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Thank you for this wonderful post which actually helped me today. I'm

a bit weepy from all the steroids and I look like Dead Elvis. I am

the cancer patient with the weird website which was an issue for a

member of your group.

 

I would hope that they can learn from me rather than judge me so

harshly. I mean no harm and my website is actually doing quite a bit

of good, strange as it is. Because death information is secretive

because of the funeral industry, as someone who has been classified

as "incurable" I wanted to find out what was going to happen to my

body when I die. Call it morbid curiosity, but my feeling was if I

had to pay for an embalmer to do something to me I wanted to know

what it was they would be doing. As it turns out this is a topic that

many people are curious about, so I put together a website.

 

It really hurt to be called a fraud, a capitalist, and basically a

scam artist. I am probably more open about my cancer than most people

are because so many women and men are dying of breast cancer. I would

not have open up myself to even include my feelings in a film on

immortality if I were the scum of the earth.

 

My goal with my cancer is to teach people 1) that people with cancer

are still people and we really don't want to be viewed as anything

other than who we are 2) that people with incurable cancer do not

lose their battle with cancer. Anyone who has fought the good fight

in my eyes is not a loser 3) that many of us are being discriminated

against in wanting to continue to work because employers do not wish

to modify our jobs so we can continue working 4) that I wouldn't wish

the hell I am going through on anyone. Here's what I've been put

through in three years thanks to red tape, politics and doctors who

don't care.

 

Aug 23 1999 after six months of going to doctors for a lump I

discovered in my left breast that moved and hurt I finally got an

ob]gyn to authorize me to have not only a mammo on the lump but a

sonogram. Previous doctors had argued that the lump moved and it hurt

hence it was not cancer. My grandmother, mother and sister all had

breast cancer in their history and my sister died of it last year.

The radiologist discovered through a sonogram that I had indeed a

lump about the size of a raquetball that appeared malignant

(cancerous). I could not wait to select a surgeon so I was set up for

surgery the next day. I begged for a double mastectomy, but was only

permitted to have the lump removed. That meant after surgery I would

have to undergo chemo and radiation.

 

All along I kept reporting that my bones hurt and no one did anything

to look into that part of the story.

 

Aug 24 1999 The lump was removed, was confirmed to be cancer.

Within weeks I started chemotherapy and then followed 6 months of

chemo with 6 weeks of radiation. The radiation burned my esophagus,

and caused nerve damage in my chest that caused me pain for the last

three years. In the interim we discovered my cancer had already

spread to the bone.

 

After an almost three year battle with doctors and insurance I was

finally approved for a double mastectomy, the was done Aug 20 of 2002

and I feel better than I have felt in 3 years. I am undergoing

reconstruction which is an awful process. They put expanders under

your skin and stretch you out until you think you are big enough for

permanent implants. Your chest is as hard as a rock with these things

under the skin, but the good news is that if you are on a plane and

the plane goes down in the water you have your own built in flotation

devices!

 

The damage to my esophagus is irreparable and I will have to undergo

dialation every three months for the rest of my life so I can eat.

 

 

My website does have a warped sense of humor, but being able to laugh

at myself at this point in my life and laugh at death is very healing

for me. I don't know if anyone has read the FAQ, but I think you will

see that I am basically harmless.

 

 

And I have a jpeg of me bald and bloated if anyone wants to see what

this cancer chick looks like undergoing treatment. I really am a good

person, but am highly sensitive to accusations from people who don't

even know me.

 

I would hope that someone would appreciate the fact that I am

laughing at my cancer and it seems to be keeping me alive. If I start

to believe I am going to die of it I do believe I will do so sooner.

 

Peace,

Toni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>Dear List,

>

>I just tuned into check the mail and I am surprised at some of the

>discussion going on here.

>

> is completely dedicated to Ahimsa, the philosophy of

>nonviolence. Being sarcastic to others and/or making fun of them or

>their websites or their motives without any context seems very odd to

>me.

>

>Why should an HS member be posting here other people's websites

>and/or calling them frauds, etc.? There is no point to all this. We

>don't censor long term members of the list in their postings, but

>this is based on the assumption that the general spirit of Ahimsa on

>list is respected.

>

>This is an open list and people can post as they please but posting

>should be in the context of nonviolence and amity.

>

>Accusing someone who may have cancer of being a fraud appears to me

>to lack both sensitivity and maturity. Why should the list be a stage

>for this type of conversation?

>

>I am sorry if this hurts anyone's feelings but is not

>for putting others down out of context, denigrating them, or defaming

>them. Please do not use your posts for that purpose.

>

>We have said many times here that enlightened people are dime a

>dozen, and basically we don't give much importance to that stuff. We

>are after people who have generally good manners and are kind; the

>stuff they teach in kindergarten.

>

>Everyone, be in peace, at least here....

>

>

>Love to all

>Harsha

>

>

>

>

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>

>

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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. Welcome all to a.

