It is hard
when you’ve been immersed
in the relative
and the absolute steps in.
gallagher
20Oct22
-on learning that
Trish Shaheen has Pancreatic Cancer
Archive for 2022
2022-10-20
Sunday, November 6th, 20222022-11-12 – The Self
Sunday, November 13th, 2022Awareness engages in Subject-Object relationships. I.e. awareness and what the awareness is regarding. I.e., Duality.
When awareness regards itself, this pattern is broken.
The break is automatically repaired because a sense of self arises to provide an object.
But self is not innate.
And a self-awareness that realizes this and discards self, experiences a subjective non-duality directly.
a simple soldier boy
Sunday, November 13th, 2022I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you’ll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
1917 – Siegfried Sassoon