Thursday, January 27, 2022

To Share the Sky as Blue ~ Thursday, January 27, 2022

It is not that we are not already full of enlightenment, we are

The trouble comes from how we decided to act as if we do not know

In the grand scheme of things, from an omniscient point of view, we know it all

Somehow we let ourselves be hoodwinked by our minds, our own minds chose the sky

Now it is a well-known metaphor that the sky is not unlike the mind

Of course, we see the sky but it is not really there much like our own minds

To this we attribute the notion of our thoughts to passing clouds above

These clouds, clearly, we see as we know our own thoughts, we write them down as words

However, images are also thoughts, ideas, feelings and emotions

Art in various forms manifests our own thoughts as singular visions

To say art is beauty is to accept the real as transformed by the mind

We know when we focus our concentration on thoughts, feelings, emotions

Exactly here is mind as a vessel contains the contents within it

As imperceptible as the sky we believe is blue in the daylight

Reality slips through our fingers and our grasp as we try to grab it

Enter the stream of thought, it is ephemeral, fleeting, passing beneath

Nothing is as it seems and yet what we believe is real slips from our grasp

Only time remains still, the clocks push time forward but time itself sits still

Time is but a construct as we envision it, we are late or early

As we conceive all time, we manifest a God as divine in vision

Language says to not say or write God but YHWH or G-d or adonai

Really, words are constructs with values equal to their use by a speaker

Exactly when did we say this way is not the way to speak, let's speak like this

And in this way, we let language divide people into categories

Divisions separate people from each other to share the sky as blue

Yet, we know the sky is imaginary space, not unlike a blue dome

Forget that we forgot we are all already enlightened in our minds

Understanding conceives what is given as real, what is true we believe

Life is what we believe is real, what is given within phenomena

Listen to the wind speak, it does not speak in words, yet it howls and whistles

Other phenomena, such as catastrophes define our survival

For our struggles make us stronger within our minds, yet this is illusion

Enlightenment exists as an idea handed down for generations

Nothing but stories show that anyone has been awakened beyond doubt

Light is either photons, a lack of gravity, or a clear sense of play

If one is to hazard what is at play, call it what you may, the blue sky

God was once considered having blue-colored skin, an avatar of god

How God and god and G-d differ is but a game, none of it may exist

Though we believe it true, this delusion of mind, but first what is the mind

Entertaining as thoughts digress along a slope slide towards the bottom

Nothing is for certain but what we know is true, truth is what we believe

Maybe art is better to discuss these matters as words get in the way

Even to use logic, premises, conclusions, a syllogism states

Nothing is for certain, what is certain is true, therefore nothing is true

Though valid but not sound, an argument sits still full of concentration

We meditate on breath not thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions, these hide truth

Enlightenment inside us as we meditate, as we sit still, let be

As body and mind drop away, we become scared, hide within our egos

Relax and let the waves subside within the mind, all there is is this breath

Everything becomes light, full of light and playful, pouring God into God

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