If nothing ever changed there would be no butterflies.
That thought has deep roots. Those roots are planted in change which is a constant; I change ever second as my consciousness blinks in and out of different realities. I travel through different mental enzymes to experience as well as create physical manifestations. My non-physical life creates clusters of awareness for me to experience. I put every person, place and thing in my focus on a daily basis so I can continue to expand in consciousness. Every birth, death, accident and natural catastrophe occurs for me to expand or to change my belief structure. The worm and the butterfly are metaphors that explain my transformation from one aspect of consciousness to another.
Words and metaphors describe physical beliefs, perceptions, choices and probabilities. The transformation from non-physical to physical, or physical to non-physical can not be described, it can only be experienced through the mental enzymes of consciousness. The word change verbally denotes a transformation of action from one wire of awareness to another. I begin as a whole and continue to become more aware of that whole, as I create the events I experience. The butterfly is always the worm and worm is always the butterfly, expressing itself in more awareness. One is always within the other. I am one self expressing my self in the reality of duplicity, so I can express the beauty of my entity in various clusters of consciousness.
Accepting my self as a group within a whole while maintaining the essence of my entity is a message from the butterfly. My wings of awareness expand from one dream to another because individual creation has its genesis in dreams and my dreams are always changing and creating other realities as I transform my self in the action of energy.
As Chuang-Tzu
In a dream, I saw myself as a great butterfly with wings that spanned all of creation; now I am not sure if I was Chuang Tzu dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am a butterfly dreaming I am Chuang Tzu.
Change is the transformation from one dream to another. Dreaming is an ongoing collection of mental enzymes creating action for me to experience not just in this focused form, but in the changing form of my complete entity.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Eternal Movement
Asking your self the deeper questions opens up new ways of being in the world. It brings in a breath of fresh air. It makes life more joyful. The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery.
Fred Alan Wolf Ph.D. also known as Dr. Quantum is also an awarding winning author and was featured in the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know. My daily experiences make me aware of people, places and things in order to expand in what is logically known as a mystery. I must be logically educated in the art of living and trained in the regiment of conformity, or I appear as a physical mystery to those around me. Rational and logical beliefs say that being different is definition for the gifted not for the ordinary, so my life is divided; I believe I am one person on the outside and another being on the inside. I live in at least two worlds all the time, but focus on one in order to fit in the hole that I believe is my destiny. Once placed in this self created hole my life fills with the sand of should haves and what if's.
Fred talks about the mystery. The mystery is series of eternal wires where things are not ruled by logic and conformity, they are free flowing desires that manifest innately. I am constantly creating different aspects of my entity through this mystery, but physically deny myself the freedom to freely express what is manifesting. I use my belief structure to function, so I can live in what others call freedom; the freedom called free is distorted. Normal is not my original state of mind. My state of mind is a known mystery where consciousness develops mental enzymes of solidified emotions which become physical matter. I live in several systems. Just like water, steam and ice, I take on different forms within the structure of these mental enzymes and expand in awareness in each form.
Different worlds are a series of connected wires filled with solidified emotions that are roots that manifest tangible matter and experiences. Each wire within this structure is action which is constantly creating action in order express other aspects of the structure emotionally.
Expressing this mystery physically brings more awareness into focus and more wires are created and they are filled with mental enzymes that continue to create action in the eternal movement of my entity.
Fred Alan Wolf Ph.D. also known as Dr. Quantum is also an awarding winning author and was featured in the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know. My daily experiences make me aware of people, places and things in order to expand in what is logically known as a mystery. I must be logically educated in the art of living and trained in the regiment of conformity, or I appear as a physical mystery to those around me. Rational and logical beliefs say that being different is definition for the gifted not for the ordinary, so my life is divided; I believe I am one person on the outside and another being on the inside. I live in at least two worlds all the time, but focus on one in order to fit in the hole that I believe is my destiny. Once placed in this self created hole my life fills with the sand of should haves and what if's.
