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Nondual Highlights Issue #2429, Saturday, March 25, 2006, Editor: Mark
"... policymakers are well advised to follow two principles
familiar to navigators throughout the ages: First, determine your
position frequently. Second, use as many guides or landmarks as
are available."
- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, posted to
NondualitySalon
If you check your mind over and over again, Whatever you do
becomes the perfect path. Of all the hundreds of vital
instructions, this is the very quintessence. Fuse everything into
this single point, of checking your mind, and recite the
six-syllable mantra.
- Patrul Rinpoche
Commentary: The practice of Dharma should bring you to the point
where you can maintain the same constant awareness whether
meditating or not. This is the quintessential point of all
instructions; without it, no matter how many mantras and prayer
you recite, however many thousands of prostrations you do, as
long as your mind remains distracted, none of it will help to get
rid of your obscuring emotions. Never forget this and recite the
six-syllable mantra.
- Dilgo Khyentse, from Heart Treasure of The
Enlightened Ones, by Dilgo Khyentse,
published by Shambhala, posted to DailyDharma
Be vigilant of the present circumstances.
This is quite enough to give you happiness.
BE VIGILANT only of this Moment!
When this happening goes, don't cling to it.
Clinging to past circumstances is the trouble
with everybody. This is the cause of suffering
and misery.
What has happened cannot be brought back,
so it is reasonable to not cling to it.
Simply do not cling to past circumstances.
Don't cling to the past.
- Papaji, from The Truth Is,
posted to AlongTheWay
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will
only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not
repeat them in the future.
- Sri Swami Sivananda, posted to AlphaWorld
The first sign of the realization of truth is tolerance.
- Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid
Inayat Khan:
A Sufi tries to keep harmony in his surroundings, the harmony
which demands many sacrifices. It makes one endure what one is
not willing to endure, it makes one overlook what one is not
inclined to overlook, it makes one tolerate what one is not
accustomed to tolerate, and it makes one forgive and forget what
one would never have forgotten if it were not for the sake of
harmony. But at whatever cost harmony is attained, it is a good
bargain. For harmony is the secret of happiness, and in absence
of this a person living in palaces and rolling in gold can be
most unhappy.
A soul shows the proof of its evolution in the degree of the
tolerance it shows. The life in the lower creation shows the lack
of tolerance. The tendency of fighting with one another, which
one sees among beasts and birds, shows the reason at the back of
it, that intolerance is born in their nature. ... But when a soul
has evolved still more, tolerance becomes the natural thing for
him. Because the highly evolved soul then begins to realize
'Another person is not separate from me, but the other person is
myself. The separation is on the surface of life, but in the
depth of life I and the other person are one.' Therefore
tolerance is not learned fully by trying to follow it as a good
principle. It is learned by having the love of God, by attaining
the knowledge of self, and by understanding the truth of life.
The first step to the attainment of the truth cannot be taught in
books, or be imparted by a teacher. It must come spontaneously,
namely through the love for truth. The next step is to search for
it; the third step is the actual attainment. How can one attain?
In order to attain truth one must make one's own life truthful.
... Passing from the state of natural man, through the state of
being a lover of truth and a seeker after truth, one begins to
express truth ... One begins to understand what the great
teachers have taught. Then one becomes tolerant to the various
religions. Nothing seems strange any more. Nothing surprises. For
now one begins to know the innermost nature of man; one sees the
cause behind every action. Therefore tolerance and forgiveness
and understanding of others come naturally. The person who knows
the truth is the most tolerant. It is the knower of truth who is
forgiving; it is the knower of truth who understands another
person's point of view. It is the knower of truth who does not
readily voice his opinion, for he has respect for the opinions of
others.
When man gains insight into himself, he also gains insight into
the hearts of others. All this desire for learning occult or
mystical powers or psychic powers now disappears, because he
begins to see all this power in one truth -- loving truth,
seeking truth, looking for truth, living the truthful life. That
it is which opens all doors.
- posted to SufiMystic
Thinking gives off smoke
to prove the existence of fire.
A mystic sits inside the burning.
There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke
that imagination loves to watch.
But it's a mistake to leave the fire
for that filmy sight.
Stay here at the flame's core.
Rumi, posted to Poetic_Mysticism