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.