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Nondual Highlights Issue #2151 Sunday, May 22, 2005
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destroys courage. The giver is always ready to give. The taker is
absent. Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let
go everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of
the infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual
maturity lies in the readiness to let go everything. The giving
up is the first step. But the real giving up is in realizing that
there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your own. It is like
deep sleep -- you do not give up your bed when you fall asleep --
you just forget it.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That,
posted to JustThis
Like the reflections of the moon that effortlessly appear in any
body of still water, a Buddha's emanations spontaneously appear
wherever living beings' minds are capable of perceiving them.
Buddhas can emanate in any form whatsoever to help living beings.
Sometimes they manifest as Buddhists and sometimes as
non-Buddhists. They can manifest as women or men, monarchs or
tramps, law-abiding citizens or criminals. They can even manifest
as animals, as wind or rain, or as mountains or islands. Unless
we are a Buddha ourself we cannot possibly say who or what is an
emanation of a Buddha.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Almost all people are carrying a big board, so they cannot see
the other side. They think they are just the ordinary mind, but
if they take the board off they will understand, "Oh, I am
Buddha, too. How can I be both Buddha and ordinary mind? It is
amazing!" That is enlightenment.
- Shunryu Suzuki
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched,
you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have
any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You
begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as
well as how much space.
- Pema Chodron
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a
sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and
human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
- The Dalai Lama
Everything is grace. When we say yes to what is, we say yes to
grace.
- Francis Lucille