Category: Spiritualibus

Be excited and inspired
Or don’t do whatever at all
This is a basic requirement
And appears hard to meet
Without any compromise
For things in this world
Always have two sides
Or possibly even more
All to balance individually
Separate need from desire
Opinions and apparent views
From the realities that are
All intertwined — so tight
Forming rugs to stand on
And ideally soar away on
Or may weigh one down
When attached any way
Detached one may float
Better yet leave behind
In such great moments
Explore spirit’s freedom
Coming with realizations
Beyond making divisions
For unity brings together
Everyone as one with love
In the light and sound let go.

“Perfect imperfection” — one step closer

Quotes by Gurdjieff can inspire and excite

“Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.”

“In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him… Accept nothing you cannot verify for yourself.”

— George Ivanovich Gurdjieff, as cited on the webite Quotes by Gurdjieff (English version)

What does it take to be inspired and excited?

Measure by consciousness
And find spiritual friends
Testing what’s really real
Going beyond surfaces
Into the depth of realities
One to another so different
While sharing the essence
The very present moment
Elusive common fulcrum
The silence and sound
All the light and love
Touch opening hearts
And soften those closed
Decelerate perceptions
Dissolve all the movies
In one’s head and mind
Experience beyond talk
The silence in full volume
Turned way up to be so soft
Contributing consciousness
Space for breathing in and out
And the moment in between
Not merely for acceptance
But embracing the love
Overflowing gratitude
As God realizes itself
And all have part in it
Conscious of the divine
And the spirit of soul.

“Consciousness” — the only state worth considering

What is consciousness, to measure by?

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations and debate by philosophers, theologians, and all of science. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied or even considered consciousness. In some explanations, it is synonymous with the mind, and at other times, an aspect of mind. In the past, it was one’s “inner life”, the world of introspection, of private thought, imagination and volition. Today, it often includes any kind of cognition, experience, feeling or perception. It may be awareness, awareness of awareness, or self-awareness either continuously changing or not the disparate range of research, notions and speculations raises a curiosity about whether the right questions are being asked.

Examples of the range of descriptions, definitions or explanations are: ordered distinction between self and environment, simple wakefulness, one’s sense of selfhood or soul explored by “looking within”; being a metaphorical “stream” of contents, or being a mental state, mental event or mental process of the brain.

… in Latin … the phrase conscius sibi … translates literally as “knowing with oneself”, or in other words “sharing knowledge with oneself about something”. This phrase has the figurative sense of “knowing that one knows”, which is something like the modern English word “conscious”.

— From Wikipedia in English on consciousness

The fire of consciousness reaches up high

What asks
Will I live
Or will I die
A difference
Will it make
If any at all
I live now
And love it
Fully withal
Bodies do die
That is a given
In tangible worlds
Of space and time
Beyond however
Soul continues
In other planes
Of existence
In light, sound
And mostly love
With the divine
Leading one on
Into and out of
Any bodies lives
In total harmony
No matter what
One may fight
For or against
Until detached
Then moving on
One way or another
With or without
A given body
From a cycle
To the next
Best peaceful
As all can be.

“Breath of life chant” — the answer within

What asks — about outwitting the stars

“A child is born on that day and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future results. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men with intuitive wisdom; these are few.
“The message boldly blazoned across the heavens at the moment of birth is not meant to emphasize fate — the result of past good and evil — but to announce man’s will to escape from his universal thralldom. What he has done, he can undo. None other than himself was the instigator of the causes of whatever effects are now prevalent in his life. He can overcome any limitation, because he created it by his own actions in the first place, and because he possesses spiritual resources that are not subject to planetary pressure.
“Superstitious awe of astrology makes one an automaton, slavishly dependent on mechanical guidance. The wise man defeats his planets — which is to say, his past — by transferring his allegiance from the creation to the Creator. The more he realizes his unity with Spirit, the less he can be dominated by matter. The soul is ever free; it is deathless because birthless. It cannot be regimented by stars.
“Man is a soul, and has a body. When he properly places his sense of identity, he leaves behind all compulsive patterns. So long as he remains confused in his ordinary state of spiritual amnesia, he will know the subtle fetters of environmental law.
“God is Harmony; the devotee who attunes himself will never perform any action amiss. His activities will be correctly and naturally timed to accord with astrological law. After deep prayer and meditation he is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection.”

— Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), paperback pp. 161-162

ᓄᓇᕕ — Nunavik — a light blue world frozen in time and space

Know what you know
Look, see what you see
And dare to leave it at that
Free to feel what you feel
Be aware of your being
Conscious of what is
What and who we are
You — and I — and all
Individually one by one
Collectively intertwined
Woven together so close
Like threads in a tapestry
With its front and back
That can differ greatly
Turn the right side up
But know the flip-side
Will reveal connections
Beyond the pretty faces
Wisdom unravels karma
Honesty can work it out
Few words are needed
When action is clear
Ego on lasting leave
To relish the moment
Of present fulfillment
Looking into the eyes
The divine in everyone
And everything that is
Coming our way of life
Sound, light — and love.

“Know what you know” — very and nothing special

Exploring consciousness is observation, not opinion

I realize how confusing descriptions of consciousness can be. You do not have to immediately understand what is being pointed to… Just acknowledge the mystery of consciousness, drop any fixed views you may have about it, and keep practicing.

Different traditions and even different lineages within a tradition describe the experiences of pure awareness and luminous consciousness in their own way and give varying instructions as to how to practice with the experiences. The result is that it can be confusing to you as you try to interpret particular meditative states and figure out what to do next. My advice is to stay focused on your experience, do not try to interpret it, and, above all, beware of feeling as though you are special for having the experience. At the same time, do not deny that you “know what you know.”

Please remember that knowledge brings with it responsibility. One honors knowledge; one does not use it for glorification or exploitation.

“Awakening through the Nine Bodies: Exploring Levels of Consciousness in Meditation” by Phillip Moffitt, p. 34 & 211

No words, but action — a cool setting sun