Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Sunday, November 17, 2024

The appearance of words is empty..


 











Pointing to nothing

Is a story which may be 

Intended as erasure..

But nothing stands

As a word..suggesting

The futility of a word 

To be more than a word..

Yet it might be said

The appearance

Of a word is empty..

Hence.the dilemma

And not...


Saturday, November 16, 2024

Antonyms..


 











Decay

Recalls the antonym

Flourish 

And these words

Not separated

Mark the futility

Of describing what is

Happening... 

Unknowing..

 













Unknowing

Can't be known

Or not known..

However

Unknowing may 

Appear as a story

Of one seeming

To know that

Unknowing

Can't be known

Or can be known...

Collapse..!!

 













Collapsing arises

Simultaneously with 

Building which are

Words futilely

Attempting to name

This...

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Nothing all the way down...

 














Nothing

Appears as a story

A story all the way down

Nothing all the way down...


In separation

Life seems as something..

Yet there is nothing

Whispering as something

Missing...


No separation

So what can be said..?

Nothing

Everything..

Stunning...


Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Listening..




 







Listening..

There is 

No other..

As the story rolls

No other appears

As conversation...

Self help...


 












Self help

Appeals to the one

Seeking new paths

To end the

Seeking which is

Already ended in

This appearance

Of self help...

Humility..


 











Humility..

Humble work

For humble pay

And seeming joy

In the work..

Nothing appearing

As joyful nothing..

Pearl of great price...

Amazing,,!


 











Amazing..!

An exclamation

In a story of one

Finding there is

Nothing

Extraordinary

And no one

To make the

Finding...


Amazing..!

An exclamation

In the play

Of the one

Who is not there

To make the

Exclamation...

Monday, November 11, 2024

Opposites..!!

 













Opposites

Often defined

As cousins of

Dark and light..

However

Separation's appearances

Seem to cast opposites

As differences

Of all variety and stripe..

So that opposites are

Synonymous with

Separation...

The story that never happened..

 













The simple paradox

Of no separation:

The question

Of what this is

Dissolving in a

Separation story

That never happened...

a paradoxical story..














Thoughts

Appear unexpectedly

Spontaneously..

Not for someone

Not for no one..

No explanation

Paradoxical story

Freedom from

Understanding

Or not...

Sunday, November 10, 2024

A satisfying story..

 













Identifying

With a story

Is the attraction

Offered by

Separation..

Searching and

Attaching to a

Satisfying story

Is the path of

Knowing in search

Of not-knowing...


Sunday, November 3, 2024

More about nothing..

 











Nothing 

Appearing..

That's

Everything...


Nothing

As stories..

That tells

It all...


Everything 

Is everywhere..

Not explainable

Nothing more...


Death

As nothing

Appears as

Life...


Nothing 

Is the territory

So are the

Maps...


No

Appears as

Yes...


When

Nothing appears

It won't be known...


Nothing appears

As no-thing...

Saturday, November 2, 2024

All about nothing...

















Non-duality

Is about nothing

About which

Nothing can be said..


Nothing

Cannot be described

Every description

Is already nothing...


Nothing

As a word

May seem to

Be something

As would be

A substitute word..


What is nothing?

Well..nothing at all

And not even that

And not even

And not

And


Nothing is the end

Ending of searching

And of course

Nothing cannot be

Found...


A polarity

Nothing and everything

Without separation

Nothing dancing...


Nothing is happening

Really..?

Happening is nothing

Happening...


What's between

Seeming polarities

Is nothing..

If nothing moves..yes

Seeming polarities...


Life seems about

Coming to terms

With nothing

With no terms available...


Much ado about nothing!



Friday, November 1, 2024

I am the doer..

 











I am the doer

What I do

Is what I am..

A statement of

Separation..

An identity

With the wave

Separate from

The ocean..

A beautiful story

Which may not

End..though a

Nagging story

Of desire may

Tag along...

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Predictions..


 










Predictions

Are thoughts

Arising presently

Claiming a

Knowing of how

What is past is

Pointing to

What will be..

A thought of

Not knowing

Unfolding as

Predictions...


A story of Is-ness...


 









Is-ness

Appearing as

Movement

Seems to

Separate

Here and there..

Which tells

A story which

May deceive or

Explode as

Already

Is-ness...


Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Appearances of nothing..

 













Nothing appears 

In wide variety

No appearance excluded

Spontaneous expressions

Arising as whatever...

Sunday, October 27, 2024

Beliefs and Separation and Longing..


 














Beliefs 

Grounded in

Separation

Reinforce 

Synonymous longings 

For something missing..

A story 

Which may suddenly

End..or not...


Searching writ large...

