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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3156, Sunday, May 4, 2008, Editor: Mark
I confess that there is nothing to teach: no religion, no
science, no body of information which will lead your mind back to
the Tao. Today I speak in this fashion, tomorrow in another, but
always the Integral Way is beyond words and beyond mind. Simply
be aware of the oneness of things.
- Lao Tzu, from Hua Hu Ching, translated by Brian Walker
Your mind is steeped in the habits of evaluation and acquisition,
and will not admit that the incomparable and unobtainable are
waiting timelessly within your own heart for recognition. All you
have to do is to abandon all memories and expectations. Just keep
yourself ready in utter nakedness and nothingness.
Nisargadatta, from I Am That
The Buddha's Last Instruction
"Make of yourself a light"
said the Buddha,
before he died.
I think of this every morning
as the east begins
to tear off its many clouds
of darkness, to send up the first
signal-a white fan
streaked with pink and violet,
even green.
An old man, he lay down
between two sala trees,
and he might have said anything,
knowing it was his final hour.
The light burns upward,
it thickens and settles over the fields.
Around him, the villagers gathered
and stretched forward to listen.
Even before the sun itself
hangs, disattached, in the blue air,
I am touched everywhere
by its ocean of yellow waves.
No doubt he thought of everything
that had happened in his difficult life.
And then I feel the sun itself
as it blazes over the hills,
like a million flowers on fire-
clearly I'm not needed,
yet I feel myself turning
into something of inexplicable value.
Slowly, beneath the branches,
he raised his head.
He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd.
Mary Oliver
A Single Desire
Awakeness is inherent
in all things and all beings
everywhere
all the time.
This awakeness relates to every moment
from innocence
from absolute honesty
from a state where you feel
absolutely authentic.
Only from this state
do you realize
that you never really wanted
whatever you thought you wanted.
You realize
that behind all of your desires
was a single desire:
to experience each moment
from your true nature.
© 2007 by Adyashanti
Every thought of causing or changing
tumbles down
in the spirit of acceptance.
See the trip unfold.
No welcome or rejection to bind you.
Coming into being
like moths drifting in from the night
to the light.
In one glimpse, a vast plan
opens before me who no longer acts,
who sees the pieces of his life
floating like leaves down a stream,
and smiles.
- Shawn Nevins
Always,
the relentless insistence
of the Obvious to be known...
- Bart Marshall