Are mutually exclusive
States of Awareness.
I can "think and be,"
But I can't "be aware of
Being" while "I think."
Thinking of Being
Consciously Aware is a
Form of amnesia.
Thinking of Being
The Aware-Presence I Am
Is not being That.
Thinking is a form
Of self-reflective Being
That "misses the mark."
[Rich Note: With all our efforts to get to a point of "having to do nothing," -- which is a negative way of saying, finding "Peace and/or Perfect Freedom" -- are we not really trying to return to an Original State (the One we had in the Garden) of "Non-Doing" and, thus, "Pure Being"?]
[Rich Note: If so, then the non-sense question that naturally arises from such a realization is, "How do I do being?" Or, "How do I get there from here?" And the answer to both those false-questions is, "You cannot do Being, for being is what happens (or remains for you to be aware of) when any and all doing or "trying to be" (which is what thinking, as a self-reflective state of being, actually attempts) ceases!" ]
[Rich Note: In other words, Being is what I Am, in Spirit and in Truth, and can only be apprehended when all thinking (which is actually a form of non-being; or anti-matter to being's matter) utterly stops.]
[Rich Note: Even so, there is "a kind of doing" (which is close to non-doing) that can bring one to the threshold of "Pure Being," so the Father (as he did with His other Prodigal Son) can escort you across the "Gateless Gate" to the otherside, as the following bonus haiku suggests.]
Focused on Being
The Aware-Presence I Am
"I am what I Am."
[Rich Note: Two of these haiku came from (or are slight mutations of) pieces that appear in "Out of My Mind and Back to My Senses," and the other four were born yesterday or this morning.]
(C) 2007 RFHay
