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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3114, Sunday, March 23, 2008, Editor: Mark
A visitor asked Ajnabi: "Why do you discourage people from
coming to see you?"
He said: "Because I cannot discourage them from seeing
others." The visitor said: "I cannot fathom this
mystery. What is the meaning of such a remark?"
Ajnabi said: "'Going to see a teacher' is in itself a
condition, a state which is generally divorced from the reason
for seeing a sage. If a person goes to see a teacher partly
because he is in need of going to see someone, that need to go to
see will act as a barrier to his understanding. That is why it is
better to go to a feast and taste revelry before going to see
your teacher."
The visitor said: "How can one discover that a visit was
made for such shallow purposes as merely to visit someone?"
Ajnabi said: "You can always tell at the departure whether
the person has attained his objective. He radiates the same
sensation as a man who has been to a market and gone home.
Whether he has bought anything or not, he has been to a
market."
as colected by Idries Shah, posted to SufiMystic
a true teacher
takes what you do not have
and gives you
what is always yours.
this is why
the sage
does his work
and slips away
unperceived.
real masters are like thieves:
only the ones caught
are known.
the best ones
remain
hidden.
yet their blessed presence
though unrecognized,
continuously sustains
the world.
@}->,->'--
Yosy Flug, posted to SufiMystic
Pleasure and pain alternate. Happiness is unshakable. What you
can seek and find is not the real thing. Find what you have never
lost, find the inalienable.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to AlongTheWay
Our imperfect perception of the manifested world in terms of
measurement, diversification and classification is the veil that
maintains our commitment to illusion.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
One truth told always reveals a deeper truth.
- Gangaji
The highest truth
cannot be put into words.
Therefore the greatest teacher
has nothing to say.
He simply gives himself in service,
and never worries.
An awareness of the truth
of the universe
Should not be regarded
as an achievement.
To think in terms
of achieving it,
Is to place it outside
your own nature.
This is erroneous
and misleading.
Your nature,
and the infinite universe
Are none other than
one and the same:
Indescribable,
but eternally present.
Simply open yourself
to your own True nature.
- Laozi (aka Lao Tzu), from Hua Hu Ching, posted to Mystic
Spirit