Asheville Sangha

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© 2010 Howard McQueen

The inner sucker bet,
setup by the “me”.
sucked-up by the Sleepwalker in the Dream of Separation.

This Sleepwalker has awakened (now called I AM) and shaken off
this “me”, this inauthentic, delusional energetic gravity field.

This I AM now awakened and enthroned
laughs at the hollowness,
seeing the anti-life wrapped within these Trojan horses
of me’s sucker bets.

All habitual betting suddenly ceases.
I AM acknowledges, once and for all,
the sheer folly in the game
of Maintaining the Pretense of Separation.

The entire gaming industry shuts down.
There is a moment, seen as a mirage,
when it has the appearance of an old west ghost town,
then there is a complete collapsing and dissolving,
the inner landscape, forever altered.

Vital, life-giving energy
is restored.
The sacred flow of life
courses through us
like a wild monsoon fed river
purging our personal vessel
of the poisonous anti-presence of inauthenticity.

~~~.~…~

Inspired by Adya’s video Life Without a Story

Adya’s poignancy is so very vivid and palpable. He names these wagers “sucker bets” instead of using the tried and true (and lifeless and tired) “attachments to things”. Adept teachers create their own vivid vocabularies, best illustrating how we cover over and dishonor the “as is” reality we are living within, and hiding out from.

What remains is this sublime intimacy
It has always been here
T’was the me that encouraged the sleepwalker to pave it over.
;-) [… pave paradise, put up a parking lot – Joni Mitchell]

There is this unbelievable knowing that this "me" in all of humanity is the unnatural, the source of all suffering, that inwardly, we have found the magic keys and unlocked our prison door, and are walking through and strolling out into the world, completely naked, and completely free!


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