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Fully Facing Embodiment
Posted December 15th, 2011 by Michael Maskow in Writing and Poetry
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Posted December 16th, 2011 by Michael Maskow in response to Saying Yes/No to Rising-by-Fallingas the hand is cut, the mind is quiet
as the pen moves, the heart is emptied
embracing all suffering and satisfaction, this is free
simply recognize that this first-second-third-person embodiment experiences trauma and that trauma hurts like hell - face this directly without attempting to turn away from this reality in apathy from pain experienced first hand, caused through those two hands, and witnessed as bystander, and without further propagating trauma causing activity on any level. painful experience, when appreciated for what this is in bare awareness and not rejected through a closed-loop story, is information directly indicating the needed response - ie cover cuts to stop bleeding, clean wounds for healing, and cease lashing out. this is merely the practice of true peacefulness - be unconditionally quiet.
simply recognize that this first-second-third-person embodiment experiences failure and failure is equal to the imposition of expectation - face this directly without attempting to turn away from this reality in hopes that certain states will or will not come to be or remain and without the subsequent application of futile efforts at controlling all of reality in order to make certain states come to be or not and remain. merely appreciate that every single expectation that this must become something in particular has always ultimately failed to satisfy the expectation process and what remains is humble and respondent creativity - ie every word reveals the heart of the writer, every action expresses intimacy with life and light. this is merely the practice of true love - be unconditionally caring.
simply recognize that this first-second-third-person embodiment experiences identity exactly with all of the conditions of this moment and projections of an identity pattern which must become and reflections of an identity pattern which are no longer are merely the self-referencing process struggling incessantly to remain the central focus of identification and constantly dying. appreciate that all this is all still vibrant unconditionality facing (natively conditioning, intimately conditionally knowing, and infinitely unconditioning) all conditionality and be free of the need to incessantly question this. this is merely the practice of true wisdom - be unconditionally, benefitting.
the post with the explicit language must be edited or will be deleted. everything is artwork.
heart of reality
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~MfMaskow~
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everything is artwork
Posted December 16th, 2011 by Layman Pascal in response to Nothanks
What is poetry if not explicit language? & if my very appropriate usage is not recognized as an aesthetic flourish then, by all means, is should be removed. I am happy with those words. And with yours. Thank you again for sharing your poetic-technical invocations of what is both highly beautiful and deeply practical. But am I a little biased since I so often, as if from instinct, employ the very stance you are so wonderfully languaging.
I wonder, tho', are you just re-stating to me the already stated position -- when I thought my response meant, "Yes, exactly, but... do you think there are regions of experience where this approach might not apply? Or might apply in reverse (whatever that means)? Does it have limits? And if the experiential answer is 'obviously no given its ultimately comprehensiveness' then... would you even want to find its limits if it had limits?"
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unconditional intimacy
Posted December 19th, 2011 by Michael Maskow in response to everything is artworkan aesthetic flourish for an aesthetic flourish
bone was broke and sinew tore
upon a path trode long and weary
when as i stepped i went out the door
staring farther from start to finish
to find an eye was never opened
wandering how to return to home
a place of thrusting out the door
and upon a face that gazes passing
who shakes me to the very core
with nothing left and nothing lasting
where footsteps fade and are no more
silence arises between dancers and dancing
we laugh and weep and struggle not
while naked bears what cannot be born
all the more and all the more
waking now to hold the child
i do not sigh and do not sigh
though hear the cry and let loud the cry
exquisite cuts across the shadowy night
rain is falling amongst the sweet gum roots
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much love LP, Michael
post script - what is the evolution of the concept of evolution, and why may this not be seen / employed clearly?
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Naked Bears Unborn
Posted December 19th, 2011 by Layman Pascal in response to unconditional intimacy
thnx.
this ladder lilts a little as we learn of it
swollen from stage to stage like Actor's Ego --
every part played left traced upon the doer,
until the wide world looks like a ladder at last;
our precious pantry now stocks nested waves of come-and-go
enough for numerous winters,
phases grasp'd in their relations;
& bit, by barbarous bit,
we bite a tidbit deeper -- grasping these relations as a dynamically successive,
investing past dismissals in emergent intuitions on a journey
& thus does Hegel's Turquoise God come to stand sweaty, glistening, among us
naked & nietzschean / as angry as aurobindo / as pleasant as plotinus
we race of integralites,
comprehensively armed by the heart-deep Deity of dangerous Balance,
we nest upon this ledge and go to work
saving the world by non-saving our Selves
but
what will it be like on the next mountain?
when Evolution looks back on itself like a childish concept?
when our current sacred schema is defeated & absorbed
this is already occurring within
it must be so familiar "up there"...
and yet it must equally make our deepest feelings... wrong?
as we learn more about the Ultimate
we must ultimately unlearn this habit of learning
and then even this idea -- defeated & absorbed.
That is to say -- the concept of evolution evolves as we, by practices & circumstances & grace, gain the worldspace in which to store enough of our own history that we can see definite phases and relations between them. And then a little more space to watch them moving relative to each other -- and lo! they are drifting in a reliable direction. This may not be entirely seen or employed clearly not merely because it IS the substance of the Seer but also because we are now subject to the possibility of a next emergence which will overturn the conclusion obvious at this level. We, more than anyone, are obliged to out-think our own profundity. And not merely out think!
Layman Pascal
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Saying Yes/No to Rising-by-Falling
Posted December 15th, 2011 by Layman PascalA wonderfully invocation of 2nd tier-speak. It could have fallen from an exalted interview with Well-Put-Again-Terry himself. However it doesn't do anyone any good if I simply read it and agree (which I DO).
But let's see if I've got this straight...
Losing "face" empowers fully facing embodiment?
Impotence is powerful?
The collapsing security of values is highly valuable?
The best thing about the Worst of Things is how they reveal the Very Best Thing?
When we are broken, we have a chance be present with implicit wholeness?
When we agree to fail we will see the reality we were disagreeing with -- enabling us to succeed?
When we admit that we will really cease to be -- then we really are?
When I eat sausages I will truly become a vegan?
When I murder my father and fuck my mother I will be free from the Oedipus Complex?
When holocaust devastates the planet Earth we will finally appreciate this world?
When I get raped in prison I might really learn how to FEEL my rectum?
When I become critically sarcastic in my examples then I am really affirming the message of this thread?
Well... that last one has GOT to be true.
Thanks Michael.
Holding perfection in the wrong hand,
Layman Pascal
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