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Wednesday, 19 March 2025
SHACK 4116 POLITICS
SHACK 4115 KOAN
SHACK 4114 AM I ANYWHERE?
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Most people have 28, billion, billion, billion atoms in them and the Universe is composed of atoms as above 99,999999999% empty space. Surely you might question am I really here? or have we been brain washed and inculcated to believe we are here or somewhere?
Perplexing isn't it or a Koan.
SHACK aka GEOFF
SHACK 4112 MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
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What if I told you there is nothing real, there is no definite reality, what might you say, this cannot be and I say you and I are programmed to believe this, these are the programmes and codes, we are created as such by our Creator.
The lesson is to 'see' behind the facade of this facade, this seemingly so real illusion and break free to that which created it.
Why do we think and believe we are programmed like this? Perhaps this is the lesson to get to who programmed us and ensure the Creator of Its programmes and so verify Itself. I am here and not an illusion and so break free of the programmes and then we and It will know. . Or I am not here and I am an illusion of myself.
Saturday, 1 March 2025
SHACK 4111 THE CALL OF THE WILD
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The call of the wild, the call of the soul, the call of Spirit, the silent call, the still silent voiceless voice. Do you hear it-NO, Do you feel it -YES.
Sit and listen to it, it is still and yet moving, it is noiseless and yet speaking, invisible and yet very there and apparent, what is IT then? I haven't the remotest idea, so there you have it. What is this IT?
SHACK aka GEOFF
The first time I heard a Wolf call I felt a tingling sensation go up my spine and then I was filled with and ancient feeling of the unknown origin of ourselves, I feel this tingling, an aliveness, I feel connected to nature and the Universe. I feel spirit, I just feel feeling. I feel I am a soul whatever that maybe and as unearthly as I can be and yet strangely very much in tune and alignment to Mother Earth and her comfort. The tingling feels icy cold and yet not cold of Earth cold, it feels neither hot nor cold but a sensation which the brain cannot decode, so its nearest is cold / hot and it is not of this world and yet it is a fundamental of it. SHACK.
SHACK 4110 RIDERS OF STORMS AND WINDS
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SHACK 4109 STILL AND STILL WITH STILLNESS
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When I am still, quiet and thoughts and buzz have subsided, I am just aware of being aware, who runs or is charge of my body then? Who organises my heartbeat, my organs, I am being breathed and kept alive in this form and certainly not by any effort on my part, not thinking of the effort to stay alive or to save it either.
So why not totally surrender to the unknown, invisible something, indeed is it a something, no thing? That unknown something, that awareness aware of Itself, might have something to do with the organising of the body's and functions and how it does this is the Great Mystery and should we try to analyse, define and grab it, we limit its wonderous works.
Get behind me oh ego, agenda. When the old cantankerous bull elephant retires to the forest, leave well alone. Let the bees be undisturbed in their hive. Let the Mother bear and her cubs be at peace in their den. Let the Wolf pack do its hunting and living. Let me be still and trust.
SHACK aka Geoff
SHACK 4108 SILENT GROWTH
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SHACK 4107 INCARNATION
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SHACK 4106 QI
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SHACK 4105 NOW AND ZEN
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At one time in my late teens I attended a Zendo in Chiswick in West London and I was brought up there with quotations and sayings from several Japanese 老師) old teachers and many of these saying were well known. 'what is enlightenment--a dead log' I felt this meant when the mind was quiet and in meditation it was as if it were a dead log, but pleasant and peaceful. Then 'if you see the Buddha coming down the road cut his head off' I felt Buddha nature was not seen or had a form it was an experience of emptiness of thought without suppression it was no mind and is not a form. 'What is a hill is a hill and the busy inquisitive mind on the quest for enlightenment says it is not a hill but with no mind it becomes a hill again' To me this meant in the search and quest for satori 悟 an awakening to Kensho (見) one's true nature the mind tries to identify the experiences on the way, the journey and because it upsets so many beliefs and convictions the mind tries to find an acceptable explanation so as to feel secure and safe and yet in the end has accept the fact its just a hill.
If there is not an acceptance not just a compromise or giving up and going to extreme distraction or depression and some even suicidal, then to some the gruelling journey is worthwhile and to some it is a challenge not so much of the will or the move away from suffering but of a distant ancient calling of the spirit and soul.
SHACK aka GEOFF