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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3867, Saturday, April 17, 2010, Editor: Mark
If we disinterestedly observe the arising and disappearing of all
the states we experience, we soon come to realize that each
state, each perception, each thought, is reabsorbed into an
unspoken knowing, knowing as being. This, the continuum, the only
reality, is there before activity commences. Let yourself sink
deep within this stillness each time it makes itself felt.
- Jean Klein
Six
The Tao gives rise to all forms, yet it has no form of its own.
If you attempt to fix a picture of it in your mind, you will lose
it. This is like pinning a butterfly: the husk is captured, but
the flying is lost. Why not be content with simply experiencing
it?
- Lao Tzu, from Hua Hu Ching,, translated by Brian Walker,
and thanks to Wayne
The truth is that you already are what you are seeking. You are
looking for God with his eyes. This truth is so simple, shocking
and radical that it is easy to miss among one's flurry of
seeking. He is here to shake his students awake and not to ask
them to dream better. We must wake up to the fact that we are all
already living Buddhas. We are the emptiness, the infinite
nothing. Let go of all ideas and images in our minds: they come
and go and are not even generated by us.
- Adyashanti, from Emptiness Dancing
The scriptures declare that seeing the Self is seeing God.
Being Single, how can one see one's own Self?
If Oneself cannot be seen, how can God be?
To be absorbed by God is to see Him.
- Ramana Maharshi, from Forty Verses by Ramana Maharshi,
and thanks to AnkhAton
Understand one thing well, and you have arrived. What prevents
you from knowing is not the lack of opportunity, but the lack of
ability to focus in your mind what you want to understand. If you
could but keep in mind what you do not know, it would reveal to
you its secrets. But if you are shallow and impatient, not
earnest enough to look and wait, you are like a child crying for
the moon.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That, posted to
AlongTheWay
A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What
are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of
course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise
and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and
there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there
was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a
quiet certitude.
Wei Wu Wei, posted to Distillation