Fred talks about the mystery. The mystery is series of eternal wires where things are not ruled by logic and conformity, they are free flowing desires that manifest innately. I am constantly creating different aspects of my entity through this mystery, but physically deny myself the freedom to freely express what is manifesting. I use my belief structure to function, so I can live in what others call freedom; the freedom called free is distorted. Normal is not my original state of mind. My state of mind is a known mystery where consciousness develops mental enzymes of solidified emotions which become physical matter. I live in several systems. Just like water, steam and ice, I take on different forms within the structure of these mental enzymes and expand in awareness in each form.
Different worlds are a series of connected wires filled with solidified emotions that are roots that manifest tangible matter and experiences. Each wire within this structure is action which is constantly creating action in order express other aspects of the structure emotionally.
Expressing this mystery physically brings more awareness into focus and more wires are created and they are filled with mental enzymes that continue to create action in the eternal movement of my entity.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Sands of Time
If time is but a stream flowing from past to future,
Why, it’s nothing more than sardine guts!
If all is carried away by it,
Then everything is seaweed along a desolate strand!
Has this stream no end at all?
Then there ought to be an unmapped sea around it.
The tides moves as its own sweet will,
Yet whether it moves or not, who cares?
Still, an absolutely immobile ship is by the quay:
Should it anchor drop to the depths of time,
We’ll have had it, the harbor will dry up.
A sailor goes ashore, walking along
With existence in the palm of his hand.
With nothing under him,
His tapering toes extend,
Then, like a meteor, disappear.
The sailor is free to go anywhere,
No deck is bigger than his hand.
Shinkichi Takahashi was born in 1901. His thoughts express a world with no boundaries or logic. His world is everyone’s world. It actively sets the stage for physical manifestations and experiences which are logically translated and examined for accuracy. Takahashi’s world is completely accurate and very much alive within the inner structure of consciousness. My logical mind finds it confusing, until I put rational beliefs to rest and experience the Zen- like thoughts as they travel through me. I’m free to go anywhere because existence touches the palm of my consciousness and speeds through it like a meteor and then disappears.
Tides of awareness do move me, but whether I aware of the movement or not is of no concern because I continue to drop an anchor in time. I sense the seaweed of my own beliefs dry up as if the stream of time is sucked into the unmapped sea around them, where there is no end or beginning. The sardine guts of one reality become sardines of another focus. The shore of consciousness is filled with selves walking along the edge of every existence. Each one fits into a cluster of awareness and I unravel the past and pack it into the future. The sands of time become a moment of consciousness where all things exist simultaneously.
Why, it’s nothing more than sardine guts!
If all is carried away by it,
Then everything is seaweed along a desolate strand!
Has this stream no end at all?
Then there ought to be an unmapped sea around it.
The tides moves as its own sweet will,
Yet whether it moves or not, who cares?
Still, an absolutely immobile ship is by the quay:
Should it anchor drop to the depths of time,
We’ll have had it, the harbor will dry up.
A sailor goes ashore, walking along
With existence in the palm of his hand.
With nothing under him,
His tapering toes extend,
Then, like a meteor, disappear.
The sailor is free to go anywhere,
No deck is bigger than his hand.
Shinkichi Takahashi was born in 1901. His thoughts express a world with no boundaries or logic. His world is everyone’s world. It actively sets the stage for physical manifestations and experiences which are logically translated and examined for accuracy. Takahashi’s world is completely accurate and very much alive within the inner structure of consciousness. My logical mind finds it confusing, until I put rational beliefs to rest and experience the Zen- like thoughts as they travel through me. I’m free to go anywhere because existence touches the palm of my consciousness and speeds through it like a meteor and then disappears.
Tides of awareness do move me, but whether I aware of the movement or not is of no concern because I continue to drop an anchor in time. I sense the seaweed of my own beliefs dry up as if the stream of time is sucked into the unmapped sea around them, where there is no end or beginning. The sardine guts of one reality become sardines of another focus. The shore of consciousness is filled with selves walking along the edge of every existence. Each one fits into a cluster of awareness and I unravel the past and pack it into the future. The sands of time become a moment of consciousness where all things exist simultaneously.
