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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3485, Saturday, March 29, 2009, Editor: Mark
Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss
consciously. Because you take your mind off yourself and make it
dwell on what you are not, you lose your sense of well-being.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Brahma the Creator is the sum total of all desires. The world is
the instrument for their fulfillment. Souls take whatever
pleasures they desire and pay for them in tears. Time squares all
accounts. The law of balance reigns supreme.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
The Readjustment
Awakening is a readjustment. The state is always present, is our
normal, permanent, real nature - as the Masters of all the
doctrines never tire of telling us - but the conscious experience
of it is denied us by a deviation of subjectivity on to a concept
that, as such, is unreal, an object in consciousness appearing as
its own subject. Until this phantom is exorcised by being
exposed, subjectivity appears to be bound, and we cannot
experience it as it is in reality.
When this anomalous situation is understood, we need to start
putting this understanding into practice, that is not just
thinking about it, but experiencing it. There have been people,
apparently born 'ready', for whom the fact of understanding has
been sufficient in itself to produce the experience, but for the
rest of us habit and practice are a necessary prelude to
conscious experience of our reality.
However it is important to understand that there is nothing to
acquire, but only an error to be exosed, because acquiring
necessarily involves using, and so strengthening that spurious
'I' whose dissolution we require.
For this merely a readjustment is needed, such readjustment being
the abandonment of identification with an inexistent individual
self, an abandonment which leaves us unblindfold and awake in our
eternal nature.
To seek to persuade ourselves that we do not exist as individual
entities is, however, to ask an eye to believe that what it is
looking at is not there. But it is not we alone who have no
existence as entities: there are not any anywhere in the reality
of the cosmos, never have been, and never could be. Only
whole-mind can reveal this knowledge as direct cognition which,
once realised, is obvious. That is the total readjustment. And
only 'I' remains.
- Wei Wu Wei from Ask the Awakened: The Negative Way
Love
who will break this silence
but the rain,
swallowed
in the hollow earth?
who will lead me to salvation
if not the songbird's song
on the farthest limb of time?
who will love me
as I am,
the wind,
whispering in the pine?
shall it be You,
my Love,
my own true Self?
- Anna Ruiz, posted to The_Now2
Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent
The wind has settled,
The blossoms have fallen;
Birds sing,
The mountains grow dark -
This is the wondrous Power of Spirit
- Ryokan
Beyond the waterfall
of words
Silence speaks
forever
- Jan Barendrecht, posted to NondualitySalon