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Nonduality Highlights
Some great poems and thoughts, Enjoy ~ Anna Ruiz/Kailashana
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#3886 - Saturday, May 8, 2010
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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3886, Saturday, May 8, 2010
There is A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office.
Why vote him in,
For he never keeps the accounts straight.
He gets all kinds of crooked deals
Happening all over town
That will just give you a big headache
And glue to your kisser
A gigantic
Confused Frown.
- Hafiz, posted to AlongTheWay
There are two kinds of seekers: Those who seek happiness by changing
outer circumstances, and those who seek happiness by trying to change
themselves. Neither way works.
- Adyashanti, posted to The_Now2
A great insight is only as good as the surrender it engenders.
- Adyashanti, posted to The_Now2
Just as a speck in the eye, by causing inflammation, may wipe out the
world, so the mistaken idea: "I am the body-mind" causes the
self-concern, which obscures the universe. It is useless to fight the
sense of being a limited and separate person unless the roots of it are
laid bare. Selfishness is rooted in the mistaken ideas of oneself.
Clarification of the mind is yoga.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Let go of body and mind, until you reach a state of great rest, like
letting go over a cliff ten miles high, being like open space. And don't
produce representations of discriminations of random thoughts arising
and passing away; the moment a view sticks in your mind, use the sword
of wisdom to cut it right off, not letting it continue.
Huai-t'ang, posted to Distillation
Life is this simple: We are living in a world that is absolutely
transparent and the Divine is shining through it all the time. This is
not just a nice story or a fable. It is true.
Thomas Merton, posted to Distillation
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#3880, - Sunday, May 2, 2010
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Sun May 9, 2010 9:53 pm (PDT)
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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3880, Sunday, May 2, 2010
Awakening: The Modern Heresy
There are many factors contributing to our inability to recognize our
Original Nature and our own inherent state of Natural Awareness. Perhaps
the greatest of these is our addiction to the process of searching for
meaning and truth. In our modern Western culture, we have often cleverly
cloaked and disguised this addiction with a rationalization that it is
the journey, not the destination, that is important.
While it is vitally important to recognize that:
Reality is continuously manifesting through a dynamic
and on-going process of unfolding, and
in an Infinite universe, we may never actually
arrive at a final destination or end point,
...we often lose sight of the inherent completeness and
perfection of Reality, as it is, within the present moment,
and we use the popular metaphor of a spiritual journey as
a way of justifying our restless wandering and searching
for an elusive and mysterious Essence that seems to be
missing from our lives.
By convincing ourselves that there is something noble and humble in
never arriving at our spiritual destination, we rob ourselves of the
opportunity to recognize our own essential and fundamental nature, and
doom ourselves to living within a perpetual state of psychological and
spiritual homelessness.
In fact, I believe an assertion that one has experienced an Awakening or
Realization has become the ultimate modern heresy, for this declaration
challenges and sabotages the accepted, intellectual assumption that we
must be forever journeying toward a distant and unreachable destination.
In many Eastern religious traditions, however, there is a much greater
willingness to accept the possibility that experiences of Awakening may
actually be a legitimate insight into, or recognition of, the
fundamental and essential nature of Reality. I have begun to suspect
that, in most cases, this openness and willingness -- at least to
consider the radical possibility we might one day awaken into a
liberating recognition of our innate and Original Nature -- may be an
essential precursor to the actual experience of Realization, itself.
Without this willingness to accept the possibility that we might one day
actually experience a stunning Realization of who and what we really
are, we will be forever destined to wander in search of a Reality that,
ironically, is inherent within the immediacy of the present moment.
- Metta Zetty
Part 3 of a 5-part poem called "drops of rain"...
It was the buoyancy of Water
that finally
broke
my heart;
how
it held me
when
I let go,
unafraid.
- Anna Ruiz, posted to NondualitySalon
Words of wisdom
Spoken at the right time
In the right company
Are chipping off
Petrified concepts and ideas
Breaking off
Fossilized thoughts and beliefs
Revealing
The underlying ever-present
Boundless
Everlasting life,
Just
As it always
Is.
- Yosy Flug, posted to allspirit
Listen for the stream
that tells you one thing.
Die on this bank. Begin in me;
the way of rivers with the sea.
- Rumi, version by Coleman Barks, posted to AlongTheWay
One night I asked Love: "Tell me truly, who are you?"
It said: "I am life eternal, I multiply the lovely life."
I said: "O you who are beyond each place, where is
your home?"
It said: "I am together with the heart's fire and beside
the wet eye,
I am a dyer; due to me every cheek turns saffron-colored.
I am a swift-footed messenger, and the lover my lean
steed.
I am the crimson of the tulip, the merchandise's worth,
I am the sweetness of lament, the unveiler of all that is
veiled . . ."
- Rumi, Ghazal (Ode) 1402, translation by Annemarie Schimmel, posted to
Sunlight