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#3780 - Monday, January 18,
2010 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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“Everything is clear. It does not need
to be made clear. It does not need to be made clear because it
never was unclear.
Because you were never unclear there is no change required. You
simply instinctively recognize that you have always been clear.
The term ‘lack of clarity’ becomes meaningless. Lack of
clarity is recognized to be impossible. ... "
Indestructible Clarity
www.greatfreedom.org
One Simple Change Makes Life Easy posted to Facebook by Robert Matthews
The Nature of Things
Seeing the emptiness of the phenomenal world relieves us
of the heavy notion of things being solid or intrinsic. When we
understand that nothing exists independently, everything that
does arise seems more dreamlike and less threatening. This brings
a deep sense of relaxation, and we feel less need to control our
mind and circumstances. Because the nature of everything is
emptiness, it is possible to view our life the way we would view
a movie. We can relax and enjoy the show.
- Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, from "The Theater of
Reflection"
photo by Alan Larus photo.
Nisargadatta
Questioner: Why so much insistence on relinquishing all desires
and fears? Are they not natural? Maharaj: They are not.
They are entirely mind-made. You have to give up everything to
know that you need nothing, not even your body. Your needs are
unreal, and your efforts are meaningless. You imagine that your
possessions protect you. In reality they make you vulnerable.
Realise yourself as away from all that can be pointed at as
'this' or 'that'.
posted to Facebook by Tim Gerchmez
I recall meeting a spiritual teacher once. She complimented on my necklace. Without thinking I took it off to offer it to her. She quickly stopped me, but did something I will always remember... She had us hold the gift of intention, and release it to God, to Consciousness that surrounds everything. All was suddenly experienced as the Love of Gratitude, even though no physical gift was given.
posted to Facebook by Cathy Rosewell Jonas
Cathy Rosewell Jonas
Student: Letting go of our
egocentricity so we can experience awakening -- do you suppose it
is peeled off us the way we peel an orange?
Adyashanti: Peeling is like having a dream at night in
which you dream you are going to a therapist, and you start
feeling better and better, and you feel like you are getting
somewhere.
Awakening is as if you are sitting on the couch telling your
story, and you are still a mess -- haven't gotten very far.
Then all of a sudden you realize this is a dream, this
isn't real, you're making it up. That's awakening.
There's a big difference.
Student: I've made up all of it?
Adyashanti: The whole thing. But the awakeness in you
is not dreaming. Only the mind is dreaming. It tells
itself stories and wants to know if you're progressing.
When you shift into wakefulness, you realize, "Wait,
it's a dream. The mind is creating an altered state of
reality, a virtual reality, but it's not true -- it's just
thought." Thought can tell a million stories
inside of awareness, and it's not going to change awareness one
bit. The only thing that's going to change is the way the
body feels. If you tell yourself a sad story, the body
reacts to that. And if you tell yourself a self-agrandizing
story, the body feels puffed up, confident. But when you
realize it's all stories, there can be a vast waking up out of
the mind, out of the dream. You don't awaken, what has
eternally been awake realizes itself. That which is
eternally awake is what you are.
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle via The_Now2
After Forty Years
After forty years
A few quietly spoken words
Have led me irrefutably to know
That hidden in the constellation I call
Mind, or
Heart
There truly is
The home
I never dared believe
Could be.
Jack Cain
with photos by Alan Larus
http://www.ferryfee.com/Bluesky/Shores/After_forty_years.htm