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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3225, Saturday, July 12, 2008, Editor: Mark
It is important to remember that these meditations are not
puzzles to be solved, coded messages to be "figured
out" or vitamins to be swallowed whole, rather they are on
the order of tasty treats to be held gently in one's intuitive
heart and allowed to melt. From such simple moments great
Understanding is sometimes revealed.
- Wayne Liquorman
This talk of personal self and universal self is the learner's
stage; go beyond, do not be stuck in duality.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear
to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he
sees all things thru' narrow chinks of his cavern.
- William Blake
Sometimes I feel like a king,
sometimes I moan in my own prison.
Swaying between these states
I can't be proud of myself.
This "I" is a figment of my imagination.
- Rumi, translation by Azima Melita Kolin and Maryam Mafi Rumi:
Whispers of the Beloved, posted to Sunlight
You cannot possibly say that you are what you think yourself to
be! Your ideas about yourself change from day to day, and moment
to moment. Your self-image is the most changeful thing you have.
It is utterly vulnerable, at the mercy of a passer-by. To know
what you are, you must first investigate and know what you are
not. The clearer you understand that on the level of mind you can
be described in negative terms only, the quicker you will come to
the end of your search and realize your limitless being.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
So the belief in the existence of a separate self and our
identity with that is the root of the problem. But eventually you
come round to asking if the limited self that we have been taking
ourselves to be is real or even present. If it is real, then we
should be able to find it. So where is it? What is it actually?
You come to see that all suffering is based on a cause which,
upon investigation is found to be completely non-existent. Seeing
this, all possible doubts and questions are undermined and cannot
survive. Simultaneously, you come to see that you are inseparable
from that natural state of presence-awareness which is inherently
free, whole and complete. Nothing or no one can shake you from
this understanding. It is the fact of your being, and you are
that.
- John Wheeler