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Nondual Highlights: Issue #2948, Saturday, October 6, 2007
Whether people are beautiful and friendly or unattractive and
disruptive, ultimately they are human beings, just like oneself.
Like oneself, they want happiness and do not want suffering.
Furthermore, their right to overcome suffering and be happy is
equal to one's own.
Now, when you recognize that all beings are equal in both their
desire for happiness and their right to obtain it, you
automatically feel empathy and closeness for them. Through
accustoming your mind to this sense of universal altruism, you
develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help
them actively overcome their problems. Nor is this wish
selective; it applies equally to all. As long as they are human
beings experiencing pleasure and pain just as you do, there is no
logical basis to discriminate between them or to alter your
concern for them if they behave negatively.
Let me emphasize that it is within our power, given patience and
time, to develop this kind of compassion. Of course, our self-
centeredness, our distinctive attachment to the feeling of an
independent, self-existent "I: works fundamentally to
inhibit our compassion. Indeed, true compassion can be
experienced only when this type of self-grasping is eliminated.
But this does not mean that we cannot start and make progress
now.
- H.H. Dali Lama, posted to DailyDharma
Ram Tzu knows this:
You can only be lost
If you are trying
To get somewhere.
- Ram Tzu, from No Way for the Spiritually
"Advanced"
Surrender is to surrender your concept
of separateness - your ego.
Surrender is to submit your stupidness,
your wickedness to the will of existence.
That's all.
You must surrender like a river
discharging into the Ocean.
Surrender is to discharge your river
of separateness into the Ocean of Being...
Losing your limitations,
and allowing to happen what happens.
Papaji, posted to Mystic_Spirit
There comes a time in one's evolution when every touch of beauty
moves the heart to tears, and it is at that time that the Beloved
of heaven is brought to earth.
- Hazrat Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan, posted to SufiMystic
It Doesn't Go Away (Passion)
It doesn't go away, does it?
These feelings. This feeling.
These memories.
These pictures in my head.
The beating in my heart,
quickening when I lose myself
in wanting you,
my mother's songs,
my father's hands,
this poetry,
these blue skies
Autumn,
these sudden storms
of passion,
my babies' milk breath.
these words
these voices that speak,
my dog's grey-bearded presence,
this music
these colours,
this anger of
suffering,
this compassion
this hard rain
this Light of Awareness
this ocean of dreams,
this endless desire to
be, to have, to change,
to Love without borders,
to be free,
to fly,
It doesn't go away.
ever.
this living I live so pure, so
shamelessly alive.
- Anna Ruiz, posted to NondualitySalon
You don't require any special circumstance. What you are exists
in any and every circumstance. The circumstances we call birth or
death can never touch you. You are prior to the sensation of
birth and death. What you are existed before this body was born.
Karl Renz, posted to The_Now2
All will come as you go on. Take the first step first. All
blessings come from within. Turn within. `I am' you know. Be with
it all the time you can spare, until you revert to it
spontaneously. There is no simpler and easier way.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That, posted to
AlongTheWay