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#3955 - Saturday, July 17, 2010 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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All
the craziness,
all the empty plots,
all the ghosts and fears,
all the grudges and sorrows have
...now
passed.
I must have inhaled
a strange
feather
that finally
fell
out.
- Hafiz Tom
McFerran to Facebook
"When body and mind are
together, you are fully present. You are fully alive and you can
touch the wonders of life that are available in the here and the
now. So you practice not only with your mind but with your body.
Body and mind should be experienced as one thing, not two. On
that ground, you see that everything you are looking for is
already there. Whether it is enlightenment, nirvana, liberation,
Buddha, dharma, sangha, or happiness, it is right there. In fact,
that is the only place, the only moment, where you can find these
things."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
From the website http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3536&Itemid=0
Anipachen to Daily Dharma
A True Surrender
What is surrender? If you are on
the path, that becomes a mysteriously unanswerable question on
the level of the mind. And yet the heart has all the answers.
Surrender is to the true self within. After allowing that to sink
in for a moment, what arises for you? I am guessing it is the
cloud of unknowing...that place where you feel and yet cannot
prove a thing. That is your True Self radiating the peace of
surrender.
You can forget jiving around with the world, trying to prove
yourself to people, and just be what you are. It is so simple it
devastates the mind.
Once the mind is silenced, the truth is heard but not in words.
Energetic appreciation is felt, not seen.
The mystery is solved by being it.
A true surrender makes everything possible.
Not only that, it is the only thing that can heal you.
- Vicki Woodyard to Facebook
http://www.bobwoodyard.com
photo by Alan Larus on Facebook
Adyashanti quotes
"To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think
you are.
That's all! And then you realize, "I'm here." Here is
where thoughts
aren't believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing.
Radiantly
nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake.
Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything."
"All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant
emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better
or different,
and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you
are."
"Awakening opens the door to a life beyond the ego—a
life lived directly from spirit rather than from the mind. In
this new world, the conditioned ego no longer feels to be the
appropriate center from which to relate and function. Something
far deeper is called for: a total transformation in the way we
live and relate. The truth realized seeks to become the truth
lived."
An Inner Revolution
The enlightenment I speak of is not simply a realization, not
simply the discovery of one's true nature. This is just the
beginning—the point of entry into an inner revolution.
Realization does not guarantee this revolution, it simply makes
it possible.
What is this revolution? To begin with, revolution is not static;
it is alive, ongoing. Realization of the ultimate reality is a
fact. Revolution is the continuous ongoing birth of intelligence.
This intelligence restructures your entire being. This
intelligence cuts the mind free of itself, of its old structures
which are rooted within human consciousness. If one cannot become
free of the old structures of human consciousness, then one is
still in a prison, the prison of humanity's consciousness.
This revolution is the awakening of an intelligence which alone
has the ability to uproot all of the old structures of one's
consciousness. Unless these structures are uprooted, there will
be no creative thought or action or response. Unless there is an
inner revolution, nothing new and fresh can flower. Only the old
will flower in the absence of this revolution. But our potential
lies beyond the known, beyond the structures of the past, beyond
anything that humanity has established.
One must be willing to stand alone—in the unknown, with no
reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning.
One must stand where no one has stood before in complete
nakedness, innocence, and humility.
© Adyashanti 2008
Adyashanti Talk on
Awareness
http://www.4shared.com/audio/BElkl3dU/Adyashanti23Jun10.html
A longish radio talk uploaded by Mark Scorelle [Ed Note: You do not need to join that 4shared website, just wait for the download of the mp3 file to appear after you select it.]