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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3050, Saturday, January 19, 2007, Editor: Mark
It is not the present which is fleeting past us with sickening
speed. The present moment is indeed eternal. It is our imperfect
perception that creates the horizontal succession in time.
Sequential duration is a consequence of the single-track
verbalization of our split-mind, which does not grasp the outer
world instantaneously but interprets it perversely by extracting
bits and pieces and calling them things and events.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
The form of this moment is the portal into the formless
dimension. It is the narrow gate that Jesus talks about that
leads to life. Yes, it's very narrow: it's only this moment.
To find it, you need to roll up the scroll of your life on which
your story is written, past and future. Before there were books,
there were scrolls, and you rolled them up when you were done
with them.
So put your story away. It is not who you are. People usually
live carrying a burden of past and future, a burden of their
personal history, which they hope will fulfill itself in the
future. It won't, so roll up that old scroll. Be done with it.
You don't solve problems by thinking; you create problems by
thinking. The solution always appears when you step out of
thinking and become still and absolutely present, even if only
for a moment. Then, a little later when thought comes back, you
suddenly have a creative insight that wasn't there before.
Let go of excessive thinking and see how everything changes. Your
relationships change because you don't demand that the other
person should do something for you to enhance your sense of self.
You don't compare yourself to others or try to be more than
someone else to strengthen your sense of identity.
You allow everyone to be as they are. You don't need to change
them; you don't need them to behave differently so that you can
be happy.
- Eckhart Tolle from Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat:
Stillness Amidst the World,
Eckart Tolle on silence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg9lY7_hCGA
Throw out all your talking, concepts and words! After all, what
is the mind? It is just the noise that goes on inside. With
waking begins the chattering, and the talk goes on endlessly
thereafter. This is your mind and you run after it.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from The Nectar of the Lord's Feet
After aeons of choosing to tell a story of separation from God,
the story seems choiceless. It seems choiceless, but it is not.
You have simply been continuing to choose the story that was
passed on to you by your ancestors, by your past lives, by your
past mistakes, by your past desires. What is choicelss is the
truth of who you are.
Choice lies in the mind's ability to either deny that truth or to
embrace it. That choice is free will - the freedom of choice. You
have no free will regarding who you are. You are that fully and
completely. But you do have free will regarding the powers of
mind and imagination. You can play as if you are not who you are.
You can play any number of variations and permutations of
choosing or denying who you are.
- Gangaji from Freedom & Resolve: The Living Edge of
Surrender
Gangaji's Core Teaching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdshiy7CrwA&feature=related
It is impossible for the mind to translate that non-conceptual
awareness into a concept and yet concepts are all we have to
direct the attention in this investigation.
- Gilbert Schultz, from Everything is Clear and Obvious
Wakefulness is not an entity - it is absolutely formless -
presence awareness.
- Gilbert Schultz, from Everything is Clear and Obvious
finally, Gilbert Schultz sums it up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuRGV6VHDk