(1) Attention: 

 

When I look into 

That which is looking I see 

Myself as I Am. 

 

Is there a “face” on 

Your “end of perception” or 

Only Aware Space? 

 

Attention resting 

In the Source of the next thought 

Is Open to Grace.. 

 

Attention focused 

On the Source of the next thought 

Is a Gateless Gate. 

 

Being Present and 

Aware as I Am takes no 

Personal effort.

 

Being Present and 

Aware is fundamental 

To everything else. 

 

Is your Attention 

On What You Really Are or 

A mental story. 

 

Let attention rest 

In the conscious space between 

Impulse and action. 

 

Attention resting 

In the Source of the next thought 

Is open to Grace. 

 

Aware Sensory 

Presence is Fundamental 

To Everything else. 

 

(2) Consciousness: 

 

Mind depends on the 

Thought process to exist while 

Consciousness does not. 

 

What do you know that 

Does not arise as a state 

Of your Consciousness. 

 

How can what you see 

Be other than a State of 

Your own Consciousness? 

 

Consciousness is a 

Vibratory State of the 

Awareness You Are. 

 

The Gap between One 

Thought and Another is the 

Consciousness You Are. 

 

“Consciousness is All 

There Is” and “You Are That” Is 

What the Sages say. 

 

The space between one 

Thought and another is the 

Consciousness you are. 

 

Worshipping ideas 

Above the Consciousness in 

Which they arise. 

 

Mind based science is 

Blind to the Consciousness in 

Which thought arises. 

 

The Everlasting Light 

Of Awareness dawns with the 

Setting of self-thought.

 

Awareness wed to 

Sensory Presence becomes 

Conscious as I Am. 

 

Is there anything 

That you have to do to be 

Present and Aware? 

 

(3) Truth: 

 

The Truth is “Dirt Simple” 

It’s the mind that complicates 

Things to keep its job. 

 

Truth in a Nutshell: 

“Being Is, You Are That and 

Everything is Fine.” 

 

My “American Dream” 

Is to share the Good News: “You 

Are not what you think.” 

 

Moonlight gazing back 

At the Sunlight at its Source 

Who say: “I Am That”! 

 

(4) God: 

 

God is Real as the 

Aware Presence One Is but 

Not as a Concept.

 

The Birth of Jesus 

Took us from a “God Without" 

To a “God Within." 

 

To see Harmony 

In Chaos or God in Man 

Be Mentally Still. 

 

Life outside the box 

Of mental experience 

Is Paradise Found. 

 

“I AM” is a Name 

For the Aware Sensory 

Presence of Being. 

 

‘I AM” is a Name 

For the Aware Sensory 

Presence of Being. 

 

(5) Mind: 

 

Lose interest in 

Thought and  You are Free to Be 

Happiness Itself.

 

Mind without any 

Self-reference defaults to 

Present Awareness. 

 

A Still Mind becomes 

The Pure Witnessing Presence 

Of Being You Are. 

 

Mind is the Weaver 

Of Garments of Light or Shrouds 

Of Self-Ignorance. 

 

This mind of mine is 

A terrible master and 

Wonderful servant. 

 

Mind is Moonlight with 

Respect to the Sunlight of 

Direct Consciousness. 

 

Moonlight gazing back 

At the Sunlight at its Source 

Would say: “I Am That”! 

 

Divine Reflections 

Shatter in restless minds as 

Sunlight on the Sea. 

 

Mind as a mental 

Mirror appears to fragment 

The Light it reflects. 

 

A Still Mind gathers 

The Light a moving mind 

Can only disperse. 

 

Still Mental Waters 

Gather the Light of Being 

With no intension. 

 

Observing without 

Self-referential thought is 

Being the Seeing. 

 

The ego is a 

Linguistic self-reference 

I think I am. 

 

As the projector 

Of all frontiers your mind is 

The final frontier. 

 

The thought that “I am 

The thinker” nails “me” to the 

Cross of time and space. 

 

The seer can’t be seen 

Through any mechanism 

Of self-reflection. 

 

Science can provide 

Technological progress 

But not peace of mind. 

 

Resisting “what is” 

Is guaranteed to frustrate 

The hell out of us. 

 

The instant I take 

Things personally I lose 

Mental leverage. 

 

(6) Enlightenment: 

 

Pure Observation 

Without Self-Referencing thought 

Is Enlightenment. 

 

Enlightenment sees 

The house as whole, while mind builds 

It with mental bricks. 

 

Being the Seeing 

In which everything happens 

Is Enlightenment. 

 

Enlightenment is 

Not of the person but from 

Personal belief. 

 

Enlightenment is 

Not of the person but from 

Thinking I am one. 

 

Pure observation 

Without self-referencing thought 

Is Enlightenment. 

 

(7) Thinking: 

 

Thinking is Being 

Relatively unaware 

Of Being Present. 

 

Absent to myself 

As I Am while present to 

Myself as I think. 

 

I can’t think and Be 

Consciously Aware I Am 

In the same instant.

 

You sense of Being 

Separate and apart is 

A function of thought. 

 

Stop thinking that you 

Are separate and you will 

Stop feeling that way. 

 

The Fulfillment the

 Mind seeks comes in the Presence 

Of its own Absence. 

 

Stop believing what 

You think and you will find the 

Happiness you seek. 

 

Give thought a second 

Thought and you’re a character 

In the mind’s movie. 

 

Ownership of the 

Thought structure is the source of 

Human suffering. 

 

Preoccupied with 

Self-thought because I mistake 

Thinking for Being. 

 

When I take thought to 

Heart I lose both focal-length 

And breadth of vision. 

 

I can’t think and be 

Consciously Aware I Am 

In the same instant. 

 

Getting your mind off 

Your mind is guaranteed to 

Make you feel better. 

 

This mind of mine is 

A terrible master and 

Wonderful servant. 

 

Observing without 

Self-referential thought is 

Seeing as a Child.