March, 2024 Bardo Buzz (06-03)

JANESH FAVE

REMORSE - A KEY TO REMEMBERING

Barbara Haynes

Several weeks ago I was making my way from the house to the barn – taking the same path I take many, many times a day. As I put my key into the lock of the office door, I realized I had been in a dark world of thought and mechanicality, completely unaware of my surroundings. Stepping into the office I was shocked into the awareness that I had walked the entire path without seeing where I was. I had missed the opportunity to experience the walk – I had not been present. I was washed in remorse as I put my keys into my pocket - remorse for missing the opportunity to be present, to be paying attention. There was also a sense of gratitude for being shocked into a small awakening – becoming aware of the shift in my attention and my presence. Even now as I write this article many weeks later, I can remember the light in the room, the feel of the warm air on my face, the overall appearance of the room. So unlike the total darkness of my thought world as I walked up the path. Reflecting on the experience, I found myself remembering so many other times I had allowed myself to be in that thought world, and again I felt remorse for those missed times. Then I began to think about all the times I have missed opportunities to be present and I allowed the sense of remorse to help me to invoke my presence. Since the experience of darkness into light, I have caught myself missing opportunities to invoke my presence and the remorse that resulted. I have learned every opportunity missed can produce remorse and the sense of remorse is another opportunity to be present. Each day is filled with opportunities to invoke my presence and when I miss the opportunity, remorse for missing the opportunity offers another chance.

For a talk E.J. Gave on remorse, you can read ToTm #4. All One Voice / Now You Can Do It Anywhere / A Cause for Remorse.

Caption: Four portraits of women who appear to me to meet the challenge of: All You Gotta Do Is Y?u. Made in Night Cafe using SDXL 1.0 with the preset starting with "Striking" and then changing to advanced prompting mode and adding a weighted modifier.

ALL YOU GOTTA DO IS YOU - YOU ENHANCED

Marvette Kort

At the February 2024 workshop, All You Need is Love, E.J. gave 3 premises:

I Can Make It In The Skin I Am In
All You Need Is Love
All You Gotta Do Is You -- You enhanced, you plus

The next day E.J. reiterated the idea of All You Gotta Do Is You saying that using the Greek letter phi in the last word, You indicates that "You" needs to be enhanced. It implies "you plus". He went on to talk about high speed auto racing like the Daytona 500 which requires competitors to qualify for the race meeting standards for the car, the driver and the driving speed on the track. In addition, one needs an excellent professional support crew.

This implied analogy provoked the question in me: What are the qualifications for the enhancement of "You"? Holding this question inspired this strategy that I put together for a concentrated training aimed to meet the qualifications for enhancing "You". These practices I either have been doing daily or will add to my daily regime to intensify my efforts to fill the essential post of "You plus".

I. After attending numerous monthly Saturday morning programs "Beyond the Sim -- Virtual Adventures, a Universe of Bardo Worlds" I finally took the simple step of putting the Godd Particle Environment onto my computer hard drive to make entering this Godd virtual reality easy. I had heard someone mention their practice of going into the Godd Particle every day and navigating to the Godd Cube and sitting in meditation with their avatar in that space.
https://www.urthgame.com/godd-particle/

I tried sitting in the Godd Cube in meditation which I characterized as focusing my attention on the cube, maintaining my presence while observing the space and the effects on my inner world. Wow! Try it. I am wondering why I haven't been doing it all these years.

II. Zen Basics is a valuable daily practice. After doing it for years I am realizing that its utter simplicity effectively allows the being attention to surface and exercise will. The consistency of the repetition of "touching a rock" is training the intensity of my attention to build gradually for lasting results. And there's likely more to discover in doing this practice since it was given "a nod" by some lofty teachers when it was first introduced.
https://www.zenbasics.com/zba/

III. The Attentiasizer is a tool I have yet to put into my daily practice. However, from my experience in using this tool, one synchronizes one's attention to move with a point within one's line of vision that is traversing the circumference of a circle. Each time I sense my attention in this process as a continuous beam of force and observe that my efforts develop and intensify my attention slightly. Long term use would seem beneficial. Similar to Zen Basics, I confronted my machine with its tendency to get bored. The Attentiasizer challenges one's attention to operate apart from the machine's dominance in order to source and perform from the appropriate inner place.
https://www.attentionpower.com/attentiasizer/

IV. The ultimate "secret weapon" -- the secret keeps itself -- is the practice described in detail in the book Invocation of Presence. The exercise can be put into action at a moment's notice any time during one's day. The rewards are many and best discovered by personal experience personally experienced.
https://www.gatewaysbooksandtapes.com/books/bk246.html

So the above are my skill training plans for daily enlivening and enhancing "You" as in live your life, strive through its course remembering -- All You Gotta Do Is You.

