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#2945 - Wednesday, October 3, 2007 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Nondual Highlights
Typed from The Truth Is, Sri
H.W.L. Poonja, Compiled and
edited by Prashanti de Jager, pages 25
- 27
Self
Self is what you are, You are That
Fathomlessness in which experience and
concepts appear.
Self is the Moment which has no coming or
going.
It is the Heart, Atman, Emptiness.
It shines to Itself, by Itself, in Itself.
Self is what gives breath to life,
you need not search for It, It is Here.
You are That through which you would search.
You are what you are looking for!
And That is all it is.
Only Self is.
You were never born, and though only desire
takes birth,
Nothing has ever happened, Nothing has ever
existed!
This Nothingness you are, and this is the
Ultimate Truth.
You are totally alone because Beauty alone
is.
Only Self is.
You simply cannot deny that you are
Consciousness.
You dwell in the Lotus of the Heart as Joy
in Bliss.
Keep Quiet and you will reveal your Self to
your Self.
Self Knowledge is that which is worth
sacrificing anything for,
because everything else is just a mirage
rising out of Consciousness.
Self is the indweller of all Beings,
so love of others is Love of Self, your
Self.
Self is the greatest Love and the dearest of
all lovers.
Love is the attraction of Self to Self
in Self.
There is nothing besides this Love,
this source of Joy.
See your own beauty and you are this
Indweller, this Love
and the beauty itself.
Neti, Neti; but
what you Are cannot be rejected.
It is Now only; waking or sleeping or
dreaming,
It is still the Now which only Is.
Only Self is.
This present Moment is Light, is Self.
This Moment is not bondage or freedom.
It is most precious beyond ideation.
This Moment is the screen on which all
projects.
It is always Still and Untouched and it is
out of time.
There is no difference between the Ultimate
and this Presence.
To be in this Moment abandon all desires,
including the desire to be in it.
That which has no name or form
has millions of names:
Being, Awareness, Bliss, Isness, Atman,
Truth, self,
Auspiciousness, Beauty, Freedom, Divine
Love,
Fullness, Emptiness, Consciousness, Nowness,
Effortlessness, Hereness, Silence, Brahman.
As the tongue speaks the word 'tongue'
so you speak these names.
To avoid the veiling of your nature with
preconceptions,
Buddha spoke of self in negative terms
like Anata, Untouched, Unmanifest, Unseen,
Unapproachable, Unknowable, and Unstained.
Before notions and creations you exist,
so there are no words
for That beyond words and language.
Self doesn't need to understand Itself,
Freedom is before the concept of freedom.
You are what remains
when the concepts of 'I', mind and past
disappear.
Nothingness is no concept.
Identify as Peace-Beauty-Love, do not
experience it.
Know, 'I am inactive, the activity takes
place in me,
I am That, I am the screen, I never come and
I never go'.
Identify as Consciousness Itself.
If you do not forget who you are,
this appearance of activity is the Cosmic
Dance.
Stay as 'I am', not as what comes and goes.
The individual I-sense is mind, but Being
has no frontiers.
It is aware of Itself Itself. Identify
as being.
When mind is pure
you will see Self in all Beings.
Purify the mind by
removing all concepts,
especially the concept of
purity.
Then Self reveals itself
to the empty mind
which is
Consciousness.
Ego and mind and all creations arise out of
Self as self,
even the ugliest of doubts and the most
separate of differences
rise from the beautiful source as Isness.
In Self there are no do's and don'ts.
If there is unhappiness you are not unhappy,
you are the Untouched Awareness of this
unhappiness.
As waves are not separate from ocean, nor
rays from sun,
you are not separate from Existence.
You are the moment in which all is.
The Scriptures speak of the three Holy
rivers Within.
These are Existence, Consciousness, and
Bliss.
Being beyond thought and effort
they cannot be objectified or
subjectified.
They are so dear, so near, behind the retina
and before breath.
You need not see This, you are It.
You are not different than Existence, than
Being.
See Being everywhere by not looking.
The Seeing is Being, not the objects seen.
Consciousness is the original Mother.
If you know this she will take care of you
and give you Happiness , Peace and
Deathlessness.
This Mother we do not recognise and this
gets us into trouble.
This Unknown is your nature, return to That
because the known will give no lasting
Peace,
no lasting Love.
Bliss is Eternal,
even though it appears to arise when the
mind dies.
Bliss is not an experience, It is your
nature.
This is the Heart of the Wise.
This gift is always calling to everyone,
'You are seated in the Heart of all Beings'.
This is the Truth: Your Face shines.
posted by Ben Hassine
Millennium blessing
There is a grace
approaching
that we shun as much
as death,
it is the completion
of our birth.
It does not come in
time,
but in timelessness
when the mind sinks
into the heart
and we remember.
It is an insistent
grace that draws us
to the edge and
beckons us surrender
safe territory and
enter our enormity.
We know we must pass
beyond knowing
and fear the shedding.
But we are pulled
upward
none-the-less
through forgotten
ghosts
and unexpected angels,
luminous.
And there is nothing
left to say
but we are That.
And that is what we
sing about.
--from Breaking the Drought:Visions of Grace
by Stephen Levine
posted to Wisdom-l
I WRITE OF THAT JOURNEY
I remember how my mother would hold me.
I would look up at her sometimes and see her weep.
I understand now what was happening.
Love so strong a force
it broke the cage,
and she disappeared from everything
for a blessed
moment.
All actions have evolved
from the taste of flight;
the hope of freedom
moves our cells
and limbs.
Unable to live on the earth, Mira ventured out alone in the sky,
I write of that journey
of becoming as
free as
God.
Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across
the universe.
~ Mira ~ (Love
Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West
by Daniel Ladinsky)
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