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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3715, Sunday, November 15, 2009, Editor: Mark
Besides the world which we can describe, there is another kind of
world. All descriptions of reality are limited expressions of the
world of emptiness. Yet we attach to the descriptions and think
they are reality. That is a mistake because what is described is
not the actual reality, and when you think it is reality, your
own idea is involved. That is an idea of self.
- Shunryu Suzuki
The shift in consciousness happens the moment you say 'yes' to
what is, because the entire structure of the egoic mind-made self
lives on resistance and opposition and on making the now into an
enemy. The beautiful thing is that we can step out of thousands
of years of collective conditioning, without needing more time to
step out of it
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
Space and time, male and female, subject and object, being and
nonbeing - all are lost in the flood of Realization.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar, from A Net of Jewels, posted to
ANetofJewels
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, posted to SufiMystic
If one enquires 'Who am I?' within the mind, the individual 'I'
falls down abashed as soon as one reaches the Heart and
immediately Reality manifests itself spontaneously as 'I-I'.
Although it reveals itself as 'I', it is not the ego but the
Perfect Being, the Absolute Self.
- Ramana Maharshi, verse 30 of Forty Verses on Reality