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Subject: pointing finger
From: SwedishGod80@aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:51:59 -0500
Does the finger that does the pointing matter?
Certainly: the speaker is partly the context of his words, so to separate the words from the speaker, as does separating anything from some or all of its context, does alter the meaning and integrity of what is being propounded.
Subject: Re: pointing finger
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:33:04 GMT
->Does the finger that does the pointing matter?
It matters that the finger is Pointing, indeed, but little more. The finger is but an instrument of Pointing thus an instrument of what is Pointed to. What matters is what is Pointed to.
->Certainly: ->the speaker is partly the context of his words, so to separate the words ->from the speaker, as does separating anything from some or all of its ->context, does alter the meaning and integrity of what is being propounded.
Indeed Pointing is of little use unless the finger Points to that which is so due to Direct Realization/Recognition without conditioned projections into/onto that which is Pointed to. But whether the finger is prince or pauper is of no matter. The finger is indeed responsible for the Pointing, but the finger is not where the finger Points. When the finger Points to the finger, *buyer beware*. Those who only follow the finger, *buyer beware*. Many follow Jesus yet do not follow his Teachings, follow the finger yet not where the finger Pointed. And they are just as Blind as before he Pointed. A clue ? Did he really want people to follow him or did he want people to follow where he Pointed ? Too many miss the Point, so too many get Poked in the *I* watching the finger too close.
Subject: A madhouse Epiphany
From: SheriseAnnMara@aol.com
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:07:12 EST
ej....I've been quiet. Very very quiet. And then I read.
I can't help it, I have to tell you. Too excited.
Jesus said, " This heaven will pass away." (his purpose, his body, and direct leading...truth...heaven... of the masses ? Giving them an easy way to go...to "see" I mean he's right there among them...)
He continues..."the dead are not alive, and the living will not die. " (awakening/ those lost to conditioning/dualism/ busy forming names for the ALL? The Pharisees...churches...the blind, and the lazy.)
"In the days you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive." (false conditioning?)
"When you dwell in the Light, what will you do? On the day when you were one, you became two? But when you become two what will you do?"
ME!!!!
Well, Yee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Yeah, baby!
I'm sorry...I'm just awfully excited here.
Their is no "evil"...he didn't speak of the "evil sheep" or the sheep taken with "evil desires" to stray...It was LOST! There is no intrinsic evil...there is only intrinsic stupidity! The only thing that is REAL is the light, all pure, all power. The ALL.
Duality. I never heard of the theory of duality before I found this place. This HOME.
And Multiplicity....I was confused...giving it a "rationale" for all my weeds. Multiplicity is the ALL. The millions of "names" we have created for the brilliance (what a lacking in language) that is commonly known as "God."
It DOESN'T matter what I CALL my weeds....they are illusions...shadows...with a virulent poison. I stopped honoring them by giving them names....I just took a big ass weed wacker and went to town.
Duality. I argued with you...calling on my blindness of Scripture and "learned" ideas. I was wrong. Jesus had a sense of humor in asking "Who do you say I am?"
I can imagine Him smiling....to see...if they were looking at the finger and NOT the direction.
YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Subject: Re: A madhouse Epiphany
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 01:59:09 GMT
-> YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
*Deep Bow* Sherise. As has been said, there are no new concepts generating from here for all that is offered is what has already been offered by others. Just repeating it in a different way, because, obviously, it was not Truly Understood before. In those days of yesteryear they would not use such terms as Duality or Conditionings for they knew them not yet in their own way they were saying the same thing to "those who have the Eyes to See and the Ears to Hear". Thank you for the post, hopefully it will be as Enlightening to others as it has been to you.
Subject: Re: A madhouse Epiphany #2
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 02:32:42 GMT
Greetings Sherise, you wrote: -> ej....I've been quiet. Very very quiet. And then I read. -> -> I can't help it, I have to tell you. Too excited. -> -> Jesus said, " This heaven will pass away."
ALL will pass away because nothing is permanent. ALL is most transient. Not mind or body or soul or heaven or earth will remain, as even that is anew each and every Present Moment.
