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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3253, Sunday, August 10, 2008, Editor: Mark
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and
effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now,
all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
When we say that we have knowledge, or that we have discovered
our real nature and we are in this nature, that means that we are
"being the mirror. You see, "being the mirror" or
"looking in the mirror" are two completely different
things. If we "are the mirror" then we have no concept
of dualistic vision.
If a reflection manifests in the mirror, why is it manifesting?
There are two reasons. Once is because the mirror has the
capacity to manifest infinite reflections. This is the mirror's
quality. If there is an object in front of the mirror, whose
capacity it is to reflect, naturally a reflection will appear in
the mirror. Furthermore, the mirror has no idea of checking or
accepting the object it is reflecting. The mirror doesn't need
any program for that. This is what is called its qualification,
or infinite potentiality.
In the same way, we have infinite potentiality, but we are
ignorant of that. When we are ignorant of our real nature, then
we always conceive that "I am here" and "the
object is there," "I am looking and seeing an
object," and so on. We do not discover that we are like a
mirror, and if we never discover this, then of course there is no
way that we can function like the mirror. When you discover that
you are like the mirror, then there is a possibility that you
will be the mirror.
- Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, from Dzogchen Teachings, edited
by Jim Valby and Adriano Clemente, posted to DailyDharma
Ram Tzu knows this...
The more you pursue it
The further away it goes.
The harder you struggle
The deeper you sink.
Only a drunk can
Truly be sober.
Only a whore can
Truly be chaste.
Life is no place
For idle speculation.
No one has ever learned
From the mistakes of others.
A lie cloaked in truth
Is still a lie.
If it makes sense to you
You're in real trouble.
You always look for God
In high places...
Guess again.
Ram Tzu is not your friend
If you find him
Kill him.
- Ram Tzu, from No Way for the Spiritually
"Advanced", posted to AlongTheWay
You can always tell what you believe by what you are getting.
Alan Cohen, posted to Distillation
Unconditional Expression
There is such a thing
as unconditional expression
that does not come from self or other.
It manifests out of nowhere
like mushrooms in a meadow,
like hailstones, like thundershowers.
- Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, from The Art of Calligraphy,
posted to truevision