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#3543 - Monday, May 25, 2009 -
Editor: Gloria Lee
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Imagining is like feeling around
in a dark lane, or washing
your eyes with blood.
You are the truth
from foot to brow. Now,
what else would you like to know?
- Rumi
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Version by Coleman Barks
"Birdsong"
posted to Along The Way
"That's the remarkable
thing, isn't it? Enlightenment is ruthlessly intelligent. Peace
doesn't get involved in any of the details -- one's historical,
moral, religious, spiritual, racial, political, educational or
social background and so on. Not one iota. Wisdom cares nothing
about these things. Freedom only knows of this one eternally
present moment. This makes it all very, very simple -- no need to
complicate it. With no historical or future entanglements, there
is just this one immediate choice: Are you completely willing to
be that which you say you love and revere, no matter what the
circumstances? No pause, no hesitation, no deliberation. If you
say yes and proceed to speak or think in a way that contradicts
it, then it begs the question, are you serious about this? This
simple question, "The way you are living this instant, does
it work?" is profoundly useful. If it isn't working, then
what will it take?
If we are not wisdom, if we are not freedom, if we are not
serenity this very instant, then what good is any of this? If we
are, then in our very being here, we offer the most precious and
joyful gift in the world to everyone around us. Infinitely more
than thousands of philosophies or religions, or millions of
words. It's that simple."
-Scott Morrison Note by
Anna: In my early days on the
net, I came across Scott Morrison, via a website called
openmindopenheart. My computer crashed several times and I lost
many of the wonderful dialogues/discourses that were posted. The
website iis no more...but I managed to save a few... this is one
I've posted here and everywhere at one time or another. How I
wish his website were in operation, what extraordinary insights
he offered!
posted to Nonduality Salon
Experience, however sublime,
is not the real thing.
By its very nature it comes and goes. Self-realization
is not an acquisition. It is more of the nature of under-
standing. Once arrived at, it cannot be lost.
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj posted to Along The Way
You mentioned you were
working on the fallacy of divine identity. I thought I
would give a plug for the other side to have a fair consideration
of it. There is only one Awareness, this Awareness
that's here right now. There is no other one in some hypothetical
realm we can't get to or see. It's God, the Self, whatever you
want to call it, Krishna. It is a direct experience, not
mental, not reflective. Formless, changeless livingness.
I always liked the idea that when you read philosphy, like
ontology for instance in order to understand this even in the
most general way you must reflexively and automatically refer to
something in your immediate being that is that way. So when you
say God or the One you are referring to something in your
imediate being that allows you to have access to that idea.
And that is the life that you are already. In ontology you are
referring to the beingness that you are already. For the Infinite
you are referring to the consciousness that you are already just
to get even a sense of what it means.
- Mark Scorelle posted to
Wisdom-l
Even if a man does not respond to it, the
divine presence in the world is itself a grace. Even if he is
quite unaware of its being in his heart, his centre, its guidance
and the intuitive thoughts which may arise are manifestations of
grace.
— Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life > Chapter
5: Grace > # 236
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
Bart Marshall
TAT April 2005 Conference
In August 2004 something happened that corrected a basic mistake in perception I have lived with all my life. Prior to this occurrence I thought I was an individual consciousness experiencing an infinitely large, infinitely old external universe of real objects. What I discovered however with great clarity and certainty is that the consciousness I mistakenly perceived as belonging to an individual named “Bart” is in actuality “God-consciousness,” the “One” consciousness and that Bart, the universe and everything in it are vague ephemeral thought-forms flowing in and out of emptiness in a timeless, spaceless Now. It was a shattering revelation but at the same time so obvious and self-evident I realized I’d known all along. I became ‘unfooled.’ A case of mistaken identity very close to home was resolved. There is only God-consciousness. Here where I am there is consciousness therefore I am That.
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle