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- Thursday-Friday,
The Nondual Highlights
In this issue several writings appearing in
the Nonduality Salon or in my mail box over the last few weeks.
Lots of gifted people we hang out with.
Quotes from Marko....
The truth is something which everybody agree with.
Everybody agree on no idea, so that must be the truth.
~ ~ ~
Motive is the treasure
owner.
~ ~ ~
You can write about your
true nature with a rubber only.
~ ~ ~
Language is a drug and
the Divine Self is the only junkie. He likes it.
~ ~ ~
The human body is made of
scientific language.
God is made of religious language.
Reality is made of "advaita language".
~ ~ ~
When wisdom destroys all
ignorance it becomes ignorance itself.
~ ~ ~
Language only can create
and destroy the illusion of duality.
ETERNITY
From grief so deep
Came a joy equally profound
I never could have dreamed
In the wildest of them all
That this would be possible
I am alive in the world
It courses through me
And I through it
We are one and the same
Straining at the shackles
That threaten to tie us down
Or worse yet, define us
A role, once taken
Isn’t easily changed
I am like the river
That flows in directions
Only it knows
I believed I’d lost my mother
Yet find her everywhere
Vast and expansive
She has joined the current
Of the great all
She beats in my breast
She whispers in my ears
She flows in my veins
In sadness, I cry her tears
Once I believed I would join her
But now it seems
She has joined me
Together forever right here
In eternity.
© 1994
Cassie Zievers
Everybody's enlightened
but most folks don't know it
but knowing it
is what enlightenment
is.
Xan
Everybody wants enlightenment to be the profound
thing they have experienced.
Welcome, profoundly experienced people. :-)
Is enlightenment Debbie's
healing-and-make-a-buck-off-that? Is it Anna's bliss?
Is it Jerry's I am, I am, I am? Is it Jeff and Eric's
suddenness and subsequent teaching? Is it yosy's
What if, as in my case, the sudden profound sense of
being welcomed was there in spades, and one other item on the
Wanderling's page, including one not found on his page,
but four of his other items unquestionably came in an
experience 19 years later? And one of his
items not at all. Then again, my blog co-author had
two experiences, with a different mix of items each time than I
had.
So, shall we classify experiences of oneness as
different from enlightenment? And hey, why hasn't anyone
mentioned possible differences between awakening and
liberation? <grin>
Jacob Boehme's experience was identical to my first
one, and his is classified as the minority "type" by
William T. Stace, who broke "mysticism experiences"
down into introverted and extroverted. http://www.amazon.com/Mysticism-Philosophy-W-T-Stace/dp/0874774160
And then there's the drug issue. Stace also
recounts a hallucinogen-induced experience identical to my first
one, yet I've never taken an illegal drug. Then we have the
guy who had never heard of all this stuff, and simply went out
for a cigarette. And the woman who subsequently came down
with a brain tumor.
Some would say the experience must include, either
during or after, Ramana and K's samadhi, U.G.'s bodily death, or
anybody's kundalini. What if, as in my case, over a period
of a few months, samadhi becomes (unsought) something more and
more rapidly approaching constant, and then goes poof in a
sudden, unexpected experience of nothingness, from which it looks
like it will never return, along, apparently, with everything
else?
Although my "adventures" in this regard
are not at all similar to Millennium Twain's, I think I'd almost
have to agree with him on this point: "would have to
say that there are as many
enlightenments as there are individuals ... "
And in addition, there's no such thing. And
now you're wondering from which "side" I said
that. :-)
By the way, if you disagree with anything I've
written:
I'm right and you're utterly mistaken.
<grin>
Jodi
P.S. It's a privilege to know all of you
through the internet.
James Joyce Recycled
i do not know
if james is your choyce
and if your duality is non- or indivi- or just gra-
well, anyway here's a poem.
Read it with that "i welcome whatever comes next"
attitude those eastern guys sometimes have:
Dual of Ayessha
if there is not a dual a duel to die to day
(thereby, he said,
reflecting from his own individual person life unlivable, trans-
accidentated through the slow fires of consciousness into a divi-
dual chaos, perilous, potent, common to allflesh, human only,
mortal)
Ohibow, if I was Blonderboss I'd gooandfrighthisdualman
in a dreariodreama setting, glowing and very vidual
Cheers
Martin
p.s.:
this "poem" was assembled by grepping "Finnegans
Wake" by James
Joyce for the term "dual", then dropping all items with
"individual"
and "gradual" and cutting the remaining 5 entries left
from
alltogether 628 Pages.
