Category Archives: Waking up

No me,you,s/he/it

Haiku for the poor in spirit.

Even the Absolute is the dream.
The worded is the futile.
Meaning is dreamt.
‘Your life’ doesn’t exist.
What apparently lives is nullity.
Nothing realizes nothing.
This is breathtaking.
Seeing this is unbearable for the sense of self.
Nothing matters.
Understanding deludes.
There is no last resort.
No refuge.
Nirvana is a joke.
The Buddha lost his mind in an attempt to go beyond himself.
The Bodhi Tree farted.
Brain bursts into laughter.
The belly shakes.
The grass grows by itself.
The spring is coming…..

Wouter van Oord.

Surrender and all will be well -RM

SURRENDER AND ALL WILL BE WELL .
Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, poet and artiste was younger brother of Sarojini Naidu, the Nightingale of India.

The entry in Devaraja Mudaliar’s Day by Day with Bhagavan dated June 5, 1945 refers to a remark by Prof. Subbaramayya (no.41) in the hall that he came across a copy of Chattopadhyaya’s verses at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, with Sri Aurobindo’s notes at the margin highly commending some verses. There upon,
Chattopadhyaya told Bhagavan that while at Sri Aurobindo Ashram for two years he composed about 4,000 sonnets and a poem of 5,000 lines. He gave a recitation of two of his poems before Bhagavan and acted a piece from his play in which a dock-labourer groaning under his work bursts out into a complaint. These were greatly appreciated.

Extracts from his poems:
The Thrice Marvellous Master – Sri Ramana

Eternity has worn a human face,
Contracted to a little human span,
Lo, the Immortal has become a man,

A self-imprisoned thing in time and space.

Upon a narrow couch you see him sit,
Vision of tenderness and grace and calm;
Upon the finite compass of His Palm

He holds the secrets of the Infinite.

Thrice marvellous pure Master on the height,
Towards whom we dumbly yearn, each one apart,
Striving to hold Thy image in the heart,
O cleave our darkness with your searching light !

  • Face to Face with Sri Ramana Maharshi
    1. Page 63.

Coffee water everywhere!

YESTERDAY’S COFFEE CUP
full of watered-down coffee
fell over and everything got a soaking!

Everything, that is, except my phone,

my new computer, recording device,

speakers and older computer!

Yours truly ran for paper towels!

How in the world is this possible?

Coffee-water everywhere! Everywhere!

Except where it could do any harm?

How is this possible, I demanded!

Don’t you get it, Robin? You’re with Me.

Love-hate relationship w religion JT

You love religion. Then you hate religion. Then you love to hate religion. Then you begin to realize its utility, and so end up hating that you once hated religion. Then you start hating those that hate religion. Then you realize they are you, like 6 months ago.

Eventually, you stop obsessing over who does what, and appreciate the different stages people are at, and realize that most are not doing anything bad on purpose. Then you regret not being kinder to those who were, as far as their journey is concerned, a step and a half or less behind you.

My advice? Stay ahead of the curve, and just be kind. You’re not better than someone else because they are still thinking thoughts that you used to think.
Jeff Turner

Fruitage must be experienced

The producer (cause) of spiritual fruitage in you and me individually is the EXPERIENCE of the Presence. With this, there’s no need of words or thoughts as the fruitage flows forth from individual Consciousness by an act of Grace making it possible for anyone anywhere who’s receptive to the spiritual impulse to feel or have a measure of this EXPERIENCE also whenever they come into the range of the Consciousness of the individual who is ordained by the indwelling Spirit.

Without the EXPERIENCE, all the words and thoughts uttered “ABOUT” it produce no lasting (permanent) fruitage . And this will be demonstrated as little if any spiritual progress for the individual.
❤️🌺❤️🌺❤️🌺❤️
John F. Drewery, Sr.

Done with world mind

My apologies to the world mind
Who has been ever wakeful
Waiting to devour the slightest breakthrough,
I’m done with you coz the world don’t matter one iota

I’m free coz my sights are so much higher
It’s so beautiful here!
When I look out and when I look in
It’s all the same now – East and West!
No longer asking for this improvement or that: all is perfect
Why, even my dreams are replete with healing, happiness, health, harmony, wholeness, hallelujah!

No “me” – Alfred Aiken

‘Remember, there is no human you; none to begin with, to correct, to elevate, to heal; no shining or suffering you; no mortal or man-you. Your Whole Being right here is God only. The “mist”-identification has not altered God nor your Identity. In Truth there never was a “mist that went up from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.” (Gen. 2:6) It never happened. There never was a double-minded, racial or Pilot Lord God; a human or divine creation. God never fell into, nor for sin; never had a bad angel; never had to devise methods of redeeming or regaining His status of being The One-Alone All.’
~ Alfred Aiken

One aware of voice is you – Eckhart Tolle

When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking.
When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice – the thinker – but the One who is aware of it.
~ Eckhart Tolle