Friday, July 3, 2009
The Frog and the Lame Goat
To a frog that’s never left his pond the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he’s giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. “I can’t really explain what it’s like where I live, but someday I’ll take you there.”
Rumi has a distinct way of describing change. Moving through the trials of a familiar life and arriving at the intersection of two worlds does take some adjustment. Old beliefs begin to transform and transcend and become new thoughts, which change experiences as well as my perceptions.
Rumi explains that change this way:
In a boat down a fast-running creek,
It feels like trees on the bank
Are rushing by. What seems
To be changing around us
Is rather the speed of our craft
Leaving this world.
This transformation is experienced at different energy points in physical life. It’s safe to say that this movement is an ongoing process even though I am unaware of what I’m creating. When I begin to sense that I move into another reality every moment, the definition of change is dramatically altered and becomes a natural expression of a self experienced linearly. I am constantly moving through a fast-running creek and I become aware of other aspects of my entity as I look at the banks of consciousness on either side of it. The contrast and the joy I create in my boat are my tools of change. At times I feel I have picked the wrong tool and at other times I sense the power of my complete consciousness.
Rumi explains the contrast this way:
Be patient.
Respond to every call
That excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
And sad, that degrade you
Back toward disease and death.
The ocean of awareness has enormous waves as well as calming currents. The new world of awareness accepts everything and rejects nothing. In the ocean of awareness the physical exists and continues to express the duality of change in order for me to know, as well as sense the complexity and the simplicity of consciousness as I experience various aspect of my self.
Rumi explains how the process of awareness works in his work: The Lame Goat
You’ve seen a herd of goats
Going down to the water.
The lame and dreamy goat
Brings up the rear.
There are worried faces about that one,
But now they’re laughing,
Because look, as they return,
That goat is leading!
There are many different kinds of knowing.
The lame goat’s kind is a branch
That traces back to the roots of presence.
Learn from the lame goat,
And lead the herd home.
The frog and the lame goat are two aspects of the same self expressing expansion using different imagery. They both find themselves experiencing conscious knowing where roots of presence can’t be explained, they can only be lived.
Rumi has a distinct way of describing change. Moving through the trials of a familiar life and arriving at the intersection of two worlds does take some adjustment. Old beliefs begin to transform and transcend and become new thoughts, which change experiences as well as my perceptions.
Rumi explains that change this way:
In a boat down a fast-running creek,
It feels like trees on the bank
Are rushing by. What seems
To be changing around us
Is rather the speed of our craft
Leaving this world.
This transformation is experienced at different energy points in physical life. It’s safe to say that this movement is an ongoing process even though I am unaware of what I’m creating. When I begin to sense that I move into another reality every moment, the definition of change is dramatically altered and becomes a natural expression of a self experienced linearly. I am constantly moving through a fast-running creek and I become aware of other aspects of my entity as I look at the banks of consciousness on either side of it. The contrast and the joy I create in my boat are my tools of change. At times I feel I have picked the wrong tool and at other times I sense the power of my complete consciousness.
Rumi explains the contrast this way:
Be patient.
Respond to every call
That excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you fearful
And sad, that degrade you
Back toward disease and death.
The ocean of awareness has enormous waves as well as calming currents. The new world of awareness accepts everything and rejects nothing. In the ocean of awareness the physical exists and continues to express the duality of change in order for me to know, as well as sense the complexity and the simplicity of consciousness as I experience various aspect of my self.
Rumi explains how the process of awareness works in his work: The Lame Goat
You’ve seen a herd of goats
Going down to the water.
The lame and dreamy goat
Brings up the rear.
There are worried faces about that one,
But now they’re laughing,
Because look, as they return,
That goat is leading!
There are many different kinds of knowing.
The lame goat’s kind is a branch
That traces back to the roots of presence.
Learn from the lame goat,
And lead the herd home.
