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LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS

June 22, 2013
LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS
 
 

In the beginning, there was no one

not even one word to speak of

no boundaries, no labels
just patterns, all passing through
no filters, no models
no ideals of what to do
 
Then someone with a big mouth 
bit off more than he could chew
dividing day… from the night
inventing darkness… as lack of light
creating heavens, defining earth
but these are only real… as mere words!
there’s no real darkness, silence, or blindness–
only presence or absence of sight
a so-called baldness can label the hairless…
baby’s head, till the baldness grows up and hides inside for a while
and the incurable illness of a diagnostic label
is just a demon possessing your tongue.
Is it better to rip out that demon
or summon it daily as your favorite curse?
Those who claim their possession by blindness
are possessing it with their ritual claims.
Some claim glaucoma, yet their vision clears.
So, do you see what I mean? Or do you claim deafness possesses your ears?
It’s all symbolic, poetic, prophetic-
new sacred myths of creative art.
Lit’ral interpretations are for foolish fools
who don’t even know what the word interpret means!
Well, at least that’s one possible interpretation…
literally speaking
So, you’ve heard some rules for how to stay happy
and some of them are warnings so you won’t be sorry
for complications you can bring
by lying or stealing or cheating
with the wife of a jealous raging king
But seek first the priority goal
of noticing the boundless, eternal, everywhere, all-powerful
unity far beyond words
(which are just labels on the branches of a tree)
Trees

Trees (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

Notice the tree is each branch
and the tree is in each branch
ruling the growth of the leaves
guiding all activities of every branching
every perfect form made as one “image” of the tree
Christ the Living Vine

Christ the Living Vine (Photo credit: Lawrence OP)

 

Beware of claiming one branch is greater than the tree…
or making up idols by worshiping some leaves.
Also, if you love the tree,
you’ll love each branch and each leaf!
But you bite off more than you can chew
if you say “you’re the devil, Eve!”
Now, just spit that bitter fruit out
whenever that bad taste’s in your mouth
for blaming someone else
for not fitting your ideal
I am the Vine

I am the Vine (Photo credit: Fr. Stephen, MSC)

 
repent of your blind idealism
don’t worship labels like darkness
worship what is real:
 
the boundless, eternal, everywhere, all -powerful
unity far beyond words
which label branches of one tree
like many rooms of one house
like two sides of the same leaf
 
there is no boundary between you and life
no higher power threatening the divine
 
If you fear a devil, then you worship that devil
 
So, repent of your worrying, for it won’t bring you faith
repent of agonizing, for it won’t earn you grace
For grace is not earned; it’s like a fruit that gets ripe.
Stop rushing God (like you know better… when the timing’s right)!
 
You silly hypocrite
you made literal interpretations in to your idols
you turned your back on God
to proudly thump your bibles
But that, my friends, is the classic path to humility
we go through frightened, raging arrogance to get to that clarity, that unity
 
so, rejoice in this good news… and give thanks
for our sins and shames were innocent mistakes
in the perfect eyes of God who creates it all
(maybe with a little bit of trial and error….)
 
Now, let us repent of our religion of terror
for God, not tradition, is the only savior 
 
 
“Wow, that is just fantastic… really, really fantastic… you know, for someone like you.”

In the beginning, there was no one

not even one word to speak of
no boundaries, no labels
just patterns, all passing through
no filters, no models
no ideals of what not to do
 
Then someone with a big mouth 
bit off more than he could chew

 

 

 

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The Realm of Divine Power

June 21, 2012
The Realm of Divine Power

Salam Fayyad, Rigmor Aasrud, Rim Bana and Dr. ...

Salam Fayyad, Rigmor Aasrud, Rim Bana and Dr. Munib Younan at the Exhibition “A modern approach to the divine image” by Norwegian artist Håkon Gullvåg In The evangelical Lutheran church of Augusta Victoria in Jerusalem (Photo credit: Beautiful Faces of Palestine)


Jesus said, “You are in error because you do not understand the Scriptures or the Authority of God.” – Matthew 22:29 

note: this audio is a bit loud-

Divine Authority is the source of all perceptions and all forms and all labels: the author or authority, the creator or creativity. Divine Power is the cause of all developments and patterns. 

Does a mustard seed produce a cactus plant? No, the plant reveals the nature of the seed. Only a grapevine produces grapes, right?

Divine Authority is like a seed which produces all that can be perceived, including you. Your nature reveals the nature of that which has formed you. 
Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect. …
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Your wordless nature is divine perfection. There is no nature except divine perfection.

Labels can cover divine perfection, but that is like putting some pickles in to a container that says “this is actually a jar of gorillas, not a jar of pickles.” Labels are just labels.

