Haiku of the Day (The Beatific Vision)

Fabulous. A good work. Eastern Thinking is worth exploration. Thanks Rich.

Thank you, Robert -- great to have you stop by!

Re: "Eastern thinking is worth exploration."

Yes, Robert, for in thus shifting to (and experiencing) an alternate frame of reference (one whose premise is absolute oneness instead of relative twoness) we pass through the "frameless frame of reference" (Re: a Still, Balance Point of Perfect Silence and Peace) of Pure Awareness that both includes (weds or re-unites) and transcends the Inner Knowing (Intuition) of the East and Outer Self-Reflection (Intellect) of the West.

[Rich Note: (Part 1) All of which calls to mind the following quote from Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" (as it relates to Still Point Peace as the Absolute Central Self-Reference of All at the Heart of the Awareness I Am, You Are and All Is; as well as the "Beatific Vision"), Robert:

"OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!..."]

I like it! I am sure it does not mean that we should not try to prevent bad things from happening, but when it does happen, to let it be is to give us peace that we need.

You raise a wonderful point, Olive.

But, as you yourself note, this is really about learning how to live with what can't be changed, by noticing what occurs when we ask the question: "What happens when we accept this moment exactly as it is?"; and doing so without "paying any particular attention" to all the "personal mental judgements, opinions, likes and dislikes, etc." that energizes the mind's habitual inclination to "grasp, escape, change or control" whatever it may find "attractive or distasteful."

This we do as an internal, experiential exercise that can actually become a "Meditative Prayer of Pure Stillness and Silent" (as Adyashanti suggests), if we allow the "Heart of the Awareness We Are" to fully open to the "Absolute Stillness and Silence at Its Source"-- a Prayer that may so enable more "direct, objective, clear and righteous seeing" of what might be called "good"(right) or "bad" (wrong) (where Good equals "Life affirming and expanding"; and Bad equals "Life denying and contracting") in daily life.

So, at least seen from a top-down standpoint or higher perspective, this really isn't about relative "right or wrong," "good or bad," as defined by personal preference and human sensibilities, Olive; but rather about seeing "self-referenced mind's" conditioned resistance to "What Is" based on personal likes and dislikes; and seeing what "shows up" when mind's self-reinforcing habit of "resistance to what is" is subverted by consciously noticing what occurs when we ask (and, perhaps, actually live) the question: "What happens when we allow What Is to be As It Is?"

(Thanks for the opportunity to address this particular point in more detail, Olive.)

Very beautiful, and deep

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Thanks, Angela - been archiving the last 5 and 1/2 years of Gather Posts and you, my friend, have been here through "thick and thin."

(When I come across the date of your first comment, I'll let you know.)

Richard what a touching,incredible poem. This is a poem that will stay with your readers for a long long time.

Dear Kevin,

Your warm, gentle, and equally touching response clearly indicates the "simply profundity" offered "Struck Home (resonated) in Our Common Heart"; and actually could be conveyed (in an "evocative" kind of way) through a "simple stringing of words in a new way" (as Bill Samuel is fond of saying).

Thank You, for your Wonderfully Divine Reciprocation -- It was and Is Much Appreciated!

Rich

The "Backstory" in
This "Beatific Vision"
Is "A Single Eye."

The "Backstory" of
This "Particular Poem" is
"Quantum Awareness."

The "Backstory" of
This "Particle State Poem" is
"Quantum in Nature."

Very nice poem

Thank You, Shaunee -- appreciate the support.

Cross-Correlator: Allowing "What Is" to be "As It Is" reveals "Myself as I Am."

CC2: Letting It "Be As It Is" is the "Only Way" to "Be As I Am."

CC3: "Letting It Be As It Is" I find "Myself As I Am" in "Essence."

CC4: In "Letting It Be As It Is" One Resurrects Divine* Awareness.

[Rich Note: *Divine = Father's = The Lord's = Quantum = Total = Perfect = Non-Dual = Still Point = Present.]

CC5: "Letting It Be As It Is" reveals the "Divine Nature of Being".

CC6: The "True Beauty" in the "Beatific Vision" Is "Seeing Itself."

CC7: "Letting It Be As It Is" reveals the "Divine Awareness I Am."

CC8: What "You Do" is "Let It Be As It Is" and "See Yourself As You Are."

CC9: "Being Awareness" instead of "Its Content" is "How You Let It Be."

CC10: Letting It "Be As It Is" is the Only Way to "Be As I Am."

CC11: Without "Letting It Be As It Is" I can't "Know Myself As I Am."

The older I get, the longer I've lived, the less important this rather than that seems. I mean, I used to feel that living life fully meant doing something big, grand, earthshaking, and monumental. In my divided mind, I wanted to change the world.

Mary Oliver wrote a poem about holding a grasshopper.


This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.


That's life too. Feeding a grasshopper, sugar out of one's hand.

Just Living Life…As It Is

Hi, Roger -- Great to have your Presence Here in the New Year!

Re: "The older I get, the longer I've lived, the less important this rather than that seems."

