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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4074, Saturday, November 13, 2010, Editor: Mark
Every experience of the finite will
inevitably lead to one simple question:
"Is this all there is?"
As such, the finite is
a priceless invitation
into the Infinite.
- Metta Zetty
All things - all beings and all activities, no matter how
ordinary - are equal expressions of the Infinite. There is no
more or less Infinite, no higher or lower Infinite. Therefore,
all attempts to either find or hold onto the Infinite are based
in illusion. And illusion itself is none other than the Infinite.
The Infinite uses all measures in order to awaken in all the
various forms in existence. It uses birth, life, death,
happiness, sorrow, clarity, and delusion in order to awaken. All
of your seeking is in reality the activity of the Infinite as
well. No matter how far astray or deluded you become, you can
never get a single step away from the Infinite's embrace. If you
could all at once stop believing your dreaming mind and be
completely still right in the midst of your present state, the
Infinite would effortlessly present itself.
- Adyashanti
The Infinite
Always to me beloved was this lonely hillside
And the hedgerow creeping over and always hiding
The distances, the horizon's furthest reaches.
But as I sit and gaze, there is an endless
Space still beyond, there is a more than mortal
Silence spread out to the last depth of peace,
Which in my thought I shape until my heart
Scarcely can hide a fear. And as the wind
Comes through the copses sighing to my ears,
The infinite silence and the passing voice
I must compare: remembering the seasons,
Quiet in dead eternity, and the present,
Living and sounding still. And into this
Immensity my thought sinks ever drowning,
And it is sweet to shipwreck in such a sea.
- Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Henry Reed
The Infinite a sudden Guest
The Infinite a sudden Guest
Has been assumed to be -
But how can that stupendous come
Which never went away?
- Emily Dickinson
Allow
There is no controlling life.
Try corralling a lightning bolt,
containing a tornado. Dam a
stream and it will create a new
channel. Resist, and the tide
will sweep you off your feet.
Allow, and grace will carry
you to higher ground. The only
safety lies in letting it all in -
the wild and the weak; fear,
fantasies, failures and success.
When loss rips off the doors of
the heart, or sadness veils your
vision with despair, practice
becomes simply bearing the truth.
In the choice to let go of your
known way of being, the whole
world is revealed to your new eyes.
- Danna Faulds. from Poems from the Heart of Yoga: Go In and
In
To cast off the self means to simply and profoundly stop
grasping.
- Geoffrey Shugen Arnold Sensei, posted to Distillation