Beyond duality…

Beyond duality…
No black and white
But most colorful
Not just negative
Nor even positive
But life and love
No odds with ire
But complement
Of odd and even
Circles and waves
Plus most of all
No endings ever
Without beginnings
Harmony in nature
No fighting oneself
But peace at heart
Observing in all
And everything
How God realizes
Itself every moment
Nurturing each and all
Balancing the scales
In spirit’s freedom
Promised to soul
But unexpected
By detaching all
From one or only
Beyond duality…

“Holy sham” — a short sound excursion far out — for M&M

Mixolydian on G, spiced — multiple fujara and 8-string guitar — 4:25 — as loop on a separate tab

Duality and going beyond

It started by rebelling against exclusive dogma. The bubble had held for decades. But finally it burst. Tolerance for putting others down to make oneself appear greater evaporated. Together with the willingness to sweet-talk or ignore excesses of self-promotion, especially when at the expense of others. Still, gratitude supersedes it all. Spiritual freedom was realized as promised. Not at all as expected though, but with startling detachment to the extent of apparent cutoff and distancing.

The essence of the loving heart goes beyond duality. Not from one side to the other, but melting and fusing all into a unified whole. Harmony in nature is divine. One enables the existence of the other. The rodent and its predator. The raptor and the chick. Populations keep each other in balance. One helps the other from one moment to the next, from one incarnation to another. Humans see many wars with each other — until one individually realizes that all she or he is fighting against is one’s very self and stops it all to just be in harmony and balance, in divine love. Beyond duality…

Beyond duality was also the topic of a previous Spiritualibus blog post on December 25, 2020.

Finally some inspiration from ancient Greece

“In the dialogue Phaedo, Plato formulated his famous Theory of Forms as distinct and immaterial substances of which the objects and other phenomena that we perceive in the world are nothing more than mere shadows. … Forms are the universalia ante res, i.e. they are ideal universals, by which we are able to understand the world. In his allegory of the cave, Plato likens the achievement of philosophical understanding to emerging into the sun from a dark cave, where only vague shadows of what lies beyond that prison are cast dimly upon the wall. Plato’s forms are non-physical and non-mental. They exist nowhere in time or space, but neither do they exist in the mind, nor in the pleroma of matter; rather, matter is said to ‘participate’ in form (μεθεξις, methexis).”
— from Wikipedia on mind–body dualism

Beyond duality...
Tonalibus assistant Luna, the three-legged cat — September 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy
Does not carry
Across beyond
Words to start
Action to follow
With or without
Congruence
And virtue
Or denial
And escape
Reality as is
Or illusion
As is not
Wishful
But not
What it is
Careful
What signed
Committed to
Knowingly
Or hardly
Pay the price
And move on
Free at last
It’s possible
And real
Indeed
Freedom
Realized.

“An embrace of divine love” — no hypocrisy < 🙂 >

Ionian — 7-string guitar — 9:51 — as loop on a separate tab

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ,or another mantra syllable that suits you.

Hypocrisy
An old growth scalp remembered on the compost heap — August 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland

God to go!

God to go!
And so we went
Indeed it happened
And was cleaned up
Before awakening
Once more
Again.

Looking for essence
Its origin and roots
But found instead
Not just substance
Rather big stumbles
Of excessive dogma
And self-promotion
That make one gag
Or put on blinders
If absorbed at all
Alone or together
One-way conscious
Or just lulled to sleep
Some great contrast
Divinely dedicated
Soul, not a person
For a human lacks
At least I know I do
Both in abundance
I’ve made my choice
To nurture the sound
And the light and love
To brighten the worlds
Uplifting some people
Without propaganda
But humble essence
Looking for so long
Found it here now
In one’s own self.

God to go!
And so we went
Indeed it happened
And was cleaned up
Before awakening
Once more
Again.

“संप्रयाण Saṃprayāṇa” — departure from past to future, let’s go! — for M

TetraNa with Mixolydian — double 7-string guitar, 8-string guitar, crotales — 15:10 — as loop on a separate tab

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ,or another mantra syllable that suits you.

God to go!
Looking out onto the open, newly harvested field from within the woods — August 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland

The highest

The highest
It’s highest
So we think
And elevate
Into exclusion
Condescension
Rather descends
Losing the height
In egotistic claims
Often for control
Just plain power
Instead of love
Discard pseudo
In everyone else
Termed negative
With a monopoly
On every positive
Self-satisfaction
At the very best
Worst deception
Disband this hold
Relish the height
Without spinning
In loving silence
A spark of eyes
And tears of joy
In an embrace
Of the highest
Ever new again
Welcome home!

“Gratitude in advance” — a true gift

HexaBluNa or HexaLolo — 7-string guitar, 8-string guitar, crotales, gong, and tampura — 6:10 — as loop on a separate tab

Compassion and loving kindness

“We cannot place blame: we have the opportunity to learn from these problems [environmental, health, social, etc.], which can help us to develop strength within ourselves. We can share that strength and can transform one another through the practice of compassion and loving kindness for one another.”

— Dr. Tsering Palmo, founding nun of the Ladakh Nuns Association, quoted by Emma Lewis of the Asian Legacy Library in her article “Metta in Action: Buddhist Nuns in Ladakh Fight Climate Change“, April 2022, Tricycle

Full moon rising high, maybe the highest

The highest
Full moon rising over the Alps — May 2022 — Grächwil, Switzerland

May the blessings be

May the blessings be
In the name of spirit
The name of the divine
In the name of God
Conclusions conclude
As beginnings begin
We let endings end
So new starts can start
Make room as there is
What seems infinite
Space and freedom
Drop by acceptance
And let go of dogma
As religions border
Some form of insanity
Legitimized by people
Sparked by experience
Of spirit’s harmony
Realizing the divine
In life and in love
The beauty of being
In the present moment
Continually discovering
Observing in silence
How God realizes
The moment itself
The blessings of now
All together in love
In the name of spirit
The name of the divine
In the name of God
May the blessings be.

“Individual bhajan” — a progression experiment

Phrygian, ReachMin, ReachMix, Mixolydian — 8-string guitar, tingsha cymbals, gong, and double voice — 13:08 — as loop on a separate tab

You may enjoy a sound sample or tonality loop as sound mantra for contemplation or meditation. This can help with upliftment, purification, and focusing. Or it could simply be used as soothing background sound for relaxation and regeneration. If you care to hum, chant, or sing along, you could use a spiritually charged syllable like HU or Ōṃ / Aum ॐ, or another mantra syllable that suits you.

May the blessings be
May the blessings be — wealth of evening colors — July 2022 — Lake Murten, Switzerland