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"The relationship between the spiritual teacher and the student

is like two arrows shot at full speed and meeting head on in mid air-

both lose all their concepts"

 

"when one is awake, the sense of self is something like the scent of

perfume,

it is purely functional,--it doesn't mean there IS a separate self.

 

"satsang is the fire that burns up all our concepts"

 

~Adyashanti

 

 

My Life and Quest

 

 

The following are extracts from the new publication, My Life and

Quest, the autobiography of Arthur Osborne. The manuscript for this

book was long buried among other writings and recently made available

to Sri Ramanasramam for publication by his daughter, Katya Douglas.

Copies are now available at Arunachala Ashrama (see page 7). [...]

The mind is like a mill grinding the thoughts that we constantly feed

into it in an unbroken though ever-changing flow. It doesn't care

whether grave or trivial so long as it is kept constantly supplied.

And at night, in dreams, it chews over the cud of what was supplied

to it by day. Nearly all this activity is wasted energy. It prevents

concentration and does not really clarify one's mind. And all of it

is based on the very assumption one is trying to destroy, of an

individual being who decides and acts. So I began instead to suspend

thought, refusing to feed anything into the mill, retaining only pure

consciousness - and, of course, observation of things happening. The

mind was allowed to deal with anything requiring thought as and when

it arose, but not prefigure it before it arose or re-enact it after

it was finished. I was surprised how simple and what a relief this

was and wondered why I had not started doing it systematically long

before; and then it occurred to me that without a good deal of

previous meditation it would not have been feasible. Until it has

been brought well under control the mind abhors a vacuum.

Therefore what has to be done is to submit, take life as it comes,

let things happen, while at the same time striving to wake up from it

all. As long as it is taken to be real, the dream cannot be

recognised as one and therefore there is no awakening.

 

~Arthur Osborne

 

 

"You can't step off your path--where you ARE, is your path"

 

~Metta Zetty

 

 

 

"Awake simply means i am fully present-i am no where else"

 

"Always call the ego 'sweetheart' or 'darling'-and tell it to give

you a break."

 

~Leonard Jacobson

 

 

 

>From "the Soul of Rumi" -

 

Roses Underfoot

 

The sound of salaams rising as

waves diminish down in prayer,

 

hoping for some trace of the one

whose trace does not appear. If

 

anyone asks you to say who you

are, say without hesitation,

 

soul within soul within soul.

There's a pearl diver who does

 

not know how to swim! No matter,

pearls are handed him on the

 

beach. We lovers laugh to hear,

"This should be more that and

 

that more this," coming from

people sitting in a wagon tilted

 

in a ditch. Going in search of

the heart, I found a huge rose

 

under my feet, and roses under

all our feet! How to say this

 

to someone who denies it? The

robe we wear is the sky's cloth.

 

Everything is soul and flowering.

 

 

I open and fill with love and

other objects evaporate. All

 

the learning in books stays put

on the shelf. Poetry, the dear

 

words and images of song, comes

down over me like mountain water.

 

 

~Rumi

 

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie