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Nondual Highlights Issue #2453, Saturday, April 22, 2006, Editor: Mark
Editor's note: As I have, over the long years, learned to relax
and enjoy life, I've noticed that my body is an honest indicator
of truth. When I hear or think something that is true, my body
relaxes and I feel more present in the world. When truth is not
present, my body tenses up, and I tend to try to escape that
feeling of unease. As you read and think and interact with the
world, notice how your body responds and see if this is true for
you too. I find that the more I allow my body to tell me what is
true, the more spontaneously that happens, and the more relaxed
my body is. This makes me more willing to be here.
Love, Mark
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes
others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop
inner happiness and peace.
- HH the Dalai Lama
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every
act creates a ripple with no logical end.
- Scott Adams
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of
this is the beginning of wisdom.
- Theodore Rubin
Practice non-action.
Work without doing.
Taste the tasteless.
Magnify the small, increase the few...
In the universe the difficult things
are done as if they are easy.
In the universe great acts
are made up of small deeds.
The sage does not attempt anything very big,
And thus achieves greatness...
Easy promises make for little trust.
Taking things lightly results in great difficulty.
Because the sage always confronts difficulties,
He never experiences them.
Tao te Ching (63), posted to Poetic_Mysticism
So the path of the Buddhist is a letting go, rather than trying
to find anything.
The problem is the blind attachment, the blind identification
with the appearance of the sensory world. You needn't get rid of
the sensory world but learn from it, watch it, no longer allow
yourselves to be deluded by it.
Keep penetrating it with Buddha-wisdom, keep using this Buddha-
wisdom so that you become more at ease with being wise, rather
than making yourself become wise.
Just by listening, observing, being awake, being aware, the
wisdom will become clear. You'll be using wisdom in regard to
your body, in regard to your thoughts, feelings, memories,
emotion, all of these things. You'll see and witness, allowing
them to pass by and let them go.
So at this time you have nothing else to do except be wise from
one moment to the next.
- Ajahn Sumedo, posted to DailyDharma