-> He continues..."the dead are not alive, and the living will not die. ->" (awakening/ those lost to conditioning/dualism/ busy forming names for the ->ALL? The Pharisees...churches...the blind, and the lazy.)
*Deep Bow*
-> "In the days you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive." ->(false conditioning?)
Yes, made the conditionings a reality (though actually only in our head). Legends in our own mind.
-> "When you dwell in the Light, what will you do? On the day when you ->were one, you became two? But when you become two what will you do?" -> -> ME!!!!
Awakening or Sleeping there is no choice, Awakening we do what must be done and Sleeping to do what we are conditioned to do. So nothing is really done because there is no doer to do it, though Sleeping we are conditioned to take the credit.
-> Well, Yee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Yeah, baby! -> -> I'm sorry...I'm just awfully excited here. -> -> Their is no "evil"...he didn't speak of the "evil sheep" or the sheep ->taken with "evil desires" to stray...It was LOST! There is no intrinsic ->evil...there is only intrinsic stupidity! The only thing that is REAL is the ->light, all pure, all power. The ALL. -> ->There is no intrinsic ->evil...there is only intrinsic stupidity!
The Temptation was too great, your Insight had to be repeated {8->
-> Duality. I never heard of the theory of duality before I found this ->place. This HOME.
Glad the Community is of Service.
-> And Multiplicity....I was confused...giving it a "rationale" for all ->my weeds. Multiplicity is the ALL. The millions of "names" we have created ->for the brilliance (what a lacking in language) that is commonly known as ->"God."
Indeed, there is no *other*. There is only What-IS AS it IS. And ALL IS as ALL is THAT and THAT is IT.
-> It DOESN'T matter what I CALL my weeds....they are ->illusions...shadows...with a virulent poison. I stopped honoring them by ->giving them names....I just took a big ass weed wacker and went to town. -> -> Duality. I argued with you...calling on my blindness of Scripture and ->"learned" ideas. I was wrong. Jesus had a sense of humor in asking "Who do ->you say I am?" -> -> I can imagine Him smiling....to see...if they were looking at the ->finger and NOT the direction.
Yes assuredly he was smiling for they and those today knew/know him not. He did not offer himself in his name, he was Pointing to Awakening. If their answer to his question was anything other than "a finger" they would have failed the quiz, as most fail the same quiz today.
Subject: RE: Likes and Dislikes
From: "Ragland, Thomas" <TRagland@UMCOM.ORG>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:37:12 -0600
When the gods first arrived, they cast lots to determine That Zeus would be the big sky god, Poseidon was head honcho of the ocean, And Hades was to be lord of the dirt. Just roles to be played. Hades hasn't tricked us any more than Zeus. The thought of hell below hasn't fooled us any more than Thinking there is some pie in the sky Or some Shangri La Eldorado somewhere over the sea. Hel is a Norse goddess anyway. We overcome the Titans holding back our destiny Only to cast lots for the next feature film Like God and Satan playing cards, laughing at Job. You have to be judging to say who is a true prophet and who is false. Judge not lest ye be judged. Watch the cold fronts and warm fronts, sunshine and rain Blow in from mighty Zeus Watch the high tides and low tides of Poseidon. Watch the children of Hades play with their piles of dirt Making their cities and highways, constructing, blowing up All just other types of waves and winds. Don't count the waves, they always come, they always will. Don't count the cost, it will get paid. Just sit back and watch the flow all around you And be thankful you stopped identifying yourself with it.
Subject: heroism
From: SwedishGod80@aol.com
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:45:52 -0500
"The greatest heroism is not facing the enemy. The greatest heroism is facing the truth. The truth takes no prisoners."
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Subject: tom
From: SwedishGod80@aol.com
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:42:12 -0500
In a message dated 2/11/2003 9:37:12 AM Eastern Standard Time, TRagland@UMCOM.ORG writes:
> You have to be judging to say who is a true prophet and who > is false. > Judge not lest ye be judged.
No. You need to discern, not judge. If eyes are clear, it will be obvious, no judging needed.
On another note: your presence has been felt from here Tom. You are REAL. Thank you.
