Category: Omnibus

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

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

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

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.

Tathagata
what, who
some thing
nothing at all
every thing
a person
animal
or plant
some mud
wood or reed
light and sound
finally simply corn
history and prophecy
where cycles close
and hearts mend
long and last
here now!

“Nature’s echo in blue calm” — where a contrast meets

Tathagata — something and nothing and everything

Tathāgata is a Pali word used by Gautama Buddha when referring to himself or other Buddhas.

Tathagata “means it is complete in itself, and no words are able to describe what it is. Tatha means ‘thus,’ ‘as,’ ‘it,’ ‘as a thing is,’ ‘as things are.’ Gata is ‘has come,’ so you are experiencing ‘it.’ At the same time this same word, agata, means ‘gone.’ Thus you are able to see the other side of ‘it.’ So, Tathagata means ‘thus come and thus gone,’ at the same time. Again, it’s very hard to capture. You are listening to continuous sound, but each sound you are capturing is what truth is. It is like the rhythm of continually running water.”

“The contents of the enlightenment experience are the same as this ‘Tathagata.’ It rejects your knowing, because it exists in the root of the action of knowing. The one who knows is what it is. The one which is known by it is not necessarily what it is. This ‘Tathagata’ is what your real essence of life is, what truth, itself, is, so that we become very helpless when we try to know it. The knowledge of your existence, what we are, what things are, is a kind of ancient memory of what it is.”

Embracing Mind, Kobun Chino Otogawa, pp. 34-35

The refreshing embrace of springtime snow

चैतन्य Chaitanya manifests in so many ways
Sounds, courage, persistence, harmony
So can I see you – and can you see me?
At times so distant, and then so close
Waves come and go, always present
Looking, listening, and mostly being
It might seem an eternal embrace
When the moon and sun so dance
In this world the winds of change
All has its beginning and ending
Some wait for one or the other
There are many but a few if any
Will aim for and realize their way
Pure conscious self, enthusiasm
It carries all far on eagle’s wings
Personalities and ego left behind
No more higher or lower, but now
Here in this very moment present
Hearts embrace the sun and moon.

“चैतन्य Chaitanya — Blues”

Chaitanya — meaning

Chaitanya (Sanskrit: चैतन्य) refers to awareness, consciousness, conscious self, intelligence, or pure consciousness, as well as energy and enthusiasm.

No cutting corners is not easy
But most fulfilling every way
As it takes the extra effort
To finally be done for good
Not to confuse with perfect
Rather the best possible here
In decent balance and harmony
With the flow of life and in love
Active as can be in manifesting
One’s own individual realities
Formed cooperating together
With each other, and with all
The essence of consciousness
Expressed in present moments
The divine so practical and real
Some have tried to give it a name
Tathāgata, Mahanta consciousness
Thus trying to scoop entire oceans
With their little cups and spoons
Calling their sip the one and only
Then displays blinding arrogance
While others remain loving silent
Giving each their space to drink
From their cups of revelations
Accepting the miracle of now
No cutting corners draws lines
Between what is real and not
To relish and love each other
An embrace of spirit’s grace
Accepted in humble gratitude
For the gifts of golden hearts.

“Prayer in Gratitude for the Golden Heart”