Spiritual Eyesight

Spiritual Eyesight 

This is the perennial awareness

seeing our true nature

our birthright of Happiness

and available to all

in all times and seasons..

CC

5 "While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
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25 "All I know is that I used to be blind, but now I can see."
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11 "He told me to go and wash it off in Siloam Pool.  When I did, I could see."
(from John 9: 1-41)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+9&version=CEV

“When he awakened from sleep, he said, “Surely the Lord is in this place—and I did not know it.... This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven” (Genesis 28:16–17). In the Celtic world that gateway is present everywhere. In every place is the immediacy of heaven. In every moment we can glimpse the Light that was in the beginning and from which all things have come. As (Mary) Oliver says, “The threshold is always near.”3 We can step over this threshold and back again in the fleeting span of a second. In a single step we can find ourselves momentarily in that other world, the world of eternal Light, which is woven inseparably through this world—the world of matter that is forever unfolding like a river in flow.” 
― John Philip Newell, The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings

Walking Notes on a sunny February day

Walking Notes on a sunny February day

Life is a coloring of Self

whether realized or not..

And..mostly..seemingly..not...

We all do it

invading the space of another..

When another is met

a need arises

to direct attention

an energy expended

to the appearance

of a seeming other...

This isn't religion..but reality

the perennial Reality

of recognition of "I"

before religion encircles

with  a fence

of objectivity...

Endlessness

Endlessness

He said:

brevity is the soul of wit..

and said T. S. Eliot:

We can say of Shakespeare, that

never has a man turned so little

knowledge to such great account..

and said Rumi:

knowledge of the world is ignorance..

The endlessness of knowledge

is blessing and curse..

Google is one name..

It is easy to forget

to not allow attention

to experience that

in which all knowledge

appears..

To recognize knowledge

flowing in and out of that

in which it appears..

Knowledge in isolation

we place first

in idolatrous fashion

as we search for

the water in the wave...

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,

as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,

collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more

marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one

already completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness

in the center of the chest. This other intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,

and it doesn’t move from outside to inside

through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.” 

― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi - مولوی

Ascent and Descent (Animas Valley Institute)

"But there are actually two realms, or domains, of the transpersonal, and the vast majority of contemporary spiritual practices access only one. The two realms might be referred to as those of spirit or God on the one hand, and of soul on the other."
~~~Bill Plotkin

(See:  https://animas.org/books/bill-plotkins-soulcraft-musings/newsletter-archive/ )

Amazon review: John Philip Newell, Christ of the Celts

Amazon Review:  John Philip Newell, Christ of the Celts

Customer Review

5.0 out of 5 starsWho am I?

ByCharles R. Coonon February 24, 2018

Format: Hardcover|Verified Purchase

This book serves as a note of encouragement for our times. The Celtic
view of the meaning of "Christ" delivers a message based on experience
over the beliefs that have so long muddied the lives of many people. JPN
brings the experience of Christ to a universal audience. He says that "the
image of God is at the core of our being. And like the Garden, it has not
been destroyed. It may have become covered over or lost sight of, but
it is at the beginning of who we are." Modern non-dual teachings, both
inside and outside of religions, involve this direct approach to the
experience of recognizing ourselves, or the identity of "I." We are not
the identity which our cultures and religions and science keep saying
we are. And the amazing thing is that our own experience, if we carefully
refer to it, will tell us that we are indeed that which JPN says we have
covered over or lost sight of. Paul Cezanne, the painter, said much
the same thing: "The time will come when a single carrot, freshly
observed, will set off a revolution." John Philip Newell is an igniter
of this revolution in each of us!

Billy Graham

Billy Graham

has passed

with our many

wishes for peace..

A preacher for

his times..

Times with steep

reliance and rejection 

of belief: 

reaching an eternal

goal at the end

of our time

in earthly sojourn ..

The times have changed

as many are standing awed

over a new recognition 

of real identity 

directly experienced

glimmering eternally

behind the shading clouds..

(Does the verse above

cover both..?)

New Recognition

http://www.bernardokastrup.com/2018/02/old-loves-die-hard.html








New Recognition

Science's foothold in matter
over many centuries told
is slipping
as transparency arrives..
The particles sought
are illusive
they seem here and then not..
But there is still excitement
on their discovery
even if short-lived..
Something more exciting
may be awaiting
recognition..yes..recognition..
Recognition of that which
is permanent
in which the short-lived
produce their excitement...

Consciousness and her objects

Consciousness and her objects

What of this title..?

There are no objects in

Consciousness..as we know..

Consciousness is clear

and luminous..

Yet I see what I see
in the kitchen just now:
the appliances..table..
window to the street..

This seeming dichotomy 

as a new thought

enters our Consciousness..

And slowly or quickly
the thought dissolves as

objectivity slides as colors

without any stain

of her luminosity...

ROOTS of violence

ROOTS of violence

GROUP for Understanding…February 21, 2018

"When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind." 

