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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3513, Saturday, April 25, 2009, Editor: Mark
Editor's note: I've included 3 videos on this HL. Each is fairly
long, but well worth viewing, and if you have the time and want
the flow, read the words and watch the videos in order...
Love, Mark
Dear Fuzzy Bunnies -
Noticing is everything.
Noticing is everything.
Noticing is everything.
When we begin a meeting or a retreat, I often find myself
inviting people into simple noticing, dropping from the mind's
interpretations of things down into the felt sense of being here.
Noticing from flesh, what it feels like to be here, making full
contact with the moment. If you attempt to find the
"noticer," you will play a delightful game of a puppy
chasing its tail, the same game that Ramana Maharshi invited us
into with the question "Who am I?" The question is not
designed to find a conceptual answer, but to allow that which
thinks there is someone separate there to exhaust or delight
itself in an infinite loop of searching that leaves us at last in
the poverty and richness of being a shining clueless nothing.
This noticing is what you are. Not the noticer, but the noticing.
You are not an object, but a vast and full Silence that is more
verb than noun. If you let yourself sit on your couch as noticing
space, as a cloud of unknowing, everything that is noticed is a
gift to you, floats in you, comes to you, to nothing, out of
nothing. See if when you sit as a noticing nothing if you can
find anything other than the noticing, the sensations, and
thought. Not much going on there! And yet, as we drop into that
fully, plenty is going on. Alive buzzing Presence filling the
body, sensations that hold our hands and lead us into their
hearts of nothing, the delight of subtle energies dancing in us.
This is not a battle with the mind but an invitation to explore
what else is here besides thought! We tend to move through our
days with our attention fused to thought, listening to thought
for every clue, beseeching thought for the way out or the way
through or the solution. Thought can only deliver ways or
solutions that are obsolete, that are made of the building blocks
of the old, of concept. Exploring Presence and sensation and this
vast world of the felt sense of being allows us to open to the
fertile Void of the Unknown, and thus open to Grace and Her
infinite solution of Love.
This dropping into the felt sense of being is available in every
moment. This is the field outside of wrong-doing and right-doing
that Rumi wrote of, where we can meet in Love, beyond the split
of opposites that is the mind's overlay on reality. As we merely
notice, rest as noticing space, allow things to come, to be, to
float in us, we drop back into the ground of being, and the magic
and creativity of This leads our lives for us.
The most common question I ask in working with other beings is,
"What are you noticing"
What are you noticing? What are you that's noticing? Welcome to
Manifestation and the Absolute in their dance of Love. It was
never about you.
- Jeannie Zandi, from her newsletter, which you can sign up for
at info@jeanniezandi.com
Never Not Here - Interview with Neelam:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4562533693087121621
Only Awareness Remains
Life moves, undulates, breathes in and out, contracting and
expanding. This is its nature, the nature of what is. Whatever
is, is on the move. Nothing remains the same for very long. The
mind wants everything to stop so that it can get its foothold,
find its position, so it can figure out how to control life.
Through the pursuit of material things, knowledge, ideas,
beliefs, opinions, emotional states, spiritual states, and
relationships, the mind seeks to find a secure position from
which to operate.
The mind seeks to nail life down and get it to stop moving and
changing. When this doesn't work, the mind begins to seek the
changeless, the eternal, something that doesn't move. But the
mind of thought is itself an expression of life's movement and so
must always be in movement itself. When there is thought, that
thought is always moving and changing. There is really no such
thing as thought. There is only thinking, so thought which is
always moving (as thinking) cannot apprehend the changeless.
When thought enters into the changeless it goes silent. When
thought goes silent, the thinker, the psychological
"me," the image-produced self, disappears. Suddenly it
is gone. You, as an idea, are gone. Awareness remains alone.
There is no one who is aware. Awareness itself is itself. You are
now no longer the thought, nor the thinker, nor someone who is
aware. Only awareness remains, as itself. Then, within awareness,
thought moves. Within the changeless, change happens.
Now awareness expresses itself. Awareness is always expressing
itself: as life, as change, as thought, feelings, bodies, humans,
plants, trees, cars, etc. Awareness yields to itself, to its
inherent creativity, to its expression in form, to experience
itself. The changeless is changing. The eternal is living and
dying. The formless is form. The form is formless. This is
nothing the mind could have ever imagined.
- Adyashanti
Adyashanti on Awareness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELTiD7L_nU8
Loving Mystery - A Conversation with Pamela Wilson on
ConsciousTV:
http://conscious.tv/consciousness.htmlbcpid=1498094995&bclid=1610663950&bctid=18318123001