the innocent prophecies - 16 - mirror

—i am the crown of creation, the body of the lord, and the ground on which i walk——i am the mercurial substance of this funhouse magic mirror——in which i get to see the awesome empty nobody of myself——where all my words mean nothing once i hear my silence——and the world is revealed to be diversionary tactics in the absolute strategy of my knowing my unknown—

the innocent prophecies - 15 - indescribable

—cemeteries are the great ruins of samsara——clouds are the walls of great nirvana——that unseen peak before the big bang is where i rest my space and time——the esoteric is not exotic——the indescribable is not descriptive——an all-pervasive awareness without a streak of thought——awareness of thought but not by thought——an imperishable immanence instilling the less than permanent terrain—

the innocent prophecies - 14 - sea

—the river of being has been filled in by the world with real estate and fast commerce——somewhere a meandering stream slips by in the mystery of mother night——a child comes to you and takes you there and holds you by the shore with one unanswerable question——and suddenly you find yourself alone unknown and in the middle of a vast and silent sea——and as if you never left, you settle in your depths—

the innocent prophecies - 13 - silence

—the sea that settles itself——the wave of discovering the wave was never a wave——opposing polarities, cancellations of sound, the primordial depths of stillness——this is the prophecy: you are the prophet; announce your silence!

the innocent prophecies - 12 - worldly

—no one of the world can help the world——division in division out——smiling buddha was the alias for india’s first nuclear explosion——worldly knowledge only works within the limits of the world——the way of sunlight on lilac corollas——the way of moonlit obsidian rivers——the way that stars come to light from the darkness——love is absolutely unimaginable—

the innocent prophecies - 11 - enlightened

—if imagination creates one's view of reality—and it really does—then imagine you're enlightened—because you really are—

the innocent prophecies - 10 - babylon

—an environmental plague of superstorms now haunts the gilded living rooms of babylon in highest definition——the weather channel is the writing on the wall—— weeping for the children in the desert wasteland of material chaos, o babylon remembers love——once there was a sea where now there is this waterfront——once there was a place where now there is location location location——once there was a once and future love and still it reigns within the mists of babylon—

the innocent prophecies - 9 - belief

—don't believe in disbelief; know it——righteousness in the deep belief of love always turns to hating those who don't believe as righteously——love love and leave the rest to love—

the innocent prophecies - 8 - love

—love lives in the concrete cracks of the separate self——the lunar landing of the first love on the moon took place before the first word on this earth——love deifies that which thought has reified——the child in the grass, the folk of the leaves, the lover from the sun—

the innocent prophecies - 7 - presentless

—the nonconditioning of deep sleep——the buddha of buddhalessness——the visionary lack of vision——presenting the presentless!——meanwhile love imagines a colorful dawn—

the innocent prophecies - 6 - peacemaker

—the imagination of a verdant landscape in the memory of dissevered existence——beneath soaring eastern white pines, a red house sits in shadow——to the people of the longhouse, the pinus strobus is the tree of peace, its bundles of five needles the symbol of five nations joined as one——the great peacemaker is the prophet, blinding separation with a clarion of light greater than the sun—

the innocent prophecies - 5 - respiration

—the conspiracy of respiration starts with a single leaf——this holistic breath of emptiness——the deep exhalation of paradoxical existence——a butterfly resting within the eye of its own hurricane—

the innocent prophecies - 4 - shaman

—the only shaman is the shaman of ice cream——shaman says: touch your heart——shaman says: don't even think about not thinking——speak your way. fall back 10000 paces! shaman didn't say——sometimes you lick the ice cream and sometimes the ice cream licks you—

the innocent prophecies - 3 - garden

—in this garden of love, awareness grows——the flowering of silence——sweet fragrances of ripe potentiality——the bees! the bees! the bees!

the innocent prophecies - 2 - love

to serve god is to be love and to be god is to serve love

the innocent prophecies - 1 - imagination

—as matter arises in consciousness, the world arises in imagination——the past is outer; the present is inner——the future is intuition——and all are but sweet nothings in the clear dissolving light of pure affectionate awareness—

39th circular - last word / no word

surrender is more than just a word; it's the last word—

surrendering what i thought i was to what i am—

revealing there is nothing there to be surrendered—

surrender isn't just a word; it's the realization there is no word…

verse: word

surrender is more than just a word;

it's the last word—

surrendering what i thought i was

to what i am—

revealing there is nothing there

to be surrendered—

surrender isn't just a word;

it's the realization

there is no word…

38th circular - diversion

relatively speaking, this world is a necessary diversion and descent from the evolutionary ascending trajectory of being becoming self-aware—

the light of infancy descends into the rock-like hard egoic self—

the rock of self erodes within its time of suffering into a lighter substance providing an organic movement up toward life and light—

a person's world is thought so small; love conceives a light infinitely larger.

verse: a necessary diversion and descent

relatively speaking,

this world is a necessary diversion and descent

from the evolutionary ascending trajectory

of being becoming self-aware—

the light of infancy descends

into the rock-like hard egoic self—

the rock of self erodes

within its time of suffering

into a lighter substance providing

an organic movement up toward life and light—

a person's world is thought so small;

love conceives a light infinitely larger.

37th circular - signs

intuition and synchronous signs are the push and pull respectively for the vehicle of the action figure dream character called a person—

when intuition and synchronous signs are ignored, these subtle energies are replaced with the more obvious ones of nightmares and sufferings—

it doesn't hurt to remember the dream character is not in control: surrender to the script.

verse: intuition and synchronous signs

intuition and synchronous signs are

the push and pull respectively

for the vehicle of the action figure

dream character called a person—

when intuition and synchronous signs are ignored,

these subtle energies are replaced

with the more obvious ones

of nightmares and sufferings—

it doesn't hurt to remember

the dream character is not in control:

surrender to the script.

36th circular - knowledge

this tangled knot of thoughts acquires a glimmer of the truth in a single timeless loving moment that unties itself into that truth—

consciousness knowing itself is love and love is the only knowledge but love aware is the manifestation of the great and real unknown—

thus love is everything but love aware is the wisdom knowing that it's nothing.

verse: knowing that it's nothing

this tangled knot of thoughts acquires

a glimmer of the truth in a single timeless loving moment

that unties itself into that truth—

consciousness knowing itself is love

and love is the only knowledge

but love aware is the manifestation of

the great and real unknown—

thus love is everything

but love aware is the wisdom

knowing that it's nothing.

35th circular - done

the first key is to see what appears as matter, including what appears to be you, arises in nonlocalized consciousness, and not vice versa—

the second key is to see the witnessing awareness in consciousness i am is a reflection of the great unknown, and astonishingly, I Am That—

there's no localized seeing though since consciousness is non-localized, or universal, so the person doesn't do a thing, but is done: no key—

but whatever a person thinks it does is its necessary response to being done until it's only response is dropping all response & just be done—

if a person wants to monitor how done it is, it should monitor its responses; the more unconditional love present there, the more done it is—

it's helpful to understand there's no fooling the monitor; trying to respond with unconditional love fools no one but the person not done.

verse: so the person doesn't do a thing

the first key is to see what appears as matter,

including what appears to be you,

arises in nonlocalized consciousness,

and not vice versa—

the second key is to see

the witnessing awareness in consciousness i am is

a reflection of the great unknown,

and astonishingly, I Am That—

there's no localized seeing though

since consciousness is non-localized, or universal,

so the person doesn't do a thing, but is done:

no key—

but whatever a person thinks it does is

its necessary response to being done

until it's only response is dropping all response

and just be done—

if a person wants to monitor how done it is,

it should monitor its responses;

the more unconditional love present there,

the more done it is—

it's helpful to understand there's no fooling the monitor;

trying to respond with unconditional love fools no one

but the person not done.

34th circular - manifestation

to change the world, one only needs to let its concept change—

the person and its world are the manifestation of concepts truly believed; when the concepts believed change, so does the manifestation—

when all concepts are seen through, manifestation is lucid

verse: one only needs to let its concept change

to change the world,

one only needs to let its concept change—

the person and its world are the manifestation

of concepts truly believed;

when the concepts believed change,

so does the manifestation—

when all concepts are seen through,

manifestation is lucid.

33rd circular - dream

relatively speaking, if the purpose of the dream is waking up from it, then the purpose of the awake in the dream is to help dreamers wake—

& again relatively speaking, for those absolutists in the dream with nothing to do and no doer that does and no dream to do it in, why dream—

an esoteric bodhisattva is just what happens in the lucid dreaming remaining, before the body-mind dissolves, as embodiment of understanding—

the west is not the east; there is no tradition of the esoteric here that's self-supporting or self-forming; it was burned by rome—

the way in the west must use the western ways to turn them toward the dawn

verse: to help dreamers wake

relatively speaking,

if the purpose of the dream is waking up from it,

then the purpose of the awake in the dream is

to help dreamers wake—

and again relatively speaking,

for those absolutists in the dream with nothing to do

and no doer that does and no dream to do it in,

why dream—

an esoteric bodhisattva is just what happens

in the lucid dreaming remaining,

before the body-mind dissolves,

as embodiment of understanding—

the west is not the east;

there is no tradition of the esoteric here

that's self-supporting or self-forming;

it was burned by rome—

the way in the west must use the western ways

to turn them toward the dawn.

32nd circular - being

beginning at the beginning is the beginningless—

in the unconditional love and nonconceptual being is that dark witnessing reflection of a pure and clear awareness beyond the scope of being—

words can only point to this wordless non-localized feeling shimmering with a crisp clear open invisibly dispassionate and deep awareness—

attaching to a single word describing it will bring the world of trouble hiding it despite the single truth there's nothing there except it.

verse: beyond the scope of being

beginning at the beginning is the beginningless—

in the unconditional love

and nonconceptual being is

that dark witnessing reflection

of a pure and clear awareness

beyond the scope of being—

words can only point

to this wordless non-localized feeling

shimmering with a crisp clear open invisibly

dispassionate and deep awareness—

attaching to a single word describing it

will bring the world of trouble hiding it

despite the single truth there's nothing there except it.

31st circular - love

this world is conceived in the conceptual and dropped by conceptual advice that truth is non-conceptual and not of this world—

thus, more often than not, esoteric concepts leading to an unknowable truth result in exoteric concepts forming beliefs about the unknown—

emptiness truth really isn't empty; highest truth really isn't higher; even existential truth doesn't actually exist—

considering concepts carefully, it would appear that one could do no worse than say that truth is love and love is what i am, unconditionally—

and that unknown witnessing awareness to which one ultimately points in an astonishing exclamation of "i am that" is an affectionate awareness—

if esoteric must lead one astray to exoteric, then let it be love to which one is led—

before encountering the unknowable parent, one rests in the son white light love 'i am' free of the filtering spectrum of conceptual belief—

for i am the kingdom of life, and the power of love, and the glory of pure awareness, for ever amen.

verse: truth is love and love is what i am

this world is conceived in the conceptual

and dropped by conceptual advice

that truth is non-conceptual

and not of this world—

thus, more often than not,

esoteric concepts

leading to an unknowable truth

result in exoteric concepts

forming beliefs about the unknown—

emptiness truth really isn't empty;

highest truth really isn't higher;

even existential truth doesn't actually exist—

considering concepts carefully,

it would appear that one could do no worse than say

that truth is love and love is what i am,

unconditionally—

and that unknown witnessing awareness

to which one ultimately points

in an astonishing exclamation of "i am that"

is an affectionate awareness—

if esoteric must lead one astray to exoteric,

then let it be love to which one is led—

before encountering the unknowable parent,

one rests in the son white light love 'i am'

free of the filtering spectrum of conceptual belief—

for i am the kingdom of life,

and the power of love,

and the glory of pure awareness,

for ever amen.

30th circular - story

birds make nests, beavers make dams, humans make themselves—

fly away from the nest, swim away from the dam, drop away from the web—

sky, sea, ground—

spiders spin a web, humans spin a story—

soar from yourself and watch the wind blow away your story—

spacious open one aware—

there's only one development of character within this single plot of story: wake up!

verse: this single plot of story

birds make nests,

beavers make dams,

humans make themselves—

fly away from the nest,

swim away from the dam,

drop away from the web—

sky, sea, ground—

spiders spin a web,

humans spin a story—

soar from yourself and

watch the wind blow away your story—

spacious open one aware—

there's only one development of character

within this single plot of story—

wake up!

