–
all things are aglow
at the hub of their life’s Beingness
fireflies, flitting
across the weave of time and space
that veils
the unknowable humming dynamo
of the bright dark
–
Image source unknown.
space and time
prajñāpāramitā
always at home
in this inescapable
bright unlit luminescence
this crucible of Creation:
Mother of time and space;
vast unknowable knowingness
always at rest
in this ultimate abode;
unassailable, yet ever available
prior to the mind
container of consciousness –
beyond the concept of beyond
always at home, always at rest
always already
p e r f e c t
. . .
wideawakeness works like a re-format
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Wideawakeness works like a re-format in the alpha-thinking drive.
Without a trace of volition or doer-ship, tick-tock thinking undergoes transformation.
In the main, that means the withering, unhooking, dissolving of habitude. It means the brain relaxes into its natural state, ever-fresh, ever alert, ever aware.
I call this omega-mind.
Although what wideawakeness reveals is intemporal, in the world of phenomena the effects appear to take time, and like a flower, unfold in their own perfect rhythm.
~
no time, no space: no me
155
It’s curious that while most folk who inquire, even at a fairly superficial level, will concede that time is a conceptual construct with no objective reality, they continue to argue for the existence of a solid-state self-entity. This is ‘me’ – wysiwyg!
But if time is illusory, it follows that duration in space is impossible. How can any concept of space be workable without the added dimension of time?
How can there be a near and a far? A then, a now, a when? And bereft of space (in which to exist) and time (in and through which to endure) what’s left of ‘me’?
I’ll tell you what’s left: the entire gobsmacking universe.
~
I am not
but the Universe is Myself
~ Shih T’ou
AD 700 – 790
awareness simply views the View
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awesome thing, perception
a no-thing itself,
it makes up the web of
space and time
so that the world can appear
awesome thing, conceptualization
a no-thing itself,
it makes up the labels that
name and explain
those worldly appearances
awesome thing, Awareness
a no-thing itself,
it does nothing at all
but view the View
whether I turn up at the lookout or not
~
echoes from emptiness 