Have you ever noticed that the way that someone labels the elements of their life reveals their spirit (their character, their self-image)? Labels reveal the one labeling. Labels do not reveal what is labeled.

Luke 13:18 Then Jesus asked, “What is the Realm of Divine Authority like? What shall I compare it to?


…what parable shall we use to describe it? Mark 4:30
He told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
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Luke 13:19 It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches.”
English: Mustard seeds by David Turner Februar...

English: Mustard seeds by David Turner February 23, 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Divine Authority has formed you. Every quality of any formation of Divine Authority is a quality of Divine Authority. Divine Authority has formed everything: earth and sky, male and female, reward and punishment, good and evil, righteousness and wickedness, justice and confusion, prosperity and war, love and hate, joy and grief, connection and isolation, as well as every seed, every soil, every sprout, every branch, every blossom, and every harvest.

Does one branch of a tree reveal the nature of the seed more than any other branch? All creations of God equally demonstrate the Divine Power of God, revealing the glory of God, the authority of the source of all creativity. 

There is no physical devil to be worshiped as greater than God or equal to God. Likewise, there is no individual person to be worshiped as greater than God or equal to God. 


5I am the DIVINE AUTHORITY, and there is no other;

apart from me there is no DIVINE POWER.

I will strengthen you,

though you have not acknowledged me,

The story of an individual who claims an isolated authority is an important story. That claim of isolated authority is a mistake or confusion that leads to fear, blame, resentment, contempt, and grief.

Divine Authority is even the cause of the experience of all isolation and grief as well as the only remedy. As the only remedy to grief and isolation, Divine Authority is the only Salvation, the only power to Save, the only “Savior.” 
… You must acknowledge no God but me, for there is no other savior. …. …
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… I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no other Savior. …. …
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… For there is no other God but me, a righteous God and Savior. There is none
but me. … There is no other righteous God and Savior besides me. …
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… Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? …
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Beware of those who speak of only one particular individual or ritual method as a remedy or savior. Each method or tool has some use and every teacher has their value. However, when there is an exclusive claim to authority, what if it is made from a frightened arrogance?

Does someone’s spirit demonstrate the graceful spirit of faith or just words about faith, just sincerity, just a hopeful pretense of confidence to hide a deeper anxiety? Does their spirit demonstrate a pattern of relating such as isolation and even divisiveness and competitiveness and contempt and fear and rage and shame? If so, what credibility would you assert that their words have? 

Matthew 7:16 By their fruit you will recognize them. 

… You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren’t gathered
from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they? [Only a grapevine produces grapes!]
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English: Two pages of Manual of Mustard Seed G...

English: Two pages of Manual of Mustard Seed Garden (Jieziyuan Huazhuan), 2nd Set vol. 2nd(Bamboo drawing), later edition in 1782 published in Sushu,China, color woodblock printing on paper, bound by stitching (Photo credit: Wikipedia)



If you follow a blind leader who claims to be able to see, then how quickly will you recognize the innocent mistake you have been making? The results reveal the effectiveness of a method. If you follow a foolish leader who claims to be wise, how long will you pretend not to notice that your perceptiveness is beyond theirs? How long will you model your own action on foolishness? How long will you focus on foolishness by protesting it? Turn away from evil, from what disturbs you, from what does not fit for you.

If you follow a deaf leader who claims to be able to hear, will you shout at the one you have been following for being unable to hear or will you recognize the futility of shouting at someone who is clearly deaf? Will you loudly insist to the deaf that they should hear you and follow you, or will you leave behind your disappointment and open to the courage of leading? Stop arrogantly criticizing them for being your leader when it is you who has been naively following them. 

Matthew 7:20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

… So by their fruit you will know them.” … …
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Do not worship any isolated formation of Divine Authority. Do not worship any individual, but instead cherish every individual equally. Do not favor one and then curse another as a villain or enemy. Proclaim the innocent foolishness of all of the characters in the dream of isolated authorities.

Do not worship the idea of an isolated force beyond the influence of Divine Power. You are not an isolated force beyond the influence of Divine Power. There is no such thing.
You are a creation of Divine Authority, a demonstration of Divine Power, an image of Divine Authority, a formation of Divine Authority, a form of Divine Authority, a child of Divine Authority, a branch of Divine Power. You share the same nature or source as all other forms of Divine Authority.



One teacher of religious law was listening to some people debate. He realized that Jesus had answered well, so he asked Jesus, “Of all religious instructions, which is the most important?”

Jesus replied, “The most important instruction is this, ‘Listen, Children of Divine Authority: Divine Authority is One [Complete, Inclusive, Whole, Holy, Perfect, Pure, Limitless]. Worship Divine Authority alone with your whole heart and with your entire soul and with your entire mind and with all your power.'”

