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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3927, Saturday, June 19, 2010, Editor: Mark
This is work that is alive,
Effervescent, free, liberated,
Gloriously enlightened,
True, and great.
Do you think it can be attained
By people who shut the door
And sit quietly with blank minds?
- Liu I-Ming, posted to DailyDharma
There's something more that must happen
Meditation and self-discipline
are not all that's needed, nor even
a deep longing to go through
the door of freedom.
You may dissolve in contemplation,
as salt does in water,
but there's something more
that must happen.
- Lalla, posted to AlongTheWay
Make it a habit to ask yourself: What's going on inside me at
this moment? That question will point you in the right direction.
But don't analyze, just watch. Focus your attention within. Feel
the energy of the emotion. If there is no emotion present, take
your attention more deeply into the inner energy field of your
body. It is the doorway into Being.
- Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now
There is in the body a current of energy, affection and
intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body.
Discover that current and stay with it.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some super human
accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is
simply your natural state of felt oneness with being. It is a
state of connectedness with something immeasurable and
indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is
essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding
your true nature beyond name and form.
- Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now
A General Introductory Lecture
A nightingale flies nearer the roses.
A girl blushes. Pomegranates ripen.
Hallaj will be executed. A man walks
a mountain path, solitary and full of
prayer. Trust grows for nine months,
then a new being appears. Narcissus
at the edge, creekwater washing tree
roots: God is giving a general intro-
ductory lecture. We hear and read it
everywhere, in the field, through the
branches. We'll never finish studying.
Neither of us has a penny, yet we're
walking the jewelers' bazaar seriously
considering making a purchase! Or
shall I say this with other metaphors?
A barn crowded with souls. Quietness
served around a table. Two people talk
along a road that's paved with words.
- Rumi, version by Coleman Barks, with Nevit Ergin from The
Glance, posted to Sunlight
You have fallen in love my dear heart
Congratulations!
You have freed yourself from all attachments
Congratulations!
You have given up both worlds to be on your own
the whole creation praises your solitude
Congratulations!
Your disbelief has turned into belief
your bitterness, into sweetness
Congratulations!
You have now entered into Love's fire, my pure heart
Congratulations!
Inside the Sufi's heart there is always a feast
dear heart, you are celebrating
Congratulations!
My heart, I have seen how your tears turned into a sea
now every wave keeps saying
Congratulations!
O silent lover, seeker of the higher planes,
may the Beloved always be with you
Congratulations!
You have struggled hard, may you grow wings and fly
Congratulations!
Keep slient my dear heart, you have done so well
Congratulations!
- Rumi Ghazal (Ode) 623, translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi, from Hidden Music, posted to Sunlight