Poetry from Freedom
By Colin Drake
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I have been asked why write poetry after four books of prose? When discussing this with a poet friend of mine he asserted that poetry has the potential to be more powerful than prose, as it is more condensed and thus requires the reader to investigate its meaning more than prose, which tends to put the meaning 'on a plate'. As my writings are always an exhortation for the readers to investigate the Truth for themselves I was greatly attracted to this and I think that it has some validity.
I have found that the discipline of rhyming forces one to look for new ways to say things, so that the poem produced often contains different ‘pointers’ than the poem on which it was based.
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Poetry from Freedom - Colin Drake
Poetry from
Freedom
Pointers and Practices to Aid Awakening
Based on the Meditations, Investigations, Contemplations and Experiences
of over Forty Years of Spiritual Search and Practice
By Colin Drake
Copyright © 2016 by Colin Drake
First Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book shall be reproduced or transmitted, for commercial purposes, without written permission from the author.
Published by Beyond Awakening Publications, Tomewin
Cover design, photography and other titles by the author:
Beyond the Separate Self
The End of Anxiety and Mental Suffering
A Light Unto The Self
Self Discovery Through Investigation of Experience
Awakening and Beyond
Self-Recognition and its Consequences
Awareness of Awareness - The Open Way
The Happiness That Needs Nothing
Pointers to That Which is Always Here
Freedom From Anxiety and Needless Suffering
The Simplicity of Awakening
Ripples In The Lake Of Eternity Pointers to Realizing and Loving The Source Of Being
Poetry From Beyond The Separate Self
Poetry From Being A Light Unto The Self
Poetry From Awakening and Beyond
Poetry From Awareness of Awareness
Poetry From The Happiness That Needs Nothing
Humanity Our Place in the Universe
The Central Beliefs of the Worlds Religions
All of these titles are available as: e-books and in hard copy at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/ColinDrake
Contents
Introduction
One - Separation is Suffering
Two - Simply Free to Be
Three – Identifying With Awareness Creates a World-View
Four – Dwell Not in The Inner Void
Five – Have Faith in Your Realization
Six - Misidentification, Not Mind, is the Problem
Seven – Three Phases of Liberation
Eight - Mind/Body as a Computer
Nine – Awareness The Fundamental Heart
Ten – Practice Makes Perfect
Eleven – The Beloved
Twelve – Dawn Song
Thirteen - Spiritual Experience