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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3899, Thursday, May 20, 2010, Editor: Mark
The Mulla nearly fell into a pool. A man whom he knew slightly
was near and saved him. Every time he met Nasrudin after that he
would remind him of the service which he had performed.
When this had happened several timmes Nasrudin took him to the
water, jumped in, stood with his head just above water and
shouted: "Now I am as wet as I would have been if you had
not saved me! Leave me alone."
as collected by Idries Shah, posted to allspirit
If you wish to move in the One Way do not dislike even the world
of senses and ideas. Indeed, to accept them fully is identical
with true Enlightenment. The wise man strives to no goals but the
foolish man fetters himself. There is one Dharma, not many;
distinctions arise from the clinging needs of the ignorant. To
seek Mind with the [discriminating] mind is the greatest of all
mistakes.
- Seng-tsan, Verses on the Faith Mind, posted to
Distillation
The way of daily life is the way of working with our viewpoints.
We do that just as we work with our thoughts in meditation
practice. We just recognize: 'this is just a viewpoint. It's not
me. This viewpoint has arisen in this circumstance. It is there.
I do have a feeling about it, but it's not the absolute truth.
It's just a viewpoint.' When we understand that this is a
viewpoint that comes from conditions and train ourselves the same
as we train ourselves in meditation, when we train ourselves
minutely in our daily lives to understand our viewpoints are just
viewpoints, this makes a tremendous difference in how we live.
When we don't try to protect or justify our viewpoints, suddenly
there's freedom, a spaciousness and happiness in our lives.
- Zoketsu Norman Fischer, from the journal, "Karuna,"
posted to DailyDharma
The mind is a beggar because the concept of want makes you a
beggar! Be only "I AM" and try to lift the
begging bowl. Throw away the begging bowl of ego for the throne.
- Papaji, from The Truth Is, posted to AlongTheWay
Even the body is a state of consciousness only; it is not an
object which exists ultimately. It appears to be there, but it is
really not there. This 'you' and 'I' and all that are phantoms.
You have made a gulf of difference between You and I, which is
not really there. It is a mistake that the mind makes. Just as in
dreams persons are there, but are really not there, they are only
split parts of the same mind, one appearing as the I, the other
appearing as you and both are integrated in the single mind in a
certain condition.
- Swami Krishnananda, from Facets of Spirituality,
compiled by S. Bhagyalakshmi, posted to AlongTheWay
It must be constantly borne in mind while trying to understand
the mechanics of the apparent process of manifestation that
nothing has actually been created. All that appears is
mind-stuff, that of which all dreams are made, and apart from
Consciousness itself, nothing exists, neither the mind nor the
senses nor their objects.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
In form you are the microcosm;
in reality you are the macrocosm.
- Rumi, Mathnawi IV: 521, version by Camille and Kabir
Helminski, from Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance, posted to
Sunlight