A Personal Odyssey

“Reflection Eternal” by Nujabes off “Modal Soul”

Contemplative on the improbability
Of achieving this human reality. 
Reflective in actuality, 
Life not a terrestrial odyssey.
Journey of spiritual kind,
Being master of mind.

On Being

Ultimately pure awareness.
Consciousness resides the nexus,
Of infinite space and time. 
This has always been. 
This will always be. 
Death release this inner awareness,
From confines of time-emergent mind.  

Semantics

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
Who Buddhist finds refuge in Buddha, the Dharma, and Sangha. 
Jain Tirthankara, Agamas, Sangha.
Christian in Christ, the Gospels, and Church.
Muslim in Allah, Quran, sharia.
If Jewish in YHWH, the Torah, and nation.
Who practices Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism: in Shiva, Vishnu, Shakti; the Sruti the Smriti; and spiritual community.

In Shadow of Babel

Reality ultimately 
Singularity. 
Similitude 
Interpretations vary,
With multitude 
Vocabularies. 

“The Tower of Babel” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563.

On Arks

Diluvian Ark we never left,
And are carried by it yet. 
Ark of the Covenant, 
Who merciful convey it, 
And are never apart.
For it resides the Tabernacle
Of Compassionate Heart,
Blessed Vessel the Sacrament.  

“The Creation” by Jacques Joseph Tissot. (c. 1896-1902) 

Meditation On Mediative Mind

There are two aspects of mind:

  1. True nature of mind, which is pure awareness, clean and clear, luminous void.  (akin space)
  2. Dualistic mind, which perceives conceptions, subject and object. (akin field and charge)

The “I” is emergent  the mind-stream of dualistic mind’s consciousnesses.

Mediative meditation can be sustained by focusing the mind on an objective (a mental object: such as an image; a mandala; a mantra; etc…, a physical object, an activity: such as archery; hatha yoga; breathing; etc…, etc…).  Therein focusing, directing,  and thus gaining control of the mind and stream.

Meditative absorption begins to develop when the object of mind is on the subject, the mind itself, and a conceptual understanding of its nature emerges. Mind that aspires to awaken

Pure Awareness is attained on clearing the mind, and thus without effort sustained. Mind awaken.