The Nondual Highlights, Issue #1065
Wednesday, May 8, 2002
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BONDZAI
from
Nasrudin Study list
Two policemen were
tired of the routine of giving out
tickets to
speeders, so they instead wanted to give
someone an award
for safety. The Mullah's car passed by
and the
policemen began to tail it. No problem with
excess speed, he
used his signals. The policemen were so
happy to have
found someone who was obeying all of the
laws to a tee.
They pulled over the Mullah.
Policemen: Sir, we
are so happy to see that you are
obeying all the
traffic laws! We wanted to stop you and
congratulate
you!
Mullah Nasruddin
fell out of the car exclaiming....
"When you
are this drunk, you have to drive careful!"
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GARY
MERRILL
from
NDS
The mind in its use
of concepts, by discrimination,
hopes yet to
find love, to satisfy the heart. But such
mentation only
breeds more division, more of the 'how
things should
be'.
Whereas the 'heart'
is total and not divided. It is mind
which would
separate heart and mind, but heart knows no
problem, no
obstruction, no fear. The mind has to be in
fear to choose
one against the other.
The problem is in
using the mind to try and find love,
not that this is
'wrong' only that in so doing 'love' is
projected into
the future made ideal. Meanwhile love, in
all its glorious
imperfection is offered to us now. Thus
the imperfect is
made perfect.
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GLORIA
LEE
from
HarshaSatsangh
Being Oneself
If we talk of
knowing the Self, there must be two
selves, one a
knowing self, another the self which is
known, and the
process of knowing. The state we call
realisation is
simply being oneself, not knowing
anything or
becoming anything. If one has realised, one
is that which
alone is and which alone has always been.
One cannot
describe that state. One can only be that. Of
course, we
loosely talk of Self-realisation, for want of
a better term.
How to 'real-ise' or make real that which
alone is real?
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
This quotation is
from "Be As You Are" The Teachings of
Sri Ramana
Maharshi edited by David Godman Arkana, 1985
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ESSHAA
from
Live Journal
Lost in the Moment
You are lost within
the moment. Allow yourself to awaken
and see the
moment. Do not become buryed and smother.
You will miss
it's message. There is a message in the
moment and all
moments. You need each moment to have the
next make sense.
You can not put one before another or
link a past to a
future without the middle. It will not
be strong. It
will not be the truth. You need all
moments to equal
the moment. In order. One at a time. Do
not rest. Do not
hurry. Just relax in this and you will
see the reality
which is laid out before you. I AM the
creater of off
things, alpha - omega, beginning and
end...and all
things in between.
~Message/Maralena
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CEE
from
Live Journal
if we come to rest
at the center of
ourselves
at the core of
existence
we understand
what advaita vedanta calls
NO CREATION
*
there is only
one absolute being
nothing has ever
come from it or out of it
there is no
movement or change in pure existence
always
immaculate, always exactly present.
*
we call it
eternal, but there is no sense of time
we call it vast,
but the concept of space never occurs
*
to live NO
CREATION is to actually
LIVE
*
without birth
without death
*
just this
perfect absolute BEING
*
these are just
meaningless words
unless you dive
within yourself
to know the
truth
*
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IAMOM
from
Live Journal
How to live in the
now Actually, you're already living
in the now.
Whatever you are doing at this moment, is
how you're
living in the now. The now isn't anything
other than that
which you are currently doing.
Therefore, the way
to be in the now is simply to
acknowledge that
you are already there. Before planning
for what must
come next, you must acknowledge where you
are right now.
That's not a
philosophy, that's just a technique. But
it's a good one,
because it makes you focus your
awareness on
whatever you have control over at this very
moment.
Without worrying
about anything else, world peace
follows soon
thereafter.
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MICHAEL
READ
from
The Way Station
today i took a day
job as a model for an art class. yup.
naked like my
momma made me.
after the lunch
break the teacher had me pose for a
facial portrait
drawing that she did for the class.
during the setup for
the pose one of the students asked
me if so many
people looking at me made me
uncomfortable.
i told her that it
wasn't about me. she paused a moment
and then nodded
her head. i found myself repeating the
phrase - it
isn't about me - several times during the
day. you see, i
was able to walk about during breaks and
look at what the
students had drawn. from time to time a
student would
ask me if the drawing looked like me and i
found myself
repeating the phrase - it isn't about me.
it (the class) was
about them. about learning how to see
and perceive.
as i listened to the
instructor address the class during
the portrait
session i was struck at how like a zen
master she was.
she spoke of seeing what was there, of
how it balanced,
how lines and light interacted, and how
to grasp the
beauty of what you want to put on the
paper.
during the next
break i mentioned to her how much she
put me in mind
of zen mastery. she said, 'yes, it is
very zenlike in
quality.'
all in all - a very pleasant day
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NINA
from
NDS
How is it colors and
forms we were never meant to see
can strike us
so?
http://home.mindspring.com/~mjwest/