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Premium Member The Play Divine

“Oh hermit! Know that there is no one here
What is, is God, as bliss throbs within spear”

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In sync with the divine dance underway
Vaporised self follows the pied piper 
Mind recognising life, as but a play
Relying upon love, as its saviour

Flowing thus gently, in the stream divine
Essence of presence becomes a bliss mist
Head melds with heart in fusion to align
Joy unabating through both trough and crest

Delighting in journey without movement 
As magnetic currents within do rise
Inner eye beholds self luminescent 
Each bliss nuance felt, rapturous surprise 

Love unifies thought of separateness 
All then being, singular consciousness 

25-January-2021
Form: Sonnet


Premium Member What Is Real

out of the frying pan, we plunge into the fire
succumbing thus to ego spawned desire
ephemeral objects, our ego aspires

where are we headed, oh hermit
our deluded cravings have no merit
fallen from grace, head and heart split

bewildered we are, amidst myriad external illusions
blown away like a leaf, is our fickle attention
clear light dawning in void of cessation

that that comes and goes unreal
save throb of bliss nothing has appeal
fire of bliss in our heart, purges and heals

nonchalant soul presence, pure and unstained
vaporising lower mind, divine joy ingrains
unaffected by worldly loss or gain

deluded ego in separateness 
slowly cognises interconnectedness 
transcending finally to absolute oneness

earth life then thus a journey without movement 
discontentment transmuting to contentment 
culminating in blissful love enablement 

05-April-2021
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Illusion of Separateness

Life's greatest heated human tragedy
the one we are likely taught not to see.
Our wide-ranging worlds are well connected,
as atoms wiggle we're all effected.
Separation is optic illusion
a fitting end to one's soul seclusion.

Gurus say I am you and you are me,
that's the way it's supposed to be.
If I am Abe, Alice, Aron, Abu;
are they really me, how can that be true?
One respects collective society,
pledges to individuality.

It's in us to foster global good will
hold high hopes for oneness not to stand still.
Compassion is the real eternal key,
the single most important reality.
In the rays of moonlight truth shines so clear
allays all our unstated oneness fear.

When face to face, touch hands to then embrace;
stand up, stand in, alone and take your place.
So don't be offput by any confusion;
you're not separate, it's an illusion.
Lots of wisdoms will surely come to pass
while we lay lulling the scent of sweetgrass.




167 words   24 lines  couplets
Reference: Albert Einstein quote, "The greatest tragedy
of human existence is the illusion of separateness"
Reference: Robin Wall Kimmerer, "Braiding Sweetgrass"
author, indigenous scientist, native American
Reference: Dalai Lama, teaches the importance 
of compassion practice
Reference: Thomas Merton quote, "We are already one. 
But we imagine that we are not."

Pen illustration by G. Gaul


September 2022
© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

I Am That I Am

Line of inquiry:

“a heartbeat pulsating as living light
free from each and every limitation
I Am that dwelling in unbound delight
the source wherefrom arises creation”



Before the first discrimination sundered dark
from radiance, I was the fathomless antecedent
within which difference germinated—wherein
unbegotten Being first suffered form, and form
awoke, astonished, to its own transience.

I was anterior to utterance, yet not silence—
for silence is already the vestige of a voice;
anterior to pulse, yet not stillness, for stillness
presupposes motion—and time itself, that great
hallucination of succession, unfurls beneath
my indivisible infinitude.

No star contains me; each is a hieroglyph
of Being momentarily incandescent; no sea
encompasses me; its abyssal blue is merely
the mnemonic shadow of an unplumbed profundity
through which manifestation issues, as though
the visible were Being's self-disclosure.

Creation stands not exterior to me—
it is the eidolon of my withdrawal, the luminous
residue of an effacement through which the nameless
becomes innumerable. Then comes the sovereign fiction
called myself, armoured in memory, and says: I am.

But who has spoken?

