To my sleeping mates

[URIKORN]

15/06/15

TO MY SLEEPING MATES

When a ray of Sun lit my life 42 years ago
I heard the sound of flute inviting me to travel
To take a long and lightly ascending path
Into far horizons
And I thanked my Lord for sparing me ignorance
At such a young age as 22

But note my friends
That in my search and work and ceaseless efforts
I know now
That this awakening was none in essence
Than the dreamer awakening within his dream
While still asleep

Avalon is asleep
And this is not intended as an insult
The best of our alertness is still within
Sleep's Kingdom
The Man inside us
Is waiting yet to present himself to us

All our good efforts
Are the ingredients of that which boils inside us
So let us not call ourselves "the ones who woke up"
But rather" the ones who desire to wake up"

When the dead will die to his deadness
He will stretch up and laugh out loud:
Oh, my God, how dead I was


A song from "Diaries of a Dead Man"

[URIKORN]

Double Sleep

If you are not aware or suspect or feel that your waking state, at its best, is still within the realm of sleep, you are asleep indeed: doubly so.

Definition:
Sleeping Man: A Stage of Being where The Reality of Life is yet denied or absent

Question: How do you know that which you yourself say you do not really know ?
Answer: I do not really know that which I dream about and feel is real
The distinction between a seeker and a finder is absolute to me.
I am a seeker

[URIKORN]

Knowledge

When the stuff of Knowledge
That stuff that is not included in the Periodic Table of Elements
And never will
Will thicken up inside us
Filling every nook and cranny
Leaving not forgotten sight
We shall wake up one morning
- be it morning, afternoon, evening or night -
Knowing what we missed so much
And this indeed will be fine

We shall become bodies of Knowledge
And in Knowledge we shall ever grow

[URIKORN]

Words

Every word we use
Contains this precious Stuff
"Every" for one
"Word" for one
"We" for one
"Use" for one
Do you catch my drift ?

Without this Stuff
Nothing would exist
And our good future lies
In turning from the products of this Stuff
To the Stuff itself

Yet we draw the Stuff
From within the products of that Stuff
So keep on talking and theorizing and speculating
But keep your eye upon the real thing
Which has no name and needs not one

Feel and feel and feel
The pregnancy inside

[Innocent Warrior]

G'day mate!

It takes time to wake up while in a physical dream. What's the trigger for becoming lucid in a dream? It's noticing the strangeness of the dream, it's realising we're dreaming. So we've realised we're dreaming (it's been more like a nightmare really - even more challenging to wake up from), I'd say we're well on our way. Not sleeping.

[URIKORN]

Precious Stones

Every word is a precious stone
Every word is a portal
To and from a Creating Sun
But you have to become the right kind of Cammel
For this portal to recognize your DNA

Breathe Infinity with every breath you take Uri
And allow life to scratch you clean
You poor vain one

[URIKORN]

G'day mate!

It takes time to wake up while in a physical dream. What's the trigger for becoming lucid in a dream? It's noticing the strangeness of the dream, it's realising we're dreaming. So we've realised we're dreaming (it's been more like a nightmare really - even more challenging to wake up from), I'd say we're well on our way. Not sleeping.

I'd rather be harsher on myself

[Innocent Warrior]

G'day mate!

It takes time to wake up while in a physical dream. What's the trigger for becoming lucid in a dream? It's noticing the strangeness of the dream, it's realising we're dreaming. So we've realised we're dreaming (it's been more like a nightmare really - even more challenging to wake up from), I'd say we're well on our way. Not sleeping.

I'd rather be harsher on myself

To each their own. Just pointing out that awakening is a process and that not being fully awakened isn't the same as being completely unconscious.

[URIKORN]

To each their own. Just pointing out that awakening is a process and that not being fully awakened isn't the same as being completely unconscious.


It is a process, I agree, but the I that agrees is not sure whether there is such a process and cannot be
Certainty is known only when it is known, so my mind tells me.
It is natural and positive for the sleepr / would be awakened to encourage himself
but that I has to undergo transformation of a nature only hazily known to the sleeper-aspiring-to-wake-up

[Becky]

What does it feel like to be awake, please, Urikorn?

[URIKORN]

What does it feel like to be awake, please, Urikorn?


I can only speak of something that i dream of
Something that i feel awaits us
And the only answer I can give you
Lies within the tune of all my previous words

Cling to the dream
For this dream, i believe, is real

I am a bird
And I have a song to sing
But the song is not the words I speak
It is the life that i feel as i speak

Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2iEulpX910

[URIKORN]

Light Upon Light

My waking state is sleep
Even when I give it my best
All to no avail
And thus it should be
And there is no shame in the matter

Only when Another light
Will rise to shine upon this light of mine
Only then the sleeper will awake
To harvest all the toils
All that he invested in his sleep

You have to learn my friend
To stop this constant chatter in your head
What noble force will come and visit
This unruly house of yours
The eagle does not seek the company of cackling hens


The Other light, I may suspect
Is here with me for quite a while
But not until the two lights will merge complete
Will real light shine within my house
And the mole will become a Seer

[URIKORN]

I am a mole

I am a mole
Blind in the ground I grope
But I was born with the dream of seeing one day
Of breathing the Legendary Air

For years I tried to convince myself
That this and that were seeing, light and air
But truth imposed upon me to despair
And all my delusions were to no avail

Yet my dream did not wane
And my fire not did not extinguish
Now I give credit only to my moleness
Only to that which is experienced indeed

It is through the full experience
Of my kind of blindness
That I am encouraged to feel
That new organs of perception will emerge in me


What shall I become then ?
A bird ?
A fish ?
Or maybe even that Creature of Legends called man ?

[URIKORN]

The mole and his mother

A young mole told his mother that he found a book that teaches how to see.
He also said that after long practice he can see now.
His mother decided to test him. She put a a plate with Frankincense inside
and asked him what he sees.
He said he sees a candle.
"Not only do you not see" the mother said, "you also lost your sense of smell".


I have first read this fine teaching story in "THE SUFIS" by Idries Shah,
which, if memory serves right, is taken from Aesop.
I am telling it in my own words.