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Welcome to a series of poems and articles where some point towards sage teachings. The awareness of the embodied mind as mistaken identity. The realisation of the one true self, (Non duality), unborn and beyond the dormancy of spirit in time and space. Faced with the infinite and eternal said Goethe, the most that man can achieve is wonder. Scripture is as much idolatry as any other kind when it becomes biblical worship. Monotheistic religions always draw on divine transcendence while ignoring immanence. What might be detected from time to time in the body of poems here written, in simple settings, is the seed of sage teaching and of true mysticism. The negation of all idolatry, both tangible and intangible, and certainly including biblical idolatry. It may also point to the various spiritual paths that lead us on to self and no-self inquiry, for it is there and only there, that the sacred ground of all might be encountered. Alan Watts is correct to say with his wonderful book title, (and I commend it to all) "The book on the taboo against knowing who and what you are", a taboo that we are unaware of or that we tacitly conspire to ignore.

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Austin, Roy K
Roy is retired and lives in Dorset England. He enjoys rural pursuits and walking his Labrador. He also writes poetry and various articles that point towards sage teachings. T S Eliot once wrote, ´Our lot crawls between dry ribs, to keep our metaphysics warm´. He is in empathy with that poetic sentiment.

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