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Nondual Highlights Issue #2198 Sunday, July 10, 2005
If
there were no suffering how could the desire to be happy arrise?
If that desire did not arise how would the quest of the Self be
successful?
Why and to whom did this suffering come? If you question thus you
will find that the "I" is separate from the mind and
body, that the Self is the only eternal being, and that It is
eternal bliss.
excerpt from Heart is Thy Name, Oh Lord:
Moments of Silence with Ramana Maharshi,
posted to MillionPaths
When those who are in dread of death seek refuge
at the feet of the deathless, birthless Lord Supreme,
their Ego and Attachments die; and they, now deathless,
think no more on death.
Verse 2 from Invocation to the 40 Verses by Sri Bhagavan, posted
to RamanaMaharshi
Do not simply seek to transcend life, but realize that you are
all of Life. You are Life itself.
- Adyashanti, from The Impact of Awakening
A Shift of Consciousness
In this realization (of What I really am), there occurred a
remarkable shift of attention from my story of being to the
endless depth of being that had always existed underneath the
story.
The simplicity of what I realized in that moment was difficult to
believe. I had thought that it couldn't be so simple.
I had always been taught that unless you are free of sin, greed,
aggression, hate, and karma, you can't reach this place, and I
had believed what I had been taught.
What Peace! What rest! I had previously experienced moments of
cosmic unity or sublime bliss, but this was of a different order.
It was a sober ecstasy, a moment of recognizing, I am not bound
by the story of "me".
- Gangaji, from The Diamond in Your Pocket,
posted to The_Now2
It was all, quite literally, breathtaking. I seemed to stop
breathing altogether, absorbed in the Given. Here it was, this
superb scene, brightly shining in the clear air, alone and
unsurpassed, mysteriously suspended in the void, and this was the
real miracle, the wonder and delight utterly free of "
me," unstained by any observer. Its total presence was my
total absence, body and soul.
- Douglas Harding, posted to AdvaitaToZen