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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3611, Saturday, August 1, 2009, Editor: Mark
Some selections from Allspirit:
No past.
No future.
Open Mind.
Open Heart.
Complete attention.
No reservations.
That's all.
- Scott Morrison
The Holy Longing
Tell a wise person, or else keep silent.
Because the massman will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.
In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you
when you see the silent candle burning.
Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher lovemaking
sweeps you upward.
Distance does not make you falter,
now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe, translated by Robert Bly
Withdraw now from the invisible pounding and weaving of your
ingrained ideas. If you want to be rid of this invisible turmoil,
you must just sit through it and let go of everything. Attain
fulfillment and illuminate thoroughly. Light and shadow
altogether forgotten. Drop off your own skin, and the sense-dusts
will be fully purified. The eye then readily discerns the
brightness.
- Hongzhi Zhengjue (1091-1157)
We don't "have" awareness, we "are"
awareness. And awareness "is" love. When it is wide
open, when it is not fixated on some narrow and contrived
identity, some narrow craving, argument, irritation, or fear, the
nature of awareness is unconditionally affectionate, tender,
sensitive, and compassionate. Advaita Vedanta, Christian
meditation, the Buddhadharma, Kabbalah, Vipassana, Tibetan
Dzogchen, Zen practice, Sufi practice, and all true forms of
mysticism, at their very best, are simply doors to this
discovery. The radical, unconditional mercy of Jesus, the
uncorrupted compassion and understanding of the Buddha - these
are just metaphors for your own pure heart, the core of your own
being. Yours, mine, everyone's.
Scott Morrison