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#3664 - Wednesday, September
23, 2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of
bliss. The enlightenment state is not wanting
either bliss or anything else.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
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"A Net of Jewels"
posted to Along The Way
There may be bliss with awakening, because it is actually a by-product of awakening, but it is not awakening itself. As long as we are chasing the by-product of awakening, we will miss the real thing.
- Adyashanti, from “Bliss is a By-Product,” Tricycle, Summer 2009
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"When at rest the mind is
ordinary perception, naked and unadorned; when you gaze directly
at it there is nothing to see but light; as Awareness, it is
brilliance and the relaxed vigilance of the awakened state; as
nothing specific whatsoever, it is a secret fullness; it is the
ultimacy of nondual radiance and emptiness.
It is not eternal, for nothing whatsoever about it has been
proved to exist. It is not a void, for there is brilliance and
wakefulness. It is not unity, for multiplicity is self-evident in
perception. It is not multiplicity, for we know the one taste of
unity. It is not an external function, for Awareness is intrinsic
to immediate reality.
In the immediate here and now we see the face of the Original
Lord abiding in the heart centre. Identify yourself with him, my
spiritual sons. Whoever denies him, wanting more from somewhere
else, is like the man who has found his elephant but continues to
follow its tracks. He may comb the three dimensions of the
microcosmic world systems for an eternity, but he will not find
so much as the name of Buddha other than the one in his
heart."
-The Flight of the Garuda
From Keith Dowman's web site:
http://www.keithdowman.com
posted to Daily Dharma by Amrita Nadi
Calla
I hide myself within my flower,
That wearing on your breast,
You, unsuspecting, wear me too --
And angels know the rest.
I hide myself within my flower,
That, fading from your vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me
Almost a loneliness.
Emily Dickinson ________
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September
Meditation
I do not know if the seasons
remember their history or if the days and
nights by which we count time remember their own passing.
I do not know if the oak tree remembers its planting or if the
pine
remembers its slow climb toward sun and stars.
I do not know if the squirrel remembers last fall's gathering or
if the
bluejay remembers the meaning of snow.
I do not know if the air remembers September or if the night
remembers
the moon.
I do not know if the earth remembers the flowers from last spring
or if
the evergreen remembers that it shall stay so.
Perhaps that is the reason for our births -- to be the memory for
creation.
Perhaps salvation is something very different than anyone ever
expected.
Perhaps this will be the only question we will have to answer:
"What can you tell me about September?"
~ Burton D. Carley ~
(1997 UUMA
Worship Materials Collection; contributed by Bob Freund)
Web version: www.panhala.net/Archive/September_Meditation.html