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Haiku of the Day (Absolute Love)

Posted November 27th, 2011 by Richard Hay in God, Philsophy and Metaphysics

HB Resurrection (1992); No better image to express the essentual non-duality (re: non-separation) of the "Clear Space of Awareness" that exists both "inside and the outside" of the "conceptual mental box " that creates a sense of separate selfhood;Companion haiku: Absolute Love is the absence of the presence of relative sense.

Love is the absence
Of the presence of a sense
Of self-existence.

Love is the absence
Of any sense of Being
Other than "What Is."

Love is the Absence
Of the Presence of any
Separate self-sense.

[Rich Note: The following two quotes (which will both appear in “full versions” for context in subsequent comments) are offered as further exposition -- the first as a great new definition of love and the second as a 30 year favorite -- to highlight the understated genius of Bill Samuel’s "Love is here, right now, as Identity" pointer:

"Love is ‘no separation’ and in consciousness, at rest as pure awareness, and in motion as the manifest universe, there is no separation. This consciousness in all modes is God, Allah, Brahman, The Void, The Tao ... call it what you will,

Colin Drake (from “A Light Unto Yourself,” pg.39)

“…the undivided mind is aware of experience as a unity, of the whole as itself, and that the whole nature of the mind and awareness is to be one with what it knows, suggests a state usually called love.

Alan Watts (from “The Wisdom of Insecurity:A Message for an Age of Anxiety,” pg. 130).]

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note on Zen linguistics

Posted December 2nd, 2011 by Layman Pascal

The image didn't do much for me but I loved this line "No better image to express the essentual non-duality (re: non-separation) of the "Clear Space of Awareness"...

It was pure Zen. Not just in the evocative sense but in terms of demonstrating non-duality by asserting it in a dualistic form which is held in a context of prior non-duality.

Surely, the very concept of a better/worse dynamic by which to invoke conditional representations of unconditional Nature is the very essence of dualistic idiocy -- but to criticize dualistic presentations of non-dualism is the very essence of non-dualistic idiocy.

So the principle of authentic Zen languaging is to cancel the differential between dualistic and non-dualistic. Leaving an actual non-dualistic structure rather than a mere reference to non-dualism.

Beautiful. I loved it.

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Images of No One

Posted December 6th, 2011 by Richard Hay in response to note on Zen linguistics

A Sutra of a Response, Layman, A Sutra of a Response!

RE: "The image didn't do much for me…"

Although the “image” (quite literally an icon for “Christ – as Awareness Aware of Itself as That or Consciousness as All – in You” (or the “I Am That I AM,” which is Itself a summation of both the Old and New Testaments, at least as seen from here) is nominally Christian, the “Real Message or Pointer” is the open and closed positions “seen simultaneously” (instead of as discrete, sequential states seen over time, as two mental data points or Apparent States of Mind/No-Mind) point to the “Ultimate Singularity” that any and all such “mental images” (vibratory patterns of “cognizing emptiness, intelligence energy or presence awareness,” characterized as “thought, sense or feeling” for purposes of “conceptual computation”) constantly arise and fall “in, as and through” the Clear Sky of Awareness as the "Never-Ending Seeing of That."

[Rich Note: As “stinky” as all that conceptualization may seem to be, based on personal predilections (or apparent lack thereof) …LOL.]

Rich

PS: The Inclusion of the Heart was inspired by Franklin Jones' (Da Free John, aka, The Bright) declaration that Love was an Emotional Expansion of Energy (or "Preconceptual, Self-Shining, Ever-Fresh,Presence Awareness") flowing from the Heart; and that Fear [as its true opposite, counter-point or contradistinction (as Bill Samuel might say) was emotional contraction of that Self-Same Aware Energy at the Heart (or something to that effect).

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I had an image of No One but I must have left it in my other pants...

Posted December 6th, 2011 by Layman Pascal in response to Images of No One

Hey Rich,

It's heartening to see the ever-fresh, over-capitalized, doubtlessly profound, stylistics of the former Mr. Jones still creeping around through the progress art & cyberdiscourse of our restless world.