 31The second is equally important: ‘Cherish any other as yourself.’h No other commandment is greater than these.”

32The teacher of religious law replied, “Well said, Rabbi. You have spoken the truth by saying that Divine Authority is Complete, and there is not another outside of the source.33And I know it is important to worship Divine Authority with all my heart and all my understanding and all my strength, and to cherish my peer as myself. This is more important than to offer all of the burnt offerings and sacrifices required in the law.”

34Realizing how much the man understood, Jesus said to him, “ You are not far from the Realm of Divine Authority.” And after that, no one dared to ask him any more questions.

Mark 12:28-34
http://nlt.scripturetext.com/mark/12.htm
<< Isaiah 45:22 >>
New International Version (©1984)
“Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am Divine Authority, and there is no other.”
1 John 4:21 And he has given us this command: “Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”
Mark 12:24 >>
New Living Translation (©2007)
Jesus replied, “Your mistake is that you don’t know the Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God.”
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Are you open to Eternal Life or do you reject that language?

May 29, 2012
Newborn child, seconds after birth. The umbili...

Newborn child, seconds after birth. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Notice that life is what forms the various bodies, small and large. Life guides the transformation of one bodily form in to another, such as a caterpillar in to a butterfly or a baby in to a full grown adult or a seed in to a tree.

My prophet Jesus taught about a mustard seed which can only grow in to a mustard tree. Within every branch of the mustard tree, life is present. The tree is within every branch. Life is within every vine and every tree and every body.

In fact, there is no mustard tree independent of life and also there is no living body independent of life. Before a particular mustard tree is formed by life, life is present. Before a new species of plant or animal is first formed by life, life is present. Each organism or body has no life except for the life that was already present before the forming of that temporary form by life. Further, during and after any particular form, such as a two foot tall body or a four foot tall body, life is still present for life itself is eternal.

infant

infant (Photo credit: soupboy)

You may identify yourself as merely a temporary mortal form. That is an innocent mistake which can be labeled a sin. Labels are just categories in language, so relax. You are already the eternal life that forms bodies and species and categories and symbolic code words and language and perception.

Using language, you may identify yourself as a temporary mortal form. You could say words such as “I am only a caterpillar, so when the butterfly is born, I will die.” You could say any words you say.

Italiano: Camaleonte del Madagascar, fotografa...

Italiano: Camaleonte del Madagascar, fotografato sull’Isola di Nosy-Be (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The identification with a particular mortal form must end for the presence of Eternal Life to be experienced. Note that there is no special method for ending the activity of identifying with a particular mortal form, which is merely a spoken phrase in language.

How does life stop saying “I am only a particular mortal form?” Say nothing at all. Say anything else. If you recognize that the words are just words, then even saying “I am only a particular mortal form” has no particular importance, similar to saying “I am isolated in that tree over there” or “I was once a small baby in a past life, but that baby has died and now I am 6 years old. Soon the 6 year-old will die and a 7 year-old will begin, replacing the dead 6 year-old.”

Be reborn now as Eternal Life. Or instead remain as life identifying itself as a specific mortal form, perhaps struggling to rejoin a distant God or earn a way in to a distant heaven to escape from a hell of eternal punishment which you may claim to deserve for an original sin that you plagiarized without permission from someone who may have told you that this particular sin is both unforgivable yet already forgiven by the mercy of God.

You can never earn forgiveness, such as by good works or by saying prayers. You can only claim to be condemned or stop claiming to be condemned.

You are not a particular body of a baby or a particular body of an adult. You are the Eternal Life which formed those temporary forms.

Before those bodies were formed, Eternal Life is present. As those bodies form and transform, Eternal Life is present. When those particular bodies are only ancient fossils, Eternal Life is present.

Eternal Life is like a tree which grows many branches and each branch grows many fruits season after season. The body of a particular fruit forms and then falls from the tree and decays. When a piece of fruit falls from the tree of Eternal Life, does that kill the branch or the whole tree of Eternal Life?

When a body forms in a human womb and is born and the chord is broken from the body of the mother, what happens to the life of the infant? Life is present before and after the instant of the breaking of the chord, right? What ends when the connection of the chord ends? Only the connection of the chord ends.

English: Fountain of Eternal Life

English: Fountain of Eternal Life (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Life is eternal. The connection of the chord was never an isolated life. The connection of the chord never really lives and never really dies. However, language can be formed by life saying “I am just an isolated umbilical chord. Eventually, I will die. Now, I must struggle anxiously to survive. I must desperately earn my way in to heaven before it is too late.”

Life is inherently eternal. Each piece of fruit and each bodily form is inherently mortal.

