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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3366, Saturday, November 29, 2008, Editor: Mark
There's nothing from which the world could profit more than from
giving up profit. A man who's no longer thinking in terms of
winning and losing is truly a non-violent man, since he's above
all conflicts.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for
what you do not need.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
The nondualistic approach of understanding that `I AM' is God is
far more purifying and superior than the dualistic approach of
assuming the difference between God and the `me' and struggling
to be one with Him.
- Ramana Maharshi
Once we come back to our Self, then whatever is created is
happening not so much from a perspective of "What do I
want?" but from a pure intention. Not an individual
intention, not a collective intention, but the intention, the
primal intention. It's not an intention with a choice or a
chooser. It's a primary creative energy that comes from the
Source.
When we really have returned to the Source, creation is no longer
distorting itself through our wants or desires. That's when we're
seeing, "What is? That's what I want. What is actually
happening? That's what I desire." And I'm no longer
interested in creating anything, because I realize that
everything, as it is, is what I always wanted it to be. It was
always my intention; I just didn't know it. I didn't really want
to manifest my individual intention, I wanted to come into the
purity of intention itself.
This realization doesn't obliterate duality; it liberates
duality. When we come into the ultimate Truth, then our thoughts,
feelings,and actions come from this self-realization. At that
point, there's no sense in choosing or not choosing. There's just
the watching. When the Truth is conscious instead of unconscious,
it can come through and manifest purely - without any desire to
do so.
You created me to remind you of this. We all create exactly what
we need. When we are not conscious enough, when our self-concept
is not big enough to allow us to have the wisdom that we are, to
let in the divinity that we are, to let in the Buddha nature that
we are, then we'll project it somewhere else. Maybe we'll create
a guy called Adya. Then we'll go into a relationship, and through
that relationship we'll start to realize, "That's who I am -
Adya's not really Adya and I'm not really me." Then it just
gets clearer and clearer, until our realization and our
self-concept have gotten full enough and complete enough that we
don't need to create a relationship of apparent two-ness to
remind us of what we already know. But even when we see that,
well keep doing it for the fun of it. It's a circular process.
I love this Truth so much - and by this I mean Self-love in the
biggest sense - that I create you, and through you asking
questions, which is really me asking questions, I get to tell
myself the answers. I get to display who I am and what I know to
myself. But it's actually one being: I'm not stuck being Adya.
You're not stuck being you. We are stuck being It. And we realize
it doesn't matter which side we're on. We're either looking for
our Self with the help of creating a so-called somebody else, or
we're just in the joy of revealing our Self to our Self over and
over. The more we realize it's all one, the more we realize,
"You know, we're really having fun."
- Adyashanti
Hello my loves,
The only requirement for participation in the Living Teaching is
that you be Living. If you are convinced you don't exist and
therefore are not alive please feel free to come back later when
that wears off. For all the rest of you, welcome!
This aliveness we are talking about is worth investigating. It is
here, in this moment. It is as close to you as your breath. In
fact, your breath IS this Livingness. You do not have to remember
to breathe. Your breath is literally breathing you. Stop reading
the words on this page for a moment and investigate this
phenomenon of breathing...
(If you did not stop, but simply read on to this sentence, I
fully understand...you are a lot like me....however there REALLY
is something to be seen in the stopping for a moment even if you
are an "advanced" student and have examined your breath
many times previously)
Perhaps you were able to see the way in which your breath
"just happens." You breathe even when you forget to
breathe. here is a force here that operates independent of your
decisions and intentions. It is this force that the Living
Teaching is concerned with. It is this Life that is living you
even to the extent that you falsely believe yourself to be living
IT.
I am continuously amazed and delighted at the way in which this
livingness happens. It is the fuel of miracles, not the least of
which is our sharing this thought together! I write. You read.
Through an infinitely complex net of relationships there is a
kind of recognition, a touching in which time dissolves and the
Unity is revealed.
With much love,
Wayne
- Wayne Liquorman. posted to The_Now2
The central point of the ultimate understanding is that at any
and every instant there is nothing but perfection in the totality
of functioning that is the universe. Thus, the present moment and
whatever it offers is accepted in total and uninhibited pure
enjoyment.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels