Pentecost..

A Reddish Day

For one tradition.. which
Reported a story of One
Placeless place:
Tongues of fire burning
Separation beliefs away..
Languages and nations
Expressing in unique ways..
Many recognizing the Spirit
Of each of us..allowing 
Each to vision and dream
As did one named Joel
Of a tradition long ago...





The Acts account...
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+2%3A1-21&version=NRSV

Road less traveled..

the road less traveled 
is the one more open
pointing to the openness
we find within..
and that certainly makes
all the difference...CC


The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Polarities

Polarities
Determine our identity
In each simple moment..
I am a polarity..is where we start..
The inners and outers 
Of our self and world..
Polarities abound..and any set
Of opposites convinces as 
Our personal view..until
We discover these are merely 
Actors appearing on our 
Stage of Light... 

Reflections

The world reflects

Or so it seems.. 
The world reflects
Who we are..
We see the divisions
Which match divisions 
In our inner space..
But taking another look
At that inner space 
The divisions scurry away..
Leaving behind the Light
I am..which we redirect
To the world and find
A sameness as before but
Infused with newfound
Light...



The world is only a reflection of Reality and any reflection is unreal.
Suppose you see your face reflected in a mirror. If you think that the reflection is your real face, you are lost. If you understand that the reflection of the world is not true, then instantly you are Reality. How much time does it take?
- Sri Ranjit Maharaj

Happiness

Happiness

Is
The Recognition of
Our true Identity..
An Identity
Which does not 
Depend on anything
External to that
Which precedes and 
Penetrates all that we
Know and do...

Sauntering

Sauntering

Not walking with
Purpose or goal..
Allowing the 
Wholeness we are
To assert and gather
That which appears
External..into a
Delicious tasting 
Of our Fullness and
Freedom...


Sauntering
https://tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com/2020/05/rejuvenative-pleasures-of-sauntering.html

Know Thyself..Marsllo Ficino

Our direct path
Is immediate..
The experience of
What we were
Before we were born..
Born..then seemingly
Separated..bringing
Life's coverings of
Our earlier Light..
Exposed now on
Our direct path...






The Culturiam...Marcilio Ficino on "Know Thyself."
https://www.theculturium.com/marsilio-ficino-know-thyself/?fbclid=IwAR28jAImkTjy2ah5I1B30y7_KCoI1qHBEPZ7vaTC4ONoaeb6zGFIsKkKqzU

Memorial Day..2020

Memorial Day..2020

In which

We perceive the divisions

Reinforcing our lifelong

Beliefs in separation as

The reality of our lives..

Flowers on gravestones

Solemn speeches in

Patriotic fervor..marking

Wars by participants who

Assumed without question

These same beliefs..

How do the beliefs fare

In this time of infection..?

In which we see a

Disregard of separation

By boundaries or race..

Is there a crack 

Beginning to open..?

Exposing a newfound

Eternal Memorial 

Of Peace and

Light... 

Guest House

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi 💚

die before we die..

die before we die..

to observe the world
with its temporary forms
must lead to the question
of what remains..
then to experience 
the Fullness of
that which remains as
our new Identity is to
die before we die...

The real question is then: how can I get to know life so that death can no longer make sense? I'd say you can never know, objectively, what life is. We can only be life, be what knows. This knowledge is an instant apperception, free of space and time, in which there is no knowledge or ignorance. It is the awakening of life in its fullness. This awakening is our real birth. The phenomenal birth is only an accident and the house as long as our real nature, our real birth is unexplored.

From our awakening to Life, we become deeply conscious of not being a conceptual object. The reflex of it is no longer manifest. This is a state of a deep opening where there is only life, a total lack of being anything. It is timeless, without dimension, and cannot be objective, that is, experienced. It wasn't born, and what wasn't born can't die. In this original non-state, the idea of death is not even present.

The fear of death comes from our identification to the body/mind. This mistake is just a thought. The fear of dying, therefore, comes from the ability to think. In the absence of thought, there is no space or time.

Space, time, go, come, the past, the future exists only in thought. They have no independent reality. All the fear created by society and religions around what is called death is only a fabrication of the mind. Only an object can be afraid, but you're not objectifiable.

- Jean Klein, The Great Oblivion

Acceptance

Acceptance

Is the key
To Peace and Joy..
To accept what's here
And now..but then
To attend to rising
Regrets and wishes
With the recognition
These are also made
Of Acceptance...

Nebula

Nebula  NEB-yə-lə Part of speech: noun Origin: Latin, mid-17th century

 

1 A cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.

2 (in general use) any indistinct bright area in the night sky, for example, a distant galaxy.

 

Biodiversity

Biodiversity

The Creation..
Splitting of Consciousness
Storied in the Garden
Into massive numbers
Of Others..
A Dream..yes
Appearances galore..
An equality of Light
In spiders..raccoons..
Ponderosas..and us..
These Expressions made
Of Consciousness..but as
We destroy Expressions
We then find those
Weeds and viruses..(also
Expressions of Light)...


Thanks to my friend,  CharlieP
for the following video...