Do you claim to be an umbilical chord or only an isolated branch that has no relationship to any seed or any trunk? Do you claim to be a body isolated from life or do you claim to be one isolated life within a particular body or could you be the Eternal Life which forms all bodies, all branches, all forms- and which lives within them and through them?

In the absence of the activity of language, is Eternal Life present already or is there some isolated identity which is figuring out how to eventually become alive, how to attain Eternal Life, how to get in to heaven, insisting that because of some great tragedy or shame or injustice or sin in the past, one can not already be here? What have you been claiming that you need to do first as a priority before experiencing the heavenly kingdom of Eternal Life now?

How does life stop saying “I am only a particular mortal form?” Say nothing at all. Say anything else. If you recognize that the words are just words, then even saying “I am only a particular mortal form” has no particular importance, similar to saying “I am isolated in that tree over there” or “I was once a small baby in a past life, but that baby has died and now I am 6 years old. Soon the 6 year-old will die and a 7 year-old will begin, replacing the dead 6 year-old.”
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a branch of the life of God is just the Living God branching

May 6, 2012

“Intellect is not intelligence as J. Krishnamurti said.It is very difficult to come out of this trap and come to

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986)

Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

its ownself. Life unfolds its secrets only to those who comes to its ownself.” – Subhash Chander

https://www.facebook.com/subhash.chander.94/posts/183232668465642

What is “this trap?” If one recognizes the nature of the trap, one may find that the trap requires ongoing energizing and nourishing in order to persist.

In the absence of the activity of creating “a difficult trap that traps me,” the momentum of “trapping me” dissolves like the heat of a stove when one turns off the heat. The burner may still be red hot, but when there is no additional energy flowing to heat the burner, soon the burner cools a little and then eventually has no extra heat.

This fire heats the kitchen, and the magic cal...

This fire heats the kitchen, and the magic caldron heats the hot water and two radiators : Ce feu chauffe la cuisine et le chaudron chauffe l’eau et deux radiateurs à l’étage (Photo credit: hardworkinghippy)

So, what is the nature of “trapping me?” Is it related to defining myself and identifying an image and labeling how I am and how I am not? What if I am not any certain way? What if I do not reject any particular way?

Tree - leaf canopy

Tree – leaf canopy (Photo credit: blmiers2)

A branch of God can declare “I am just a single isolated branch- this one but not that one.” However, what if that branching is all the activity of the tree from the beginning? When there is the identifying of “I am only this branch,” that is the isolating of a particular branch. When there is no isolating of a particular branch, does the branch “become” the entire tree? Does the branch “achieve” inner tree-dom?

What if the branch never did anything of its own and all activity of branching was also the activity of treeing? What if “the trapping of the branch” was just one activity of the tree? What does the tree need to do in order to stop the trapping of the branching? The tree just branches. When the tree just branches, “the trapping of the branch” does not trap the tree.

“The trapping of the branch” is always just an activity of the tree. Can the branch of the Living of God come to the secret of the tree of the Living of God? No, but the tree of the Living of God can make up that there is a trap and there is a secret to get out of the trap.

If one recognizes the nature of “the trap,” who is it that could recognize the trap? Are you the “secret trap” of “I am just an isolated branch” or are you the one who recognizes and creates such isolating in language?

Nexus Tree

Nexus Tree (Photo credit: Kokotron)

“How did the branch get trapped in the tree? How did the tree trap the branch?”

When it is clear that those questions are nonsense from the beginning, then intelligence has recognized intelligence. The dreaming of the intellect (the mind, the ego) never trapped intelligence. The intelligence is the source of the intellect and the poetic dreams of neuro-linguistic “Maya” (delusion, ignorance, misperception, sin, Mara). This is the ancient teaching that in various languages has been called Advaita, Holiness, Wholeness, Catholicism, Salvation,  Enlightenment, Taoism, The Middle Way, The Good News, The Dharma, the Truth of Spiritual Liberation, The Revelation of Divine Unity, The Rebirth of the Eternal, Knowledge of the Tree of Life, Jnana Yoga, Zen Buddhism, and so on.

“I teach suffering, its origin, cessation and path. That’s all I teach.” – Buddha 

(The Four Noble Truths of Dukkha, Samudāya, Nirodha, and Magga)

Pholiota squarrosa growing on a fallen tree br...

Pholiota squarrosa growing on a fallen tree branch. This specimen is rare, as most grow together in clusters. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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the tree of life and improving the branches

March 23, 2012
Trunk Call Looking up into the branches of a f...

Trunk Call Looking up into the branches of a fir(?) tree near to Measham Hall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“self-improvement and expression/development of Self”

Here is a trunk and it has many branches. Life is the tree (or vine). We are just branches.