The frog and the lame goat are two aspects of the same self expressing expansion using different imagery. They both find themselves experiencing conscious knowing where roots of presence can’t be explained, they can only be lived.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Ordinary Mindedness
Mystics are thus all practical men; they are far from being visionaries whose souls are too absorbed in things unearthly or of the other-world to be concerned with daily life. The common notion that mystics are dreamers and star-gazers ought to be corrected, as it has no foundation in facts. If Mysticism is true its truth must be a practical one, verifying itself in every act of ours and most decidedly, not a logical one, to be true only in our dialectics.
D.T. Suzuki wrote that in one of his essays on Zen. His point is that life is filled with mysticism. Finding another aspect of awareness is under every rock and around every tree when I accept it. Living in the now is a mystical experience that can be described as ordinary mindedness. There is nothing supernatural or unusual in crossing the street or washing the car. They are acts of ordinary mindedness that contain elements of mysticism in them because I create them. I call them logical, but they come from an aspect of my consciousness that is void of logic and filled with mysticism. I walk the road of awareness using my own creations, but tend to discount my daily road because I believe it is mundane and senseless in so many ways. I long to find the road of awareness as I walk on it daily; I perceive my path as a condition of penance, which will led me to a higher level of consciousness not realizing that all levels of awareness exist within the moment I am experiencing.
I expertly design my experiences using my logical belief structure and live through various conditions and challenges and perceive them as uplifting and exciting or as punishment and cruelty. They are actually mystical experiences made physical by my consciousness in order to absorb another fragment or fragments of awareness. As Suzuki explains we are all mystics expressing physical life ordinarily to move through various aspects of illogical awareness. In my ordinary mindedness I experience a deep rooted mystical awareness and that action continues to move through me as I move through it. There is no logical explanation for creating dualities in order to become aware, but there are an incredible number of mystical thoughts that pass through me in the process of living physically. My consciousness opens the door of awareness a little wider each moment I express appreciation for my ordinary mindedness and when the door appears to be completely open another door appears.
Mysticism is experienced and appreciated while I am creating it; not before or after the moment. As soon as words and reasoning are used to explain or justify my logical motives, mystical awareness disappears and becomes a shadow of itself. It reflects an image of something that is not present in the shade of logic. Mysticism and Zen are actions of consciousness that move in and out of logic like clouds moving in front of the sun. When I try to grasp then logically I find nothing; when I live them through each experience I continue to expand in the ordinary mindedness of mystical awareness.
D.T. Suzuki wrote that in one of his essays on Zen. His point is that life is filled with mysticism. Finding another aspect of awareness is under every rock and around every tree when I accept it. Living in the now is a mystical experience that can be described as ordinary mindedness. There is nothing supernatural or unusual in crossing the street or washing the car. They are acts of ordinary mindedness that contain elements of mysticism in them because I create them. I call them logical, but they come from an aspect of my consciousness that is void of logic and filled with mysticism. I walk the road of awareness using my own creations, but tend to discount my daily road because I believe it is mundane and senseless in so many ways. I long to find the road of awareness as I walk on it daily; I perceive my path as a condition of penance, which will led me to a higher level of consciousness not realizing that all levels of awareness exist within the moment I am experiencing.
I expertly design my experiences using my logical belief structure and live through various conditions and challenges and perceive them as uplifting and exciting or as punishment and cruelty. They are actually mystical experiences made physical by my consciousness in order to absorb another fragment or fragments of awareness. As Suzuki explains we are all mystics expressing physical life ordinarily to move through various aspects of illogical awareness. In my ordinary mindedness I experience a deep rooted mystical awareness and that action continues to move through me as I move through it. There is no logical explanation for creating dualities in order to become aware, but there are an incredible number of mystical thoughts that pass through me in the process of living physically. My consciousness opens the door of awareness a little wider each moment I express appreciation for my ordinary mindedness and when the door appears to be completely open another door appears.
Mysticism is experienced and appreciated while I am creating it; not before or after the moment. As soon as words and reasoning are used to explain or justify my logical motives, mystical awareness disappears and becomes a shadow of itself. It reflects an image of something that is not present in the shade of logic. Mysticism and Zen are actions of consciousness that move in and out of logic like clouds moving in front of the sun. When I try to grasp then logically I find nothing; when I live them through each experience I continue to expand in the ordinary mindedness of mystical awareness.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Genesis for Life
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be on to something is to be in despair.
