20 Nov Haiku 60
From the flow we flower into a conscious island in a stream of consciousness. ChatGPT created the above illustration based on the haiku....
19 Nov The Way Of The Way 350
The mind is self-perpetuating. We need it to solve problems, but it never solves as many as it creates....
18 Nov William Wisher
"With modern Western medicine, the upside is you’re alive; but at the cost of being a slave forever." Modern medicine has allowed us to cheat death. Medical conditions that were once undoubtedly fatal can now be treated by taking medications for life. This is as the Greek myth of Sisyphus; the punishment for escaping death is a selfish, monotonous and frustrating life; a lifelong regime of daily pills, akin to rolling an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down every time it nears the top....
14 Nov The Way Of The Way 348
Conscious and consciousness are often used interchangeably, like the "now" and the "present;" though in both instances, they are not the same thing. Conscious is an adjective, a descriptive characteristic. Consciousness is a noun, a state of being. We are conscious when we our mind is aware and responsive to our surroundings. We are consciousness when we are what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now; every thing, including our mind before it is born. The conscious mind can put to words its experience. Consciousness cannot be described; for if it is this then it is not than, yet consciousness is the everything. Thus, “He who speaks does not know, he who knows does not speak.” -- Lao Tzu Likewise, the now is what is manifesting, while the present is the pre-sent; what every thing is before it manifests. Thus, those in the now are conscious they are in the now and those are present are consciousness....
13 Nov Joe Bruno
"The Universe is the everchanging expression of the Ever-Changeless Is." The universe is the uni-verse, one verse; a song that's everchanging in how it sounds to every ear. The random expressions or manifestations of the universe are its downstream characteristics which form the basis of our experience of life in the now. At its fountainhead, the universe is a state of being; simply, it is. The "Is" is is; presence, consciousness, as in "I am." The "Is" is nameless. The "Is" cannot be described as consciousness is everything before and after it is what it is whatever it is in the now. As the "Is" is one thing, the everything, the "Is" is changeless. Moreover, the "Is" is always changeless, as it has no need for money; or anything else, as the "Is" is perfect....
12 Nov Haiku 59
Gently rafting down river. Calm as the pulse in my veins. Rapids approach, pulse quickens....
12 Nov Eternal Being
The soul is what every thing is before and after it is what it is whatever it is and when there is no time. Every thing in the ever-changing now is an expression or manifestation of the soul. Animate manifestations are self-defined as independent things, each the incarnation of a personal self. Those who realize we are not solely the self (which dies when the physical body dies), but also the soul, are eternal....
11 Nov Haiku 58
Only with the eye of God, the sun, can we see. What we see with our eyes are illusions.....
09 Nov The Way Of The Way 347
According to the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), God created the universe and the first humans, Adam and Eve. Initially, Adam and Eve lived and tended to the Garden of Eden which has been variously described as a place of perfection; where there is no pain, suffering or death; a place of innocence, where Adam and Eve went about naked; where trees were pleasant to the sight and good for food; where Adam and Eve spoke with God and a serpent as they lived in harmony with nature and each other. Their idyllic lives were akin to those of peoples in rudimentary societies. They were animists. Animists view every thing (animate, inanimate and abstract) as interconnected and having a soul or spirit within it; animals, plants, the sun, stars, clouds, mountains, words, names, ancestors, stories, etc. all have a spiritual essence with which man can communicate and placate to realize harmony for the benefit of all. God asked little of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden but not to eat the fruits of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and the Tree of Life. However, eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge they did. In turn, God banished them from the Garden, to live by their toils and wits to subjugate the world to realize their needs and desires. They were no longer to live in harmony with nature. Moreover, they no longer viewed things as interconnected and having a spiritual essence, but in terms of discrete classifications, good and evil. Thus began civilization. Classifications and generalizations ultimately evolved into rules and regulations, codified in the texts of the Torah (Old Testament), the New Testament and Quran. Today, the world has adherents to Abrahamic and animist religions. Animist religions are generally practiced by indigenous peoples and in a large collective, Shintoism. As well, other major non-western religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism) embrace animist beliefs of interconnectedness and spiritual essences. Thus, some peoples are living in a gritty world, while others are still in the Garden of Eden....
08 Nov Haiku 57
Love from the soul connects all as a whole. Love from the self takes us down a dark hole....