I do not even know how to grow a single hair on my head (or a leaf on my branch), yet each hair (and leaf) grows by itself. What about this branch is really my own doing? Even the words “but I did all this myself” remind me of some sounds that I may have heard coming out of a few other branches…. Did I also invent language and make the sun and the earth and the seed from which a tree may grow? Did I inherit nothing? Did I create my parents, too?

I as the personal branch does nothing of it’s own will. I as God does everything, even producing the experience of an isolated persona with an isolated personal will: i.e., the accuser, the slanderer, the one so guilty and ashamed to blame and condemn… the devil. Who else but God could create the devil- who else would even dare?

Blue Sky Growing a Tree Branch in the Garden o...

Blue Sky Growing a Tree Branch in the Garden of Success (Photo credit: epSos.de)

So, what exactly is there to improve about any of the branches? The tree does not need improving, nor does any branch. There is nothing evil in the tree, not even any perception by one portion of the tree that some other portion is evil.

Stop any judging against the tree or other people or yourself, then stop trying to improve perfection and just celebrate. Develop yourself. That is how the tree is developing: branch by branch.

Be faithful to the tree within you, the divine that IS all of you already. Stop judging against God. God is the whole tree and every branch, including you personally. You’re not special, nor is anyone else, but you are absolutely unique, as is each branch of God. Who are you to “improve” God’s work?

Tree - leaf canopy

Tree - leaf canopy (Photo credit: blmiers2)

The humble branch celebrates the glory of the whole tree- even other branches- whether or not certain other branches may judge it as humble or proud, better or worse, devil or saint. Has any sage- any prophet of God- ever before been accused of being confusing, arrogant, a devil, a heretic, a threat?

What is humility? It is having no special interest in the words of the other branches- without defense of any words that might insult or attack or humiliate; that is humility. Open to the words of others, but unattached to anything but the trunk itself, what could we call that?

From the edge of the branches, one can look back at the tree and see a particular view (except for any of the branch behind, out of view). That is fine. From the trunk, however, one can easily see the unity of the tree- and the centrality of the trunk.

One may know from anywhere that there are hidden roots, but not seeing the hidden roots may not stop one from FEELING them. One may even be able to feel the whole tree from the tip of the branches. However, it is possible that at the trunk, it may be easier to directly feel the roots than at the distant, remote regions of the tips of the branches. Let the trunk feed the branches- for what good is the trunk but the hub that feeds the branches?

Neither position- from the tip of a branch or from the trunk- are better or worse than the other… merely distinct.

Nectarine tree branch

Nectarine tree branch (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One, however, may experience isolation and antagonism and suffering- at least until there is a shift in language from “I am a branch appearing at the top of a tree” to “I am the tree experiencing itself as a branch.”

Some of us may have seen others/their words as confusing and/or inauthentic. Some of us may have seen see others/their words as arrogant and unattractive. Wouldn’t that be interesting if that was one’s experience of much of the rest of the tree, too- even most or all of it, except perhaps for one’s own branch, right? 😉

First Published on: Nov 20, 2009

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the symbolic language of God’s way of heavenly peace

March 1, 2012
Orthodox Church of Holy Spirit in Medzilaborce...

Orthodox Church of Holy Spirit in Medzilaborce, Slovakia Polski: Cerkiew Świętego Ducha w Medzilaborce, Słowacja Slovenčina: Pravoslávny chrám Svätého Ducha v Medzilaborcach (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, to the familiar way of thinking and speaking and living, this message may seem to be foolishness, at least at first. In contrast, to the emerging way of thinking and speaking and living, the familiar way may be revealed to be not so wise as it once may have seemed.

Effects are caused. Every effect is also a factor in causing future effects. For each effect, many other earlier effects precede it as the conditions that allow for the next effect.

So, the way that all effects are caused may be called “the way life works” or “the way of being effective.” The way of being effective is not caused by anything. The way of being effective is not dependent on any conditions or on the presence or absence of any conditions. The way of being effective is simply how life works or how organization organizes.

This Way cannot be comprehensively explained or measured. The Way is already functioning in all processes of measuring and explaining, as well as everything else. The Way can be noticed directly, but it cannot be understood. The Way also produces all understanding and all noticing.

Some linguistic symbols for the Way are Tao or Logos or Word or the Will of God or simply God or Divinity or The Almighty or The Void. The Way is the cause of all effects. The way is the source of all conditions.

Every word evidences the Way. Every word is formed by the Way. There is nothing that does not express the Way.

Every language evidences the Way. Every language is formed by the Way. There is nothing that does not reveal the Way.

The Way cannot be blocked. The Way cannot be assisted or resisted. The way is always operating and organizing and forming and causing and creating.

