other mystics

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All great mystics teach surrender to the will of God - though they may

use different terms depending on their cultural background. De

Caussade was brought up in Christian Europe, so he used Christian

terms. Thus he spoke of God - God who is the source of all things,

transcendent and utterly beyond the world. Surrendering to the will

of God means aligning yourself with that will as manifest in the

present moment. Yet God is also immanent, your innermost being. This

too is a vital theme amongst the world's mystics. As St. Catherine

herself said, "My Me is God, nor do I recognise any other Me except

my God Himself." Your true nature is God - the Self, the Beloved, the

Buddha-nature, the Tao. At heart you are the origin of things, the

power behind the world, the love that includes every being, the love

that makes the world go round. And so the present moment turns out to

be your will because you are its Origin.So often when we awaken to

this truth, to who we really are, we have a 'wow' experience of some

sort. Yet inevitably this fades. We might then think we have lost the

vision, lost God. But the great and saving truth is that our true

nature does not come and go. Always present, always accessible, we

cannot lose it. The Godhead is not a state of mind, not a feeling,

not a 'thing' of any description. It is steady and unchanging, it is

no-thing - the awake spaciousness that underlies and contains all

things, including our changing states of mind. Recognising this, and

finding one's way back, over and over again, to trusting God - this

is the heart of the matter. Nor is such awakening to and trust in God

only for the great mystics - it is for you and me too. They simply

point the way.Awakening to and trusting in God is a letting go, a

recognition that the self is not central, not in charge. Normally we

live as though it is we who sit on the throne at the centre of our

lives, but this is an illusion. Really only God abides here. But

seeing this truth is a kind of death - the deepest of deaths into

absolute emptiness. No wonder we resist it. And yet the self is not

destroyed. It is simply placed, left where it belongs (and

flourishes), acknowledged and loved for what it is from the emptiness

at centre. There is nothing wrong in having and being the small self -

the problem arises when we imagine it at centre.As we step into God,

leaving ourselves behind on the threshold, though we die to ourselves

we are at once reborn into all the world. Awakening to our inner

no-thingness we find we are all things. And this our deepest being is

revealed as central to the mystery and wonder of creation. All things

flow from here.

 

 

 

PS.

by Richard Langhttp://www.headless.orgRichard Lang who has written

extensively of the work of Douglas Harding was my source for

discovering Caussade. Glo

[Guest guest]

.....my inter-faith inquires and studies in comparative theology

confirm this viewpoint...the perennial wisdom is found as the ground

of all true seekers....mythologies, theologies, liturgies differ only

on the surface in the outward manifestations....the more i progress in

my practice, the more i see the face of my beloved in all directions

and discover her within all things.....^^~~~~~

further up and further in,

white wolfe

-

Gloria Lee

HS

Wednesday, December 19, 2001 7:28 PM

other mystics

All great mystics teach surrender to the will of God - though they may

use different terms depending on their cultural background. De

Caussade was brought up in Christian Europe, so he used Christian

terms. Thus he spoke of God - God who is the source of all things,

transcendent and utterly beyond the world. Surrendering to the will

of God means aligning yourself with that will as manifest in the

present moment. Yet God is also immanent, your innermost being. This

too is a vital theme amongst the world's mystics. As St. Catherine

herself said, "My Me is God, nor do I recognise any other Me except

my God Himself." Your true nature is God - the Self, the Beloved, the

Buddha-nature, the Tao. At heart you are the origin of things, the

power behind the world, the love that includes every being, the love

that makes the world go round. And so the present moment turns out to

be your will because you are its Origin.So often when we awaken to

this truth, to who we really are, we have a 'wow' experience of some

sort. Yet inevitably this fades. We might then think we have lost the

vision, lost God. But the great and saving truth is that our true

nature does not come and go. Always present, always accessible, we

cannot lose it. The Godhead is not a state of mind, not a feeling,

not a 'thing' of any description. It is steady and unchanging, it is

no-thing - the awake spaciousness that underlies and contains all

things, including our changing states of mind. Recognising this, and

finding one's way back, over and over again, to trusting God - this

is the heart of the matter. Nor is such awakening to and trust in God

only for the great mystics - it is for you and me too. They simply

point the way.Awakening to and trusting in God is a letting go, a

recognition that the self is not central, not in charge. Normally we

live as though it is we who sit on the throne at the centre of our

lives, but this is an illusion. Really only God abides here. But

seeing this truth is a kind of death - the deepest of deaths into

absolute emptiness. No wonder we resist it. And yet the self is not

destroyed. It is simply placed, left where it belongs (and

flourishes), acknowledged and loved for what it is from the emptiness

at centre. There is nothing wrong in having and being the small self -

the problem arises when we imagine it at centre.As we step into God,

leaving ourselves behind on the threshold, though we die to ourselves

we are at once reborn into all the world. Awakening to our inner

no-thingness we find we are all things. And this our deepest being is

revealed as central to the mystery and wonder of creation. All things

flow from here.

PS.

by Richard Langhttp://www.headless.orgRichard Lang who has written

extensively of the work of Douglas Harding was my source for

discovering Caussade. Glo

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All 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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