~~~J. Krishnamurti  

(for more see:  http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=48&chid=56789&w=&)

"The root of violence is the illusion of separation—from God, from Being itself, from being one with everyone and everything. When you don’t know you are connected and one, you will invariably resort to some form of violence to get the dignity and power you lack. Contemplation of the Gospel message gradually trains you not to make so much of the differences, but to return to who you are (your True Self in God) which is always beyond any nationality, religion, skin color, gender, sexuality, or any other possible labels. In fact, you finally can see that they are always and only commercial labels—that cover the rich product underneath."  

~~~Richard Rohr

(for more see:  https://cac.org/the-root-of-violence-2017-09-18/)

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” 

~~~Samuel P. Huntington

“The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.” 

~~~ Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat

The Dove descends

The Dove descends

and proclaims

to each of us

that you are

I Am..

Immediately the

journey in separation

begins..

The wilderness

seems to be a

place for searching

among beasts 

and doves
for I Am...

I Am seems

quite well hidden

seen and unseen..

There are longings

perennial calls

 from the Dove
to look inward

to come home...

(See Mark 1: 9-15

It from Bit

It from Bit

A scientist on the edge

of consciousness..

a flip underway

from matter to mind..

mind-stuff

replaces

matter-stuff

a new lens..

Wholeness

replaces

fragmentation

with

the scientist herself

discriminating

all of those thoughts

and equations

from she

who observes...

Thus

clearing the way

for a revolution...

Dust

Dust

dust is the ocean

the common ground

the luminous field

which is never born

and never dies..

we are the particles

the whirlpools

the rivulets

the waves

which for now

declare ourselves

as somehow different

forgetting

what we are..

until a reminding...

Clusters

Clusters

on a raw damp winter day

a haircut

a cozy coffee place

with a special:

warm biscuits and gravy..

this cluster of morning

memories presented itself

on an afternoon walk

in a still chill day..

the remembered cluster

a coloring of present

awareness

embellished now by feet

pacing on a wet roadway..

remembering

perceiving

sensing

melting to knowing

and the Self

reveals...

Starting

Starting

There is 

an experience of

inner luminosity in

 each of us..where

we need to start..

All out there colors

but does not change

our starting place..

Starting out there

starts with splintering

endures as suffering

and endless searching

for that hidden

way to Start...

government

government

is the collective way

identifying an edifice

with its rights and rules

to exercise power for

our wellbeing..

with vital expectation:

a minimal creation allowing

maximal freedom..

a vision might emerge

of a fading edifice

dissolving finally

on the horizon..

dissolving and allowing
recognizing

the uniqueness of

each and every..

without the vision

the concept or thought

of government

becomes an end

a permanent edifice

perpetuating those habits

begging for

escape to freedom..

however..in the meantime...

All shall be well..

All shall be well

is repeated followed by

all manner of things..

Julian give assurance

from her experience

knowing now that

 all manner of things

rising as thought

and perception

are fleeting and that

in which they arise

is already well..

our simple task

is to recognize

that... 

Maya..??

Maya..??

Appearances are of 3 dimensions
but what of an origin in fewer
finally reaching 0 dimensions..
Maya 
in one guise is the
belief in the reality
of multiple dimensions..
Maya
in a new guise is the
realization of appearances..
Appearances shining in
the experience of Original truth...

Experience Shines ☼ with the Reality of Our Being 

Excerpt – Rupert Spira

~ ~ ~

These are the two meanings of the word ‘Maya’ in the Vedantic tradition. ‘Maya’ is usually translated as ‘illusion’. This is the first meaning; the power of objective experience to veil or obscure our essential Self from ItSelf.

But the word ‘Maya’ also has another meaning (less often explained in the traditional literature) and that is the revealing power of Maya, the creativity of Maya, where objective experience is no longer seen to obscure our Being but shines with it, celebrates it, announces it.

To begin with, the movie seems to veil the screen. Later, it is seen to shine with the screen. And in between these two points of view, it may be necessary to turn the movie off in order to see clearly the screen. We are always seeing the screen. This is, by the way, a conventional screen; we are sitting on the sofa. We are always seeing the screen, but we are not seeing it clearly. It is colored by the movie and therefore, we think it is a landscape. So, if we do not see the screen clearly, if we think the two-dimensional screen is a three-dimensional landscape, we may have to turn off the movie. This turning off the movie is the turning away from objective experience. It is the Vedantic path; the inward facing path. It doesn’t really require the turning off of experience, but rather the turning away from experience in order to see clearly what I Am.

But then we turn the movie back on again. And having seen clearly the nature of the screen, the obscuring power of the movie has been removed. The movie no longer veils the screen; it shines with it. It celebrates it.

