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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3507, Sunday, April 19, 2009, Editor: Mark
I had always had a sense of 'innerness', a sense of a 'center'
within. Then at one point it struck me that my sense of center
could be an "assumption," not a fact. I suddenly
realized that that assumption created a sense of inner/outer, of
a 'me' inside and of a 'world' outside. With that realization I
was able to 'let go' of that assumption. With that letting go
consciousness became as a point that was everywhere at once.
There was no longer an 'outside'. Everything was included in that
expanded sense of spaceless presence. It was as if the
'subjective geometry' of experience became radically simpler,
indeed as if there were no geometry at all!
~Peter Dziuban in Consciousness is All, posted to
DailyDharma
The gate was opened to me ... in one quarter of an hour I saw and
knew more than if I had been many years together at a University
... I saw it as in a great deep in the internal; for I had a
thorough view of the Universe, as a complex moving fullness
wherein all things are couched and wrapped up.
- Jacob Boehme
If I were to spend years and years imagining how to invent
anything so beautiful, I could not do it, and I do not even know
how I should try, for, even in its whiteness and radiance alone,
it exceeds all that we can imagine.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
Our true nature is not limited ... it is like the vast ocean. ...
When we touch Supreme Consciousness through meditation, then we
are boundless, we are everywhere, we are eternal.
- Amma Karunamayi
At midnight I abruptly awakened. At first my mind was foggy, then
suddenly that quotation flashed into my consciousness: "I
came to realize clearly that Mind is no other than mountains,
rivers, and the great wide earth, the sun and the moon and the
stars." And I repeated it. Then all at once I was struck as
though by lightning, and the next instant heaven and earth
crumbled and disappeared. Instantaneously, like surging waves, a
tremendous delight welled up in me, a veritable hurricane of
delight, as I laughed loudly and wildly: "Ha, ha, ha, ha,
ha, ha! There's no reasoning here, no reasoning at all! Ha, ha,
ha!" the empty sky split in two, then opened its enormous
mouth and began to laugh uproariously ... Shakyamuni and the
patriarchs haven't deceived me!"
- from Three Pillars of Zen by Phillip Kapleau
Behold what wonderful rest is in the Supreme Spirit
! and he enjoys it; who makes himself meet for it.
Held by the cords of love, the swing of the Ocean of Joy
sways to and fro; and a mighty sound breaks forth in song.
See what a lotus blooms there without water !
and Kabir says"My heart's bee drinks its nectar."
What a wonderful lotus it is,
that blooms at the heart of the spinning wheel of the universe!
Only a few pure souls know of its true delight.
Music is all around it,
and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea.
Kabir says: " Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness:
thus let all errors of life and of death fiee away."
- Kabir
These spiritual windowshoppers,
who idly ask, "How much is that?" "Oh, I'm just
looking."
They handle a hundred items and put them down,
shadows with no capital.
What is spent is love and two eyes wet with weeping.
But these walk into a shop,
and their whole lives pass suddenly in that moment,
in that shop.
Where did you go? "Nowhere."
What did you have to eat? "Nothing much."
Even if you don't know what you want,
buy something, to be part of the exchanging flow.
Start a huge, foolish, project,
like Noah.
It makes absolutely no difference
what people think of you.
- Rumi, version by Coleman Barks, from We Are Three