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#4165 - Tuesday, February 14, 2011 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Where
can I find a man who has forgotten words?
He is the one I would like to talk
to.
~Chuang Tzu .......................
Wanting to reform the world without
discovering one's true self is like
trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of
walking on stones
and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
~Ramana Maharshi
posted by Sandra Ma to Facebook
"Popularity among the
soundly alseep may not be the best criterion by which
to judge a method for waking up." ~Jed McKenna
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"Speaking of
Self-realization is a delusion. It is only because people have
been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the
unreal the Real
that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion
called
Self-realization; because actually the Self always is the Self
and there is no
such thing as realizing it." —Ramana Maharshi
Nothing is Gained with Enlightenment
I once lived in an apartment so
small I had to step outside into the adjacent
hallway to open my oven door. There was room only for a bed, a
radio, and a
cardboard carton of books. I kept my clothes in a closet down the
hall. Even
in this confined space, there was housework to be done. Indeed,
the demands
of maintenance follow us wherever we find ourselves, from palaces
to prison
cells.
The Italian poet Cesare Pavese
wrote in his journal that we never remember
days, we remember only moments. And Zen teachers tell us that
this moment
is the only one we’ll ever have. Perhaps this is a better
way of looking at
enlightenment. It’s not achieving or gathering something.
Nor is it losing or
overcoming something else. It’s simply stepping outside of
the room you’re in
and allowing the oven door to open. It’s checking the
ceiling overhead and
cleaning up the spills beneath your feet.
- Gary Thorp, "The Dust Beyond the Cushion"
"In Kisagata,
The flowering cherry trees
Vanish under waves ---
Until an old fisherman
Rows out across blossoms.
Whatever it is,
I cannot understand it,
Although gratitude
Stubbornly overcomes me
Until I'm reduced to tears.
My final desire ---
That I be allowed to die
Under flowering cherries,
On the fifteenth evening
Of the second month."
~Saigyo
From: "The Poetry of Zen," published by Shambhala
posted to Daily Dharma by Dainen Kelly
So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look,
it's God
appearing as this, that, and what you really love and appreciate
in each form
is the divine formless out of which each form comes. But to be
able to sense
that you have to sense it in yourself first. And that is seeing
the beauty in
everything, that's really what it means.
~Eckhart Tolle
A Message from Space
Everything that
happens is the message:
you read an event and be one and wait,
like breasting a wave, all the while knowing
by living, though not knowing how to live.
Or workers built an
antenna -- a dish
aimed at stars -- and they themselves are its message,
crawling in and out, being worlds that loom,
dot-dash, and sirens, and sustaining beams.
And sometimes no one
is calling but we turn up
eye and ear -- suddenly we fall into
sound before it begins, the breathing
so still it waits there under the breath --
And then the green
of leaves calls out, hills
where they wait or turn, clouds in their frenzied
stillness unfolding their careful words:
"Everything counts. The message is the world."
~ William Stafford ~
(The Way
It Is)
Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/A_Message_from_Space.html