However, the Way can be noticed. The Way can be recognized. The Way can be acknowledged. The Way can be honored.

How do such effects arise? The Way produces them just as it produces anything else.

Grace is the single cause of all conditions, all effects, and all instrumental causes. There is nothing which is not the instrument of Grace.

The Way forms you. The Way compels you to focus on the Way. Whatever the Way may have compelled of you in the past, the Way has only been preparing you for your current condition.

Whatever you may have been focusing on previously, the Way has caused. Now, the Way is continuing to redirect your attention however the Way commands.

Focusing on symptoms may relax and cease. Focusing on identifying causes and effects may relax and cease. Focusing on the forms created by the Way may relax and cease as the Way itself focuses attention on the eternal presence of attention.

You are innocent of all concerns. All concerns and all other conditions are formed by the Way.

You are not a temporary condition. You are not a temporary form. You are not a temporary effect. You are the eternal attention of the Way.

Experience is compelled into being by your attention and focus. Notice your own attention and let the effects of your attention come and go. If you notice your own attention energizing effects, isolating effects, labeling effects, resisting effects, or pursuing effects, then notice those reflexive reactions as additional, new effects.

If you identify with effects, notice what happens next. If you identify against effects, notice your own attention. If you take life personally, notice that happening.

If you resist the effects of your attention, notice that. If you resent the effects of your attention, notice that. If you envy, notice that. If you blame, notice that. If you compete, notice that. If you villify, notice that. If you worship any effect, notice your innocent idolatry and return your attention to the Way.

Sin is an interpretation, a labeling, an identifying. Notice as the Way forms all sinning, all repenting, and all redeeming.

Attention to the Way is the most important creation of the Way. All other concerns are secondary. All other concerns will be fulfilled through attention to the Way. Focus first on noticing the supremacy of the Way. Seek first the Reign of God within, the Heavenly Kingdom of innocence, gratitude, curiosity, and the peace that surpasses all understanding. Be still and know the Way that is like the vine of originating cause… from which arises all branches of temporary effects and conditions.

If you notice yourself disturbing yourself with entanglements or agonizing about what to do and what not to do or cause and effect or good and evil or right and wrong or reward and punishment, notice your attention relaxing from the tree of dualistic knowledge, divisiveness, argument, and animosity. Notice that agonizing is the effect of a cause, and that in the absence of that cause, agonizing exhausts itself and dissolves, revealing peace.

There is no remedy for agonizing. There is agonizing, then noticing agonizing, then the dissolving of agonizing, and then the noticing of attention itself.

I am the Way. Notice my presence. Do as I do. Surrender to my cause. Recognize the Will of God as the source of all temporary individual concerns, the source of all temporary effects, the source of all conditions.

God does not come to judge or condemn anything or anyone. God blesses all of the effects of God, all of the creations of God, and relieves all temporary agonizing about what should be, who is to blame, or what should be done. God reveals all sin to be an innocent misinterpretation. God redeems what previously may have been considered agonizing to now be revealed as the the cultivating of attention to God, the refining of attention to the source, the redirecting of attention to attention itself.

All creations are formed by the Holy Spirit, of the Holy Spirit, and for the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit fills you.

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The Holy Spirit depicted as a dove, surrounded by angels, by Giaquinto, 1750s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Notice any relying on other people or any relying on one’s own mind. Repent of these breakdowns in faith and recognize the cause of all effects including the actions of other people and even of one’s one mind, one’s own thoughts, one’s own words, experience, body, and life.

There is only one sin: idolatry- though it may have many forms and names. There is only one remedy: repenting.

Repenting does not arise from one’s own merit. Repenting arises by Grace alone.

The personality cannot keep it’s personal pride or glory by sneaking in to the kingdom of heavenly peace, or by earning access, or by figuring out how to enter. Eternal hell burns away the personality, converting that fuel into a new form, and through the temporary purgatory of humbly worshipping God even in the midst of what may seem to be unfair persecutions, Grace resurrects the one and only God, who rests on the inner throne of the Sovereign Lord.

Now, to the familiar way of thinking and speaking and living, this message may seem to be foolishness, at least at first. Again, to the emerging way of thinking and speaking and living, the familiar way may be revealed to be not so wise as it once may have seemed.

There are many ways to misinterpret and misapply this message, and those ways bear no fruit and are in vain, yet still provide lessons in distinguishing what does work. There is only one way to already recognize heaven now.

This is good news. If it were not good news, it would not produce the unconditional peace of God.

Remember what the most famous prophets have been communicating, for it is a single message with a single spirit and single heart, though in a variety of languages and with many sayings pointing to a single core: “Be pure just as God is pure.” The variety of sayings clarify the message, extending it to a variety of distinctions, such as this: “it is not what you put in your mouth that defiles and condemns you, but what comes out of your mouth.”

