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#3362 - Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - Editor: Jerry Katz
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4 posts from Nonduality Salon. James, Linda, David, and Melody are featured. One of those four people founded the Nonduality Highlights and was the very first editor. Which one? See if you can tell. Answer at the bottom of this email.
My friend died today -
now we are forever.
Part of me wants to poetically hypnotize you with words -
yet words are such impostors for how I truly feel.
Home. Yes-Yes. Home - the Heart.
It's good to be where I've never left -
and find you - my beloved...
Here - Always and Ever - in Love!
James (Traverse)
Hello,
Once I was in a horrible accident. Our stopped car (on a
highway intersection) was hit from behind by a driver going full
speed who "didn't see us". There was a moment of
sheer terror as I felt the metal crunching impact and our car
started flying across the lanes of the highway toward a
tree. I had a brief thought, "I think we are going to
die." And then everything went silent. There
were no more thoughts. The car and scenery moved as if in
slow motion, a dance of great beauty. I watched with no
emotion, no thoughts, and in peace as our car moved and collided
with a metal speed sign that was between us and the tree.
When I was a teenager, my parents took my
sister and me on vacation to California. We stopped at the
Grand Canyon on our way. It was partly cloudy but as we
approached the canyon, there was a thick of clouds with
lightening that filled the canyon below us. I was stunned
into silence and wordless watching. I was that thunderstorm
beneath me. We stayed overnight there and the next morning
was a clear day. I walked to the edge of the canyon and
fell into a deep silence, no words sufficent or needed.
When I was 48 I died and had a NDE. Part
of that experience was entering into the Light of
undifferentiated consciousness.
I know who I am not.
I do not know why I am here. I don't
really care most of the time because I continue to have those
occasional moments of acute, silent being.
Cheers,
Linda
My God,
I love You enough
to give you up
like a habit
and walk the desert of withdrawal
I wash these hands of you, oh Lord
in the river Styx
I love You enough to nail you to a tree
so that I may be reborn...
--David Bozzi
I remember years ago, Jerry, you had a page
on your website -
I thought it was entitled "what is nonduality" and is
was
filled with responses from various members of the
NondualitySalon.
I looked for it earlier, but the page I found had only quotes
from
people who write books or are generally recognized as 'authority'
in
someway, it seemed.
Are those old pages anywhere still? The ones from 'everyday
people'?
Melody ~ ~ ~
They're here:
http://nonduality.com/whatis2.htm
http://nonduality.com/whatis3.htm ~ ~ ~
Great! Thanks.
Reading it brings back great memories.
Here are just a few of some favorites:
"You can come up with a very clear and concise articulation
of
nonduality, and you can speak of it over and over again, and you
can
attempt to align your activity to that articulation. But in fact,
organically, unless you've surrendered to the Will of God, which
is
movement but in the domain of nonduality, any state of nonduality
is
not mature." --Matthew Files
"Nonduality could be called the journey to resolve the
relation
between you, the other sentient beings and the objects, for once
and
forever." Jan Barendrecht
"Nonduality for me doesn´t mean to have no feelings. Just
the other
way around to be total alive and authentic." Joanna
"Oral nondualism seems to be "talking the talk",
an easy thing for
most and a sneaky little trap when we can do it eloquently. Then
there is the matter of "walking the walk". However i
dont think
nondualism is something that we do or not do. It isnt something
that
we can practice. There is no such thing as nondualistic
activities as
opposed to dualistic activities. Nonduality is simply the context
of
all manifestation. There is however enlightened duality."
Matthew
Files