Digest Number 996

[Guest guest]

>> Such is the beauty washed into my Guru's face... <<

Thank you for sharing this extraordinarily powerful and beautiful poem/experience.

Shanti ~ Linda

[Guest guest]

>> PS. May I inquire about your email address. Is that in honor of the Huichol

Indians nierikas? <<

Indeed my screen name is in honor of and taken from the Huichol Indian

word, "nierika." I first discovered this beautiful word in a book by

an anthropologist, Joan Halifax, which was about shamans across the

world. On the title page she had this word and a quote about its

meaning. What I immediately connected with was the sense of the

nierika being a portal to other realms of being as well as to the

added meaning of it being the "mirror and face of the diety." This

serves as a constant reminder to me that whatever I look at is

Divine. Hologhai ~ Linda

[Guest guest]

>> I especially appreciate synchronicity. My own daughter is dealing

with lots of mental imbalance and was just today released from the

hospital...I also participate in an on-line group of parents of

children with borderline personality disorders who have children that

we are raising (our grandchildren). <<

Ah, so you are a Linda also. There are quite a few of us floating

about our here. Seems to have been a very popular name in the late

'40s and early '50s. Thank you for your warm comments and your

personal experience. I empathize with you and with your daughter as

well. There is a great deal of suffering around mental health

challenges, and yet, I know from personal experience, there is also a

great deal of strength, creativity, and joy. Sounds like you and your

daughter have both in abundance. Shanti ~ Linda

[Guest guest]

Well there were three Lindas in my small elementary school

class....some call me by my spiritual name Deva Anju which is another

story.

Yes there are challenges, pain, joy and all of what this drama we call

life present in mental illness. The soul who presented itself as my

daughter has been my greatest teacher this lifetime so much so that

often I feel an entire book could be written. If ever there were a

way to take the teaching of "the mind is not the self" from theory

into practice, loving and interacting with a person who is more

mentally ill than the rest of us, is it. Long ago I believed that

patience, persistence and unconditional love were her lessons to me

however as time moved on the philosophies of Vedanta which I hold so

dear became alive as I walk the path with her. As she works to

balance and grow it is a bonus to see her integrating these teachings

with the medical care she is receiving.

Namaste,

Linda

>Ah, so you are a Linda also. There are quite a few of us floating

about our >here. Seems to have been a very popular name in the late

'40s and early >'50s. Thank you for your warm comments and your

personal experience. I >empathize with you and with your daughter as

well. There is a great deal of >suffering around mental health

challenges, and yet, I know from personal >experience, there is also

a great deal of strength, creativity, and joy. >Sounds like you and

your daughter have both in abundance. Shanti ~

Linda/joinAll paths go

somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions,

and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back

into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than

the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of

Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It

is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the

Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of

Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self.

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