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#2629 - Monday, October 30, 2006 - Editor: Gloria Lee
"Love itself is the actual
form of God."
Sri Ramana
In "Letters from
Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma
from Avadhuata
Gita:
The Self certainly does not become pure through the practice of
six-limbed yoga.
It certainly is not purified by the destruction of the mind.
It certainly is not made pure by the instructions of the teacher.
It is Itself the Truth.
It is Itself the illumined One
Love to all
Harsha, posted to HarshaSatsangh
Enlightenment is not about
words and thoughts and concepts which can
be doubted. Enlightenment is always Here.
By "Here" I
don't mean this present space. Here is somewhere within
where mind cannot reach. Presence is always Here and you are
always
That. This Here is not the opposite of "there." This
Here is nowhere,
it is your Heart. When mind is still all comes back to the Heart.
All the
cosmos is but a speck in your Heart.
Turn mind over into This
Here and it is lost. Then only Light, Wisdom
and Love remain and This you are not different or apart from.
--Papaji (Sri Poonjaji) posted to Along the Way
Alan Larus photos http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/shores/39.htm see link for more
Monk:
"Where can I enter Zen?"
Gensha: "Can you hear the babbling brook?"
Monk: "Yes, I can hear it."
Gensha: "Then enter there."
posted to Allspirit
You might
think that if you let go of your ego world, you become
passive and defenseless like some kind of crash dummy and people
will
take advantage of you. Or that you might wander around aimlessly
in
the street without an agenda. If this were the case, as one
contemporary Buddhist master pointed out, it would be necessary
to
have enlightenment wards in hospitals to take care of bruised or
socially inoperative buddhas. But this is not the case. Rather
than
being inmate types, people who have become enlightened to any
degree are builders of hospitals for other people. Their
intelligence
and compassion are relatively unobstructed, and they tend to
become
quite active and effective citizens.
--Samuel Bercholz, in
Entering the Stream
Alan Larus photos http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/shores/36.htm see link for more
This is from: 'A Handful of
Zen' by Camden Benares
The Path
A Taoist teacher asked her student to accompany her on a hike.
The
teacher, with her student at her side, walked to the foot of a
small
mountain and started up the path that led to the top. About
halfway
up, she stopped and asked her student, "Which way is
up?" He pointed
up. She asked, "which way is down?" He pointed down.
She said, "The
same path takes you up and down. That is the unity of opposites.
If you
again tell me that you don't understand the unity of opposites, I
will
tell you to take a hike."
posted to Allspirit
Here's your Daily Poem from the Poetry Chaikhana --
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The Heat of Midnight Tears By Mirabai English version by Robert Bly Listen, my
friend, this road is the heart opening,
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