So, once we have turned away from experience in order to know clearly who I Am…, even in the midst of experience, everyone is experiencing themselves…, most people do not experience themselves clearly and therefore, this turning off of the movie, this turning away from experience is necessary, in almost all cases, in order to see clearly what I Am.

~ ~ ~

Excerpt from “Meditation: 'I' Is the Source of Our Longing”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp7EdZg-wI4

Times 37:50 to 50:28

small point..!

small point..!

infinitely small

is this point

of dimensionless

eternal consciousness..

a creation of the mind

within a transparency

in which no point is found..

yet we allow the mind

to continue creating

making a container:

time and space

to house  

the multiplicity

appearing just now..

all emerging from

the point

existing in

Imagination..

the mind must now

surrender...

being walked

being walked

many have experienced

this pleasant sensation..

a larger me

seems to be taking steps

of my habitual me..

we might also recognize

the mind in limitation

forms the small walker

which would beg
the question:
what is the nature of
this larger me...?

Deepak Chopra....Oneness

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transfiguration

transfiguration

this biblical happening
may seem extraordinary..
a spectacular story
which we hear once again..

yet we only experience 
here and now..
time and happenings 
are thoughts and images 
within here and now.. 

this gospel writer
attempted to acquaint us
with here and now
using words of immediacy..but
language limits his and our 
expression of truth..

so we consult our experience:
we are on that meeting with our
life teachers on either side
here and now..
our own wholeness shines
our white clothing dazzles..
we discover..as most ordinary 
the true self of you and you 
and you and I..


This last phase of the spiritual path is an endless process that is described variously in the spiritual traditions as the establishment process, the Great Rebirth, the transfiguration, transformation etc. It is a process in which the body and the world are progressively permeated by and saturated with the open, empty transparency of our true nature. It is the 'outshining' of the mind, body and world by the light of pure Knowing.  --Rupert Spira


https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+9%3A2-9&version=NRSV

Religion/Science or Science/Religion..?

Religion/Science or Science/Religion?

Bohr tells Heisenberg:

We ought to remember that religion uses language in quite a different way from science. The language of religion is more closely related to the language of poetry than to the language of science. True, we are inclined to think that science deals with information about objective facts, and poetry with subjective feelings. Hence we conclude that if religion does indeed deal with objective truths, it ought to adopt the same criteria of truth as science. But I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a subjective side won’t get us very far.

(For more see  Brain Pickings:  https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/02/01/niels-bohr-science-religion/?utm_source=Brain+Pickings&utm_campaign=593f790a07-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_179ffa2629-593f790a07-237877417&mc_cid=593f790a07&mc_eid=99bda8a7e4)

Melting

Melting

Separation insists
on our fleshly solidity
and fragmentary lives..
Perception daily strengthen
the confining argument..
We wish for transparency..for melting..
And search for relief
in idolatrous ways..
Until--
Transparency is experienced
as the real self
melting away the too solid flesh
which had convinced
our discomfort
all those years...

https://www.facebook.com/nowness/videos/10156317604482454/





‘Oh God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level, and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea.’
Sonnet 64

Mark's Gospel

Mark's Gospel

Observing this Gospel

recognizing the limits

of the mind

but also the possibilities

when an identity 

I Am

is also recognized..

Let's see what happens..!

One

The earthy John

is our sourcing voice

who speaks of water now

but soon the Holy Spirit

the Spirit I Am

as medium of baptism..

Immediately 
the newcomer

 was cast into wilderness

by the same Spirit
which the dove signified..

Then four fishermen

Immediately

joined the teacher

glimpsing I Am

as John had glimpsed:

the preparation for

fishers of men..

The father Zebedee

didn't protest
perhaps he had
long known I Am..

What followed

Immediately

was departure.. 

To where?  Capernium

for astonishing teaching

with authority of Truth
which commanded:  
Be Quiet..!

Impure spirits

were cleansed by

their confrontation with

Truth on display..

Then a series of healings

of fever and demons

with new recognitions..

Everyone was searching

but most not aware

that they already were 
the Truth I Am..

The teacher needed 

respite to pray

to fortify the clarity

of the Truth he bore..

Then a leper

cleansed with joy 

ignored teacher's caution

and spread the news..

And they came from

everywhere seeking
relief from their longing:
only to be found in

the Truth I Am..

thought and perception

thought and perception

conception and perception

these are the objects

to which we awaken

this morning..

this is creation

happening anew

each of us

with a big bang

awakening..

perception separates

and cognition names..

cognition of time

hangs together the

10000 pieces..relating

and making whole pieces..

the whole pieces point 

to that which is the same

for each of us

and out of which

unending big bangs

color our day...