Thursday, September 29, 2016

Northeast Absolution

The wind is stuck this week. 
It’s blowing from the Northeast 
with a steadiness of force enough 
to turn the temperature on land to that of sea.

The Gulf of Maine in late September
off the coast of Northern Massachusetts
rests around the higher fifties
which is where our air is resting.

Likewise now there’s something to be said
about the art of meditation as the absolute
redeems this being no longer lost in thought
but resting in this being.

O let the sea wash over me
ten thousand yards away
as black crows fly but here
and now as silently as I.


Tuesday, September 27, 2016

An Acadia Love Musical


i.

Like a feeling but not an emotion.
Like attention without a thought.
Affectionate awareness isn't nothing 
as being isn't something.


ii.

That which appears to be the universe is universal being and
this knowledge known as being is just that.

And love is the sign of universal being to be followed like cairns
upon a fogbound trail on this rocky ground high above tree-level.

And fog so thick one has to walk past the last cairn to a point of almost-
no-return before the next one is discovered—this is called further.

Imagine this newborn matrix in affectionate awareness is
conditioned to perceive my self as something else.


iii.

Conditioning is an original error 
passed on thru generations
and love is the sign of my self—
the missing of the mark is not following it.

This is called sin.
And often misunderstood as 
an act against another.
There is no other.

There's only self, 
confusion and the way.
Hiker. Fog. Trail.
Conditioning. Sign. Self.


iv.

Meanwhile the big bang is the earthling name for like half
of the singular wholly process of godself knowing godself.

And the chorus sings love and attention,
love and attention, love and attention.


v.

Acadia; Act Five, Scene One: after
crawling up the desert rock western slope
suddenly seeing an eastern sea and sky
in blue panoramic ultra high definition.

Monday, September 26, 2016

One Late September Morning

This morning was as close to frost since early May. 
The sun which now appears within this picture window
warms the living room in a different way than summer sun,
reminding me I’ve built a shelter for the lack of one.

When the weather in September changes,
the change I feel is not external nor objective,
but this vital breath, this subtle feeling that I am, this seeing
affecting transformation in its universal earth-bound being.

There’s nothing but this sense of one,
affectionate awareness, easier done than said,
but being is conditioned otherwise to see myself instead as some display
divided into colors, thoughts, emotions, play.

In fact the world is not in battle, bloodshed, conflict, war.
The wind is not unfriendly, frigid, spiritless, far.
I am merely being in and breathing out—
of this I have no second thoughts about.

Saturday, September 24, 2016

The Black Whole


Compassion is the default position of seeing.


Being is the only known.
Only being is known by the unknown.

If being is the only known,
and only being is known by the unknown,

then there's truly nothing
but being.


A mountain rises from the sleeping giant.
The sun is speaking from rare air.

The sun is my heart.
And I am that black hole from which the sun shines.

As the earth knows itself to be the sun,
the sun is an embodiment of that great black hole.


In this world, the language of the black hole is
the words of revelation.

Between divided emotions lovingly awaits deep sleep.
Or enlightenment in some translations.

Picture the sun as the source of the body
in tangerine clouds of absolute sky.


There's the unknown.
I am. And evolutionary intent of mind.

One not busy translating is a busy body—
urge urge urge of the procreant east.

For the discerning, 
the intelligent, the intensely questioning.


Furthur.

Ode to Affectionate Awareness

Ordinary is to time 
as nothing is to space—
conceptual pain-killers.

Being is beyond space-time
and so dangerous to personal attachments.

Resting in being begins
in the universal and eternal
and ends in the infinite and timeless.

O nothing and ordinary
is to universal and eternal
is to infinite and timeless
as personal is to being is to absolute.


Simply put,
we are conditioned to think personally
despite feeling universally—

like looking at my sometimes great surroundings
and experiencing beyond a notion
all is one
being.

Being is what love feels in-between the lines.
Affectionate awareness is such a wise and lovely name
for this essence of experience.

This affectionate awareness is the new frontier.
This not a thought, this feeling, this affectionate awareness.
This intuition is a two-dollar word for this affectionate awareness.


Revelation is the existing space
between ignorance and projection.

Intuition
is to the personal
as affectionate awareness is to being
as revelation is to pure awareness.

Deconstruct the personal.
Feel the universal being.
Absolution...


Wednesday, September 21, 2016

monster (in compassionate reply)

it’s the monster they fear 
that makes the monster they hear 
their champion. 

thus you shall never overcome 
a monster just by calling it 
a monster.

one can only see through
its monstrous clothes
child.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Après Moi, Je Suis: Is Is Not An Ism

Existence is personal
Conceptual.
Being is universal
Affectionate.

Existentialism is
A personal conceptual philosophy.
Being (not an -ism) is
Universal affectionate wisdom.

Philosophies are world views
Again making
Re-fictionalize
Reification.

Being is universal wisdom
Negative making
De-fictionalize
Deification.

Personal philosophies are conceptual dead ends.
One only comes to the parent through the child
The absolute through being.

Footnote—
Most religions are belief systems
Philosophies concerning the metaphysical
Dead-ending in a conceptual god—
Thank god for mystics.


Saturday, September 10, 2016

The Country of Perfection

My gurus have always been stop signs and red lights 
Just a dream wrapped in a dreamer inside a dreaming.

This country of evolution is perfection as it is
All crickets and the sound of no boats on a September river.

Knowing what I’m not reveals I am the only knowledge
This red dirt muddy water universe beginning and ending.

On the silver sands of self-awareness.

I saw a sign
She is a dream
This universe
Perfection as it is.

I heard a world
The silence spoke
We are the word
That self-awareness is.

I saw a sign
That lightning struck
This thunder cried
A sign is always I.

I am
The sign.

Monday, August 22, 2016

Son Mountain 17: A Cold Mountain Transcreation

This place of my retreat,
so secret, it’s difficult to express—
without a wind, the wild vines stir,
without a mist, the bamboo is in the dark,
who do the mountain streams cry for,
why are clouds assembling together?
I sit in my hut at noon
suddenly realizing the sun is risen.



(from the translations of RP175, RH-176, BW-46)

Son Mountain 16: A Cold Mountain Transcreation

Layer on layer of mountains and rivers,
cerulean film enclosed in rose-colored clouds—
a brush of mist soaks my cotton bandana,
morning dew dampens this coat of straw,
on my feet are sojourning sandals,
in my hand is a bamboo cane.
Again gazing beyond the dust of the world
not bothered by the dreams of that land.


(from the translations of RP106, RH-106, BW-44)