Epilogue
I myself am the proof of every word that I have written
From Here to
Nowhere
Many years
have passed since that young boy stood alone in his bedroom dressed in a red
dressing gown with red plastic buttons, but in a sense nothing had changed.
Essence knows no age, no gender, no name, no nationality and no belief – only
being and non-being. If we see that belief is an illusion, a habit perpetuated
by our species and sustained by thought and memory, and if we discard the
labels and identification with thoughts, beliefs, concepts and ideas, a
completely different perception comes into being. We are then actively
conscious and aware, rather than sleep-walking in the belief that we are awake.
Being consciously aware is the perception that everything is One and everything
is inter-related, a part of everything else, and that nothing is created and
nothing is destroyed but constantly changes form in a whirling kaleidoscope of
atoms and molecules of matter and energy...............................................
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Remarkable Men and Women
Hermann
Hesse – writer - German Nobel prize-winner - e.g.¨The Glass Bead
Game,¨
¨Steppenwolf, ¨ Siddhartha, ¨Demian,¨, ¨Peter Camenzind.¨
George
Ivanovich Gurdjieff – writer/philosopher – teacher - e.g.
¨Beelzebub´s Tales to his Grandson¨, ¨All and Everything¨.
Peter
D. Ouspensky – writer – teacher – e.g. ¨In Search of the
Miraculous¨, ¨ The Fourth Way¨.
Jiddhu
Krishnamurti –¨ a kind of philosopher¨ (in his own words), a
spiritual teacher ‘discovered’ by Annie Besant, Theosophy– venue: Brockwood
Park. Hampshire. U.K. – e.g. ¨Freedom from the Known,¨¨ The First and Last
Freedom. ¨
Ramana Maharshi – Vedanta mystic – Arunachala – India.
Lao
Tzu – Chinese sage – philosopher – spiritual teacher – e.g. The Tao
Te Ching.¨
Carl
Jung – psychologist – dream-analyst -
e.g.¨Memories, Dreams and Reflections¨
Alan
Watts – Zen Buddhist -writer - e.g. ¨The Wisdom of Insecurity¨, ¨
The Taboo against Knowing Who you Are.¨
Chogyam Trungpa – Tibetan Lama – “Meditation in Action”, “Cutting Through Spiritual
Materialism”.
Jiyu Kennett– Roshi
(Zen master) – English woman – e.g. ¨Selling Water by the River.¨Abbot of Mount
Shasta Zen Monastery, California.
Dhiravamsa – Thai Theravada Buddhist
Teacher
The Dalai Lama –
Spiritual leader of the Tibetan Gelugpa sect.
Sangharakshita –
British Buddhist, Teacher of the Vajrayana
Carlos
Castañeda – writer – e.g. - ¨The Teachings of Don Juan.¨¨
A Separate Reality.¨¨¨ Tales of Power.¨etc.
Colin
Wilson – writer – e.g. ¨The Outsider,¨¨Religion and the Rebel¨etc..
Jack
Kerouac – writer - e.g.
¨Big Sur¨, ¨ On the Road¨, ¨The Dharma Bums. ¨
Allen
Ginsberg – writer – poet – philosopher – e.g. ¨Doing your
own Being.¨
Lyall
Watson – socio-biologist & writer – e.g. ¨Gifts of Unknown
Gods,¨ ¨The Romeo Error. ¨
Aldous
Huxley – writer – philosopher – e.g. ¨Island¨, ¨Brave New World¨.
Michael
Adam (Kim Taylor) – writer – illustrator – calligrapher – friend
–
e.g. ¨Man is a Little World,¨A Strange Wild Place,¨¨My Wild
Lone.¨
William
Blake – poet – philosopher.
Teilhard
de Chardin – Christian mystic – philosopher.
Werner
Erhard – founder of E.S.T.
Rabindranath
Tagore – poet – philosopher – e.g. ¨Gitanjali¨.
Pir
Vilayat Khan – Sufi mystical teacher. The Western Sufi Order.
Kahlil
Gibran – writer – poet – philosopher - e.g. ¨The
Madman.¨
Jalaluddin
Rumi – Sufi mystic – poet – philosopher.
Van
Morrison – musician – composer – e.g. – ¨Astral Weeks¨, ¨Tupelo Honey.¨
Ravi
Shankar – musician. Sitar, surbaha and tabla.
Robert
Redford – actor – film director.
Daniel
Day-Lewis – actor. ¨The Unbearable Lightness of Being.¨
¨My Left Foot.¨
Bonnie
Raitt – singer – song-writer. ¨The Nick of Time,¨¨Longing in their
Hearts.¨
Li
Po – Chinese poet
Bernard
Leach – master potter
Shoji
Hamada – Japanese master potter
Richard Bach – “ Jonathan Livingstone Seagull”
Vimala Thakar – Indian spiritual teacher associated with Krishnamurti
Pak Subuh – founder of Subud
The poems deal basically with
these themes : LIFE/DEATH and LOVE/FREEDOM.
They are two sides of the same
coin, and depend on one another.....are inseparable.
1
Gaelic Muse – this is the first poem, full of romantic idealism, written in
Nottingham in 1963 at the age of 23
2
The Tigress – in contrast this is a bitter
poem, written in self-imposed exile at Glastonbury in the winter of 1974
3
Winter´s Evening – written at Glastonbury in 1974, in the Vale
of Avalon
4
Now is the Time – a musical poem written in 1974, and it
expresses realisations and insights into Reality
5
Awareness – a meditation on the nature of reality
6
Butterfly – composed on the Isle of Purbeck in Swanage, in the company of two
poet friends, who decide to walk the cliff path while the writer stays behind.
7
You and I – the moment of meeting your soul-mate
8
Immortality – a philosophical poem based on certain insights
9
With your Love – written in Kingston upon Thames in 1975 ,
manuka is a fragrant flower which grows in New Zealand, and the nectar makes
excellent honey
10
The Tao of Not-doing – based on Chinese Taoist philosophy. Tao =
the Way
11
Love comes… - concerning the nature of love which is revealed with the death of
the ego
12
The Way that we Wander – this poem is also about ¨the Way¨ and our
attitude to life; it is about choosing what already is determined. Jesus said
…..
13
Earth-Water Idyll – the man is Taurus, the woman Aquarius; Helen
of Troy launched 1000 ships – written in Penryn, Cornwall in 1979
14
Flirting with Creation – also written in 1979, as a reply to a poem
received from Helen; it has cosmological connotations. First you will see
Helen´s poem.
15
Memories
– written in 1984 in Cornwall where the climate is very elemental.
16
Haiku Poems – Japanese poetry in which the essence is captured in 3 lines, the
first line with 5 beats, the second with 7 beats and the third with 5 beats.
17
Only This – written much later, in the year 2000, the Year of the Dragon; it
relates to the nature of the Universe, in which all is one indivisible whole
and where the only time is now.
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