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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3640, Sunday, August 30 2009, Editor: Mark
Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible.
Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self,
release all grasping, and relax into your true nature.
- Sogyal Rinpoche, from The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
There is nothing to gain. Abandon all imaginings and know
yourself as you are. Self-knowledge is detachment. All craving is
due to a sense of insufficiency. When you know that you lack
nothing, that all there is, is you and yours, desire ceases.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to
traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is
wide open?
- Wei Wu Wei, posted to DailyDharma
The truth of our being is not content until it has freed itself
of its own misunderstanding, its own fixations, its own
illusions.
To allow that to happen, as a human being, we have to be willing
to be honest with ourselves. While not denying what we've seen,
we also have to see how things are, right here and right now. We
need to look. We need to ask: "What in me can still go into
division? What in me can still go into hate, into ignorance, into
greed? What in me can cause me to feel divided, isolated, full of
sorrow? Where are those spots in me that are less awakened?
We need to see these places, because that which is awakened in us
is compassionate. Its nature is undivided, unconditioned love. It
doesn't move away from that which is unawakened; it moves toward
it. That within us which is awakened doesn't move away from the
contradictions in our thought patterns or behaviors. It doesn't
move away from fixations, it doesn't move away from pain, but
quite the opposite. It moves toward it.
- Adyashanti
Having realized the Self, which is soundless, intangible,
formless, undecaying, and likewise tasteless, eternal, and
odorless; having realized That which is without beginning and
end, beyond the Great, and unchanging - one is freed from the
jaws of death.
- Katha Upanishad 1.3.15