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#3662 -
Monday, September 21, 2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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The Real is forever and unalterably
the same, whether it be the unmanifest Void or the manifested
world. It has never been born and consequently can never die. It
cannot divide itself into different "realities" with
different space-time levels or multiply itself beyond its own
primal oneness. It cannot evolve or diminish, improve or
deteriorate. Whereas everything else exists in dependence upon
Mind and exists for a limited time, however prolonged, and
therefore has only a relative existence, Mind is the absolute,
the unique, the ultimate reality because with all its innumerable
manifestations in the universe it has never at any moment ceased
to be itself. Only its appearances suffer change because they are
in time and space, never itself, which is out of time and space.
The divisions of time into past present and future are
meaningless here; we may speak only of its "everness."
The truth about it is timeless, as no scientific truth could ever
be, in the sense that whatever fate the universe undergoes its
own ultimate significance remains unchanged. If the Absolute
appears to us as the first in the time-series, as the First Cause
of the Universe, this is only true from our limited standpoint.
It is in fact only our human idea. The human mind can take into
itself the truth of transcendental being only by taking out of
itself the screens of time, space and person. For being eternally
self-existence, reality is utterly timeless. Space divisions are
equally unmeaning in its "Be-ness." The Absolute is
both everywhere and nowhere. It cannot be considered in spatial
terms. Even the word "infinite" is really such a term.
If it is used here because no other is available, let it be
clearly understood, then, that it is used merely as a suggestive
metaphor. If the infinite did not include the finite then it
would be less than infinite. It is erroneous to make them both
mutually exclusive. The finite alone must exclude the infinite
from its experience but not vice versa. In the same way the
infinite Duration does not exclude finite time.(P)
— Notebooks of Paul Brunton Category 28: The Alone
> Chapter 1: Absolute Mind > # 101
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
Papaji on Sahaja
On the other hand, sahaja is here
all the time, and is known naturally and effortlessly.
"Everyone is in the natural state whether one is aware of it
or not," Papaji pointed out. "The sahaja stithi can
never come though effort or practice. It cannot be attained
because it is here all the time. It neither comes nor does
it go. If you simple keep quiet and let things happen by
themselves, and you will find it is that which is present all the
time. You are never away from it or apart from it."
That which is always here is pure presence without quality or
limit. So subtle, so simple. It is you.
Freedom Dreams Dasarath p.59
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
Quotes of Sailor Bob Adamson
"We are That, 'That' meaning the seeming place in awareness
where awareness shines out. But in ignorance of the true nature,
That we are, that seeming place in awareness is called me or
I".
"In that moment of seeing that mind essence is no 'thing' to
see, in that very instant the duality of something seen and
someone that sees is no longer needed".
"Whatever is translated or conceptualised as other than
presence awareness need not be resisted but recognised as it
is--pure presence awareness appearing as other--always only and
ever That. Knowing that, conceptualising falls away and bare
awareness remains unconcerned with thought (effortless being).
Just this".
"Belief in dualistic thinking is the problem. In non-dual
awareness, dualism can only appear to be so. How can there ever
be any duality in non-duality?"
"In recognising presence awareness, there is no 'thing' to
see, just natural non-conceptual seeing, actually as it is
without subject or object. See this and the realisation is
immediate that what is labled as awareness or consciousness or
mind can never be formulated as either a subject or an object.
Being empty of a subject or object, it is emptiness seeing
(cognising emptiness). Emptiness can never be emptied of
emptiness, nor can it be filled by emptiness. With that concept
cancelled out, only the wordless thoughtless indescribable
emptiness remains. Not a vacuum or a void, but a vivid
self-shining, self-knowing, self-aware emptiness, like a clear
sky full of light. See for yourself. No one or other can do it
for you. Immediate simplicity. Continue to see that the seeing is
continuous. Any doubt, question, or argument, and the conceptual
seeker has appeared again. See that and non-conceptual emptiness
remains undisturbed".
"Recognise the naturalness that you are--pure, all
pervasive, space like, ever expressing, spontaneous
presence-awareness, with no reference point (self nature) having
any substance or independent existence. Failing to recognise
naturalness (the unity of appearance and emptiness, space and its
content), delusion happens and there is a grasping of or fixation
on appearance--me and the other--a seeming duality. Without that
fixation there is freedom as naturalness, delusion dissolves and
evenness (non-duality) remains--the natural state--simply this,
nothing else. Naturally remaining as naturalness (equanimity) is
the natural (effortless) meditation of no one to meditate and
nothing to meditate on--no trying to get or trying to avoid, just
effortless being which is always already so. Recognise this again
and again".
http://members.iinet.net.au/~adamson7/
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
This Week at StillnessSpeaks: First
Ever Publically Available meditation of Francis Lucille
Dissolving the Separate Sense
of Self with Francis Lucille
Seeing seeing
seeing. A guided meditation.
Don’t separate yourself from your experience.
Welcome the totality of it, the sensations in your body, the
sound of my voice and the birds, your thoughts. All of that
is at a zero distance from you. All of that is in you.
Even if you create the thought that there is someone who is
separate from that as the observer or the perceiver, this thought
itself is one more appearance from which you are not separate.
continued at:
http://www.stillnessspeaks.com/ssblog/francis_lucille_meditation/