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  • The Moment

    Some Thoughts on “The Moment”

    We know reification is at work when we think of it as this moment or the next moment. The moment is actually out of time.

    momentTime is rushing at us

    From everywhere

    From all directions

    From inside and outside

    From the past and future

    Physical time

    Emotional time

    Psychological time

    It’s absolutely

    Incredible

    How

    All of time

    Fits into the

    Moment

     

    The Inner Heart

    When heart touches earth,

    it also whispers upon the wind,

    engulfs the sea,

    and hears itself in every breast

    How is it possible

    to breathe in all of this beauty

    and empty oneself

    into the moment?

     

     

    Sleep

    sleeping momentIs the gift of God

    Don’t waste it on escaping this world

    Or flee there in boredom or despair

    Sleep for the sake of the soul

    Refresh yourself for tonight’s dancing and revelry

    A rested body and mind

    Is a great gift to throw into Nothingness

     

    Lay your body in the lap of the Beloved

    Deep sighs of the burden surrendered

    True support, the Divine Current

    Lay your head against the Beloved’s bosom

    Sighs of relief from separation

    Acceptance, the disappearing into Transparency

    Touch your heart-cheek to the Beloved’s

    Sweet melting sighs of ecstatic release

    The rich Perfume of The Beloved’s neck

    Is what you are

     

    Oh come, you

    Who work and struggle

    Who suffer and wander

    Who are weary and worn

    Rest for the sake of the soul

    Lay you heads and bodies down

    Lay your heart-cheeks upon His mercy

    Rest for the sake of the soul

     

    One moment

    In Absolute sleep

    Will

    Change

    You

    Forever

     

     

    There IS

    A point

    At the center of me

    That IS

    Not of this world

    All moments

    Within and without

    Intersect here

    All directions

    Lead to it

    It is not even

    A nanosecond’s width

    In space-time-existence

    It connects all moments

    And threads of time

    Reducing all time-maps

    To nothingness

    It is the non-function

    Birthing the Golden Mean

    Resolving all mathematics

    Into null

    It is the priorness

    The no-place

    Of the emergent bubble

    It is not here nor there

    But everywhere

    It cannot be found or located

    But is the core

    Of the Everything

    It is the utter calm

    The completely still

    To say

    It is this or that

    Is a deception

    It does not exist

    But is the ground

    That gathers every

    Present moment

    Into nowhere

    It is the Not-Now

    Of timelessness

    It is the ground of NOT

    Gravity-mass-movement

    And the soul

    Longs for its

    Intimate kiss

     

    Cessation

     

    moment in timeTime

    Has a way

    Of complicating life

    Here

    Is the key

    Of how

    To make life

    Very clear and simple

    Enter

    The moment

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  • Running in Circles to Nowhere

    goethe,thomas traherne,black elk,peter de vries,infinite space,the moment

    This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys. Thomas Traherne

    “If you want to stride into the Infinite, move but within the Finite in all directions.” – Goethe

    The power of the world always works in circles, the sky is round, and I have heard the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down in a circle, the moon does the same. And both always come back to where they were. The life of man is a circle from childhood to childhood. And so it is in everything where power moves.” – Black Elk

    Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, “What’s in it for me?” – Peter De Vries

    We are busy, busy, busy. The mind is constantly engaged in inner dialogue – constantly chewing on the future or rehashing the past. So much time is spent in this manner that we are rarely in the moment.

    Most people consider being in the moment as an extension of the thinking process. Thinking can occur in the moment, but the experience of the thinking process while in the moment is like comparing an old hand-crank adding machine to today’s flash drives. One is a mental cranking with gears and cog-wheels turning. The other contains no moving parts.

    The mechanical mind also runs in circles. Again, the experience of this circle is vastly different from the circles Black Elk speaks of.

    Extracting oneself from the mechanical requires awareness. Exploring the compulsion to mental activity requires a process of observation not dependent upon constant internal chatter.

    Image by Mark Willis

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