Your sutra-riffic response makes me think of what I might call the "hard" and "soft" version of non-dual communication. The invocation of Christ can easily be read (by folks like us!) as the simultaneously seeing of a particular informational form coupled with the clear sky of awareness in which they all, already, rise & fall. But what happens when this omnipresent universal singularity of open/closed spaces is intensified by a claim of solitary uniqueness? I love this moment although it puts off a lot of folks who are otherwise quite available to the implicit both/and of Form and Formlessness. Mr. Jones brought this out with his beautiful claims of unique historical singularity. The better Zen masters trained in this form of communication -- where the utterly unqualified heart-spaciousness of Reality Itself is not just asserted as co-existent with each and every communicable, vibratory pattern -- but where "only this one" (and no others!) is taken to be the coexistence itself.

Admittedly, the difference is slight, but for me it makes all the difference since I have a regular practice of "pushing onward" from the conjunct perfection of the Eternally Perfect & the Ever-Perfecting. So I snagged a piece of your post to affirm my crazed passion for the attempt at "post-non-dualistic" communication.

The non-dual doesn't really get non-dual until it cancels itself as an alternative to dualism and therefore reaffirms itself as meta-contexualized dualism.

Not that I need to tell you that!

Thanks for the note.

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Posted December 8th, 2011 by Richard Hay in response to Images of No One

Dear Layman,

Re: Subject: I had an image of No One but I must have left in my other pants...

Re: I have an image

Of No One I must have left

In My other pants...

Absolutely Love It!!!

(Please, forgive the obsessive compulsive word counter in me -- roflmao)

Re: Hey Rich, It's heartening to see the ever-fresh, over-capitalized, doubtlessly profound, stylistics of the former Mr. Jones still creeping around through the progress art & cyberdiscourse of our restless world.�

Please introduce me to Mr. Jones, Lyman, as I am unfamiliar (at least consciously) with his "stylistics"

P.S. The "over-capped, over-semi-coloned, over-quotation marked, over-parenthesis-ed, over-p.s.-ed, over-verbalized (all of which -- one might suppose -- enable multi-level transmissions, while simultaneously inducing stoppages (and openings) in the reader's habitual mental flow patterns; and, as such, offer more "intellectual bang for the buck, mind-blowing-wise") "linguistic stylings" have been part of how the Heart languages here since a 1978 epiphany [accompanied by a degree of what Dr. Buche referred to in "Cosmic Consciousness" as Intellectual Enlightenment].

PS2: Hadn't seen it that way, Layman, but, yes, it is "Process Art"; and in this case the Process is "Flow of Consciousness."

Smart bombs to Target

Deeply Embedded Patterns of

Self-Centered thought.

Re: Your sutra-riffic response makes me think of what I might call the "hard"�and "soft" version of non-dual communication.�

Yes, It did have sort of a "Circle Come Full, Self-Transcending, Self-Fulfilling Balance or Equilibrium to It, didn't it?" (lol)

(Rich Note: Which, in turn, calls to mind that a "Circle twisted 180 degrees becomes an Infinity Sign, a Mobius Strip and Great Pointer as to How the Original One became the Apparent Many and used "X in the Middle to Mark the Spot" (re: Twisted Circles and Self-Enfolded Crosses).

Re: The invocation of Christ can easily be read (by folks like us!) as the simultaneously seeing of a particular informational form coupled with the clear sky of awareness in which they all, already, rise & fall.

Exactly So, when One's Vision is Integrative (Quantum, Selfless or Top Down) vs. Disintegrative (Particle State, Self-Referential or Bottom Up) -- (Re: "Seeing as Awareness Itself" vice "Seeing as One 'imagined to be' the Possessor of Awareness").

(Rich Note: There was a discovery at some point that the mind's innate discriminating nature could be used to go beyond seeing how things are different (which is its natural, base-state or default tendency) to "see how things were the same"; and, further, to search for and eventually See that "Universal Sameness" as Truth or the "Common Thread in All.")

[TBC -- Maybe (as what remained might best be answered by SILENCE or, perhaps, because it's time to get "my 'but' out of bed" and "be about more worldly business") - lol.]

Yours, Rich

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