Apparent and amazing...

 

All doing is 

Apparent and

May be amazing.. 

Doing is doing

With no separation

Yet separation is

Needful for doing..

Seems magical

Nothing doing..

And already...

That's it..!

 

That's it..!

Simply

Immediately

Whatever the

Appearance..

No separation

That's it..!

John A. Schaffer..

 

Today

The passing of

Big John

Uncle John

Of a brother kindling

Recollections on

A shared canvas of

Military tones and

Images of love for

A family's godfather.. 

Often unseen 

Yet always present...

(For John A. Schaffer)

The magical waves..

 

(Photo by

Jane Parry)

Waves

Signposts of division

Obviousness..

Thoughts arising of

Waves not separate..

Larger ocean constructs

Resonating stories

Initiating spiritual paths

Meditations

Sequences for arrival..

Or..this tsunami: 

No separation..full stop

And the magical paths 

Thoughts and

Waves...

Trust..

 

Trust

The word comes up

Seemingly frequently..

Trust in a story

In a relationship

Or a teacher or guru

In the outdoors

Repeating 

An assumption of

Separation..and 

A separate truster..

A story appearing

In movies with

Trust in their titles...

Trust

The word comes up

Frequently..

Let's say trust

Is a word chosen

To ineffectually 

Stand for 

Unconditional trust..

Accordingly

Trust may appear as

Someone struggling

Over what it means

To trust..or not..

Malleable words...

This is It..!!

 

This is It..!!

The seeming

Divisions of It

Are life's stories

Morning headlines

Music and noise

Tragedies of war

Unsolved mysteries

All centered on the

One experiencing

These stories..

Nothing left out

All sparkle as It

This is It..!!

Stories are It

And not It...

Paths..

Paths..

Processes are paths

With levels and phases

Which the separate one

Walks to find that

One is not..

Directness is no path..

One is not

Is a story among 

Stories including 

Process path stories 

All of which are

Already not separate

Already this...

The dream of separation..

 

The dream

Of separation..

Or not a dream

But stories arising

Depending on

Separation..

Story = separation..

But of separation

It is not..so how..?

The ? is it already...

Not even Nothing..

 

Not even nothing..

Expresses that words

Even the word nothing

Cannot express This

Which cannot be

Expressed..it's

A Preface to every

Use of words..

Discouraging and

Encouraging..OK

This is nothing..

Perfect and futile...

Seems so..or no..

 

There are simply

Things here or

There or anywhere

Seems so..or no...

There is simply

Nothing here or

There or anywhere

Seems so..or no..

Apparently...

The story of nothing and something..

 

Nothing appears

Something appears

All at once..

Just an appearance

With or without

The story of nothing 

And something..

The searcher's story..

 

The searcher

Is a character

In the dream

Apparently not

Finding that

Searching is a

Story beginning

And ending

Most abruptly...

I am..is the character..

 

I am

Is the character

Empty and full

Appearing in the

Play of life...

Two stories, not separated..

 

The appearing

Brain

Tells a story of

Objects and spaces..

In another story

The appearing

Heart

Tells a story of

Longing for home..

Two stories 

Not separated...

The story's plot unfurled..

 

No separation

Is what seems

Not happening..

Separation 

Is what seems

To be happening..

That's the story's 

Plot unfurling

Whispering

No separation

Is happening...

The notion of no-separation...

 

After

All the stories

Complexities and

Contexts

It comes down

To the paradoxical

Notion of

No separation with

Appearances 

Seeming to deny

That notion...

A thought of longing..

 

The thought

That I am longing

For home

Is not separated

From home..

against the grain..

 

Against the grain

Resistance to the

Appearances of

What is undesired..

Constructing a future

With a pleasant

Granular flow..

The plan of a

Reformer

Progressive

Self helper..

Stories of resistance

Against the grain

Already freedom...

Impressions..

 

Impressions

Appear as forms

And formulations

Which may seem

To shape that which

Cannot be shaped..

Impressions arise

Apparently..along

With the thought

Of the shaping...

Inner and Outer..

 

Inner

And outer

Neither

And both..

Nothing

Appears

As these

Separations..

And not even

Nothing

Appears...