Thank you

[Guest guest]

This is from 'Grist For the Mill'

Ram Dass

 

The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to

burn out your reactivity, which is your attachment, your , clinging,

to pain, to pleasure, to fear, to all of it. And as long as there is a

place where you're vulnerable, the universe will find a way to

confront you with it. That's the way the dance is designed. In

truth, there are millions and millions of stimuli that you are not

even noticing, that go by, in every plane of existence, all the time.

The reason you don't notice them is because there's no attachment

to them in you. Your desires affect your perception.

Each of us is living in our own universe, created out of our

projected attachments. That's what it means when it says,

"You create your own universe." You are creating that universe

out of your attachments, which can be out of your avoidances and

your fears. So more and more you keep consuming your own reactivity

and saying, "Right, and this situation too, and this one too, Tat Twam

Asi, and that also, and that also, and that also." Then it starts to lose

its pull and fall away.

And you get so that you're perfectly willing to do whatever

you do. And you do it perfectly. It's like Mahatma Gandhi

gets put in jail and they give him a lice-infested uniform and

tell him to clean the latrines, and it's a whole mess. And he

walks up to the head of the guards and he says, in total truth,

"Thank you." He's not putting them on or uplevelling them.

He's saying, "There's a teaching here, and I'm getting it;

thank you." What's bizarre is that you get to the point where

somebody lays a heavy trip on you and you get caught, and

then you see through your *catch-ness* and you say, "Thank

you." You may not say it aloud because it's too cute. But you

feel 'thank you.' People come up and are violent or angry or

write nasty letters or whatever they do to express their frus-

tration or anger or competition, and all I can say is thanks.

 

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[Guest guest]

Dear Gill,

 

This is wonderful.

 

Love,

 

Tim / Omkara

 

, "Gill Eardley" <gill@a...> wrote:

> This is from 'Grist For the Mill'

> Ram Dass

>

> The universe is made up of experiences that are designed to

> burn out your reactivity, which is your attachment, your ,

> clinging, to pain, to pleasure, to fear, to all of it. And as long

> as there is a place where you're vulnerable, the universe will find

> a way to confront you with it. That's the way the dance is

> designed. In truth, there are millions and millions of stimuli that

> you are not even noticing, that go by, in every plane of existence,

> all the time. The reason you don't notice them is because there's

> no attachment to them in you. Your desires affect your perception.

> Each of us is living in our own universe, created out of our

> projected attachments. That's what it means when it says,

> "You create your own universe." You are creating that universe

> out of your attachments, which can be out of your avoidances and

> your fears. So more and more you keep consuming your own reactivity

> and saying, "Right, and this situation too, and this one too, Tat

> Twam Asi, and that also, and that also, and that also." Then it

> starts to lose its pull and fall away.

> And you get so that you're perfectly willing to do whatever

> you do. And you do it perfectly. It's like Mahatma Gandhi

> gets put in jail and they give him a lice-infested uniform and

> tell him to clean the latrines, and it's a whole mess. And he

> walks up to the head of the guards and he says, in total truth,

> "Thank you." He's not putting them on or uplevelling them.

> He's saying, "There's a teaching here, and I'm getting it;

> thank you." What's bizarre is that you get to the point where

> somebody lays a heavy trip on you and you get caught, and

> then you see through your *catch-ness* and you say, "Thank

> you." You may not say it aloud because it's too cute. But you

> feel 'thank you.' People come up and are violent or angry or

> write nasty letters or whatever they do to express their frus-

> tration or anger or competition, and all I can say is thanks.

>

> Allspirit Website: http://www.allspirit.co.uk

[Guest guest]

Hi Gill:

 

I always appreciate the words of Ram Dass. His so very human approach

is like a breath of fresh air to me. Right now I'm reading Miracle of

Love which is a collection of stories and experiences collected by Ram

Dass with regard to Neem Karoli Baba. While the book is filled with

the experiences of others there are plenty in there by Ram Dass. He

is so open about showing his own ego and all that he has had to give

up and learn along the way. It's good reading.

 

Linda

[Guest guest]

LC <jyotish

 

Hi Gill:

 

I always appreciate the words of Ram Dass. His so very human approach is like a

breath of fresh air to me. Right now I'm reading Miracle of Love which is a

collection of stories and experiences collected by Ram Dass with regard to Neem

Karoli Baba. While the book is filled with the experiences of others there are

plenty in there by Ram Dass. He is so open about showing his own ego and all

that he has had to give up and learn along the way. It's good reading.

 

Linda

 

 

Hi Linda

 

Glad you appreciated the Ram Dass. It is his very human approach

which attracted me also; I will look out for 'Miracle of Love',

which sounds wonderful; I love stories of Neem Karoli Baba,

and Ram Dass' affection for him is always so apparent.

 

love, gill

 

Allspirit Website: http://www.allspirit.co.uk