#2926 - Wednesday,
September 12, 2007 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Nondual Highlights
Q: Wonder how they'd
account for that?
Some things are unaccountable --
everything, actually
- Bob O'Hearn
In the light of
consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give
special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous
as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then
make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide
them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient.
Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same
whatever happens. Your weakness is due to your conviction that
you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever
recreated in you and by you. See everything as emanating from the
light which is the source of your own being. - Nisargadatta
You
personify God's message. You reflect
the King's face. There is
nothing in the universe that you are not Everything
you want, look for it within yourself - you are
that.
One of the most common analogies used to describe the
Buddha-nature is space itself. This analogy has three aspects.
First, just as space is omnipresent and yet is unpolluted by
everything it pervades, similarly, Buddha-nature pervades every
sentient being without being in any way tainted. Second, just as
galaxies and universes arise and pass within space, so do the
characteristics of our personalities arise and pass within
Buddha-nature. Our sensations arise and pass away; Buddha-nature
continues. Third, just as space is never consumed by fire, so
this Buddha-nature is never consumed by the "fire" of
aging, sickness, or death. -B. Alan Wallace, Tibetan Buddhism from the
Ground Up
Any
soul that drank the nectar of your passion was lifted.
From that
water of life he is in a state of elation.
Death came, smelled me, and sensed your fragrance instead. From then
on, death lost all hope of me. ~
Rumi
"The land of
natural perfection is free of buddhas and sentient beings; the
ground of natural perfection is free of good and bad; the path of
natural perfection has no length; the fruition of natural
perfection can neither be avoided nor attained; the body of
natural perfection is neither existent nor nonexistent; the
speech of natural perfection is neither sacred nor profane; and
the mind of natural perfection has no substance nor attribute.
The space of natural perfection cannot be consumed nor voided;
the status of natural perfection is neither high nor low; the
praxis of natural perfection is neither developed nor neglected;
the potency of natural perfection is neither fulfilled nor
frustrated; the display of natural perfection is neither manifest
nor latent; the actuality of natural perfection is neither
cultivated nor ignored; and the gnosis of natural perfection is
neither visible nor invisible.
The hidden awareness of
natural perfection is everywhere, its parameters beyond
indication, its actuality incommunicable; the sovereign view of
natural perfection is the here-and-now, naturally present without
speech or books, irrespective of conceptual clarity or dullness,
but as spontaneous joyful creativity its reality is nothing at
all."
- Longchepa, posted to
DailyDharma
This is
really a vast topic and nobody understands it completely and I am
not pretending to. Nevertheless, I have, without any doubt, been
ushered into a state of miraculously enlivened consciousness and
feeling, which reverberates in the One Divine Being. Through the
uniquely activated bliss that begins to manifest as this Awakened
Heart Consciousness, you can actually begin to transform the
lives of many people just by your simple human presence.
I don't know how this
happens. There will always remain many unanswered questions, even
when you have the greatest meditative experiences. Even when you
seem to abide effortlessly in a blissful condition that never
fluctuates, there are still lots of questions. And I think that's
okay. I don't think we need to answer all the questions. I think
you need to be present as this unconditional awakening and
immense feeling, and begin triggering the lives around you, begin
triggering many people through simple human relationships,
relationships that are no longer either simple or merely
human."
Quotation taken from the
talk, "Reverberations within the Void," a talk,
I would like you both to know that since I came through this
garden
gate, everything I look at is nothing else but me, I've never
really,
really seen that before, not really, just glimpses here and
there
along the way. http://www.pbase.com/1heart/image/73486780
Thank you, Mazie,
thank you, Bob.
I have grown to love you both, and all the fellow gardeners
so much.
The absence has made my heart grow nearer, closer, until it
has finally
become absorbed into the absence. No absence, no presence.
- Tom
http://www.pbase.com/1heart/image/73486780