29th circular - emotion

in this world, only unconditional love is real, and all spontaneous emotion is that love filtered through the spectrum of belief—

to test one's current understanding of what's real, place full attention on emotions, large & subtle, finding those illusions still believed—

those subtlest emotions categorized under the generic names of pride and shame may often be the grand illusion's last stand—

there's absolutely nothing one can do about these emotions except not deny them, and experience them fully and completely; seeing is freeing.

verse: all spontaneous emotion is that love filtered

in this world,

only unconditional love is real,

and all spontaneous emotion is that love filtered

through the spectrum of belief—

to test one's current understanding of what's real,

place full attention on emotions, large & subtle,

finding those illusions still believed—

those subtlest emotions categorized

under the generic names of pride and shame

may often be the grand illusion's last stand—

there's absolutely nothing one can do

about these emotions except not deny them,

and experience them fully and completely;

seeing is freeing.

28th circular - awareness

awareness is the ground and witness, dark mother of and in the light—

the best comparison to that awareness is one of deep sleep but even that shines a shimmer of experience where there's absolutely none—

one can never know awareness but only be awareness and in that being is the great unknown—

but thoughts about awareness only lead to headaches; better known by nothing than trying to know something unknowable—

"It is like the daylight that makes everything visible while itself remaining invisible." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

verse: awareness is the ground and witness

awareness is the ground and witness,

dark mother of and in the light—

the best comparison to that awareness is

one of deep sleep but even that shines

a shimmer of experience where

there's absolutely none—

one can never know awareness

but only be awareness

and in that being is the great unknown—

but thoughts about awareness

only lead to headaches;

better known by nothing

than trying to know something unknowable—

"It is like the daylight t

hat makes everything visible

while itself remaining invisible."

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

27th circular - peace

all real peace efforts must be directed inwards; it's not about the other person, party, politician, or whatever scapegoat of your choice—

until one truly understands there is no other, there will always be another war within your world: the war of wars, your personal war, you—

peace is what remains when the personal is dropped; thus ends this morning's sermon: go now, rest in peace—

when the personal is dropped, what remains is the awareness of being; thus being comes to know it is that, pure awareness: nothing to it.

verse: peace is what remains when the personal is dropped

all real peace efforts must be directed inwards;

it's not about the other

person, party, politician, or

whatever scapegoat of your choice—

until one truly understands there is no other,

there will always be another war within your world:

the war of wars, your personal war, you—

peace is what remains

when the personal is dropped;

thus ends this morning's sermon:

go now, rest in peace—

when the personal is dropped,

what remains is the awareness of being;

thus being comes to know it is that,

pure awareness: nothing to it.

26th circular - love

love is not romantic, thoughtful, or restricted to a person, place, or thing but unconditional in understanding all that's manifest is one—

one is conditioned into two with views of black and white, good and bad, beautiful and ugly through the artificial separation of a me and you—

everything becomes objective and the object appearing to be me usurps the character of that real subjective great unknown in its selfish way—

love is not objective and thus undermines the false subjective with its revolutionary force: original, creative, unitary, and self-aware.

verse: love is not objective

love is not romantic,

thoughtful, or restricted

to a person, place, or thing

but unconditional in understanding

all that's manifest is one—

one is conditioned into two

with views of black and white,

good and bad,

beautiful and ugly

through the artificial separation of

a me and you—

everything becomes objective

and the object appearing to be me

usurps the character of

that real subjective great unknown

in its selfish way—

love is not objective

and thus undermines the false subjective

with its revolutionary force:

original, creative, unitary, and self-aware.

25th circular – dropping-off

this simple dropping-off may often feel as if there's effort—

like floating on the ocean, there's a kicking and a paddling of extremities at first until one rests full weight upon the lifting of the sea—

after all, it's not exactly like a dead man's float, this self returning to itself, this one of being—

there's a liveliness, a never-ending energy, a crisp but peaceful buzz akin to something like orgasm in slow-motion—

not dead-weight.

verse: akin to something like orgasm

this simple dropping-off may often feel

as if there's effort—

like floating on the ocean,

there's a kicking

and a paddling of extremities at first

until one rests full weight

upon the lifting of the sea—

after all, it's not exactly

like a dead man's float,

this self returning to itself,

this one of being—

there's a liveliness,

a never-ending energy,

a crisp but peaceful buzz

akin to something like orgasm

in slow-motion—

not dead-weight.

