The character...

 

You appear

In the story

As a character..

As an 

Unpredictable 

Sensing and

Free

Appearance of

Nothingness...

The concept of the brain..

 

The concept

Of the brain

With its intricate

Functions

Expands a

Never-ending story

With fresh 

Appearances of

Knowing..

The hazard

Sometimes

Is seemingly

Forgetting that

A story is

A story of

Appearances

No matter how

Far it drills down..

A story to

Ponder...

Transcendence..

 

Transcendence 

As an entryway

To not-knowing..

Brings the peace

Beyond understanding.

Grace...

 

Grace

Cannot be

Parceled

Except in

A religious

Story of

Seeking..

Yet

This story

Itself is

Grace

Expressed...

Freedom..

 

Freedom..

There are stories

Which try

To capture

A meaning for

Freedom..

But freedom is

Not to be 

Captured by

Stories..

Yet freedom 

Appears as all

Stories..

Down the Rabbit Hole...

 

"Down the Rabbit Hole" by Peter Baker

When Alice awoke from the dream of her adventures in Wonderland she realised that nothing had really happened there - and that there was not even such a thing as 'there' there.

When reading her story we too might get lost in it for a while but then remember that it is only a story and that none of it really happened.

We may also get lost in this apparent world for a while but then remember that it too is only a story and that this story includes the one who appeared to get lost in it.

Nothing has ever really happened. Yet there is not nothing - how wonder-full is that!

Malleable words..

 

Consciousness

The word confounds

Seeming to belong

To either

Nothing or everything...

An appearance or not..??

Demonstrating

All words are

Seemingly

Malleable...

Already This...

 

No words

Can explain

Or point to

This..

Any words

Including

Not this

Are already

This..

We can rub

Our fingers

Together..as

Speakers do 

Explanatory

Gesture..yes

Already this..

This has no

Outside...

Notes of nothing..

 

Notes of

Nothing..as

Vibrating

Strings..

Simultaneously

Rise and demise..

Appearances

Of time..

Magical

Happenings

Nuancing 

Unexplained

Notes of

Nothing...

The rhyming word...

 

The word

She said

Rhymed with

Rust..

Seemingly 

Frightful

And not said..

With coffee

This morning

The rhyming

Word stands

Not separate 

From silence..

Silence expresses

Terror and

Wonder and

Paradoxically

A feeling of

Peace...

A threatening wonder...

 

Wonderful

And threatening

Those stories

Of wholeness

Appearing

Without the

Solidity and 

Certainty of

You or me..

Which as the

Story goes on

Was never

Not this way..

A threatening

Wonder 

Leaving us

Seemingly

On edge..!!

Knowing is story...

 

Knowing, like not knowing, is a story. There is always only story unfolding. The "separate self" is the belief that the story is totally real, therefor the knowing is totally real. It is the very belief/certainty that "I" know. The brain who's perspective has shifted sees that it's all a story, yet realer than real, and that the apparent knowing isn't truly that. It sees that that apparent knowing is like a storybook or movie character knowing....does that character REALLY know? This isn't the end of knowing where I live or knowing that fire burns, it's just somehow seen that there is always only story and it's the only place that we exist, we are it, and knowing is simply part of the story, the story that contains no actual autonomous entity or owner.

~~Antonia Lovejoy

Never-ending story...

 

Nothing

Appears as

A never-ending 

Story...

Storytime..

 

Story seems 

Dual..

Separation

Distances

Observers

Words

Sources 

Causes

And time..

The stuff of

Life..

Illusory

Appearances

Feeling as

Freedom...

Aliveness..

 

What is before death?

--Aliveness.

What is after death?

--Aliveness.

What is death?

--Aliveness.

What is aliveness?

--ALL there is.

But, but...

-- Even this 'but'  is still aliveness.

Who knows this?

--No one!

~~Mei Long

Peace...

All things..

Everything 

Is

Relatively 

Relevant, 

And 

Absolutely 

Irrelevant.

This is

The end

Of the

Search

For meaning,

The peace

That passes

All understanding. 

~~Tim Cliss

Saying too much...

 

Nothing 

Appearing as

Everything

Is to say

Too much..

This is a 

Story as all

Words create

Stories..

Stories

Keep on

Separating

Until seen as

Stories

Ending the

Caution of

Too much...

Speculative stories...

 

They are all

Speculative stories

About the questions

Of life..

Search for meanings

Hesitating on:

Big bangs

Evolution

History

Solid beliefs

Profundity

My life..

Searching with

Diligence and

Imagination..

All wonderful stories

All expressions of

Wholeness...

(from considering

PBurke's book)

Lives of quiet desperation...

 

I remember when I first read Thoreau's quote "“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation." I thought, yes, people are basically unhappy. But if you watch a person in a 24 hour "day," there are many smiles and laughs and moments of peace, even in seemingly awful situations. A woman that vlogs from Kharkiv stops to point out flowers blooming or an old book she loves.

It seems thinking about life leads to that sense of muted despair, as people have an expectation that will never be met, but the lived experience of life is not likely as grim.

~~Miranda Warren

Sound appearing..

 

A visual image

May suggest sound..

The story appears

Of memory's

Recognition of the

Sound represented..

A story of sound 

Without sound..

Specialness..

 

Specialness

Is a story seeming to

Separate out from

Unknown equality

A special attraction..

Equality apparently

Serves up what seems

Special..yet the

Special story remains 

Equally unknown...

Nondual Christianity...

 

Nondual Christianity

A matter of language

A new gospel..

Jesus as a self

A character

Scripted in oft-told

Empty stories

Culminating in the

Crucifixion story

Bringing to an end

Beliefs in

Self separation..

A resurrected 

Empty self

Appearing 

Miraculously as

Each of us.. 

Which was never

Not the case...

Windows..

Windows

As story props..

Inside and out

Viewer and viewed

Reinforcing  

Separation beliefs..

Until the story

Itself

Includes the

Beliefs and

The window

And viewer

As a story

Begun and ended

Already...

Shadow stories...

 

The wind

Brings a message

Of leaf and shadow..

One leaf

Many shadows

Rendered unpredictably.. 

Fleeting appearances 

Uniqueness 

An unchanging leaf's

Shadow stories...

A new story...

 

A new story

Of no separation..

Stories abound

All seeming to

Reinforce the

Story of separation..

Actions and doers

Using time as

Advantage and

Disadvantage..

Stories..

Life appearing..

So it seems..

What can 

Seem to happen:

A new story calls:

Time Out..!!

Quashing separation..

Unexplainable..yet

Life as before

Appears for no one..

Feeling free...

How do You manifest..??

 

Maxx Verhamme

No one needs to manifest anything. Everything just happens.

Manifestation, IS what happens.

What you want, always. 

You manifest ANYTHING you want.

THAT’s the default mode. 

Full on ❤️