When the asker itself is annulled within the question,
and question, answer, speaker relinquish separateness,
nothing remains for consciousness to apprehend—
only that primordial knowing before knowing, too,
acquired a name, and called itself I.

Premium Member Thought Vs Touch

“better a rebel, a nerd, than a blind follower of the herd”
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Buddha urged to illuminate darkness
Set forth towards the closest habitation
His countenance aglow with luminescence 
Was asked by a passerby cause of his elation

Buddha replied that he was the one, the Arahant
Light that lights all lights, eternal God essence
Master of elements, glory of enlightenment
His aura bestowing soul transcendence

Buddha’s affirmation fell on deaf ears
No one grasped his words seemingly vain
Earth bound weary souls caged in myriad fears
Try as they might, exalted wisdom could not ingrain

Thus came about the need for wisdom intermediate
The four noble truths in easy symbolic language 
Eight fold path being way to heavens gate
Simplified teaching became a rage

Narrow mind oriented to resist
Accepts not authenticity of oneness
Unaccustomed to light, our delusion persists
Feeding ego cravings in delusion of separateness 

Most religions therefore opt to contour the ultimate truth
Subtly hinting towards the single underlying reality 
Knowing we may not embrace God forsooth
Urging practices to infuse in heart purity

Spirituality on the other hand is direct
Unfettered by ritual, custom or blind belief
Head and heart with love aligned, stance erect
Directly imbibed wisdom gives soul permanent relief

21-July-2021
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Lead Us From Darkness To Light

Recognition key to liberation
When knowing is in definitiveness 
The truth’s discerned in deep meditation 
All that’s manifest, is God-consciousness 

Notwithstanding this, there’s oscillation 
That sinking feeling of separateness 
The trick lies in exiting stagnation 
In blissfulness melding with That oneness

Accepting our earth life limitation 
Soul impulse prompts interconnectedness 
Shift into tranquil void of cessation 
Positions our heart in vibrant stillness 

As bliss renews in continuation 
Earth life sojourn, joyous celebration 

08-March-2022
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member God Search

Who do we search for, in this wilderness
Oh weary lama, there is no one here
That that is, is just ourself as oneness
Known when we choose to hear by inner ear
As magnetism each pore of form does sear
Enabled, when with love pulse we align
Vibrant bliss in form, that our heart holds dear
As we be now breathed by God’s breath divine

In this dream, feeling of separateness 
Delusion, as we pursue earth career
Man against man in strife and ruthlessness 
At all costs securing, what heart holds dear
Ego from shadows, does tauntingly leer
For myriad desire objects we pine
Fleeting is pleasure, short lived is our cheer
As we be now breathed by God’s breath divine

In time we hark conscience, as consciousness 
Voice soft and subtle, allays our deep fear
We shift then to interconnectedness
Empathy love hue deems each soul our peer
Lower mind fades, as we become a seer
Head, heart and love, stand erect in a line
God’s our flagship, our life course He does steer
As we be now breathed by God’s breath divine

When ordained by grace we see God appear
Our soul stands still under the oneness sign
We vaporise as bliss each node does spear
As we be now breathed by God’s breath divine

18-January-2022
god
Form: Ballade

Judge Us Not

JUDGE US NOT

Judge us not for our sin
Look at the people we've been

Don't hold it against us that we were weak
We found a love that every human would seek

Don't look down because we both gave in
She was the most beautiful place I've ever been

We fought the feeling for a very long time
But we both knew I was hers and she was mine

You may look at us with a haughty grin
But if you've never felt true love, to know how we feel....you can't begin

You may condemn when you look at our life
She had a husband and I had a wife

Don't judge us for the secrets we hide
We shield others from pain but each day we die inside

Have you ever felt a love that brings you to your knees
But had to hide what everyone else sees

To know the agony of the silent scream that bursts from your heart
Have you been taken, but met the person you should've been with from the start

