Had Pilate waited,
He might have heard Christ answer:
“The Truth Is I Am.â€
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“’What is Truth?’ said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.† Francis Beacon
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The Truth is I Am
One with the Absolute One
As This Awareness.
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[Rich Note: To celebrate the coming June 24th five-year anniversary of the “Hay-Ku of the Day†blog on Gather I thought I’d resurrect an archival web-site done in 1998, entitled “What Is Truth?†(Thirty Years on the Path). Although a pre-cursor to the 2006 book, “Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses,†the site offers a number of additional areas that didn’t get included in the book (Re: “Divine Name Games, Open Letters, Journal Extracts, Recommended Readings, Sayings, Prose and Recommended Readingsâ€).]
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[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Ecce Homo! (“Behold the Man,†1871, Wikimedia Commons) “Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Christ to the people…â€; Companion haiku: The Truth is I Am and anything else is mental conjecture.]
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Mostly I just use the traditional three-line, 17 syllable (5, 7, 5 per line) structure as a discipline to condense, fine-tune, and conceptually triangulate "particular insights" ("Bill Samuel would call the "Divine Glimpses") I am blessed to receive.
In Truth, they are closer to "Steath Wisdom Sayings" or "Super Strenght Truth in Easy to Swallow Capsules" (the original working title for OOMM) I am fond of characterizing as:
Smart-Bombs to Target
Deeply Embedded Patterns
Of Self-Centered Thought.
A Thousand Haiku
All Reflecting-Different
Facets of One Truth.
WHY HAIKU?
"Although alluded to in less detail above, the following response to a friend’s query as to “Why haiku?” is offered for the additional insight it might provide:
"(1) First, because I had stopped writing anything but prose and open letters by 1997, and felt called to explore new ways of expressing the Truth I had been graced to receive during 30 plus years of searching. In this regard, and having once read a small book of Japanese haiku belonging to my mother, it occurred to me that haiku might just be the alternative mode of expression I was seeking. I was not wrong..."
"Coin Balancing: Although we can not fully define an absolute state in relative terms, we can use analogies, metaphors and similes in an attempt to evoke or recall a direct sense or perception of that state. Thus, if I have an experience I wish to share, I can use a metaphor to indicate what it felt like with the hope of evoking a similar feeling in another. This is the verbal equivalent of having someone balance a coin to convey what balance feels like. This is because balance, as an absolute or non-relative state, cannot be captured in words, yet can be known as a direct experience. Thus, by moving a coin back and forth through its balance point, while progressively reducing said movements, one may get a feel for almost balanced. Then, suddenly, as the coin comes to rest, perhaps a direct sense of balance, as a non-relative state, may be experienced."
[Rich Note: To celebrate the coming June 24th five-year anniversary of the “Hay-Ku of the Day†blog on Gather (and because I recently discovered I could do so through the public file in “Drop Boxâ€) I thought I’d resurrect an archival web-site done in 1998, entitled “What Is Truth?" Thirty Years on the Path). Although a pre-cursor to the 2006 book, “Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses,†the site offers a number of additional areas that didn’t get included in the book (Re: “Divine Name Games, Open Letters, Journal Extracts, Recommended Readings, Sayings, Prose and Recommended Readingsâ€).]
[Rich Note: (Photo Caption) Ecce Homo! (“Behold the Man,†1871, Wikimedia Commons) “Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pontius Pilate presenting a scourged Christ to the people…â€; Companion haiku: The Truth is I Am and anything else is mental conjecture.]
Love the construction of the Haiku.
The Truth is I Am
Conscious of Being as the
Father’s Awareness.
The Truth is I Am
Conscious of Being as the
Awareness of God.
The Truth Is I Am
The Present Awareness of
The Father of All.
But "Easy as Falling Off
A Log" for the Heart ;-)
A little more seriously (but not much), Kevin, there are a lot of good books on the subject, but the real trick lies in learning to write (and think) from the Heart (the Divine Computer) and only use the Head (the Divine Keyboard) to Polish the Jewel and Fine-Tune the Verbal Setting . (Re: Nothing more daunting then trying to use a "keyboard" as a "Computer").
An added benefit you will likely experience, as I did, is that looking for things to write about in one's natural surroundings will make you more "Mindful and Present to What Is" and as such becomes a very functional (and relaxing) meditative practice.
"praised God."
Perhaps his name tells all: Pontius ("belonging to the sea") Pilate ("armed with a dart")
although compelled to kill the Innocent, later, finds the pearl in the sea and ascends with Truth.
Yes, ben, irrespective of how "scarlet the sins" of the dreamer (mankind identified with and as the carnal mind) might appear to mortal thought, sense and feeling, they become "as white as snow" (or an Innocent Lamb's coat), and are no more, when the Dreamer (Mankind Identified with and as the Divine Mind, the Father's Awareness or the Consciousness of God/Christ) Awakens to Being the "Pearl of Great Worth" hidden within His Own Heart.
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"...Of course as the Sage Jack Nicholson said, "You can't handle the truth!" True Dat! And my pal Dr. Jerry Joiner, my 2nd weekend est trainer, said, "The truth will set you free. But first it will piss you off!" No lie..."
"...our present circumstance may also be likened to a drowning man clinging to what he thinks is a life raft—a life raft which in the higher scheme of things is really an anchor. Given such a mistaken perspective, it matters little whether his ultimate good is served by taking it away from him. Just try to take that apparent life raft away and see how rational his response is?"
"In a similar vein, we all mistakenly cling to the “false gods” of relative consciousness—temporal and transitory states or conditions of mind and being—in the unreasonable and illogical hope that they will eventually bring lasting peace and permanent happiness. Thus, do we unwittingly attach ourselves to “dead matter,” that which by its very nature must eventually fall back into the “divine dust” from which it necessarily arose..."
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