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Nondual Highlights Issue #25656, Saturday, August 26, 2006, Editor: Mark
A minister went to the king of his country and said "Your
Majesty, I'm afraid I have some very bad news. Our spies report
that there are citizens who are saying negative things about
you."
The king said "Are these negative things the people are
saying true?"
"No, Your Majesty. They are false."
"Well, then," said the king, "There is no cause
for worry. People are always talking. If people are saying
positive things that are true, that is no cause for worry, for
they are offering deserved praise. If they are saying negative
things that are true, then that is no cause for worry, for they
are offering helpful advice. If they are saying negative things
that are false, that is no worry, for they are simply mistaken.
The only thing that would be a cause for worry would be if they
were saying positive things that are false, for then one would be
receiving undeserved praise.
~a tale told for those of us who fuss about what someone said
about them, posted to DailyDharma
The only condition for the realization of
Truth is that the knowledge of it be
desired with tremendous intensity. You
cannot see IT, you cannot feel IT only
because you do not really want IT - you
are too preoccupied with enjoying and
sorrowing over your finite existence.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar, from A Net of Jewels, posted to
AlongTheWay
These forms are transient and to be attached to them is to be
confused. Anything that rises, be it thought, desire, emotion,
feeling or object will give you suffering and no one in the world
can avoid this. Both the enjoyer and the enjoyed are washed away.
But the wise discriminate between the Real and the unreal. They
know what is Real and so allow their feelings and thoughts to
arise because they know all is One and the same! In this way you
will not suffer.
- Papaji, posted to AlongTheWay
The Mirror Between Us
The mirror between us is breath
mist when I speak. Your face
in water: I reach, the work
grows muddy. Even friend and
beloved are wrong words for this.
Even ahhhhh retreats back into
my mouth, the same if the moon's
behind cloud or being released.
A pure silent look is better.
- Rumi, Ghazal (Ode) 1453, version by Coleman Barks, with Nevit
Ergin, from The Glance, posted to Sunlight
The human body is always finite
It is the 'Spirit'
that is boundless ...
A person should cast aside
that which limits him ...
And enter the endless world
of Nothing
And have no thoughts of
himself at all.
Nothing but 'God'
exists for him ...
He 'himself'
has ceased to 'be' ...
As he steps 'outside'
the body's limits ...
- Shemu'ah Tovah, posted to Mystic_Spirit
The arch of sky
and mightiness of storms
Have moved the Spirit
within me
Till I am carried away
Trembling with joy ...
- Uvavnuk, Inuit Shaman woman. posted to Mystic_Spirit