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#2466 - Monday, May 8, 2006 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Within the prison of your world
appears a man who
tells you that the
world of painful contradictions,
which you have
created, is neither continuous nor
permanent and is based
on a misapprehension. He
pleads with you to get
out of it, by the same way
by which you got into
it. You got into it by forgetting
what you are and you
will get out of it by knowing
yourself as you are.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
posted to Along the Way
"Consequently: he who
wants to have right without
wrong, order without disorder, does not understand
the principles of heaven and earth. He does not
know how things hang together."
- Chuang Tzu
photo by Alan Larus http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/Beach_three.htm
Ode 3079
Rumi
We've come again to that knee of seacoast
no ocean can reach.
Tie together all human intellects.
They won't stretch to here.
The sky bares its neck so beautifully,
but gets no kiss. Only a taste.
This is the food that everyone wants,
wandering the wilderness, "Please give us
Your manna and quail."
We're here again with the Beloved.
This air, a shout. These meadowsounds,
an astonishing myth.
We've come into the Presence of the One
who was never apart from us.
When the waterbag is filling, you know
the Water-carrier's here!
The bag leans lovingly against Your shoulder.
"Without You I have no knowledge,
no way to touch anyone."
When someone chews sugarcane,
he's wanting this Sweetness.
Inside this globe the soul roars like thunder.
And now Silence, my strict tutor.
I won't try to talk about Shams.
Language cannot touch that Presence.
"When the
compassionate bodhicitta radiates beyond conceptions and
conceptual
states, it is known as prajnaparamita, the practice of
transcendental knowledge.
Good concentration in itself will not break through our
attachment to samsara. We
have to go deeper, in order to realize everything as a
transparent display of the
primordial truth.
"Transcendental
wisdom, the prajnaparamita, realizes all conditions as a display
of
the primordial nature, and takes us beyond acceptance and
rejection, hope and
fear, dualistic thoughts, and ego-clinging. Transcendental
knowledge breaks
through every one of those notions and reveals the vastness of
great equanimity.
The nature of this paramita is to understand phenomena clearly,
seeing all beings
as they are without distortion. To have a perfect insight into
the relative, absolute,
and unified levels of truth is the basic understanding of the
prajnaparamita.
"If you cling to the
disciplines of generosity, morality, or patience, you are merely
going from one extreme of samsara to the other. You simply create
a new form of
bondage. In order to free ourselves from this trap, we have to
release all our
ego-clinging and break through the net of dualistic conceptions.
The teachings of
the prajnaparamita help bring this about. Rather than holding on
to a narrow and
limited understanding about one aspect of the practice, we are
availed of a vast,
panoramic view. Remember, paramita means going beyond, or
transcending, the
dualistic application of these practices. This sixth paramita
transforms the other
five into their transcendental state. Only the light of
transcendental knowledge
makes this possible.
"All the Buddha's
teachings contain prajnaparamita wisdom, from the doctrine of
the Theravada school all the way to Dzogchen, the ultimate form
of transcendental
wisdom practiced in the Vajrayana. This supreme, nondual
cognition is the only way
to bring about total enlightenment or buddhahood.
"Guru Padmasambhava
taught that the mind of love, compassion, and wisdom is
identical with the enlightened mind of the Buddha. When the
bodhicitta radiates as
prajnaparamita, it appears as knowledge of the relative truth,
knowledge of the
absolute truth and knowledge of their union ."
- Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
posted by Richard (roo) to Dzogchen Practice
The Wisdom of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"Be empty of all mental content, of all imagination and effort, and
the very absence of obstacles will cause reality to rush in."
"What happens to the body and the mind may not be within your power to
change, but you can always put an end to your imagining yourself to be
body and mind. Whatever happens, remind yourself that only your body
and mind are affected, not yourself."
Is Enlightenment Personal?
The Self as
Satyam-Shivam-Sundram (Truth, Consciousness, Beauty)
The spiritual path is difficult from one perspective because the
Self, the ultimate
Reality that we are, is not clear to us as individuals. Some
people say that
Enlightenment is not personal. That is just a fashion statement.
Enlightenment is as
personal as it gets. The Self is both personal and impersonal. It
is personal
because it is you. How can it be any more personal? It is
impersonal because its
existence (your ultimate nature) is not dependent on time and
space bound
relationships.
continues at: http://www.harshasatsangh.net/blog/2006/04/is-enlightenment-personal.html#links