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Nondual Highlights Issue #1893 Tuesday, August 17, 2004 Editor: Mark
Before the beginning you are pure Consciousness.
You are the Fullness of Love in Love
and the Emptiness of Awareness.
You are Existence and the Peace beyond peace.
You are that screen on which all is projected.
You are the Light of Knowledge,
the One who gave the concept of creation to the creator.
Forget what can be forgotten and know yourself
to be that which can never be forgotten.
You are the substratum on which everything
Moves --
let it move.
You are Now, you are Nowness:
what "I" is there which can be out of this Now?
You are Truth and only Truth Is.
- Papaji, contributed to AdyashantiSatsang by Bob O'Hearn
Dream
Lean on this false self
To wander in this dreamlike world
When the dream is over
Laugh in veracity
Mark a few words
To advice the dream wanderers
Knowing it's a dream
You're awakened!
The True Emptiness
The true emptiness is unchangeable
The false existence is often changed
Clouds, as same as bubbles
Are separated and united endlessly
On the ocean, shines the moon
Deep green mountains are dormant
Immense, is the open sea
Far deep, is the blue sky
Crowded, vehicles on the streets
Boats keep moving in the sea
All factors in life are changing
On the stone seat, the Buddhist
practitioner sits calmly
Destroy The Self
One's life depends on the breath
On every beat of the heart
What is a life?
A continuous borrowing
- Poetry by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Thanh Tu, translated by
Tu Tam Hoang
Till the cloud weeps, how should the garden smile?
Till the baby cries, how should the milk come forth?
The weeping of the cloud and the burning of the sun
are the pillars of this world: twist these two strands together.
Since the searing heat of the sun and the moisture of the clouds
keep the world fresh and sweet,
keep the sun of your intelligence burning bright
and your eye glistening with tears.
-- Mathnawi V:134; 138; 141-142, version by Camille and Kabir
Helminski, Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance Threshold Books, 1996,
posted to Sunlight
The visiting historian was disposed to be argumentative.
"Do not our efforts change the course of human
history?" he demanded.
"Oh yes, they do," said the Master.
"And have not our human labors changed the earth?"
"They certainly have," said the Master.
"Then why do you teach that human effort is of little
consequence?"
Said the Master, "Because when the wind subsides, the leaves
still fall."
- Sandeep
Lots more here: http://www.the-covenant.net/POUcont.htm
Yesterday when I was talking with Byron V, a fellow RN, and whose
beautiful photographic art will be featured in the next issue of
The Inner Traveler, he mentioned that Guru Bawa used to say that
there are 70,000 veils of illusion. And I said that that's like
saying that someone is just a little pregnant, and that once THE
Veil of Illusion is really torn assunder, That's THAT! But I now
witness myself seeing how the great Sufi master's pointing is
quite applicable and appropriate. When a seeker sees that his
whole identity has been just a fabrication, and that there's much
more than just one way to perceive Reality, and that his senses,
mind, and emotions are transient and flaw-filled tools to
accurately perceive even the world of duality and totally
incapable of perception of Unity, and other similar and wildly
different experiences, that these demonstrate that there are many
many veils of belief/illusion that are ripped away, and more and
more the vision and understanding of the infinite eternal Real
Self identity of Truth/Consciousness/Bliss become clearer.
- Post to meditationsocietyofamerica by Bob Rose
Bob, there are degrees in the perception of Reality.
There are no degrees of Reality.
Your last night-sleep dream, its ethos, pathos, that entire
drama, may have been the thousand veil dance of dusky houries.
Erotically discarding one veil after another.
It may have thousand meanings, ..............there might be
thousand ways of perceiving it.
But you, ........
.......you are that you are.
- Response by Sandeep
Solitude is not found so much by looking outside the boundaries
of your dwelling, as by staying within. Solitude is not something
you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the
present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never
find it.
- Thomas Merton from The Sign of Jonas, Harcourt Brace and
Company, posted to DailyDharma
That which you are, your true self, you love it, and whatever you
do, you do for your own happiness. To find it, to know it, to
cherish it is your basic urge. Since time immemorial you loved
yourself, but not wisely. Use your body and mind wisely in the
service of the self, that is all. Be true to your own self, love
your self absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as
youself. Unless you have realised them as one with yourself, you
cannot love them. Don't pretend to be what you are not, don't
refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of
self-knowledge, not it's cause. Without self- realisation, no
virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the
same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you
will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realise the
depht and fullness of your love for yourself, you know that every
living being and the entire universe are included in your
affection. But when you look at any thing as separate from you,
you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes
fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only
self-realisation can break it. Go for it resolutely.
- Nisargadatta from I Am That