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#3417 -
Monday, January 19, 2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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You who want
By Hadewijch
(13th
Century)
English version by Jane Hirshfield
You who want
knowledge,
seek the Oneness
within
There you
will find
the clear mirror
already waiting
It is spring in the mountains,
I come alone seeking you.
The sound of chopping wood echoes
between the silent peaks.
The streams are still icy,
there is snow on the trail.
At sunset I reach your grove
in the stony mountain pass.
You want nothing, although at night
you can see the aura of gold
and silver ore all around you.
You have learned to be gentle
as the mountain deer you have tamed.
The way back forgotten, hidden away
I become like you,
an empty boat,
floating,
adrift.
words of Tu-Fu, written on the wall at Chang's hermitage
from Tom McFerren
"I am learning to see. I don't know
why it is, but everything
penetrates more deeply into me and does not stop at the place
where until now it always used to finish. I have an inner self of
which I was ignorant. Everything goes thither now, what happens
there I do not know."
Rainer Maria Rilke
from Tom McFerren
"To repeat an important point: What
is recognized is that there is no
'thing' to recognize. Nondual awareness is not a thing that can
be
identified or pinpointed. This is most essential because without
recognizing
that there is no thing to recognize, you will always hold onto
some idea
about the awakened state. Clinging to subject and object in the
recognition
is none other than a dualistic frame of mind. Recognize that
there is no
thing to recognize (grasp, know or understand), then totally let
go of
clinging to "things" and relax deeply into the open
spaciousness. Remain
without observer and observed. As long as there is something to
identify or
think about there is still concept. It is this dualistic mind of
continually
affirming or denying that is exhausting."
Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche posted to
Open Awareness by Rob Matthews
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln
Psalms 15
Lord, who can be trusted
with power,
and who may act in your place?
Those with a passion for justice,
who speak the truth from their hearts;
who have let go of selfish interests
and grown beyond their own lives;
who see the wretched as their family
and the poor as their flesh and blood.
They alone are impartial
and worthy of the people's trust.
Their compassion lights up the whole earth,
and their kindness endures forever.
(A Book of Psalms, translations by Stephen Mitchell)
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