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Nondual Highlights Issue #2600, Saturday, September 30, 2006
Your wanting to be in a state of effortlessness through the use
of effort is not going to succeed. So forget about the effortless
state -- it doesn't exist at all. You want to achieve an
effortless state through effort - how the hell are you going to
achieve that goal? You forget that everything that you are doing,
any movement that is there, any want that is there, for whatever
reason, is effort.
Effortlessness is something which cannot be achieved through
effort. Anything that you do to stop the effort, is itself an
effort. It's really a maddening thing. You have not really pushed
yourself into that corner. If you do, then you will really go
crazy; but you are frightened of that. You have to see that
everything that you are doing to be in that effortless state, for
whatever reason you want to be there, is effort. Even wanting not
to use effort also is effort.
The total absence of will and the total absence of effort, all
and every kind, may be called an effortless state; but that
effortless state is not something that you can achieve through
effort.
- UG Krishnamurti, posted to DailyDharma
You move mindfully
Towards tenderness.
You jump mindlessly
Away from the whip.
Ram Tzu loves you
So he whips you.
Ram Tzu knows this:
That last step off the cliff
is always a surprise.
- Ram Tzu, posted to AlongTheWay, No Way for the Spiritually
"Advanced"
Life can be really and truly simple if we don't fight it.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar, A Net of Jewels, posted to
AlongTheWay
The Master said to me:
All beings are but the 'One Mind'
(consciousness-spirit)
beside, which nothing exists
This Mind (consciousness-spirit)
which is without 'beginning'
is unborn and indestructible
It...has neither form
nor appearance
It does not belong to
the categories of things
which exist, nor do not exist ...
For it transcends all limits...
It is all that
which you see before you...
It is like the boundless void
which cannot be fathomed
or measured
The One Mind
(consciousness/spirit)
alone is Spirit
And there is no distinction
between Spirit
and sentient things
But that sentient beings
are attached to 'forms'
And so seek externally
for a 'godhood'
By their very seeking
they 'lose' it
For that is using the Spirit
to seek for the Spirit
And using mind
to grasp Mind
Even though they do their utmost
for a full aeon
They will not be able
to 'attain' it
They do not know that
if they put a stop
to conceptual thought
and forget their anxiety
The Spirit will 'appear before' them
For this Mind 'is' the Spirit
and the Spirit 'is'
All living Beings .
- Huang Po, posted to Mystic_Spirit
Man thinks that he is the 'doer', but that is a mistake.
It is the 'Higher Power' that does everything.
Ramana Maharshi, posted to NonDualNetwork