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#2209 - Saturday, July 23, 2005 - Editor: Gloria Lee
This issue welcomes the newest members of our list family, Ashton True and Livia Regina Anne. If you cannot see your face before you were born, the one you were born with is a good place to start.
from an article about Thomas Merton:
Merton's intense interest in Buddhism troubled some Catholic
traditionalists.
He took the criticism with equanimity. In 1965, he mocked the
fuss in "Day of a Stranger," an account of his daily
routine as the abbey's first hermit: "What I wear is pants.
What I do is live. How I pray is breathe. Who said Zen? Wash out
your mouth if you said Zen. If you see a meditation going by,
shoot it."
read
entire story
"What can I do to attain Enlightenment?" asked
the eager disciple.
"See Reality as it is," said the Master.
"Well, what can I do to see Reality as it is?"
The Master smiled and said, "I have good news
and bad news for you, my friend."
"What's the bad news?"
"There's nothing you can do to see -
it's a gift."
"And what's the good news?"
"There's nothing you can to do see -
it's a gift."
Anthony de Mello, S.J.
posted to Awareness-TheWaytoLove
The
joy which is
in Revelation
is nowhere else.
No amount of
perception
thinking
projecting
planning
doing
efforts
achieving
ever will give you
that joy
that radiance
which Revelation does.
- Swami Amar Jyoti
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"In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983
posted to AlongtheWay
photo of Livia Regina Anne by Ben Hassine
"Love itself is the actual form of
God."
"Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by
Suri Nagamma
One who knows the secret of
that love
finds the world itself full of universal love.
The experience of not forgetting consciousness, alone,
is the state of devotion
which is the relationship of unfading real love,
because the real knowledge of Self,
which shines as the undivided supreme bliss itself,
surges up as the nature of love.
Only if one knows the truth of love,
which is the real nature of Self,
will the strong entangled knot of life be untied.
Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be
attained.
Such is the heart of all religions.
The experience of Self is only love,
which is seeing only love,
hearing only love,
feeling only love,
tasting only love
and smelling only love,
which is bliss."
posted to MillionPaths by Gloria Lee
Welcome, Ashton True. Congratulations to Grandma Mazie Lane and to Bob, and to Evelyn.
Look around and see if you can find a single genuinely happy person - fearless, free from insecurities, anxieties, tensions, worries. You would be lucky if you found one in a hundred thousand. This should lead you to be suspicious of the programming and the beliefs that you and they hold in common.
From -
The Way to Love
Anthony de Mello
"Every act of conscious learning
requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's
self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of
their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older
persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at
all."
Thomas Szaz
posted to AlphaWorld
may my heart always be open to little
birds who are the secrets of living
whatever they sing is better than to know
and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully
and love yourself so more than truly
there's never been quite such a fool who could fail
pulling all the sky over him with one smile
*e.e. cummings
posted by Michael Rawls
posted to Dzogchen Practice
This Great Perfection is already fully present... and always
remains
as-it-is. It's just Being. There's nothing to figure
out or
maintain once re-discovered. You can't attain it.... can't
earn it
by virtuous actions or lose it from negative karma. No
visualizations to practice nor mantras required. No special
conduct
to follow or avoid. It's something like space, empty
voidness but
aware and radiant. No shape or materiality. It's
knowingness
without recourse to thinking. Its nature is joyous just as
water
is wet. In the ocean of Being, thoughts and emotions are
simply
waves arising and vanishing from moment to moment. The
waves can't
be separated from the ocean, they are simply the ocean's energy
manifesting in myriad ways. All objective reality is just
this...
the waves of Being. Coming to understand this Being in
Dzogchen is
through Direct Introduction. This is like looking in a
mirror.
Livia and Dad