Dr. Zack Bush..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RAtFBvKrVw&t=208s

Non-Duality basics...

What I essentially am is unlimited awareness...Rupert Spira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GzctoZSpDY&feature=emb_logo&fbclid=IwAR0G8R7e38JSIQwjcJ8Ms_xR0f_eceazm2ExfGI3hpSpZvjrduudddqaXcg

Showtime in Grey's Anatomy

Showtime in Grey's Anatomy

The flow of blood
Bears the oxygen from 
The lungs..to our
Extremities...delivering 
Sustenance to extend the
Lifetime of each organism..

Or..is this a flow within
Consciousness..an activity
Made of Consciousness..
Our conditioning most often
Selects the first option
Overlooking this One..

So..our new paradigm of
Consciousness-only
Suggests both options
Simultaneously..rendering
The flow of blood and 
Oxygen delivery as
Appearances within 
Appearances..
Showtime
In Grey's Anatomy..!

Freedom at last 
From grasping illusions..

I AM....(with John McIntosh)

THEY?
-John McIntosh
There ‘is’ no ‘they’ … there is only YOU. This is no ‘person’ you have worn as endless identity-garments for this and many other lifetimes, but the I AM Presence – ONE – SELF. Every ‘they’ that has perpetuated atrocities for eons upon the so-called victims of the world is ‘YOU’ [both] … the great actor of the Grand Dream, disguised as everyone and everything on every stage in every story and drama ever played in the universal field of dreams.
YOU, as the SELF have played every part, and in this Awareness the possibility of finger pointing dissolves along with all judgment as the illusion of guilt, shame and remorse disappears.

Pillar Zoom Meeting..

Pillar Zoom class description..

Quarantine..We all confront being alone..What is

Your experience..? Loneliness..? Boredom..?

Solitude..? And what is Solitude..? From teachings of

Non-duality we discover Solitude as Self-Knowledge and Joy..

You are invited to Zoom conversation facilitated 

by Charlie Coon, July 3rd, 10 AM, l hour..Preparation:
The (short) book: Rupert Spira's Being Aware of Being Aware.


Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness...Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.
~Simon Jones

"The Direct Path requires no spiritual or religious

affiliation or background.  No preparatory practice

is required for the simple recognition that being

aware or awareness itself is the essential, irreducible,

indivisible element in all experience, to which we 

refer as "I" or "myself".  None has privileged access 

to it.  It is equally available to all people, in all places,

under all circumstances and in all situations.  All 

that is required is a deep interest in the nature of

reality, or an intuition that the peace, happiness or

love for which all people long cannot be satisfied 

by objective experience." 

~~ Rupert Spira, The Nature of Consciousness

Meditation: Exploring Two Essential Questions...Rupert Spira

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iVB2-bLkE

Non-duality addresses two essential questions, 'How may we find lasting peace and happiness?' and 'What is the nature of reality?'. We find that the answers to both questions are the same: self-knowledge. In this contemplation, we uncover the nature of this naked, uncoloured self to find both the means of lasting peace, of happiness, and an understanding of the nature of reality. 

Joan Tollifson

From my book Death: The End of Self-Improvement:

My mother once told an ER nurse that my books are about being who you are. This can be heard on many levels. It can mean being the limitless Here-Now. Or it can mean fully playing our part as the character we are pretending to be in the movie of waking life, playing that part wholeheartedly, without restraint or apology, without holding back, without trying to be someone else instead, being exactly who we are in this moment with utter abandon, “following your bliss,” as my mother would say. I think my mother intended “being who you are” in both of these ways when she said it, the undivided wholeness and the fully-lived character. Maybe they are actually one and the same. Maybe that is part of the great discovery that is called awakening, liberation or enlightenment. And maybe the other part of that great discovery is that the fully-lived character and the undivided wholeness aren’t ever what we think they are. Maybe the fully-lived character is exactly what we actually are in this moment, not how we imagine we should or could be, if only. Likewise, maybe Ultimate Reality or nirvana or supreme enlightenment is not a distant memory or a future hope, but rather this present moment, this aliveness that is endlessly appearing and disappearing, inhaling and exhaling, dying and being born—right here, right now, just as it is.

--from Death: The End of Self-Improvement

Unpleasantries

Unpleasantries 

Simply nudging
Our attention Inward..
This the purpose of 
Those unpleasantries we
Are right now confronting..
These are both major and 
Subtle..It is the pull of 
Grace..which has been
Pulling since we were cast
In the dream of separation...

THE BLESSING OF DISCORD

-John McIntosh

Discord is never somehow ‘defeated’. All chaos, whether in the body or in one’s circumstances is a manifestation of the mind. Nothing shows up in your personal experience that ‘you’ [not YOU] did not project into it … ‘scenes’ written into the play of your life story. The body-mind-identity [false self] is a part of these projections as is the world and the entire universe … all very believable stories YOU as the SELF have made-up and stepped into to experience.

