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#2673 - Sunday,
December 17, 2006 - Editor: Gloria Lee
The Nondual
Highlights
"Giving is to transform the
mind of living beings. There is a time when the mind transforms
things, and there is giving in which things transform the
mind."
-- Eihei Dogen posted to
Daily Dharma
This is a video I
directed for spoken word artist Mipham.
Mipham records albums, runs marathons and just happens to be a Tibetan Buddhist Lama.
(by chewyguru)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDSAAlrqAHM
link posted by Trudy on Garden Mystics
Check out his website http://www.mipham.com
"When living correctly with yourself,
you will know exactly how to
live in right relationship with others."
--Vernon Howard
This
next video was sent to us by Freyja http://parentswish.com/site01/big.html
Susan Lucey
wrote:
I slept and dreamt that life was joy,
I awoke, and saw that life was Service
I acted and behold, Service was Joy.
--Tagore
All a sane man can ever care about is giving love.
--Hafiz
Dearest Susan, what a gracious note, and what a lovely heart you
share!
I understand that this is a challenging time for you, and I join
with all of
your friends here in this, our perpetual celebration of
bewilderhood. At
such appearing times, life can paradoxically tend to clarify,
spontaneously, of itself, and so we just pay attention (not aloof
and
detached, for how can anything detach from itself?), but we
observe and
inquire -- is it true, or just more dreaming, more belief and
projection,
more old tapes of memory and identification, more same old same
old, all
dependently arising, all transient, selfless (except for the self
that we
impute), no place to pitch a tent, to call it home, learn the
local ghost
lingo, no, it's all flashing by in a blurry rush, you're the
rush, the flash,
the blur on the screen, just what it seems, and likewise, you are
none of
it, woo, how strange, my Heart, don't even try to figure it out,
in fact, go
on, forget about it -- just love, that's the only thing at last
to do, at
first, and in-between.
LoveAlways
Bob O'Hearn
A Mouse And A Frog
A mouse and a frog meet every morning on the riverbank.
They sit in a nook of the ground and talk.
Each morning, the second they see each other,
they open easily, telling stories and dreams and secrets,
empty of any fear or suspicious holding back.To watch, and listen to those two is to understand how,
as it’s written, sometimes when two beings come together,
Christ becomes visible.The mouse starts laughing out a story
he hasn’t thought of in five years,
and the telling might take five years!There’s no blocking the speech flow
river-running-all-carrying momentum that true intimacy is.
Bitterness doesn’t have a chance with those two.The God-messenger, Khidr, touches a roasted fish.
It leaps off the grill back into the water.Friend sits by Friend, and the tablets appear.
They read the mysteries off each others foreheads.But one day the mouse complains,
“There are times when I want conversation
and you’re out in the water, jumping around
where you can’t hear me.We meet at this appointed time, but the text says,
Lovers pray constantly. Once a day, once a week,
five times an hour, is not enough.
Fish like we are need the ocean around us!”Do camel bells say, “Let’s meet back here Thursday night?”
Ridiculous! They jingle together continuously,
talking while the camel walks.Do you pay regular visits to yourself?
Don’t argue or answer rationally.Let us die, and dying, reply.
--Rumi
posted by Mazie Lane and Bob O'Hearn on Garden Mystics
