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#3759 - Monday, December 28, 2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Nisargadatta Maharaj: When the words are
spoken, there is silence. When the relative is over, the absolute
remains. The silence before the words were spoken, is it
different from the silence that comes after? The silence is one
and without it the words could not have been heard. It is always
there -- at the back of the words. Shift your attention from
words to silence and you will hear it.
The mind craves for experience, the memory of which it takes for
knowledge. The jnani is beyond all experience, and his memory is
empty of the past. He is entirely unrelated to anything in
particular. But the mind craves for formulations and definitions,
always eager to squeeze reality into a verbal shape. Of
everything it wants an idea, for without ideas the mind is not.
Reality is essentially alone, but the mind will not leave it
alone -- and deals instead with the unreal. And yet it is all the
mind can do -- discover the unreal as unreal.
Questioner: And seeing the real as real?
Maharaj: There is no such state as seeing the real. Who is to see
what? You can only *be* the real -- which you are, anyhow. The
problem is only mental. Abandon false ideas, that is all. There
is no need of true ideas. There aren't any. posted to
Facebook by Tim Gerchmez
From: 'The Essential Rumi'
Barks/Moyne
~ The Dream That Must be Interpreted ~
This place is a dream.
Only a sleeper considers it real.
Then death comes like dawn,
and you wake up laughing
at what you thought was your grief.
But there's a difference with this dream.
Everything cruel and unconscious
done in the illusion of the present world,
all that does not fade away at the death-waking.
It stays,
and it must be interpreted.
All the men laughing,
all the quick, sexual wanting,
those torn coats of Joseph,
they change into powerful wolves
that you must face.
The retaliation that sometimes comes now,
the swift, payback hit,
is just a boy's game
to what the other will be.
You know about circumcision here.
It's full castration there!
And this groggy time we live,
This is what it's like:
A man goes to sleep in the town
where he has always lived, and he dreams he's living
in another town.
In the dream, he doesn't remember
the town he's sleeping in his bed in. He believes
the reality of the dream town.
The world is that kind of sleep.
The dust of many crumbled cities
settles over us like a forgetful doze,
but we are older than those cities.
We began
as a mineral. We emerged into plant life
and into the animal state, and then into being human,
and always we have forgotten our former states,
except in the early spring when we slightly recall
being green again.
That's how a young person turns
toward a teacher. That's how a baby leans
toward the breast, without knowing the secret
of its desire, yet turning instinctively.
Humankind is being led along an evolving course,
through this migration of intelligences,
and though we seem to be sleeping,
there is an inner wakefulness
that directs the dream,
and that will eventually startle us back
to the truth of who we are.
---
gill
Allspirit Website: http://www.allspirit.co.uk
Added by Alan Larus
to "the new spiritual art of the world"
74) What Is Meant By
Transparent And Luminous? (OASG 83)
I would like to ask you to expand upon the words, transparent
and luminous, that you use a lot, both here and in your book,
which I feel reflect a greater depth of understanding and
Presence.
Excerpt:
Dear Ian,
Ian: "In the knowledge that 'I am', Consciousness and Being
are one.
When this is known, the mind, the body and the world become
transparent and luminous. They shine with Presence, as
Presence."
Rupert: The world is made only of seeing, hearing, touching,
tasting and smelling. Let us call these, perceiving.
Perceiving is made of mind and mind is made of Consciousness.
Consciousness has no colour of its own and as the world (that is,
perceiving) is only made out of this colourless Presence, it is
sometimes referred to as being transparent.
Consciousness is the light that illumines all experience and as
there is no other substance to our experience of the world other
than this luminous Consciousness, the world is known to be
luminous, made out of the light of Knowing. Consciousness
illumines the apparent world and its light is also the substance
of that which it illumines and knows. In other words, the Knowing
of the world and the Existence of the world are made out of the
same transparent, luminous stuff.
from http://non-duality.rupertspira.com/
Added by Alan Larus
to "the new spiritual art of the world"