"Aha" (an "old favorite insight" and a "perfect hi-lighting, counter-point" to "Letting It Be As It Is"):

Or "The Ballad of 'This' and 'That'!"
(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling)

(1) First, some "Original Oldies" resurrected from Appendix H of OOMM:

"To mind" is to pay
Attention to "this" to the
Exclusion of "that."

Attending to "this"
While ignoring "that" divides
Conscious Awareness.

When I "mind this" and
"Ignore that" I divide the
Consciousness I Am.

A mind split between
“This” and “that” is a
Self-divided house.

Alternating one’s
Attention between "this" and
"That" fragments Being.

Minding "this" to the
Exclusion of "that" ignores
The knowledge I Am.

If you choose God you
Will not have to choose between
"This" and "that" again.

Re: "Just Living Life--As It Is"

Amazingly, Roger, That ("Life Living Itself," in and as Itself, As It Is, with or without an "overlaid, mental story-line ") Is All Anyone Ever Really Is "Do/Be Doing."

RE: That's life too. Feeding a grasshopper sugar out of one's hands.

The "Grasshopper Mind"
Stops "jumping around" when fed
The "Nectar of Life."

The "Grasshopper Mind"
Jumps from "this to that" till fed
The "Nectar of Life."

An Editorial on Saints and Sinners:

[Rich Note: Although this might be viewed as "off-stream" (except, of course, in a "contra-distinctive way), I seem compelled to share "the hay-ku that came up" in response to "a very well-intentioned" (and, remember, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions") preacher's "twitting" that, "God forgives 'my ongoing sin' (ever thou Jesus himself specifically said, "go and sin more") with His 'inexhaustible forgiveness'..."

Which I would suggest, is an obsolete (in an age of ever advancing -- although who would know it -- intelligence and reason) "old school doctrinal interpretation," that entirely "misses the point" as to what "sin (from a Top-Down perspective) actually is" (Re: Divine Self-Ignorance and the carnally grounded, personally self-centered action so fostered).

But even worse, said doctrine (which, being alogical, must be accepted as matter of pure faith) actually serves to "confirm, legitimize and thus reinforce" the "alleged sinner's" false belief in "his sense reported, relative separation from an Absolute God"; and, to make matters even worse, not only doesn't comfort "said alleged sinner," it puts him in a classic, "damed if I do, damed if I don't, double-bind."]

This "personal" frame
Of "self-reference" I call
"Me" is the "sinner."

Subject to worldly
Matters because I have faith
In self-existence.

Faith in the partial
Report of relative self
Sense is killing us.

"Ongoing faith" in
A "false premise" is why
"Sin is ongoing."

"Continued sin" is
A function of "unchallenged
Faith" in "carnal mind."

"Sin" is believing
I Am other than I AM
As the "Light of God."

This "mental frame" of
Personal self-reference
"I" call "me" is "sin."

"Sin" is believing
I can be separate from
"An Absolute God."

"Sin" is believing
I Am other than I AM
"In Spirit and Truth."

"Sin" is on-going
Faith in the false report of
Separate self-sense.

"Sin" is on-going
Faith in the false report of
The "me that says my."

Found this while thumbing through my AIR COMPRESSOR INSTRUCTION MANUAL.

Chapter 463 - Sinful use of Air Compression

I am a Sinner........

What I am as ultimate subject is all objects.

As relative subject, I am the observer of a named object in consciousness.....Rich, Roger, Sinner, etc. As subject limited by the concepts of space and time, I become identified with a named object which then appears to be an independent entity.....Rich, Roger, or Sinner.

In true realization, when as I AM, I realise that the named object in consciousness is such only (merely a named object)...........identification ceases, and I am no longer limited.

The conceptual bondage is over, and I know myself as what I really am(I AM). Which is all apparent objects which appear in consciousness.... while I remain, as always, no 'thing' at all.

A Point, Well Made and Taken, Roger!

Sin is Missing the
Point of Being Present and
Aware as I Am.

Sin is Missing the
Self-Radiant Still Point I Am
At the Heart of All.

Sin is Missing the
Radiant Still Point Peace at the
Heart of Awareness.

Sin is Missing the
Radiant Still Point Presence
Of This Awareness.

this was neat thank for sharing

Hi Stranger -- been a long time - good to see you again! As I mentioned to Angela above, I've been archiving the last 5+ years here on Gather; and noticed just yesterday that 4 years ago you were pretty much a regular even before she was.

Just posted a great rendition of a song entitled "Free and Easy" written and performed by John Wheeler as a “musical cross-correlator” John was gracious enough authorize.

[Rich Note: Here's the Adyashanti link that should have been included in the original post, but which, for some reason or other, can't be linked after the fact.

While I am at it, this is a good place as any to mention that both Adya and John Wheeler are wonderful Spiritual Guides, Teachers, Mirrors, Way Showers, Light Bearers, or "Call Them What You Wills" whose books are Classics.]

"God is the Central
Originating Principle
Organizing Principle
Operating Principle
Of This Awareness
At the Heart of All
I Am and You Are!"

[Rich Note: Seems a "3x3 Multi-Dimsional Haiku" just originated itself on a Twitter comment inspired by a "There Is a God (Repost)" Twit by Frank Viola. Welcome to the Birthday Party!]