JUST LET THINGS BE

Christiane Wolters

A couple of years or so ago I heard this: It's time to just let things be. (E.J. Gold). It sure is an interesting situation: allowing life to be just as it is and knowing it is perfect and feeling the impulse for evolution, this deep desire for growth and change and clarity and opening and creating and expansion and seeing and loving and truth and beauty. Feel what needs to be felt. The picture is from my creations for Pinterest boards and daily posting practice.

You can check them out here: https://www.pinterest.com/ChristianeDok/_created/

Re-pins totally help the exposure (per observed stats). In case you would like to participate in the reading group on Monday mornings: the next work of E.J.'s will be chosen shortly and there is a cool favorite quote project happening with it. Blessings to all.

ESSENCE UNVEILED

Michele Marie

In the essence of being, yourself revealed,
Without identity, a void unconcealed.
No one in the natural state, undefined,
Imaginary boundaries, in the mind entwined.

In the quiet realms where truths align,
Essential self, a spark divine.
No labels cling in the natural flow,
Boundaries dissolve, letting essence glow.

Imaginary walls that the mind conceives,
Essence thrives when belief deceives
In the purest form, identity's undone,
A dance of being beneath the sun.

Embrace the truth that lies within,
No identity shed, but a new dawn begins
In the vast expanse where boundaries fade
Discover the essence, unafraid.

Night Cafe AI generated image by Artspell

We are Strangers in This World .......

Jewel McInroy

"We are strangers in this world and are forced to bow to its imaginary hungers until we can uninterruptedly invoke the presence of our presence into the present."

~ E.J. Gold from "Sounds of the Inner Golden Opera" (An E.J. Gold quote collection) by Nishiet Gajjar and Niralee Kamdar

PROSPERITY POETS

Prosperity Poets launched a new experiment, meeting in Zoom rather than 2nd Life. This enables us to share screens easily, so we sampled a video on the PoetryFoundation.org site, a guided meditation with voice over by the poet: "Starship Somatics: An Invitation" by Petra Kuppers

By coincidence control (ECCO we suppose...), this video was artful and effective - so all present wrote about our experiences with it.

Submission to Participate
by Bill Albin

Conscious Stillness / Settled Movement,
Engaging Intentional Voyaging . . .
Thoughts reined in quietly, as . . .
A parallel world slips onto, within, & through
You . . . a world there due to another you
Offering Hospitality . . .
Did You Exchange Gifts?

Freedom
by Nancy Christie

My journey through the
Infinite darkness of space
Leaves me wanting more.

As I reach out to
You I sense that you too are
Reaching out to me

Gravity grounds us
Through sound we experience
Unfettered freedom.

From my chair on laminate flooring in our house
on old Maidu / Nisenan tribal land
the voice of a poet leads me to traverse
great distances of black space

To visit an azure vibrant planet
covered with rock and crystal forests
riotous plants and rivers turquoise and amethyst
Lovely to dance there with a wraith
a green spirit and share visions of our worlds
turning and spinning beneath us always

This poet's gift is
a reminder of that Chippewa poem or song:
Sometimes I go about pitying myself
and all the time
I am being carried by great winds across the sky

space trip
by Gailyn Porter

undulating suit of brilliant swirling colors
cocooning me from all the elements
enveloping my being in softness and light.
space boots, ankle high, fringe lifted by the singing stars
rainbow bubble enveloping, creating fragrant air for breath.
green blue orb of undulating waves,
glowing in the darkness; welcoming, serene
dancing in the air above
great bird host holds wide its wings,
dipping, bowing, partner in the misting sky
Hosannah! birds sing, joining in the dance with fluid grace
now comes the end and like a puff of wind,
I fly fast and true to my home, the Earth.
the flowing, rainbow silk folding into a small bright flower in my hand

My Spirit is Lifted
by Kay Waltzer

floating in space-unknown, my spirit is lifted
timeless adventures
floating separate from everything
feeling the light coming from above....a thrill runs thru my body

no voice -- no pain -- i surrender to the moment
free from cares of being human
body and mind gone!
all is movement -- gentle, adrift but in control!
I learn the secret of the world's unknown treasures
no fear -- no shame -- only love!

HUMBLY WITH HEART ALIVE

Nishiet Gajjar

In a distant time, few dust particles appeared on the grand mirror.

They tried to clear it with the costliest of cleaners, yet it remained,

Changed a few mirrors too, but the particles persisted.

Despite configuring the mirror with new materials,

The particles started appearing on other grand mirrors too!

After consulting with grand mirror makers,

They said, "Honey, the particles reside not on your mirror,

Why do you look at the speck in the mirror?

They cling to the outer layer of the heart only.

On the inside everything is bubbling and throbbing without any layers.

So, cleanse your surface, and the mirror shall gleam clear!

It's not the other way round 'cos mirror only reflects."

Why?

For only after this purification does the heart's journey commence.

And one embarks on, "Humbly with heart alive..."