die to all that is false, and in the midst of that devastation, to discover the eternal life that you are. Call this stillness God or call it awareness or call it nothing at all, it really doesn’t matter anymore – it’s all simply a metaphor for who you already are, prior to words.

We all live our own crucifixion. We all sometimes face ruin and ridicule and despair and the loss of the image. Nobody escapes these trials of life completely. Nobody can divide themselves from the river of humanity, as the Buddha taught. The only question is, what your relationship to this existence? Can we “lovingly give ourselves up to the torment”? Can we be “joined forever” to ourselves, with peace beyond understanding? Can we see that death itself is not anything to fear? Can we find inner acceptance in the midst of the unacceptable?

Whether or not you believe literally in the crucifixion, and whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a nondualist or even an atheist, you cannot deny the crucifixion’s astonishing mythological and symbolic power, and its lasting importance as a universal teaching of profound awakening amidst unbearable pain, a teaching which transcends religion itself and speaks to everyone, regardless of age or background, race, colour or creed.

I do not label myself a Christian, but hidden in plain view at the heart of the story of the life and death of a man called Jesus (whose literal existence or non-existence was always really beside the point) is an astonishingly powerful non-dual teaching of unconditional love, deep acceptance and heartbreaking forgiveness – a teaching, of course, which is also at the heart of all the world’s other great religious traditions. Truth cannot be contained – it is a wild river, overflowing everywhere. No wonder there are so many religions in the world, so many systems of metaphor, each one in its own way trying to express the one inexpressible truth of existence: that the instrument of your torture, the thing which once threatened to break your spirit, eventually becomes your salvation, even wakes you up, to presence, to gratitude, to the miracle of creation. That when we turn to fearlessly face apparent darkness we may discover only undivided light, find a part of ourselves longing for love. That freedom lies not in escaping into the Absolute but in affirming life as it is – in consummating our marriage to our humanity, including all its trials and tribulations, and knowing God as the unbreakable principle present even in our pain, that which holds us even when we cannot hold ourselves.

– Jeff Foster

Oneness

All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing

that is not interconnected with everything else.  For things are interdependent,

and they combine to form this universal order.  There is only one universe made up

of all things, and one creator who pervades them; there is one substance and

one law, namely, common reason in all thinking creatures, and all truth is one--if, as we

believe, there is only one path of perfection for all beings who share the same mind.

---Marcus Aurelius

Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated “building blocks,” but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer. 

— Fritjof Capra

In The Tao of Physics

"Humanity from Space" website:  

http://www.pbs.org/program/humanity-from-space/

Big History Project website:

https://school.bighistoryproject.com/bhplive

Peace and rescue

Peace and rescue

We need go directly to Peace
Peace recognized as my sacred
I Am..
With my new Eye I join
sisters and brothers
poor and forgotten 
for rescue of the
shaded Truth...

In the Encyclical, Care for Our Common Home, Francis writes: 

All-powerful God, you are present in the whole universe

and in the smallest of your creatures.

You embrace with your tenderness all that exists.

Pour out upon us the power of your love,

that we may protect life and beauty.

Fill us with peace, that we may live as brothers and sisters, harming no one.

O God of the poor,

help us to rescue the abandoned and forgotten of this earth,

so precious in your eyes.

Bring healing to our lives, that we may protect the world and not prey on it,

that we may sow beauty, not pollution and destruction.

a Remembering

a Remembering

Wordsworth words

are recalled:

about our birth

and sleep and forgetting

the arising of appearance

of separation..

Our separation declared

as real and we are taught

without remembering

the simple I Am

of our birth

the uncut root

of who we are..

Then to school

and reinforcement of

limits and partitions

which we become..

We seem to get along

but on occasion

evil enters our focus

and our questions..

Then the possibility

of hope and grace

a Remembering...

Dangerous territory

The Sermon on the Mount is dangerous territory for Christians. That is where Jesus puts forth some of his most challenging instructions. They are such bold and transformative ideas that lots of church people think that we're really not supposed to take them literally. You know: "Blessed are the peacemakers" and "Love your enemies" and "Do not worry about tomorrow." 

Then it gets even harder. Eco-justice calls on us to look at those sorts of Bible passages -- and not just the Bible, but our own lives and the structures of our society, too -- from a perspective of concern for the whole Earth community. Faithful eco-justice is not about me and my salvation. Joy, justice and righteousness are found only when the whole of God's creation is brought into right relationship. 

(excerpt from Peter Sawtell, Eco-Justice Notes...See Peter's website:  ministry@eco-justice.org)

Collective Self Inquiry

Broadmoor Cafe..August 18, 2015

Discussion prompts:

1.  What is the significance of the Space perspective?

2.  Is this a Materialist viewpoint?

3.  What is Innovation?

4.  Electricity as life blood?

5.  Population growth as threat or promise?

6. The value and possibilities of Information?

7.  Finiteness of food, water, energy?

8.  The significance of a Unitive viewpoint?

9.  What of Cooperation?

10.  Energy and the Sun..a return now?

11.  Relationship of trade and CO2 emission?

12.  Who might be in opposition to this perspective?

13.  Metaphorical meaning in the video?

14.  Each of us as "Observer" ?

15.  Who are we?

Quantum innovations

Quantum innovations

What can we say of the many

historical innovations..

The Revolutions which 

directed historical paths anew..

Not evolutionary progression these

but immediate re-alighnments 

resulting in explosions 

of growth and comfort and terror..

Perhaps these are evidence

of a unitive dimension

which penetrates and in-forms

from top-down...!

Humanity from Space

Humanity from Space

We see from space

the innovations which

in quantum quickness

produces historical jumps in

interconnectivity..

These many fingers

pointing to the unity

of evolving matter..

All of this

is impressive sadness

because of the missing

"I"

I is the shift

which places these

interconnecting webs

on an edge made of

an aware "I" ...

refers to a PBS special

with the same title...

Anxious expectation

Anxious expectation

Short walk:

The pull way

from present experience

from this task

from this enjoyment

at close hand..

We introduce suffering

a dualistic search

with expectation of

real happiness ahead..

Suffering arrives as

becoming becoming

becomes prime..

A new way station

up ahead and

the place of

new suffering

unless...