 










A reported

Convergence of

Science and spirit is

Seen as evidence

Of a coming

Realization of what

For the millennia 

Has evaded so much

Searching..

Such is a story

A beautiful story 

Of futility writ large 

Not separated from 

Infinite expression..

Institutions and Idolatry...

 











Institutions

Attempt to define

What is not definable

So that adherents

Might own a set

Of concepts..

Which when believed

May seem idolatrous to

That which can't be

Defined...

Saturday, October 26, 2024

October 26th..

 









Not

Is infinite and

Unknown

Appearing 

As known...









Naming

Applies the appearance

Of separation to what

Cannot be separated..


Naming is the story

Of what cannot be

Named...









The search 

Is an expression of

What cannot be found...










Nothing

Is hidden in

Language...










No difference

Poses as

Difference...





A Zebra Story...

 














What appears

Seems a zebra..

Yet

Appearances 

Are nothing at all

And not even nothing..

Yet

There stands the zebra

Stripes and all...


Friday, October 25, 2024

Not out there..

 













Not out there

Nor in here

Nowhere

Yet seemingly

Someplace..

The story lives

Not knowing

How and why...

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The other..

 





Thought for the day.......  "Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.” James Joyce 

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

A box of nothing...

 











Repetitions

Of words 

May breed a

Spiritual path

A self help plan

A religion..

(A caution found

on a box of 

nothing)...

Monday, October 21, 2024

Impossibility..

 













A word

Without an opposite

Is an

Impossibility..

Impossibly there is

This already...

No opposite..

 













Descriptions use words

Of course

But each word automatically

Suggests its opposite..

A word without an opposite

Is not a word..

It might be said:  no-word

Appears as that word...


Opposites

Collide and nullify

A story of opposites..

Continuing:

Nothing then

Appears as 

Opposites...



Sunday, October 20, 2024

Directness..















Directness

Is sometimes posed

As the immediacy

Of a realization 

By no one..

Yet like all words

There are simultaneous

Unavoidable opposites..

Oppositions point to

The slippery nature

Of all that is said..

Yet words in use

Are already and

Perfectly complete...

Thursday, October 17, 2024

No gap..


 












Opening and closing

It might arise that

There is no gap

Between opening

And closing..

No gap

No two...

Neutrality..


 











Neutrality

Defined as that

Between seeming

Oppositions

Not red and not blue..

Neutrality poses as

The emptiness of

Each opposition...


Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Stories of peace..


 











Finding a story

To be a story

Is the peace

Seeming to be

Hiding in all

Stories..

You are a story

As am I 

As are words

And words

Combined..


Where is consciousness..?


 











Controversies 

Involve the location of

Consciousness in the 

Brain or on the outside..

A confrontation

Apparently  lodged in

A swirl of stories..

And perhaps awaiting

A different story:

Inside and outside are

Not separated...

Friday, October 11, 2024

Severing the words..

 











Not knowing is

The emptiness of

Knowing..yet

There seems that

There is knowing 

Of the words used

In the telling..

Seeking a fix:

Erasing the words

Is another story

Using more words..

Oh well...

Not..








 



Timelessness

Permanence

Without movement

And as movement..

Timelessly it's

What's happening...


Not

A word pointing

To the emptiness of

Seeming things...

Thursday, October 10, 2024

A pattern is formed..

 













Seemingly

A pattern is formed

And named..

Some say projection

Others observation..

Or the thought arises:

Not-two appears as

Patterns

Projections

Observations...

No self...

 













No self

No separate self

No autonomous self

No individual

No separation..

That seems to be

A bridge too far

For the searcher

On a path and

Retaining the self..

It's the story

Of the persistence

Of a belief in

Separation...


Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Immediacy..


 











Immediacy

Is the simultaneity

Of life and death..

The appearance which

Lives as it dies..

Autumn's colors...

 













Autumn

Appears and

Seems as a season

Between two seasons..

Yet the appearance

Of colors and pumpkins

Is instantaneous as are

The mappings of the

Seasons...


No anchors..

 













Separated

Not separated 

Between

Not between..

No anchors

Apparently

And not

Apparently...

Simply not-two..


 











Simply not-two

Modifies not-two

While not-two

Points to no

Modification..

Yet not-two may

Appear as 

Simply not-two and

As pointing to

No modification..😁

Sunday, October 6, 2024

Assuming a future..

 









Assuming a future

The evidence is in

Preparation for the future

Is well advised..

Although the future

Will likely be different

Than visualized..

This old prescription is 

Often repeated which

When appearing empty

Reflects no freedom

And no bondage...


Illustrations..

 













No-separation

Cannot be illustrated

An attempt to illustrate

Finds separation..

Yet all illustrations are

Already not separated

As is this story...