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#3386 - Friday, December 19, 2008 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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If we investigate closely, we just might
find that experiences do not happen
through the body. That the body is not something that serves as a
conduit
for experience-it is ITSELF nothing more than experiences. It is
experienced as sensations, feelings and thoughts. And where do
these
sensations, feelings and thoughts happen? Not in or through the
body, not
anywhere in fact. Totally non-localized. Any localization is
itself just
an experience.
Greg Goode http://heartofnow.com
Laughing at Reality
Attention to one's own Self, which is ever shining as 'I', the
one undivided and pure reality, is the only raft with which the
individual, who is deluded by thinking 'I am the body', can cross
the ocean of unending births.' Reality is simply the loss
of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego
is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine
forth by itself. This is the direct method, whereas all other
methods are done only by retaining the ego. In those paths there
arise so many doubts and the eternal question 'Who am I?' remains
to be tackled finally. But in this method the final question is
the only one and it is raised from the beginning. No sadhanas are
necessary for engaging in this quest. There is no greater
mystery than this — that being the reality we seek to gain
reality. We think that there is something hiding our reality and
that it must be destroyed before the reality is gained. It is
ridiculous. A day will dawn when you will yourself laugh at your
past efforts. That which will be on the day you laugh is also
here and now.
~Ramana Maharshi in 'Be As You Are' ed. David Godman
from http://droppingaparadigm.blogspot.com/2008/12/laughing-at-reality.html'
"Do not be biased or partial, thus
spoiling your free and easy
uncontrived consciousness of the here and now by clinging
attachments.
This radiant insubstantiality, Knowledge of the here and now,
this is
the summum bonum of all vision. This all-pervasive,
all-embracing
object of mind transcending the intellect, this is the summum
bonum of
all meditations. This unforced, detached, free and easy
spontaniety,
this is the summum bonum of all behavior. This unsought,
spontaneous
accomplishment, present from the beginning, this is the summit of
all
attainments.
The matrix of vision is observation of emptiness and radiance
without
clinging to it. The matrix of meditation is maintenance of
reflexive
release without clinging to it. The matrix of action is
relaxation
with a free and easy response to the six sense-fields. The matrix
of
the goal is collapse of all expectation and apprehension.
When the mind has no limitations, we see the sovereign vision.
When it
has no point of reference, we practice sovereign meditation. When
we
are free of all inhibition and indulgence, we perform
sovereign
activity. When mind is free of hope and fear, we have attained
the
sovereign goal.
As there is nothing to see, abandon all fixed ideas, all
preconceived
notions and all parameters of vision. As there is nothing upon
which
to meditate, let be whatever arises adventitiously. As there is
no
particular way to behave, give up evaluation, judgment, and
criticism.
As there is nothing to attain, forsake all expectation of
results.
Whatsoever can be is Knowledge, so do not cling to any one
thing.
Nothing is 'it', so do not judge and criticize. No
intellectual
concepts are valid, so do not presume.
Primally pure intrinsic knowledge, naturally radiant, transcends
the
intellect and objects of mind, so there is nothing to see. As
its
essence has no root or ground, there is nothing to meditate uon.
As
its reflexive release is beyond all limitations and extremes,
there is
nothing to do based on conscious and rational design. As it is
beyond
striving, accomplishment and ambition, there is no fruition.
Its essence is emptiness, so abandon self-denial and
self-improvement.
Its nature is empty radiance, so let your diligent effort drop
away.
Everything is unobstructed, so forget your preferences. Just
as
phenomena arise, let them be, and do not cling to them."
--Dzogchen Aphorisms Contributed by Joyce
to Nonduality Salon.