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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4380, Sunday September 25, 2011
You must come to a firm decision. You must forget the thought
that you are the body and be only the knowledge `I am', which has
no form, no name. Just be. When you stabilize in that beingness
it will give all the knowledge and all the secrets to you, and
when the secrets are given to you, you transcend the beingness,
and you, the Absolute will know that you are also not the
consciousness. Having gained all this knowledge, having
understood what is what, a kind of quietude prevails, a
tranquility. Beingness is transcended, but beingness is
available.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from Prior to Consciousness
No personal, individual effort can possibly lead to
enlightenment. On the contrary, what is necessary is to rest
helpless in beingness, knowing that we are nothing - to be in the
nothingness of the no-mind state in which all conceptualizing has
subsided into passive witnessing. In this state whatever happens
will be not our doing but the pure universal functioning to which
we have relinquished all control.
Ramesh S Balsekar, posted to Distillation
Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches
their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.
The way of nature is unchanging.
Knowing constancy is insight.
Not knowing constancy leads to disaster.
Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
Being openhearted, you will act royally.
Being royal, you will attain the divine.
Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.
Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
And though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.
- Lao-tzu, Tao Te Ching, translation by Gia-fu Feng and
Jane English, posted to AlongTheWay
It's a habit of yours to walk slowly.
You hold a grudge for years.
With such heaviness, how can you be modest?
With such attachments, do you expect to arrive anywhere?
Be wide as the air to learn a secret.
Right now you're equal portions
clay and water, thick mud.
Abraham learned how the sun
and the moon and the stars all set.
He said, No longer will I try to assign partners for God.
You are so weak. Give up to grace.
The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.
You're trying to live your life in open scaffolding.
Say Bismillah, In the name of God,
as the priest does with a knife
when he offers an animal.
"Bismillah" your old self to find your real name.
- Rumi. Ghazal 2894, version by Coleman Barks, from These
Branching Moments. posted to Sunlight