J
Subject: Expedient means
From: "Ragland, Thomas" <TRagland@UMCOM.ORG>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:20:58 -0600
One of those killer concepts that puts it all into perspective. One "must read" is the Lotus Sutra. Its reoccurring theme is that there are Expedient means Things that are untrue from the ultimate perspective Are useful tools in evoking movement and change at other levels We can sit from our educated modern view And discern or judge ancient myths and events and words Because we have forgotten just how important they were To us back then True, we can move on, but what helped us then may help someone else >From the valley, the mountain peak is but a myth. >From the mountain peak the valley is but a distant memory. Non-dualism makes no logical sense to one trapped in duality And Jesus prayed that all may experience the Oneness [John 17:21] Dualism is dismissed by non-dualists As the valley is forgotten on the mountain peak. Expedient means is the Lotus Sutra concept That makes it OK to use ultimate untruths as tools to awaken >From Western black and white, true and false, absolutes This is heresy--makes no sense. There is a bit of wisdom in the East That sees everything as potential Buddha, Even seeming distractions and indirect paths For all is ultimately one anyway. For aeons pulsating outward and inward, expanding and contracting, Becoming different and the same, distinct and interpenetrating, The dance of maya continues With Alice being chased by the Red Queen Running for her very life Until she realizes it has all been but a dream And she was only sleeping in the garden of her real home.
Subject: Re: Expedient means
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:37:00 GMT
An added note:
"However many wise words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?" -- The Dhammapada
Subject: Let The Wisdom Flow
From: Ma <MaheshPradeep@aishwarya.i-p.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 21:41:04 -0800
"You mock your Breath by not Breathing. You mock your Life by not Living. You mock your Sight by not Seeing. You mock Hearing by not Listening. You mock existence by just existing. You mock yourself by not BEing. You were made Whole but you Cut yourself in Half. You do not understand that you do not Understand. You do not know that you do not Know. You are such the Fool because you are just being used. Do you Care ? Do you really want to Understand ? Do you really want to Know ? Take your thumb out of the Dyke and let the Wisdom Flow." -- Sri Yogayuktaatmaa
Subject: fingers From: SwedishGod80@aol.com Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 01:21:57 -0500
"However many wise words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?" -- The Dhammapada
-- The Dhammapada -- The Dhammapada -- The Dhammapada -- The Dhammapada
If the finger that points only matters to the extent that it is pointing, and not in itself, there would be no need for you to sign the quote. Why do you think Yogajyottii signs his longer poems with his name?
Subject: Re: fingers
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:34:04 GMT
->"However many wise words you read, ->however many you speak, ->what good will they do if you do not act upon them?" -> -- The Dhammapada -> ->-- The Dhammapada ->-- The Dhammapada ->-- The Dhammapada ->-- The Dhammapada -> ->If the finger that points only matters to the extent that it is pointing, ->and not in itself, there would be no need for you to sign the quote. Why ->do you think Yogajyottii signs his longer poems with his name?
Just a matter of curtesy and protocol, mostly for those who need some *authority* of validation. Sleeping, something that Jack Davis said is perceived as his *opinion* and thus not worthy of even hearing while something said by Sri Swami Swishnanada is perceived as *Revelations From God* (regarless of what he said). Awakening, it matters little who said it as long as it Points to Truth/Reality. For Sleeping, the finger is the important factor. On the other hand, Awakening, where the finger Points is all that matters. Others put his name on his offerings for the reasons mentioned herein, yet if you ask him he will say "who ?". Or something like "oh yes, that is what people call me". He does not relate to the name, others relate the name to him. Which seems better than someone saying "hey you", or some such. "A Rose is a Rose is a Rose, by any other name is still a Rose". Regardless of the name, the Wisdom is the same when it Point to Truth/Reality. Look more to where the finger Points rather than looking at the finger. You might See more {8->
Subject: Re: fingers
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 20:53:09 GMT
Greetings Community,
A little addition: A True Teacher will not choose words to Teach by any more than they will choose recognition by a name. Thus the words used are but merely statements of What-IS. Not what WAS or what will be. Just words responding to whatever is Present. The oohs and ahs of past accomplishments are but a presently lived past and hold less worth than water held in an outstretched hand. When too much stock is placed in *appropriate* words to use, one's presence is not Present. Political correctness is useful in many areas but not in True Teaching or True Pointing. A spade is a spade, and to dress it up to sound like a shovel is most misleading. This is why one of the first conditioned notions that we have to get rid of is to STOP concerning ourselves with the finger so much. Seeking fingers is not Seeking Truth. For as long as we continue to cling to the finger we will never find ourself (who we are actually looking for anyway). So it is anti-productive to cling to the finger.
