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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3872, Saturday, April 24, 2010, Editor: Mark



I have not really known myself,
or anyone else.

I've tried to do good, and not
just what my appetites wanted,

but that was all infatuation
with this precious, isolated, body.

That you and I were constantly joining,
I didn't know. I didn't know

that even to ask "What are You?"
or "Who am I" breaks the harmony.

- Lalla, version by Coleman Barks, from Naked Song, posted to AlongTheWay




Above all else, we need to nourish our true self - what we can call our buddha nature - for so often we make the fatal mistake of identifying with our confusion, and then using it to judge and condemn ourselves, which feeds the lack of self-love that so many of us suffer from today.

How vital it is to refrain from the temptation to judge ourselves or the teachings, and to be humorously aware of our condition, and to realize that we are, at the moment, as if many people all living in one person.

And how encouraging it can be to accept that from one perspective we all have huge problems, which we bring to the spiritual path and which indeed may have led us to the teachings, and yet to know from another point of view that ultimately our problems are not so real or so solid, or so insurmountable as we have told ourselves.

- Sogyal Rinpoche, posted to Distillation




I have stilled my restless mind, and my heart is
radiant: for in That-ness I have seen beyond
That-ness, in company I have seen the Comrade Himself.

Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I have
broken away from the clutch of all narrowness.

Kabir says: "I have attained the unattainable,
and my heart is coloured with the colour of love."

- Kabir, translated by Rabindranath Tagore, from Songs of Kabir, posted to AlongTheWay




This "I am realization," this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.

So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence - your deeper self - behind or underneath the thought, as it were. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it.

As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, as it is sometimes called in the East, you realize the state of pure consciousness. In that state, you feel your own presence with such intensity and such joy that all thinking, all emotions, your physical body, as well as the whole external world become relatively insignificant in comparison to it. And yet this is not a selfish but a selfless state. It takes you beyond what you previously thought of as "your self." That presence is essentially you and at the same time inconceivably greater than you. What I am trying to convey here may sound paradoxical or even contradictory, but there is no other way that I can express it.

- Eckhart Tolle, posted to The_Now2




- Katherine, from GreatFreedom.org:  
http://vimeo.com/11042298

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