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Deepak Chopra's
Glasses
Nonduality turns
out to be nothing more than everything.
Yes, you heard it here first. Nonduality is nothing more than
everything, tax included. If you would like to learn more about
nonduality, tough. The only teacher in town isn’t taking any
new students. His old ones chewed his ear off with useless
questions and left him for dead in a No-Parking Zone.
Mountains are mountains
again and rivers are rivers and somewhere lies a man with no ear
and no stomach for discussion.
Deepak Chopra
will be discussing this on Larry King Live any
minute now. Stay tuned.
Larry to Deepak: Is it
true that there is only everything?
Deepak: Of course, Larry,
of course. Tax included. Free shipping for orders over
twenty-five dollars on Amazon.com.
Larry: You mean you can
order everything on Amazon.com?
Deepak: Except for these
glasses I am wearing. I found them in Liberace’s tomb. Do
you like them, Larry?
Larry: Hello,
Deepak: These are not
nerd glasses. Do you see any electrical tape on them? Of course
not. I am a man of great wisdom and....glitter. Have you
got a mirror, Larry? I love myself...but in a philosophical way,
of course.
Larry:
Larry: Of course and you
can upgrade to two-day shipping. But we’ve gotten off-topic.
After the break: The guru left for dead in a no-parking zone. His
students are said to now be following Deepak Chopra’s
glasses, which have taken on a life of their own. Deepak, you are
no longer needed. Only your glasses hold any interest for our
listeners.
Deepak: I can talk about
my special relationship with Michael Jackson.....
Larry: Thanks but no
thanks, Deepak. After the break, Deepak’s glasses speak.
Don’t touch that remote.
Vicki Woodyard
http://www.bobwoodyard.com
Here are some entries
from the blog of Jacquiline Hobbs:
http://jacquelinehobbs2.blogspot.com
No-one there
If there is no-one there, enlightenment is irrelevant. We spend
so much time searching for the right thing to do, to make
realisation happen, that we neglect to think about who it is
doing all the searching. Who is this that wants enlightenment so
badly? A false sense of an existent self. Nevertheless, whether
we like it or not, that sense of self is there. All we can do is
remember that actually, there's no-one there. We are taken, as
appropriate, when the time is right, to what needs to happen to
see that false sense of self be slowly released. It always
happens in a different way for each one of us and the mechanics
of that is not under our control. Ultimately, given that there's
no-one there, there's nothing that needs to be done. Realisation
only comes into existence for some, "one" but if there
isn't any "one", the whole business never arises.
When the mind
ends
When the mind ends, there is Silence. Mind is ego. If the mind
ends though, it is usually temporary. The ego has to disappear
completely for the absence of mind to be permanent. All spiritual
techniques aim for a permanent end to the mind. Once we realise
that "we" do nothing and nothing is within our control,
the ego function becomes so thoroughly weakened, in the end it
passes away. Self-enquiry is another means by which the mind is
finished with. Here, rather than trying to stop the mind, we go
beyond it, to where it does not exist. Devotion or surrender to a
guru is exactly the same as all these techniques. We accept
everything exactly as it is: completely accepting it as the
guru's will. By fixing on the guru, we focus entirely on what is
beyond mind. Whichever technique we pursue - and this is only
three - only when there is no longer any mind motion and thinking
is entirely absent, will the ego die. Of course by this time we
realise that the ego was never there. And all of this is
predestined and not a matter of us "making" it happen.
We can't. It either will or it won't. How it happens, or the
merit by which it happens, is not for us to judge either. None of
it has anything to do with us: this is the only way that the mind
truly gives up.
Did you notice?
Did you notice what the person with your name did today? What he
or she felt? What they thought? What they said (and didn't?) Did
you notice what feelings that person had today, what emotions
arose, when? Did you register what and how that person is feeling
about life right now. ... Do you realise that's not you? You are
so taken up with that person with your name, you never stop for a
moment to focus on what it is that functions through that person,
looks straight through their eyes, has the ability to register
and take part in all that gets said and done. Focus instead on
yourself. By that I mean, become aware of what "you"
are: awareness itself. Stop stock still and don't wander
outwards. Stay absolutely still and focus - "rest" - in
that awareness. This reference point is all that you have. It is
the gateway "in": away from the person, the ego-centre,
thoughts, feelings and life experiences ... into the Heart.
http://jacquelinehobbs2.blogspot.com/
Michael P.
Garofalo
http://www.egreenway.com/months/monfeb.htm
"Winter is the
time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a
friendly hand and
for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home."
- Edith Sitwell
"February is a
suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the
trees black and frozen so
that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems
preposterous, the ground hard and
cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too
long."
- Anna Quindlen, One True Thing
"Keep your faith in
beautiful things;
in the sun when it is hidden,
in the Spring when it is gone."
- Roy R. Gibson
"Late February, and
the air's so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into
early blooming.
Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers
of spring, and the numbed yards will
go back undercover. In
be penciled on the coffeeshop menus."
- Gail Mazur, The Idea of
"The flowers of late
winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of
proportion to their size."
- Gertrude S. Wister
"Wishing and wanting
to see you,
I step on thin ice."
- Madoka Mayuzumi