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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3915, Sunday, June 6, 2010, Editor: Mark
Wherever there is desire there is suffering. Liberation can only
occur when desire has been totally absent. It is not attainable
by any means or effort, which itself depends on desire.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
MIND IS CONFUSION; there is no clarity. And mind is always
crowded, always cloudy; never the open sky, cloudless, empty.
Mind cannot be that. You cannot make your mind clear; it is not
the nature of the mind to be so.
MIND WILL REMAIN UNCLEAR. If you can leave the mind behind, if
you can suddenly transcend the mind and come out of it, clarity
will happen to you. YOU CAN BE CLEAR, but not the mind. There is
not such a thing as a clear mind; never has been and never will
be. Mind means the unclarity, the confusion.
Try to understand the structure of the mind.... WHAT IS MIND? A
continuous process of thought, a continuous procession of
thoughts -- associated, non-associated, relevant, irrelevant --
many multi-dimensional impressions gathered from everywhere. The
whole life is a gathering, a gathering of the dust. And this goes
on and on.
A child is born. A CHILD IS CLEAR -- because the mind is not
there. The moment mind appears, the unclarity, the confusion,
enters. A child is clear, a clarity -- but he will have to gather
knowledge, information, culture, religion, conditionings --
necessary, useful. HE WILL HAVE TO GATHER MANY THINGS FROM
EVERYWHERE, from many sources -- opposite, contradictory sources.
From thousands and thousands of sources he will gather. Then the
mind will become a market-place, a crowd. And because of so many
sources, CONFUSION IS BOUND TO BE THERE. And whatsoever you
gather, nothing is certain -- because knowledge is always a
growing affair.
- OSHO: Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, vol 2, Ch #9: Conscious doing
pm in Bombay, India
Unless we have the determination to increase our mindfulness from
moment to moment, we will easily forget to practice it.
- Ayya Kemas, posted to The_Now2
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had
chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your
friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform
your whole life.
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2
One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is
invisible to the eyes.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
O monks, even if you have insight that is pure and clear but you
cling to it, fondle it and treasure it, depend on it and are
attached to it, then you do not understand that the teaching is
like a raft that carries you across the water to the farther
shore but is then to be put down and not clung to.
- Majjhima Nikaya, posted to Distillation
By a single thought that comes into the mind, in one moment a
hundred worlds are overturned.
- Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1029, version by Camille and Kabir
Helminski, from Rumi: Daylight", , posted to Sunlight