You can not BE as long as there is a *me* or a *you* or an *other*. So IF BEing is the seeming objective (though even that can not be a goal) then we have to get rid of the conditioned Dualistic notion of *me/you/other*. Simple. But if you would rather have some white sandy beach ocean front property in Nebraska, surely you can be accommodated by some*one*. And when you *buy* it the Golden Gate bridge can be thrown in as frosting for the cake. As P.T. Barnum once said, "there's a sucker born every minute". "Here's yer Sign".
Further, not even a Pointer should be *followed* or *accepted* until you have gone and checked it out yourself. Pointers are no more to follow than fingers. To get hung up on the finger thus not being able to get to the Pointer is little more than exchanging one belief system for another. Which may *look* better or have more socially acceptable *appeal* but are still in the same self-made Hell, just a different Fire.
Do not think the finger can do the Walking, as the phone companies like to say, because YOU have to Walk the Walk YOURSELF.
Subject: Solemnly Refining ONE
From: SheriseAnnMara@aol.com
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 22:20:40 EST
Hi ej...had a dragon to fight. Barely kicked it's ass before it got mine.
This journey somehow has taken on a life of it's own.
Discovered a weed, that "i" have been fussing over like a rare orchid...for eight years. It hurt like hell to kill that weed. Bad, ej...it hurt because I didn't want to let it go...but it's part of the past...and when you've spoken of the present...ALL there is...I knew I couldn't live on both planes...without insanity.
I've been "married" four times. Twice...justice of the peace...once Catholic church. Once....in a field of clover, at night...making vows to only each other, before the vast sky, by the light of one candle. Sober.
Jesus asked the woman at the well, "Who is your husband?" And he said "none of your lovers...is your husband."
I was married once....that is the soul mate to which I alluded. I will bow to you this time, because you didn't jump on it, and say there are no soul mates...because I said I couldn't let it go.
I still can't, but my love is in the present for him.
The weed...was my vehement hatred for the man that killed him. I reran all the details of his murder, night after night, ej...like a sick movie...(being a nurse, I spoke to the coroner...which didn't help.)
And I hated the man. Deeply.
Hatred/ Love...Good/Evil. So easy to reationalize duality. Particularly when one is in pain.
In unity, it matters not why this man killed my husband, my heart. Or how.
I love my husband still. He could not kill that. THAT is the present. When I bake a pecan pie on Christmas Eve, like I used to, for him...his laugh is in the present. When I made that snow angel...I felt him...laughing...pushing me back into the snowdrift.
When Jesus make your peace with your brother...I made my peace. I was finally able to forgive a man who took my heart's life...I forgave him not for his evil...for his intrinsic stupidity. For his duality...in this world. Loyalty/ Conscience.
Made me cry, and rage...and it was gone...like a puff on the wind...my lover remains in my present in my heart. In the Present. Not in the past.
This is exhausting, ej...you never told me THAT part. Well, yeah, you did...but I kinda ignored that part... ;) But thanks. I'm just starting to "get it"
Subject: Re: Solemnly Refining ONE
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 04:27:45 GMT
Greetings Sherise, you wrote: -> This is exhausting, ej...you never told me THAT part. Well, yeah, ->you did...but I kinda ignored that part... ;) But thanks. I'm just ->starting to "get it"
Yes, it was mentioned that letting go of dearly beloved conditioned notions would be a most arduous and Painful undertaking. But as you said, that does not really make much sense until you actually *Just Do It* and find out for yourself. In the *small print, way down at the bottom of the last page* you might notice that though you have obviously made headway, do not think that you have encountered the worst {8-> When you *think* that you have *done it* the Grand Trickster just *got you*. Because further, not only do you have to root out each and every conditioned defilement you also have to be on guard not to acquire more defilements. What would it profit one to let go of one defilement and gather even just one more ? Beware of Tricksters bearing gifts.