We did not ask for this feeling we fought
Neither of us was looking for this, but our souls found what they sought

If you've never had to each day put on a happy face
And just wish somebody else was in your place

Have you had to weigh the option of death or life
The bliss of together or separateness which brings so much pain and strife

So please don't judge us until you've looked at the pain in our eyes
Or seen how each of us when alone silently cries

If you could feel but a fraction of the pain we knew
Maybe then you'd not judge us but would take pity on us two
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Pure Awareness

Pure awareness 
Unattached to form
Just IS
As it IS
Complete
But since the awareness wishes
Choicelessly wishes
To engage in movement
It does
Creating matter
And energising it
With a part of itself
Without reducing itself
Or being affected by matter
Though in it, with it
And so
Matter ...
Or consciousness 
Thus energised
By awareness
Yawns
Stirs
Stretches
Awakens
And becomes itself ...
Awareness
There then being no difference
No separateness
Between the awareness
That brought this awareness
Into being
And ITSELF

The human form
Of consciousness 
Is the latent awareness
Having already yawned
Already stirred
And now awakening
Within form 
To become awareness
Pure awareness
Without form
The body
An instrument magnificent 
Enigmatically magnificent 
Within which
Consciousness detects
Grid lines that connect ...
The entire body itself ...
Completely
Each grid line 
Having nodes
These nodes are then occupied 
Energised
By awareness
Making them conscious 
Just as awareness
Once made consciousness awareness
And so
Each node is now consciousness 
Enabling awareness 
To be joyous in movement 
Of the node consciousness
Born
Energised 
And awakening
Within it
Later to be distinct though unified 
To itself become awareness 
As is ALL

These grid lines
All interconnected 
Across the body
Of which the spine to head chakras ...
Are but one 
A prominent one but nevertheless  ...
One of several grids
Each continuum of the grid
Whether at the node or without
Being alive & aware
So as such
Everything being awareness
In entirety 
Yet ...
The magnification of awareness
At the nodes 
Which are consciousnesses 
Dormant and now created, born 
Or say energised
Awaken
And thereby enable
The totality of consciousness 
Within form awakening 
And experiencing awakening
In conjunction within
Nodes awakening
In unison
As a symphony
Of the formless movement
Of awareness itself
Are connected at all continuums 
Of the entirety of awareness
Boundlessly
Within form
Without form
As the one awareness
That IS

Disclaimer: 

No elaboration offered
For the revelation in stillness 
Which each consciousness 
Awakening
To & as awareness
In timeless time
Receives and becomes
As One in Oneness 
Pure Awareness

23-October-2020

Flashback from 30-November-2018

Premium Member The Sea of Oneness

The sea of boundless Oneness
Cognised by ascending consciousness 
Transitioning to pure awareness

We are as such in stark aloneness
Within deep meditational stillness 
Our form blending with our formlessness 

The beginning is non thought presence
In humble innocence
With no memory linked remembrance 

Our innate magnetisation
Divine harmonious vibration
Is our intuitive orientation 

The third eye active
Funnels energy to the crown receptive
Dispersing the flow into space enigmatic

Our consciousness pauses momentarily
Has to choicelessly choose here voluntarily 
To dissolve in the stream unhesitatingly

A soft pinkish white light does shine
From a multi-petaled lotus divine
Partly shielded by violet clouds as a sign

We are then in the sea of formless oneness
Vibrant, aglow, complete be-ness
Consciousness is now pure indivisible awareness

We are absolute awareness all encompassing 
Within & without form, linear time vanishing
Separateness dissolved, singularity resonating 

We are here in the ocean of bliss
Where nothing is amiss
We know that WE ARE IT & IT IS THIS

By choiceless choice we descend into matter gross
All nodes, chakras within in a dance synchronous 
With pure awareness replacing delusion anomalous

05-November-2020

Flashback to 17-December-2018
Form: Rhyme

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