Richard Hay

"A fatal case of mistaken identity this being human."

Philosophy, Religion and Mystici

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Hay-Ku of Day (All Good)


All Good (2010); Backdrop of a lovely little coffee shop (The O.C. Coffee Shop) hang-out on “the boards” of Ocean City, NJ; Companion haiku: “It’s All Good” from a non-self-referencing stand of “Seeing Seeing.”... “It’s All... Read More

Hasy-Ku of the Day (Stand as Awareness)


Self-Witnessing (2009); Symbolically speaking, what we have Here is the Light of Awareness witnessing Itself as a witnessing presence; Companion haiku: Stand as Awareness and witness the witnessing of whatever appears.... Stand as Awareness... And witness the Witnessing... Presence of... Read More

Hay-Ku of the Day (Perceptual Limits)


Self-Projection (2009); A self-referential state of consciousness projects its own relative limits in the same way looking through binoculars projects circular limits; Companion haiku: Accompanying.... Mechanisms of... Perception project their own... Relative limits....... Read More

Hay-Ku of the Day (Where Would I Be?)


Sun Block © 2005 RFHay; Although the sun as the origin of the light is itself blocked by this cloud, its light must still be present (thought relatively invisible and, perhaps, taken for granted) to see the cloud that temporarily blocks its source: Companion haiku: Accompanying....... Read More

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Witness of All)


[Me and Myself © 2009 RFHay; “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I am known"(1 Cor 13:12); Companion haiku: “I as I think” have to go for “I as I Am” to “Be as I... Read More

Hay-Ku of the Day (The Heart of Being)


States of Mine © 2007 RFHay; Everything seen in this image is a state of mind (itself a “centrally self-referenced system of relative, mental processing”) which “arises in” and is “composed of” the Pure Aware Presence of Being One Ultimately Is;... Read More

Hay-Ku of the Day (All Ways)


Eyes on the Prize © 2005 RFHay; If I kept my “Eyes on the Prize” of the “Aware Presence of Being I Am” as faithfully as Boddhi is this ball I would know "I Am That" in "No Time"; Companion haiku: Accompanying.... Pure Love of Being... The... Read More

Hay-Ku of the Day (Freedom)


Sea of Shrubbery © 2008 RFHay; There’s a house buried in this overgrown shrubbery that offers a pretty good metaphor for Consciousness as a “mental house” self-identified with a jungle of past memories and future concerns that are never pruned; Companion... Read More