When illness, for example shows up in your body, no matter how small or great, it is a ‘projection’ only [usually below the radar of your awareness] … an amalgam of thoughts co-mingled with a ‘stew’ of your own unique conditioning [attachments, expectations and identifications] and designed to get your ‘attention’ so that you will turn inward. Few, as yet ‘get’ this and instead deal with the illness with a band-aid approach treatment – ‘out there’ rather than inside. This merely ‘shifts’ the energy to reappear elsewhere in your experience or terminates the temporary body you are wearing at the moment. This conditioning has NOT ‘gone’ anywhere and ‘will’ come again in some way until it is transformed back into nothing-ness.

Everything in your world experience is a ‘tug’ on your ‘attention’, gentle to shocking to nudge your attention inside and WILL NOT leave until you are fully Aware of the God You Are. This is the enormous blessing of discord.

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Peak and Lilac

 Peak and  Lilac

There is a
Seeming permanence in
Pikes Peak..we see photos
From a century past and
What stood then stands now..
Yet..geologically we are told
The Peak is doomed to crumble
Rendering it's permanency
As temporary..and taking a
Place beside the Lilac..
Readily known as short-lived..
But Nature Herself stands
Proclaiming Her Silence
Within which Peak and Lilac
Enter and depart..

The Wheel

The Wheel

Much there is that
Reminds us of death
The virus and more..
Evidence of what was
Previously life..
All of the lifeless
Branches and bones..
But now our season's
Green springs forth in
Cracks and crevices
And we might ask:
Is this turning wheel
The truth we all seek..?
Or are the Wheel's 
Seasons of life and death
Only appearances of
A steadfast Wheel...?

Experiencing the world...

"The reason we all experience the same world is not that there is a world made of matter appearing outside Consciousness. It is because each of our finite minds is precipitated within the same infinite Consciousness. It is because our minds share Consciousness that we feel we share the world.

When we wake up from a dream, we understand that we were not a self in the dream but rather that the entire dream took place in us. Similarly, when we wake up from the ‘dream’ of everyday life, we discover that Consciousness is not in the body, but that the entire body, mind and world are in Consciousness."

~ Rupert Spira

Nature Abhors a Vacuum..

Nature Abhors a Vacuum

This ancient statement
Whispered..by Aristotle..
A vacuum is void..
Void of every-thing
No-thing remains..

Science has looked 
With much diligence
But always has found 
Some-thing..however
Wispy..like information
As Hawkins admitted
Of a black hole..

Ancient and modern
Is the Knowing that
Nature's Infinity
Is not no-thing..but more..
Is not some-thing...!

Nature..abhors separation...!

 “Nature will always wear the colors of spirit.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Waiting...

Waiting...

Here we are on

Mother's Day..

Awaiting Finn's arrival..

Just as we waited before

On Randall and Darby..

And six other times

For the young adults

We will Zoom today..

Yet once more for 

Brown Texas (II) Luke..

Our Waitings have 

Been Blessed..as we

Wait Gratefully on this

Mother's Day...

Exoplanets

Exoplanets

There is the thought
Of the soul..which fills
Troves of literature..
But might we say that
Soul seems to be the
Name which separation
Gives to that which is the
Divine orbit of the self..?
With the discovery of the
Not existing self..the
Soul acquires an
Infinite expansion to
The true Self...




Exoplanet
EKS-oh-plan-ət
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Ancient Greek, 1990s
 1
A planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.

Longing

Longing

We say that
We long for something
To fill the crack which
Keeps us longing..
We remember the relief
On those occasions
Special occasions passing
When the light for moments
Denied the crack..
Those callings of Grace...

Attractions

Attractions

We are attracted to stuff
Because of their stealth 
To make us happy..alas
A happiness short-lived..
One day after many tours 
Many failed promises
We stand still and a Vastness
Of happiness drops upon us
From nowhere at all..and
We know it has ever been so..
We recognize that all of those
Early ventures were also this
Vastness gently coaxing... 



“You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful – it’s the neediness that’s the problem. Instead, become that which attracts those things.”
— Dr. David Hawkins, Sedona seminar, August 14, 2004

No path..

No path..

Finding
No path..is a signal
To pause where we are
Allow the silence to surround
And inform..and to realize
There is no path to
Where we really want to
Be...

Zeitgeist..

Zeitgeist

Is
A memory feeling
A painting really
With blurred edges
But edges nevertheless..
A mind experience
Recognized properly
As a momentary dream
Coloring I Am...





Zeitgeist
ZAIT-gaist
Part of speech: noun
Origin: German, mid-19th century


1
The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.



Examples of Zeitgeist in a sentence

"She wanted to embrace the zeitgeist of the 1980s for her birthday party."

"The bestselling book captured the zeitgeist of the college experience."

The Point..

Thought for the day....... “True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.” 

~~Enza Vita

Aspen leaves

Aspen leaves

Arriving again
Fresh and green and small..
This Dependability is
Our signal that 
There is a Source
Remaining when these
Small leaves wither and
Depart after their time
In the sun...

Twilight Chirping

Twilight Chirping

It is about sundown
With a blend of sounds
From distant trees..
Stepping back..however..
I find chirping and
Hearing as One..
Chirping modifies 
Hearing in the moment
Then..silent hearing
Resumes..Peace...

The Great Realization..

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