Walker Percy was born in Alabama in 1904. He was an American Southern writer and is best known for his philosophical novels. His first work: The Moviegoer won the National Book Award for fiction in 1962.
Walker’s work is a blend of Southern sensibility, existential questioning and Catholic faith. Walker was certainly on to something. On his quest to find himself he became best friends with Shelby Foote, study medicine at Columbia and spent years reading the work of Soren Kierkegaard the Danish existentialist and Fyodor Dostoevsky the Russian Novelist. He questioned science and its ability to explain the mystery of human existence. He became a Catholic in 1947 and chose to be a writer instead of a physician, even though he got his medical degree in 1941. He later said he wanted to study the pathology of the soul rather than the pathology of the body.
The search as Percy calls it is more experience than search. Thoughts create mysteries and thoughts solve them simultaneously. In order to expand in consciousness I use a linear focus for certain imagery and become aware of one self while I experience other imagery using other aspects of my consciousness. Percy, as well as Kierkegaard stressed the importance of self reflection and introspection. It was Kierkegaard who said: Subjectivity is truth and truth is subjectivity. People who believe in the same things may relate to those beliefs differently, which is exactly why some people as Percy says may not be on to something and may find themselves creating the belief of despair.
Beliefs create choices and filled them with probabilities, which become experiences overflowing with purpose. All purpose expands awareness. Percy expressed that expansion by living life as a search. We all express expansion using similar beliefs but we translate them differently. Life is multiple translations of consciousness which is expressing itself in diverse multiplicity in order to experience the value of awareness in fragments, as well as in the whole action of various clusters of consciousness. The everydayness of life is a canvas filled with tiny specs of awareness that reveal themselves as I create them. The result of my fragmented awareness is a moment of now where aspects of each self express a fragment of consciousness, in order to continually express the whole in my own translation of completeness.
A thought which expresses the possibility of the search is actually a completed search of my inner consciousness expressing itself in fragments, which I accept as logic in the reality of one focus. As consciousness I live to develop awareness rather than just expressing it in words. In actual living there is no logic, for logic is rooted in beliefs and words. The genesis for life can’t be described it can only be sensed in the awareness of selflessness.
Walker Percy was born in Alabama in 1904. He was an American Southern writer and is best known for his philosophical novels. His first work: The Moviegoer won the National Book Award for fiction in 1962.
Walker’s work is a blend of Southern sensibility, existential questioning and Catholic faith. Walker was certainly on to something. On his quest to find himself he became best friends with Shelby Foote, study medicine at Columbia and spent years reading the work of Soren Kierkegaard the Danish existentialist and Fyodor Dostoevsky the Russian Novelist. He questioned science and its ability to explain the mystery of human existence. He became a Catholic in 1947 and chose to be a writer instead of a physician, even though he got his medical degree in 1941. He later said he wanted to study the pathology of the soul rather than the pathology of the body.
The search as Percy calls it is more experience than search. Thoughts create mysteries and thoughts solve them simultaneously. In order to expand in consciousness I use a linear focus for certain imagery and become aware of one self while I experience other imagery using other aspects of my consciousness. Percy, as well as Kierkegaard stressed the importance of self reflection and introspection. It was Kierkegaard who said: Subjectivity is truth and truth is subjectivity. People who believe in the same things may relate to those beliefs differently, which is exactly why some people as Percy says may not be on to something and may find themselves creating the belief of despair.
Beliefs create choices and filled them with probabilities, which become experiences overflowing with purpose. All purpose expands awareness. Percy expressed that expansion by living life as a search. We all express expansion using similar beliefs but we translate them differently. Life is multiple translations of consciousness which is expressing itself in diverse multiplicity in order to experience the value of awareness in fragments, as well as in the whole action of various clusters of consciousness. The everydayness of life is a canvas filled with tiny specs of awareness that reveal themselves as I create them. The result of my fragmented awareness is a moment of now where aspects of each self express a fragment of consciousness, in order to continually express the whole in my own translation of completeness.
