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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3799, Saturday, February 6, 2010, Editor: Mark
Disappearance of the Illusion
You were once a swan singing
melodies, Lalla. Now you're quiet.
Someone, I don't know who, has run off
with what belonged to you.
The millstone stops, and the hole
where the grain is fed in fills
with grain. The channel leading
to the grinding work is covered over
and hidden, and the miller
himself has disappeared.
- Lalla, from Naked Song, version by Coleman Barks, posted
to AlongTheWay
Any meaning or purpose can only be a mental overlay on what is,
right now.
Time is a concept only. For any meaning or purpose there has to
be time and a me as reference points. There simply is no time and
there simply is no me.
Oneness, this immediate presence, is the only reality And in
oneness, all appears to happen. But it is only the mind that
creates meanings and purposes. Prior to these creations of the
mind, you are That.
The entire point of all the teachings is to be what you are.
Identification with the particular is the problem. In giving up
mental definitions, it is immediately clear that there can be
no< separation, except for an imagined person.
- Randall Friend You Are No Thing, posted to AlongTheWay
The relief that originates from a"space" or a
"presence" to which we can "go" has a very
short life expectancy, for such a space or presence is still a
state of mind. The relief that originates from the experience of
our true nature is eternal.
- Francis Lucille, posted to OAStudyGroup
When there is really a conviction that I am only an instrument,
like the billions of human beings through which God or Totality
functions, how can there not be a tremendous sense of freedom?
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought `I am'. The mind will
rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it
will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin
to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any
interference on your part.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That: Talks with Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to Distillation
Who makes these changes?
I shoot an arrow right.
It lands left.
I ride after a deer and find myself
chased by a hog.
I plot to get what I want
and end up in prison.
I dig pits to trap others
and fall in.
I should be suspicious
of what I want.
- Rumi Mathnawi VI: 3682-87, from The Essential Rumi,
version by Coleman Barks, posted to Sunlight