Musings on death
...what is born must die …
this we know but do not accept
in as embrace with vibrant nonchalance ~
no, let us admit it fellow souls
we are in truth truly afraid
we have seen birds in...
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Categories:
formlessness, death,
Form: Didactic
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1 verse 21
...“Know that which has form to be false, that which is formless to be eternal.
Through the instruction of this truth there is no longer rebirth into this world.”
ephemeral is the manifest ...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
I couldn’t talk about it so I wrote a poem
...At first we assumed everyone feels just the way we do
Being the light of Self in singularity present here in duality
Bilocating breath by breath between form and formlessness
Mind empty of conce...
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Categories:
formlessness, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Time- Time- It Is Time We Remonstrate
...TIME
TIME
TIME
Time again; Time again and again; Time the sigil of violence, Time begets silence
TIME: 'twas the word was spoken
TIME: the li...
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Categories:
formlessness, i am, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Who am I
...mind that thinks
heart that feels
senses five
reflect
thoughts vary
emotions differ
senses too can ebb
yet
we are alive
in the waking state
but what of dreamless sleep
where are ...
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Categories:
formlessness, i am, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse
Who Am I
...If we know ourself, we’ll know the universe
but if our inquiry seeks to go in deep,
recognising touch divine does not rehearse,
we begin by letting musings inward seep,
that by melding with the v...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual, truth,
Form: Ottava rima
The Dark Void
...in the inky black void
we are as we are therein
bereft of senses we see nothing
and yet know we are herein not alone
our awareness thus in formlessness
communicates with the absolute
a...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the Day
...In time dissolved stillness, one with oneness ~
Being becomes vastness of formlessness
25-February-2023...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Zen Mode
...how still is our stillness
may the baton of awareness
be held in a silence continuum
ever humming to grant continuity
yet nonchalant to life's ebb and flow
infusing in the void loving intent
p...
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Categories:
formlessness, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verses 17:17 To 17:18
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17.17
“The liberated one
neither avoids experience nor craves it
He enjoys what comes and what does not”
17.18
“The sage is not conflicted
by states of stillness and thought
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 15:6
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15.6
“Realize Self in All and All in Self
Be free of personal identity
and the sense of “mine.”
Be happy”
Our consciousness in all and all in us as interconnectedness
T...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verses 15:4 To 15:5
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15.4
“You are not the body
You do not have a body
You neither do nor enjoy
You are Awareness only--the timeless Witness
You are free
Go in happiness”
15.5
“Attachment and a...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 1:18
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“That which has form is not real
Only the formless is permanent
Once this is known
you will not return to illusion”
A koan, a quiz
Let us begin by saying it like it is
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita 1:3
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“You are not earth, water, fire or air
Nor are you empty space
Liberation is to know yourself
as Awareness alone
the Witness of these”
As the kundalini ascends
From roo...
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Categories:
formlessness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Soft Subtle Whispers
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love whispers, heart listens
joy capers, face glistens
luminous soul revealed
we’re whole, nothing concealed
form and formlessness merge
oneness enables bliss surge
17-...
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Categories:
formlessness, joy, spiritual,
Form: Verse
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