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Nondual Highlights Issue #2781, Saturday, April 7, 2007, Editor: Mark



Ram Tzu believes
In the law
Of cause and effect.

He just doesn't know
Which is which.

- Ram Tzu, No Way for the Spiritually "Advanced", posted to AlongTheWay




Question: From where do all these worlds
come from?
Answer: They come from space (Spirit)
All beings have arisen from Space(Spirit)
And back into Space they return:
Space (Spirit) is indeed their beginning,
And Space (Spirit) is their final End

- from Chan Dogya Upanishad 1.9.1, posted to MysticSpirit




The Sufi believes that consciousness has, so to speak, produced matter, or substance, out of itself, while yet remaining itself in its original state.

A Meditation Theme For Each Day:

From The Teachings of:

Hazrat Pir-o-Murshic Inayat Khan

Selected & Arranged by:

Hazrat Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan, posted to SufiMystic




As one can see when the eyes are open, so one can understand when the heart is open.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

Every name and every form speaks constantly, constantly makes signs for you to hear, for you to respond to, for you to interpret, that you may become a friend of God. The whole purpose of your life is to make yourself ready to understand what God is, what your fellow man is, what the nature of man is, what life is.

Now coming to a still greater secret of life I want to answer the question: how can we grow to read and understand the message that life speaks through all its names and forms? The answer is that, as by the opening of the eyes you can see things, so by the opening of the heart you can understand things. As long as the heart is closed you cannot understand things. The secret is that, when the ears and eyes of the heart are open, all planes of the world are open, all names are open, all secrets, all mysteries are unfolded.

The question arises: what is the manner of opening the heart? The way to it is a natural life, the life of the child, smiling with the smiling one, praying with the praying one, ready to learn from everyone, ready to love. The child has enmity against no one, he has no hatred, no malice, his heart is open. It is in the child that you can see the smiles of angels; he can see through life. When the grown- up person is made ready, when he has acquired the attributes of the child, then he creates heaven within himself, he understands. The child with his innocence does not understand, but when a man with understanding develops the childlike loving tendency, the purity of heart of the child with the desire to be friendly to all -- that is the opening of the heart, and it is by that blessing that he can receive all the privileges of human life.

When the spark that is to be found in every heart, the spark that may be called the divine spark in man, is blown upon and the flame arises, the whole life becomes illuminated and man hears and sees and knows, and he understands. A Sufi poet says that every leaf of the tree becomes like a page of the sacred book, when the heart is open to read it and when the soul has opened its eyes.

Everything becomes spiritual once this door of the chamber of the heart is open. If a man is a musician, then his music is celestial. If he is a poet, then his poetry is spiritual. If he is an artist, then his art is a spiritual work. Whatever he may do in life that divine spirit manifests. He need not be a religious person, he need not be a philosopher, he need not be a mystic. It is simply that what was hidden in him and thereby was keeping his life incomplete begins to manifest to view, and that makes his life perfect.

- posted to SufiMystic




Give yourself a kiss.
If you live in China, don't look
somewhere else, in Tibet, or Mongolia.

If you want to hold the beautiful one,
hold yourself to yourself.

When you kiss the Beloved,
touch your own lips with your own fingers.

The beauty of every woman and every man
is your own beauty.

The confusion of your hair
obscures that sometimes.

An artist comes to paint you
and stands with his mouth open.

Your love reveals your beauty,
but all covering would disappear
if only for a moment your holding-back
would sit before your generosity
and ask,
"Sir, who are you?"
At that,
Shams' life-changing face
gives you a wink.

- Rumi, Ghazal 2061, version by Coleman Barks, Like This, posted to Sunlight




In this gaze, please see the beholding of you. These are not just words. There is a direct channel from the heart out the eyes, and when we gaze at each other we start this magnificent waterfall of adoration. This is what hello is really for, is this. To stop long enough to notice that we're really here, that it's good, good because it is. And in this gaze, see the invitation to be seen, not just the good parts, not just the parts we think need work, but the whole of you.

May we never get going beyond this hello. May we die right here in this eternal hello. May it all end. May our minds squirm and wriggle as they feel us pinned to here--no escape--until they know this deep rest, and just fall over in boredom and bliss into this. Wave the white flag and let themselves be completely gotten.

- Jeannie Zandi

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