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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4046, Saturday, October 16, 2010
The secret of beginning a life of deep awareness and sensitivity
lies in our willingness to pay attention. Our growth as
conscious, awake human beings is marked not so much by grand
gestures and visible renunciations as by extending loving
attention to the minutest particulars of our lives. Every
relationship, every thought, every gesture is blessed with
meaning through the wholehearted attention we bring to it. In the
complexities of our minds and lives we easily forget the power of
attention, yet without attention we live only on the surface of
existence. It is just simple attention that allows us truly to
listen to the song of a bird, to see deeply the glory of an
autumn leaf, to touch the heart of another and be touched. We
need to be fully present in order to love a single thing
wholeheartedly. We need to be fully awake in this moment if we
are to receive and respond to the learning inherent in it.
- Christina Feldman and Jack Kornfield, from Stories of the
Spirit, Stories of the Heart, posted to allspirit
Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full
attention. Don't look for quick results, there may be none within
your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change,
there will be more clarity in your thinking and feeling, purity
in your behaviour. You need not aim at these - you will witness
the change all the same...
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
All that we experience is subjective, there is no sensation
without interpretation. We create the world and ourselves; only
when we stop do we see the truth.
- Deng Ming-Dao, posted to The_Now2
Following the Vajrayana teachings, we do not give up or reject
anything; rather we make use of whatever is there. We look at our
negative emotions and accept them for what they are. Then we
relax in this state of acceptance. Using the emotion itself, it
is transformed or transmuted into the positive, into its true
face.
Ringu Tulku, posted to Distillation
One who has become enamored with the song within, one who is
united with the inner universal pulse, such a one has be- come
immune to the buffeting of the storms of circumstance without.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar, posted to AlongTheWay
Only One Rule
The sky
Is a suspended blue ocean.
The stars are the fish
That swim.
The planets are the white whales
I sometimes hitch a ride on,
And the sun and all light
Have forever fused themselves
Into my heart and upon
My skin.
There is only one rule
On this Wild Playground,
For every sign Hafiz has ever seen
Reads the same.
They all say,
"Have fun, my dear; my dear, have fun,
In the Beloved's Divine Game
O, in the Beloved's
Wonderful Game."
- Hafiz