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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3646, Saturday, September 5, 2009, Editor: Mark
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once
your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active,
so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light
of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and
work miracles without any effort on your part.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
I packed my bags
went nowhere
reached my final destination
- Anna Ruiz, posted to The_Now2
The funny thing about finding this "knowing" is that it
is never not there. It's the space between the gaps. Stillness
will guide you to this realization. Be still as often as you can
and allow your thoughts to come and go; no judgement, no
analysis. There's nothing to figure out, no one to believe,
nothing to do. There is a peace that comes when you allow
everything to just flow. With this peace comes faith, trust, a
"knowing" that no matter what "happens", good
or bad, it just is... it's not really good or bad. There really
isn't anyone there for anything to happen to. It's only your mind
that grasps onto the happening and judges it good, or bad and
then you feel emotion, etc. Now it seems as though "I"
am having this happen to "me". Identity. Separation.
But in reality, it is just happening. On the base level - nothing
has changed. So, I have found that to be still with the silence -
the source out of which everything comes and everything flows
back into; this is the gateway to the realization, the knowing
that we are all one and that everything that happens isn't
happening to anyONE; it's just happening.
- Kim, posted to The_Now2
Tomorrow Never Knows
Turn off your mind, relax
and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought
Surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see
The meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all
And love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate
May mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the
color of your dreams
It is not living
It is not living
Or play the game
existence to the end...
Of the beginning.
-Lennon and McCartney
when the morning comes
and the night ends
who draws the line?
- Anna Ruiz, posted to The_Now2
What we are looking for is what is looking.
- St. Francis of Assisi