Could it be that to curse God is to curse yourself? How would you curse yourself?

Cursing God’s creations is to curse yourself. So, refrain from condemning. Refrain even from condemning any instance of condemning. Instead, withdraw from what you find troubling or disturbing. If, out of spontaneous compassion, you firmly rebuke someone, then the effect will be miraculous. If the effect is not miraculous, consider that spontaneous compassion was not present.

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Holy Spirit (Photo credit: Barking Tigs)

Respect God and God blesses you, for receptivity to God’s blessings could be your only concern, your only focus, your only responsibility. How would you respect God? Respecting God’s creations as your own creations- even as branches arising from your own root- is to respect God.

There is no other cause but the almighty. Respect the almighty with all of your attention. Respecting the almighty, respect all the creations of the almighty, including your own circumstances and even your own attention.

Everything you experience, including who you may think you are or say you are, is the fulfillment of God’s Will. Every branch on the vine of God is a branch on the vine of God.

There is no other vine but the vine of God. There is no other branch but a branch of God.

The seed determines the fruit. The fruit is always faithful to the qualities of the seed. Focus on your own emergence diligently.

written 2/17/2011

republished as a post on 3/1/2012

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The symbol of the Holy Trinity

February 19, 2012

 

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This is the presence of the operating of language. This is also the presence of the noticing of the operating of language. In fact, even the word “noticing” is itself the operating of language. There is no word that is not the operating of language. The word presence is the operating of language, too. The words “the operating of language” are of course also the operating of language.

The operating of language includes every instance of labeling. To reference the noticing of any particular thing is to reference the labeling of a particular thing in language. Thus, noticing something and labeling something are both the operating of language. What something can be noticed without labeling it?

Of course, the presence of noticing is also vast. The presence of noticing can include the presence of the noticing of a perceiving that is distinct from the presence of labeling, such as a development that does not quite fit any particular label already operating in language. In other words, there can be the presence of noticing a perceiving of the distinction between perceiving and labeling.

Noticing and perceiving are basically two labels for the same thing. Every noticing is also a perceiving. However, the noticing of the operating of language can begin and end, like when there is the noticing of a movement or a shape or an unfamiliar sound. The presence of noticing remains with or without the operating of language.

The presence of breathing is the noticing of breathing. That is, noticing always involves a presence. There is no noticing of an absence. There is only the noticing of distinction among various forms of presence.

There can be the noticing of the operating of language in contrast to the noticing of other developments, such as the hearing of sounds or the seeing of light and colors and shapes. While the operating of language may involve the hearing of sounds and even the seeing of symbolic shapes such as letters, there are other instances of the hearing of sounds and seeing of shapes distinct from the symbolic sounds and symbolic shapes of language.

There can be the noticing of both the actual sound of an “o” sound as well as the labeling of that sound specifically as an “o” sound. There could also be the presence of the noticing of the “o” sound as coming from the howling of the wind or from the vocalizing of an animal such as a human or from the hum of a vibrating bowl or from the blowing of a musical instrument like a horn.

So presence itself is eternal and the noticing of various temporary distinctions contrasts with the continuity of presence itself. When noticing the distinction between a familiar sound that is automatically labeled in language and an unfamiliar sound, noticing is present.

So, there are three distinctions: the noticing of a sound, the noticing of the labeling of a sound, and the noticing of the distinction between the sound itself and the labeling of the sound in language. Further, there is a fourth noticing that each of those distinct instances of noticing are all the presence of noticing.

In order to notice the distinction in language of “pure noticing,” other forms of the noticing of distinctions are recognized and labeled in language. There can be the noticing of sound, the noticing of labeling, and the noticing of the distinction between the noticing of sound and the noticing of labeling.

Those three are all the noticing of a particular presence. None of those three are the noticing of the presence of noticing itself.

So, the noticing of sound is first. It is like the elder in the family of noticing. The noticing of sound can be labeled “the father.”

Next comes the noticing of labeling. It is like the child of the elder in the family of noticing. When the noticing of sound is labeled as “the father,” that labeling can be noticed as “the son.”

Further, the distinction between the noticing of sound and the noticing of labeling can be called the distinguishing of noticing itself. Noticing sound is not noticing labeling and noticing labeling is not noticing sound. That is the noticing of distinction. Not only are there distinct sounds that can be noticed, as well as distinct labels in language, but the categorical distinction between the label “all labels” and the label “all sounds.”

Noticing multiple forms of noticing is still the presence of noticing. This presence of noticing may also be labeled the spirit of noticing or the spiritual presence of noticing the similarity of all instances of noticing as instances of noticing. This noticing can be labeled “the Holy Spirit.”

