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NDhighlights #1259 - Saturday,
November 16, 2002 - Edited by John
Nobody taking a bath in the famous
Bavarian beer lake.
Saktidassa and Jan
B. NDS
S: It is all about purification and the gunas or modes. Foul
language is
the mind's way of speaking in a tamasic or rajasic mode. It is
actually verbal violence. I must admit an occasional word or two
slips out of my mouth, especially if I hurt myself etc.
J: Wouldn't the absence of an interpreting mode that sees one
thing
as 'pure' and another as 'foul' qualify as 'equanimity'?
S: One will normally find people who have a predeliction to foul
language are absorbed in tamas and rajas. The vibrations are anti
moksha and come from eating meat and absorbing negatives from
other
polluted sources.
J: And whence came the notions to start defining one thing as
'pure' and another
as 'foul'?
Acceptance of it in childhood maybe?
S: This is why sadhana is so important, never mind how non dual
the mind
thinks it is.
J: Life itself is the only sadhana with plenty of reality tests.
Difficult to see when the accepted childhood conditioning
has exceeded a critical mass as then, the desire for separation
from "ordinary life" is overwhelming.
Gene Poole NDS
An interesting viewpoint from japan...
<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20021110a1.htm
Al Larus NDS
diana being one
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Nisargadatta : I Am
That
I was undeceived, that is all. I used to create a world and
populate it.
Now I don't do it any more. [Now I live] in the void beyond being
and
non-being, beyond consciousness. This void is also fullness; do
not pity
me. The mind ceased producing events. The ancient and ceaseless
search stopped - I wanted
nothing, expected nothing, accepted nothing as my own. There was
no "me" left to strive for. Even
the bare "I am" faded away.
The other thing that I noticed was that I lost all my habitual
certainties.
Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing.
But I feel
that I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge
was
false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that
all
knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the
only true statement
the mind can make.
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"Nothing has a stronger influence ... on ... children, than
the unlived life of the parent."
-- Carl Jung
Some of us have children too early in life. Invariably, we lay
our thwarted dreams and toxic
disappointments upon their heads, hoping they will live the life
we neglected to live. The rest of us
figure, why not have our life first and then have the kids? We
soon find, however, that this is not so
easy. As the world grows more complex and the possibilities for
experiencing things multiply, it
becomes ever more difficult to work in enough living before the
close of your baby-making years.
Eventually, you realize that the only way to beat the clock is to
live your life as furiously as possible --
which means starting earlier, moving faster and holding out
longer. You've got to crank through
travel fantasies, fringe lifestyles, multiple careers, extreme
sports and designer drugs, and gorge
yourself on liquor and sex as fast and as hard as you can. How
else can you expect to get over
yourself enough to really be there for your kids when it counts?
So the next time you find yourself
power partying, remember to ratchet it up another notch, because
only when you live your unlived life
will your children be free to live theirs.
I binge for my kids.
A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org
November 16
That mind which ceases to grasp at itself achieves its original
pristine
purity and becomes unborn and whole again.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
The man who has freed himself through understanding accepts
whatever comes his way without any
judgment and remains within the underlying unity that encompasses
man and nature in the totality
that is the universe. He wanders through the enjoyment of all
experience without becoming attached
in any way, either positively to delights or negatively against
sorrows, and thus remains free in all
circumstances.