The feedback that the Community is Helpful and of Service to one Awakening is most appreciated Dear New Friend.
Subject: Finger/Moon
From: Ma <MaheshPradeep@aishwarya.i-p.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 21:13:16 -0800
"You are still clinging to your mind to listen to the Dharma; you fail to realize the Dharma nature. This is like a man pointing a finger at the moon to show it to others who should follow the direction of the finger to look at the moon. If they look at the finger and mistake it for the moon, they lose sight of both the moon and the finger. Why? Because the bright moon is actually pointed at; they mistake the finger for the bright moon and are not clear about brightness and darkness." -- The Surangama Sutra
Subject: Elaborate please...on my example
From: SheriseAnnMara@aol.com
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:25:33 EST
In a message dated 2/14/2003 11:35:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, ejLight@light-mission.org writes:
When you *think* that you have *done it* the Grand Trickster just *got you*. Because further, not only do you have to root out each and every conditioned defilement you also have to be on guard not to acquire more defilements. What would it profit one to let go of one defilement and gather even just one more ? Beware of Tricksters bearing gifts.
Please...use my words if you need to. I'm ready
Subject: Re: Elaborate please...on my example
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:07:09 GMT
Greetings Sherise, you wrote: ->EJ> When you *think* that ->you have *done it* the Grand Trickster just *got you*. Because further, ->not only do you have to root out each and every conditioned defilement you ->also have to be on guard not to acquire more defilements. What would it ->profit one to let go of one defilement and gather even just one more ? ->Beware of Tricksters bearing gifts.
Do not be beguiled by successes or failures, they are but Steps in the Journey and hold no real relevance other than they were Directly Experienced. Battles will be re-fought with greater Understanding than first fought. Even that too will pass.
->Sherise> Please...use my words if you need to. I'm ready
You mean more fully on the last post ? Well.....
-> Hi ej...had a dragon to fight. Barely kicked it's ass before it got ->mine.
Yes, a needed step is to Slay the Slayer of the Real. Many Dragons to Fight and not all will be *child's play*. Some will be the most Fierce Battle you have ever Fought, and will nearly Drain you of your very life. Make no mistake, many a Battles are lost then eventually Won before we can See "The Light At The End Of The Tunnel" and we must be most cautious for that Light in the Tunnel might turn out to be a Train.
-> This journey somehow has taken on a life of it's own.
Indeed once on the Path we are drawn by some unseen Force/Urge Guided by some unseen Sensor to our very "Destiny Or Fate".
-> Discovered a weed, that "i" have been fussing over like a rare ->orchid...for eight years. It hurt like hell to kill that weed. Bad, ej...it ->hurt because I didn't want to let it go...but it's part of the past...and ->when you've spoken of the present...ALL there is...I knew I couldn't live on ->both planes...without insanity.
*Deep Bow*
-> I've been "married" four times. Twice...justice of the peace...once ->Catholic church. Once....in a field of clover, at night...making vows to ->only each other, before the vast sky, by the light of one candle. Sober. -> -> Jesus asked the woman at the well, "Who is your husband?" And he said ->"none of your lovers...is your husband." -> -> I was married once....that is the soul mate to which I alluded. I ->will bow to you this time, because you didn't jump on it, and say there are ->no soul mates...because I said I couldn't let it go.
There are certain Karmic connections of yesterlives that prevail incarnation to incarnation seated firmly in what has been termed the Permanent Atom, that is really all we take with us when leaving any given incarnation. This is also the connection of the Evolved True Nature ever Unfolding incarnation to incarnation even before seeming creation.
-> I still can't, but my love is in the present for him.
Ah but even to cling to that is but a Shackle that Binds you to a past, which also must be eventually let go. Nothing can BE the Present but YOU, so when there is any lingering self-arising thought memory it is the past that is mistaken for the Present. It *was* nice and it *was* Real, but it no longer IS. You can not forget any more than you would want to, so do not cling to a memory that is but a photograph of What-WAS yet no longer IS. That too must pass.
