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the mantra

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and the mantra is as follows
OM namah shivaya gurave
satchitananda murtaye
nishprapanchaya shantaya
niralambaya tejase
I bow to God (Shiva) [my teacher]
whose form is truth/the existent,  mind/consciousness, ananda (see below),
ever present peace,
self-existant light

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Ananda (and the nature of the divine)
There is a mantra in which the second line tells us that God’s form, God’s nature, is “sat, chit, ananda”.
“sat” is truth, is the real, the actual.
“chit” is mind, experience, consciousness.
and “ananda”? Everyone says ananda is bliss, almost everyone…
and it doesn’t quite compute.
The divine as the actual reality, as [...]

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new mini mantra

I have a new mini mantra
it is
bless this moment
bless this moment
bless this moment
bless this moment
but it can alternate with
still the thinker
still the thinker
still the thinker
I
bless this moment

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the thing is… (poem)

the thing is

(I was puzzled that in my room,
where I am surrounded with Buddhas and hindu gods,
there is no Jesus…
I whirled around
and settled down
and realized
the thing is…)
the thing is
you don’t bow down to Jesus
you just open your heart
and say
love is an option
you don’t bow down to love
you don’t bow down to love
you open your [...]

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this is a somewhat wobbley “hum”,
would you believe it
that was an ‘hum’
observe

this is a somewhat wobbley “hum”,
would you believe it
that was an ‘hum’
observe

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The Shiva Sutras

I am posting  a version of the
Shiva Sutras that I typed onto ink blots
back in 1968
(The sutras are useful
and the ink blots are beautiful)

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