I dreamed that Joyce was a gra-dual-non-dual-in-di-vi-dual
although he said that you know what reality is best, when you
step into dogshit on the pavement....
Terence Stamp has finished
recording an unabridged reading of Perfect Brilliant
Stillness by David Carse and I thought this recording
might be of interest to ndhighlights readers. It's a
beautiful production, fluent and heartfelt.
Silksoundbooks is a new venture producing high quality recordings
of classic books by noted actors for download in mp3 format for
ipods and computers.
More info here: http://www.silksoundbooks.com/home.aspx
and here: http://www.silk.co.uk/terencestamp.html
Jeff Belyea riffs on I-I...
We big bop along in life,
glance in the mirror, dance to the music - move,
feel and see ourselves as "I".
And one day, while interior listening to THE
Big Bopper, it hits us. The "I" I thought I was
is a fabrication foistered upon me by the social
order. We realize that our God became,
"What will other people think".
But The Big Bopper puts a new wiggle in
our walk, giggle in our talk. A sudden rush
of wisdom tells us beyond doubt that we
are not merely the egoistic emotionally
manipulated weakling we secretly
fear...we are absolutely
perfect just as we are! We have
"stepped into perfection".(Hebrew 6 for
the Christina theist.)
Now we got a new attitude:
Fuck everyone else's opinion (felt with love,
of course). I Am That I am.. that I thought was "God".
Jesus put it, "My Father and I will make our abode
within your heart." This new move-in comes
with a side order of absolute "cleansing" -
a sense of having become a brand (no spanking)
new person. Guilt free. Conscience free. Start
over, 0000000 on our odometer of life.
This is bliss. You mentioned that
you like to hang out with enlightened
people (even though you consider
enlightenment "bullshit") because
of their sense of humor. The sense of
humor spills out of the joy this
realization or remembering brings.
While it may be no more than a recall
of who we were way back, untainted -
the recall makes us feel brand new -
reborn, enlightened, awakened...you
get the point.
And so, the I that we thought was us
is now seen as a "secondary" way of
being (Buddha called it "illusory maya")
and the primary us...is the "I-I".
I-I hope this helps.
Jeff
A great article by Steven Antinoff titled
"Spiritual Atheism" appeared in American Poetry
Review last year. I think many of you would enjoy
it, but because of where it was published, you may not have
seen it. So here's the link: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3692/is_200607/ai_n16597922 . It's Part 2 of a set, but you don't
need to go back and read Part 1 – that's summarized at
the beginning.
Mr. Antinoff writes about "the
quest" and the simultaneous evasion of the quest. And the
inherent impossibility of the quest. (". . . if the barrier
is the one seeking to ram through the barrier, then one is
blocked at the first move.") The article is amazingly
honest. It's also 39 pages, so if you're not able to read it now,
you might bookmark it for those long winter evenings.
Jodi
The internet is good at
spreading information, but more knowledge is
not what is needed.
That being said, I have a blog and a podcast. How and what
I write and
speak online is quite different than one-on-one in person or in
small
groups in person.
What is put online is more vague so that more understand what I
am
saying. Too many times I have answered a question on a
public forum
and the answer was geared for the specific person - only to have
others
say what I said was wrong or not quite right. It would be
wrong for
another, but right for the person I addressed.
Only having a personal teacher would you get a personal
instruction.
Each person is at a different point and has different tendancies
(different illusions and delusions). A true teacher will
point the way
for the specific student (which may not be nondual in nature if
someone
is not ready for it).
A true teacher can never become out-moded...the personal touch is
always superior to something geared to the general public or even
a
subsection (but a crowd none-the-less). A true teacher is
also
superior to doing it yourself (forging your own way, so to
speak).
Namaste,
~ Eric Putkonen
podcast - http://www.awaken2life.org/outofourminds.rss
blog - http://people.tribe.net/awaken2life/blog