-> The weed...was my vehement hatred for the man that killed him. I ->reran all the details of his murder, night after night, ej...like a sick ->movie...(being a nurse, I spoke to the coroner...which didn't help.) -> -> And I hated the man. Deeply. -> -> Hatred/ Love...Good/Evil. So easy to reationalize duality. ->Particularly when one is in pain. -> -> In unity, it matters not why this man killed my husband, my heart. Or ->how.
*Deep Bow*
-> I love my husband still. He could not kill that. THAT is the present. -> When I bake a pecan pie on Christmas Eve, like I used to, for him...his ->laugh is in the present. When I made that snow angel...I felt ->him...laughing...pushing me back into the snowdrift.
There were good times and there were bad time, as there are good times and there are bad times, as there will be good times and there will be bad times, yet there is nothing good nor bad nor even time as All IS Timeless. Dwell not in this or that, BE Whatever-IS each and every Present Moment. In Reality that is all there IS so why dwell anywhere else.
-> When Jesus make your peace with your brother...I made my peace. I was ->finally able to forgive a man who took my heart's life...I forgave him not ->for his evil...for his intrinsic stupidity. For his duality...in this world. ->Loyalty/ Conscience.
*Deep Bow*
-> Made me cry, and rage...and it was gone...like a puff on the wind...my ->lover remains in my present in my heart. In the Present. Not in the past.
*Deep Bow*
Subject: Re: Elaborate please...on my example
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 08:37:31 GMT
~ I AM Not There ~
Subject: Re: Elaborate please...on my example
From: "Harry Hone" <Harry@villagepop.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:58:31 -0500
Lou & I both read your poem-----I AM not There. Lou thought it was beautiful and wonderfully written & worded---and so did I. Harry.
Subject: Re: Elaborate please...on my example
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:40:09 GMT
Greetings New Community Member, you wrote: ->Lou & I both read your poem-----I AM not There. Lou thought it was beautiful ->and wonderfully written & worded---and so did I. Harry.
Welcome to our little Oasis in the midst of the Internet Dessert.
Thank you, to both of you. It simply IS What-IS. First penned, it was because so much morning and needless suffering due to a loved one's physical death was Seen, so it was merely the expression of how it really is. The seeming loss is imagined because loved ones never leave our memory and we know where they really are, at the very Root Source of everything. So no matter where we look they are always still with us even in physical representation. Not as their previous physical representation but rather as physically represented NOW. So we do not even have to think about it or them, they are always everywhere in every Moment. That is why it was posted so those afflicted with this kind of misery could perhaps get some Insights from it. Hopefully everyone else did too {8->
Subject: A Ray Of Light
From: Ray.of.Light@light-mission.org
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:27:01 GMT
Greetings,
YOU, and you alone, hold the Keys to that Kingdom !
Subject: It Has Been Said.....
From: ejLight@light-mission.org (E.J.)
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:42:12 GMT
Greetings Community,
A tid-bit dropped into the mailbox today, an interesting quote.
It has been said: -> Between the banks of pain and pleasure -> the river of life flows. It is only when -> the mind refuses to flow with life, and -> gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes -> a problem. By flowing with life, I mean -> acceptance - letting come what comes -> and go what goes. Desire not, fear not, -> observe the actual, as and when it -> happens, for you are not what happens, -> you are to whom it happens. Ultimately -> even the observer you are not. -> - Nisargadatta Maharaj
Consider this: A nice metaphor, as indeed we flow between pleasure and pain as life. Yet we ARE the river and we ARE the flow, so too we ARE the pleasure and the pain. Indeed the conditioned mind clings to pleasure and rejects pain, though when stuck in either both prevail in a continuous vicious cycle. Indeed Flow for we ARE that Life ever anew from Moment to Moment in a Wondrous Eternal Infinite Dance of Change. Naught to Desire for All IS AS it IS, as we ARE, and naught to Fear but Fear itself, thus Observer AS the Observed. But a bit Dualistic is it not, to separate oneself from What-IS ? We are not the world thus what happens therein ? There is something to happen and someone who it happens to ? This is NonDuality ? This is Advaita ? So soon we Forget and so difficult to Remember. Buyer Beware. For the Observer must BE the Observed. There can not BE Two, as BEing is a Wholeness beyond even One.
Is there further ado ?
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