A thought which expresses the possibility of the search is actually a completed search of my inner consciousness expressing itself in fragments, which I accept as logic in the reality of one focus. As consciousness I live to develop awareness rather than just expressing it in words. In actual living there is no logic, for logic is rooted in beliefs and words. The genesis for life can’t be described it can only be sensed in the awareness of selflessness.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A Flower Blooms
No clouds are gathering over the mountain peaks,
And how serenely the moon is reflected on the waves!
That was Suigan Kashin answer to the question: What is the fundamental principle of Buddhism? Kashin’s answer was recorded in 11th century China. That irrational answer does not fit into our Western belief structure, although the concept of no clouds over the mountain peaks and the moon being reflected on the waves does paint a conscious scene of serenity. If someone asked me what the fundamental principle of consciousness is now that I am aware of it, I would answer, No clouds are gathering over the mountain peaks, and how serenely the moon is reflected in the waves. Consciousness and Zen are innate pictures of expansion, which are constantly changing in their own awareness.
Not only are they constantly in motion they are serenely tranquil at the same time depending on my mental picture of them. Kashin words paint a partial description of consciousness in some forms of awareness and in other forms it is complete. Ideas construct themselves within physical consciousness and reveal fragments, which are whole aspects of the action. In expansion there is movement towards the center as well as towards the inner and outer points of awareness. Zen blooms in a flower and consciousness blooms in Zen.
A Flower Blooms
The Rocky Ledge Has New Life
Yesterday’s Beauty Blooms Again
In Another Version
Of Its Own Consciousness
Similar Petals Express Vivid Colors
With Fresh Candor
And Innate Wisdom
Wind Blown Artisans Move Freely
But Never Leave Their Spot
Of Inception
The Scent Of Nectar Beckons Life
Enticing Them
To Taste The Gift Of Awareness
Sunset Introduces A
Moon Filled Sky
Covering Each Wave Of Energy
With A Shiny Crown
Stillness Speaks In Harmony
Roots Drink In Gratitude
Stems Dress In Simplicity
Waiting For Nothing
Experiencing Everything
A Flower Blooms
In The Complete
Action Of Consciousness
From my 2009 Collection of Spirit Songs: Echoes of Silence
Release Date: December 2009
And how serenely the moon is reflected on the waves!
That was Suigan Kashin answer to the question: What is the fundamental principle of Buddhism? Kashin’s answer was recorded in 11th century China. That irrational answer does not fit into our Western belief structure, although the concept of no clouds over the mountain peaks and the moon being reflected on the waves does paint a conscious scene of serenity. If someone asked me what the fundamental principle of consciousness is now that I am aware of it, I would answer, No clouds are gathering over the mountain peaks, and how serenely the moon is reflected in the waves. Consciousness and Zen are innate pictures of expansion, which are constantly changing in their own awareness.
Not only are they constantly in motion they are serenely tranquil at the same time depending on my mental picture of them. Kashin words paint a partial description of consciousness in some forms of awareness and in other forms it is complete. Ideas construct themselves within physical consciousness and reveal fragments, which are whole aspects of the action. In expansion there is movement towards the center as well as towards the inner and outer points of awareness. Zen blooms in a flower and consciousness blooms in Zen.
A Flower Blooms
The Rocky Ledge Has New Life
Yesterday’s Beauty Blooms Again
In Another Version
Of Its Own Consciousness
Similar Petals Express Vivid Colors
With Fresh Candor
And Innate Wisdom
Wind Blown Artisans Move Freely
But Never Leave Their Spot
Of Inception
The Scent Of Nectar Beckons Life
Enticing Them
To Taste The Gift Of Awareness
Sunset Introduces A
Moon Filled Sky
Covering Each Wave Of Energy
With A Shiny Crown
Stillness Speaks In Harmony
Roots Drink In Gratitude
Stems Dress In Simplicity
Waiting For Nothing
Experiencing Everything
A Flower Blooms
In The Complete
Action Of Consciousness
From my 2009 Collection of Spirit Songs: Echoes of Silence
Release Date: December 2009
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