So, here are these three distinct forms of noticing: the noticing of a perceiving such a sound, as in “the symbolic Father,” then the noticing of the labeling of distinct perceivings in language, as in “the symbolic Son,” then the noticing of labeling itself as in the noticing of the symbolic labels of language or the noticing of the operating of language, as in “the Holy Spirit” or “Logos.”

All of these three distinct instances of noticing are all noticing. The noticing that all instances of noticing are all noticing is the recognition that the label “noticing” is just another symbol in language.

If noticing were compared to a tree, we could say that the tree had several branches: the branch of noticing sound, the branch of noticing labeling, and the branch of noticing the distinction between noticing labeling and noticing sound, which is also the noticing of noticing itself. All three of those branches of noticing are instances of noticing.

Notice that the three distinct branches of a single vine are united as branches of the same vine. We could label three distinct branches of a symbolic tree with the symbolic labels of “The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit (or Holy Ghost).” All three of those symbols in language would merely be symbols in language. Each of the three branches of a tree would merely be a branch of a single vine.

The noticing any group of contrasting distinctions in language is presence of noticing. Notice the presence of noticing.

The noticing of labeling itself is the presence of noticing. There is no labeling that is not labeling. There is no branch of a vine that is not a branch of a vine. There is no noticing that is not the presence of noticing.

The noticing of the linguistic symbol of Heavenly Father is noticing. The noticing of the linguistic symbol of Divine Son is noticing. The noticing of the linguistic symbol of Holy Spirit is noticing.

The noticing of the linguistic symbol of the Holy Trinity is distinct from noticing any of the three symbols of that Trinity. The noticing of the linguistic symbol of the Holy Trinity is the presence of the noticing of linguistic symbolism. All instances of labeling are symbolic.

The noticing of the sound “o” is not the noticing of the labeling of that sound as a letter. When labeling a sound as also a letter, that is making the sound itself in to a symbol, in to an instance of language.

Language is the realm of the divine or the symbolic. Language is symbolic. Language is divine. Symbolism is divine.

The noticing of noticing itself is distinct from the noticing of any other particular noticing. All instances of noticing are noticing.

Notice the presence of the operating of language. Notice the presence of any of the various contrasting symbolic labels in language. Notice the labeling of the inclusive category of noticing.

Which symbol is not a symbol? Which branch of a tree is not equally a branch of a tree?

Which is the most important linguistic symbol in the Holy Trinity: the symbol of the Heavenly Father, the symbol of the Holy Son, or the symbol of the Holy Spirit or Ghost or the Presence of the noticing of noticing itself? Is not each symbol equally symbolic?

The Holy Trinity is itself just a fourth symbol in language (distinct from the other three: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). There is no label in language that is not just a symbolic operating of language. Every symbolic label in language is the presence of the operating of language.
In language, there is also a symbolic category possible that can be called “anything that is not the operating of symbolic language.” Of course, that alleged “thing beyond language” may be a joke, an instance of silly non-sense, a construction in language that is useful for distinguishing the all-inclusiveness of language itself.

What is beyond language? Name one thing that is beyond language, if you can. By the way, notice that the labeling of the presence of an isolated noticing as “mine” or “not mine” may be entirely symbolic.

When breathing is noticed and labeled as breathing, that is distinct from labeling the breathing as mine or not mine. “Mine” is a symbolic labeling of the operating of language.

Name one thing that is beyond the operating of language. Name one thing that is not a symbolic label.

Name one name that is not the operating of naming. Label one label that is not the operating of labeling. Notice one noticing that is not the operating of noticing.

Even “Mine” and “my” and “me” and “I” are just symbolic operatings of language. They are namings, labelings, and noticings. All namings, all labelings, and all noticings are the operating of language.

Name one word that is not the operating of language. Name one instance of the operating of language that is not the operating of language.

Even foreign words, such as “anatma” and “advaita” are still words even without the recognizing of those patterns as symbolic patterns of language. Are those words still words even when not recognized as words or when no definition or comprehension of those words are present?

What is the difference between a round shape of a circle and the shape of the letter “o”? Perhaps it is the same difference between six and half a dozen: the difference is purely linguistic, purely symbolic, purely arbitrary.

Below are two artistic depictions of the “Holy Trinity.” One is called the Trimurti of Hinduism: Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva (AKA Shiva). It is several thousand years older than the other depiction, which is Roman and would be labeled in Latin rather than Sanskrit (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva) or English (Heavenly Father, Divine Son, and Holy Spirit).

Notice that the operating of language includes all instances of the operating of language. Are there three distinct symbolic trinities (Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin, and English) or only one trinity but three different languages for labeling it?

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