24th circular - wholly

this instrument of body-mind of, in, by, for consciousness as self-awareness, isn't separate but organic with the universe as one accessory—

this one whatchamacallit created in the ways and means of this whatever in however it appears within this i am that one calls being aware—

yet what's thought as separate ensues in separation a samsaric fright horrific play of maya from minutiae of irritation to apocalyptic holocaust—

but nothing separate exists and anything which ensues in separation doesn't really happen and everything is perfectly wholly holy silence.

verse: one whatchamacallit created in the ways and means of this whatever

this instrument of body-mind

of, in, by, for consciousness

as self-awareness,

isn't separate but organic

with the universe as one accessory—

this one whatchamacallit

created in the ways and means

of this whatever

in however it appears

within this i am that one calls

being aware—

yet what's thought as separate

ensues in separation

a samsaric fright horrific play of maya

from minutiae of irritation

to apocalyptic holocaust—

but nothing separate exists

and anything which ensues in separation

doesn't really happen

and everything is perfectly

wholly holy silence.

23rd circular - strings

out of silence strings appear to vibrate in an aum of musical being with no strings attached—

memory banks attach each string to thoughts of gain and loss and life and death and nothing sings within that world of constant noise—

stop and rest within original being and all strings disattach from false attachments in thin air to vibrate in the music of an unborn sphere—

where awareness is the witness to this random waltz of wonder and being’s sudden silent realization i am that…

verse: being’s sudden silent realization

out of silence

strings appear to vibrate

in an aum of musical being

with no strings attached—

memory banks attach each string

to thoughts of gain and loss

and life and death

and nothing sings within

that world of constant noise—

stop and rest within original being

and all strings disattach

from false attachments in thin air

to vibrate in the music

of an unborn sphere—

where awareness is the witness

to this random waltz of wonder

and being’s sudden silent realization

i am that…

22nd circular - instrument

this node of consciousness called the body-mind is a most highly sophisticated instrument capable of amplifying consciousness within itself—

when this instrument is functioning at optimum levels, the supreme awareness within consciousness is now aware of consciousness, self-aware—

it is as if to say that god the child becomes aware of itself by god the parent in itself through the instrument of, by, in, & for the child—

it's a highly sensitive self-evolving instrument that in its early immature stages gets lost within its memory unit and plays its mind games—

wake up! and listen to the music that is you…

verse: god the child becomes aware of itself

this node of consciousness

called the body-mind is

a most highly sophisticated instrument

capable of amplifying consciousness within itself—

when this instrument is functioning at optimum levels,

the supreme awareness within consciousness is

now aware of consciousness,

self-aware—

it is as if to say that

god the child becomes aware of itself

by god the parent in itself

through the instrument of, by, in, & for the child—

it's a highly sensitive self-evolving instrument

that in its early immature stages

gets lost within its memory unit

and plays its mind games—

wake up!

and listen to the music that is you…

21st circular - identification

a person and its world derived from identification with thought exhibits the essence of thought which is binary—

this binary essence of thought, as manifested in what is thought to be the ordinary world of the person, is divisive and always at odds—

instead of one using a knife, a person becomes the knife—

this divisive world is inevitably one of disagreement, argument, and incompatibility resulting in anger, violence, murder, rape, revenge and war—

on the other hand, there's this one of no hand, indefinable and not at all aligned within this sick deluded world thought to be the real world—

simply said: varietal but non-divisive and dispassionate yet compassionate. nothing critical, just lovingly real.

verse: a person becomes the knife

a person and its world

derived from identification with thought

exhibits the essence of thought

which is binary—

this binary essence of thought,

as manifested in what is thought

to be the ordinary world of the person,

is divisive and always at odds—

instead of one using a knife,

a person becomes the knife—

this divisive world is inevitably

one of disagreement, argument, and

incompatibility resulting in

anger, violence, murder, rape, revenge and war—

on the other hand,

there's this one of no hand,

indefinable and not at all aligned

within this sick deluded world

thought to be the real world—

simply said:

varietal but non-divisive

and dispassionate yet compassionate.

nothing critical,

just lovingly real.