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#2999 - Tuesday, November 27, 2007 - Editor: Jerry Katz 

The Nondual Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights

Submissions: http://nonduality.com/submissions.htm

I'm pleased to bring you Nondual Highlights Podcast #2, by Dustin LindenSmith,

writing by Vicki Woodyard,

announcement of a retreat with the respected Anadi (Aziz Kristof),

and more poems from David M. Davis!

Nondual Highlights Podcast #2, by Dustin LindenSmith

Dustin writes in the Nonduality community of Live Journal ( http://community.livejournal.com/nonduality/):

May I present the second podcast for the Nondual Highlights, comprising readings from some back issues of the highlights: namely, issues #2955, #2800, and #2630. In this podcast, I read from a blog entry by Faraz Ahmed about the inherent fallacy of that famous video The Secret; some pieces of literary nondual fiction from Floyd Henderson and Pete; and some commentary about the nondual aspects of the online 3D virtual world, Second Life. To listen to or to download the 18 MB, 15:52 podcast, please click on the following link:

http://lindensmith.com/nonduality/ndh_podcast_002.mp3

Someone recently asked a lot of intellectual questions about the path.
All I can say is that it is better to be the questions than to think
about them. Being is above thought. That is tough love that leads to
awakening. Never back down from that position because it is faultless.

This is why the old Zen masters and patriarchs pointed.

Or whacked.

They didn’t chew their cabbage twice.

Burp.

Vicki Woodyard
http://www.bobwoodyard.com

Beloved Friend,

We are happy to inform you about the coming meditation retreat with Anadi (former aziz kristof).
This retreat will be more advanced in its nature, hence it is mostly directed to those who are deeper connected to our path and already familiar with the teaching.
The retreat will take place in India, Mystic Village, near Pune. It will be a seven days event. The dates are 30^th Jan to 5^th Feb 2008.
Should you be interested in participating, please let us know within 2 weeks and you shall receive the further information.
 
Love and Blessings
Sita
 
write to  liorc11@gmail.com

More poems from David M. Davis, M.D. Also see Issue #2995.

AMBITION’S DEMISE  -  April 25, 2005

(at the Continental Inn  -  Tamales, California)

I HAD ACCUMULATED WEALTH

BUT FEARED A BEAR MARKET

I WAS FAITHFUL TO MY WIFE

BUT FEARED AN IRRESISTIBLE SIREN

I WAS HEALTHY

BUT FEARED THE INEVITABLE DECLINE

I WAS HAPPY

BUT FEARED DEPRESSION

I WAS WELL RESPECTED

BUT EVEN MY SKELETONS HAD SKELETONS

NOW I MOVE WITH THE BREEZE

LIKE AN EMPTY BOTTLE ON THE SEAS

BY LETTING GO OF THE POSITIVE POLE

I’M NOT INVESTED IN MY ROLE

WHAT HAPPENS WILL BE

I ACCEPT MY DESTINY

MY ANXIETY VANISHED

ONCE THE ME WAS BANISHED

WHAT’S THE POINT?   -   October 14, 2004

THE TRUTH CAN’T BE SPOKEN

AND I AIN’T JOKIN

SO WHAT’S THE POINT OF A POEM

IF O’ER FALSEHOOD I WILL ROAM

STILL I NEED TO PASS THE TIME

SO I MIGHT AS WELL JUST RHYME

WHEN THE MIND IS STILL

ONE DOESN’T NEED A PILL

WHEN THE MIND IS WHOLE

LIFE DOESN’T TAKE A TOLL

WHEN LIFE HAPPENS ON ITS OWN

WHO IS THERE TO MOAN AND GROAN

ONE CAN WITNESS THE WAKING DREAM

AND YET STILL BE WHAT ISN’T SEEN

WHEN ONE IS BUT A PIECE OF A PUZZLE THAT FITS

IT DOESN’T REALLY MATTER WHETHER ONE PRAYS OR ONE SHITS

LIFE MAKES NO SENSE BUT I’M HAVING A BALL

CONCEPTS DON’T MATTER - UNDERSTANDING IS ALL.

THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE!   -  September 12, 2004

I WENT TO SCHOOL

EIGHT YEARS AFTER COLLEGE

AND I GAINED

CONSIDERABLE KNOWLEDGE

SO I COULD HELP

THOSE WHO WERE CONFLICTED

TO BREAK FREE OF THAT

TO WHICH THEY WERE ADDICTED

ONE IS A PROFESSOR

HOPED TO WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE

BUT SINCE HE HASN’T WON IT YET

HE GROANS AND MOANS AND SIGHS

ONE IS A LONELY MOVIE STAR

OFTEN IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE

HER ARROGANCE DRIVES HER LOVERS AWAY

BUT SHE’S ADORABLE ON THE SCREEN

ONE IS A RETIRED GENERAL

WHO MADE IT TO 3 STARS!

BUT SINCE HE THINKS HE DESERVED THE 4^TH

HE FEELS LIKE HE’S BEHIND BARS

ONE WAS IN A ROCK BAND

WITH AN ALBUM THAT WENT GOLD

BUT NOW HE PLAYS IN COFFEE SHOPS

AND HE’S STARTING TO LOOK OLD

ONE STARTED A COMPANY

THAT HE SOLD FOR 50 K

BUT NOW HE WONDERS WAS IT LUCK

HE’S GOT NOTHING TO DO ALL DAY

FOR SOME “THE DREAM” IS BEYOND THEIR REACH

FOR OTHERS ACHIEVED AND LOST

BUT NOW I’M WONDERING IF HAVING GOALS

IS WORTH THE SUFFERING THEY COST

THE SAGE   - July 2004

(For Wayne Liquorman)

THERE ONCE WAS A SAGE WITH A BEARD

WHO DISCIPLES SOMETIMES FEARED

HIS WORDS WERE UNTRUE

WHEN SPOKEN TO YOU

BUT I HEARD HIM SO I DISAPPEARED

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