Boundless
Boundless
We build
We unbuild
Both one activity
Boundless
:- Doug.
No one wants to die unhappily. And yet, sometimes we force this on each other.
:- Doug.
Archive for December, 2012
Knowing partakes
Knowing partakes of both separation (for we can only seek to know what is unknown) and unity (for we seek in knowing to bring the unknown into us). We seek ever something new—that is, to push away—and ever to bring that new inside us—to become one with it.
:- Doug.
Clouds unmoving try
Clouds unmoving try
as the winds and gusts might we
cannot look up to see a smiling
God and even
here is there rest
:- Doug.
A grey overcast windy day
On a grey overcast windy day, how do we look out and see God? God is in the heat of the earth, in the wind impelling and forcing our attention on it, in the eyes and voices of those we meet. What do we not know?: let us look here. Let us lose our baggage, whatever it might be, and see from many angles, hoping for surprise.
:- Doug.
Constructing ourselves
James P. Carse writes in Breakfast at the Victory that what we see and how we are seen creates us and our world. Put on a different costume and we in truth inhabit a different world. I see that in this way God is and thus we are constructing others in the act of seeing them. We are also constructing God; we cannot help it. We instruct God via our prayers; we construct God even more as we look out on the world with our mind-eyes.
:- Doug.
What don’t we know?
This is livelier. If we ask questions to lead others and ourselves into surprising fresh areas, then we can advance us in little ways and large. So ask questions at the edge of my own cognizance.
Here is where we can help each other, where evoking gets to work. We can help each other understand, seek, maybe attain, new insights. So we can provoke and evoke each other, seeing how we might spiral to higher ground. What don’t we know?
:- Doug.
This is to emulate:
This is to emulate: to raise people not to my level but above, not to stand on my shoulders, but to stand in the face of divinity, their divinity. The source deeper springs.
:- Doug.
Expect anything
To meet is to put ourselves forward, vulnerable; to stand in the face of; to expect, expect anything; and to keep on doing this.
:- Doug.
More and nothing
We must look for ways to simply be in the presence of the more. Not holding, not holding on, not experiencing nor using. Neither allowing nor disallowing. Neither being nor doing. How can we not do being in the presence? It is called meeting. Neither knowing nor not knowing. Neither doing nor suffering. I’ll meet you there. I and you are necessary sounds, there is no there, meet is all. No meaning, no weaving of something into something else. Meet.
:- Doug.
Making God smaller than us
We posit something larger than anything we can name: to that we give the label God. But then our label is our way of making this smaller than us.
:- Doug.
Gathering, stitching
Gathering
Stitching
Rags & tags
Into a whole
Not so crazy quilt
An opus
Of our eldering
:- Doug.
As soon as you begin to write your own words stop
As soon as you begin to write your own words stop.
:- Doug.
Ahead of a day of doing
“A deed that has no doer,” “in the presence of presence” James P. Carse writes in Breakfast at the Victory. Still, are we here merely to witness, to be dead matter rotting? This urge to change things, to make better, to become larger cannot be ignored. It is inborn in us, inescapable.
Why would we want to escape? Our very opposable thumb tells us otherwise. Is there something wrong with ego, with interacting with our surroundings? Even the clouds, all the same as different as they are from form to form, interact with the winds, also the same and ever different.
It is I think a way of saying there is something larger, a place to stand and see the larger (“At the still-point in the center of the circle one can see the infinite in all things”) and from there to act. Perhaps larger. Perhaps without acting. Perhaps by letting be.
Yet Carse is writing about a doing that is being done through this cook who spins around among toaster, coffee pots, skillet, counter and again. He was essential to the doing, but not doing it, being that through which the doing happened. We are that through which divinity—all that does and is—happens. It is a larger sense of doing.
So I need to sit in your presence and let happen ahead of a day of doing.
:- Doug.
You cannot have a goal
You cannot have a goal because
There is no such thing as an ending
No truth, no absolute
:- Doug.
