om

you won’t find this in iTunes

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emptiness is ceaselessly singing itself into existence

shhhhhh – if you’re very still and silent
you’ll hear its unstrucksound –

the so and hum of breathtide
the murmuring thrum of bodybeat

and in the spaciousness too vast to be contained
within a bony cranium

you’ll hear the choirs celestial:
the harps, the pipes, the tinkling bells

the bee-buzz and the cricket-chorus
the roaring, flaming om

and you’ll hear it all
without turning an ear

…

if you’re curious, and want check it out
you’ll be amazed:
for in that blazing silence
the hearer and the heard
cannot be torn apart

– ml

then one fine day … you just crack up

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Echoes from Emptiness - Ernst Barlach: Laughing Old Woman

When you come into Jung’s second stage, the last half of life, the quest is for the import of the OM that you’ve heard in the heart chakra, so that it will become the forming and structuring energy of your life, without care for achievement, without care for prestige.
~ Joseph Campbell

She-who-scribbles found that the quest doesn’t end with the finding of – and understanding the significance of – the OM in the heart chakra, although it’s a very pleasant place to take a rest.

The inquiry moves on.  It now asks, what ‘hears’ the OM in the heart chakra?  What is this slippery subject that seems to be aware of all this questing and OM-ing?  Why can’t it observe itself no matter how cunningly it’s stalked?  Why, when it can’t ever be avoided or escaped, can it never be known?

Then one fine day you’re sitting with these questions alone refusing to accept the answers of another no matter how reputedly awake and the penny drops right through the works and takes the questions with it and you just crack up guffawing.  OM-G.

Image: Sculpture by Ernst Barlach, 1937, bronze, 20.8 x 30.96 x 12.38, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

 

simple suchness, seamlessly known

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Morning report:

a window opening onto pristine West Australian bush
marri, jarrah, blackboy and karri
the skies are pastel blue and wisped with white
a tremble of airbreath tickles the treetops
pet lambs, hungry for breakfast, bleat
a rooster crows
red-tailed black cockatoos screech
tiny blue wrens chitter-chatter

OM broadcasts its beat through my body
and through the body of the universe

wild awakeness
is simply simple suchness
seamlessly known

~

immersed in an ommm-ing ocean

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now

awareness
flooded with lorrikeet-language,
with crow-craw and the chatter
of feathered friends

 

this

twinkling, sunbright morning
whitewashed sky
behind gold-tipped gums

 

here

on my cushion, sleepy-eyed
body breathing in and out
immersed in an ommm-ing ocean:

 

creation’s nameless name

~