Click here to go to the next issue
Highlights Home Page | Receive the Nonduality Highlights each day
How to submit material to the Highlights
#3732 -
Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
The Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights
THE MAN OF TAO
The man in whom Tao
Acts without impediment
Harms no other being
By his actions
Yet he does not know himself
To be "kind," to be "gentle."
The man in whom Tao
Acts without impediment
Does not bother with his own interests
And does not despise
Others who do.
He does not struggle to make money
And does not make a virtue of poverty.
He goes his way
Without relying on others
And does not pride himself
On walking alone.
While he does not follow the crowd
He won't complain of those who do.
Rank and reward
Make no appeal to him;
Disgrace and shame
Do not deter him.
He is not always looking
For right and wrong
Always deciding "Yes" and "No."
The ancients said, therefore:
"The man of Tao
Remains unknown
Perfect virtue
Produces nothing
'No-Self'
Is 'True-Self'
And the greatest man
Is Nobody"
posted to OpenAwareness by Roy Whenary
The Heart of the World
Sometimes modern people misunderstand Buddhism’s focus on
the individual human journey as well as its injunction to people
to find out who they are and to seek their own ultimate
fulfillment. With our Western suspicions of meditation, of
looking within— and, frankly, our fear of being alone—not
infrequently, we tend to reject the inward looking of Buddhism as
somehow disconnected from the social context and disloyal to it.
If Buddhism were a static tradition with an unchanging
interpretation of what people are and of how they need to engage
their world, such suspicions would have some merit. But Buddhism
is nothing other than a set of practices to open up the mysteries
of the human heart and the deepest realities of our human
experience as those exist, uniquely in us, right at this moment.
And the human heart is not personal: the more we fathom our own
hearts, the more we find there the being of others and, beyond
that, the very heart of the world itself.
- Reginald Ray, "Looking Inward, Seeing Outward"
Read the complete article on tricycle.com.
photos posted on Facebook to the new spiritual art of the world By:Alan Larus
Diwali
| and how did
you think the light would manifest into the worlds? if not through your single eye of awareness? and how did you think the light would shine into all hearts? if not through the landscape you speak of? if not through your poems sung by a river? and how did you think the river flows from the mountain into the sea? if not through the silence that sings like a lark? By Anna |