>

>

>

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Thank you Toni for sharing your story so openly.

 

I don't know much about your website but am really sorry if any words

originating with a member of this list caused you any hurt feelings.

 

All of us, being human, make mistakes and have to depend on each other for

compassion and understanding.

 

It may be of some interest to you Toni that one of our satsangh members (Vicki)

here has a similar story of cancer about her husband (which she will be sharing

in the next issue of the HS magazine).

 

There are many different ways that we all cope with the stresses, difficulties,

challenges, and illnesses in our lives.

 

I would pray that all of us find the strength to forgive each other and to love

each other. The healing of the spirit lies in that.

 

God bless you all with all good things.

 

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

============================================================

Toni Riss <triss

2002/11/03 Sun PM 04:13:06 EST

harsha

CC:

Re: List Policies/Thank You and My Cancer Story

 

Thank you for this wonderful post which actually helped me today. I'm

a bit weepy from all the steroids and I look like Dead Elvis. I am

the cancer patient with the weird website which was an issue for a

member of your group.

 

I would hope that they can learn from me rather than judge me so

harshly. I mean no harm and my website is actually doing quite a bit

of good, strange as it is. Because death information is secretive

because of the funeral industry, as someone who has been classified

as "incurable" I wanted to find out what was going to happen to my

body when I die. Call it morbid curiosity, but my feeling was if I

had to pay for an embalmer to do something to me I wanted to know

what it was they would be doing. As it turns out this is a topic that

many people are curious about, so I put together a website.

 

It really hurt to be called a fraud, a capitalist, and basically a

scam artist. I am probably more open about my cancer than most people

are because so many women and men are dying of breast cancer. I would

not have open up myself to even include my feelings in a film on

immortality if I were the scum of the earth.

 

My goal with my cancer is to teach people 1) that people with cancer

are still people and we really don't want to be viewed as anything

other than who we are 2) that people with incurable cancer do not

lose their battle with cancer. Anyone who has fought the good fight

in my eyes is not a loser 3) that many of us are being discriminated

against in wanting to continue to work because employers do not wish

to modify our jobs so we can continue working 4) that I wouldn't wish

the hell I am going through on anyone. Here's what I've been put

through in three years thanks to red tape, politics and doctors who

don't care.

 

Aug 23 1999 after six months of going to doctors for a lump I

discovered in my left breast that moved and hurt I finally got an

ob]gyn to authorize me to have not only a mammo on the lump but a

sonogram. Previous doctors had argued that the lump moved and it hurt

hence it was not cancer. My grandmother, mother and sister all had

breast cancer in their history and my sister died of it last year.

The radiologist discovered through a sonogram that I had indeed a

lump about the size of a raquetball that appeared malignant

(cancerous). I could not wait to select a surgeon so I was set up for

surgery the next day. I begged for a double mastectomy, but was only

permitted to have the lump removed. That meant after surgery I would

have to undergo chemo and radiation.

 

All along I kept reporting that my bones hurt and no one did anything

to look into that part of the story.

 

Aug 24 1999 The lump was removed, was confirmed to be cancer.

Within weeks I started chemotherapy and then followed 6 months of

chemo with 6 weeks of radiation. The radiation burned my esophagus,

and caused nerve damage in my chest that caused me pain for the last

three years. In the interim we discovered my cancer had already

spread to the bone.

 

After an almost three year battle with doctors and insurance I was

finally approved for a double mastectomy, the was done Aug 20 of 2002

and I feel better than I have felt in 3 years. I am undergoing

reconstruction which is an awful process. They put expanders under

your skin and stretch you out until you think you are big enough for

permanent implants. Your chest is as hard as a rock with these things

under the skin, but the good news is that if you are on a plane and

the plane goes down in the water you have your own built in flotation

devices!

 

The damage to my esophagus is irreparable and I will have to undergo

dialation every three months for the rest of my life so I can eat.

 

 

My website does have a warped sense of humor, but being able to laugh

at myself at this point in my life and laugh at death is very healing

for me. I don't know if anyone has read the FAQ, but I think you will

see that I am basically harmless.

 

 

And I have a jpeg of me bald and bloated if anyone wants to see what

this cancer chick looks like undergoing treatment. I really am a good

person, but am highly sensitive to accusations from people who don't

even know me.

 

I would hope that someone would appreciate the fact that I am

laughing at my cancer and it seems to be keeping me alive. If I start

to believe I am going to die of it I do believe I will do so sooner.

 

Peace,

Toni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

>Dear List,

>

>I just tuned into check the mail and I am surprised at some of the

>discussion going on here.

>

> is completely dedicated to Ahimsa, the philosophy of

>nonviolence. Being sarcastic to others and/or making fun of them or

>their websites or their motives without any context seems very odd to

>me.

>

>Why should an HS member be posting here other people's websites

>and/or calling them frauds, etc.? There is no point to all this. We

>don't censor long term members of the list in their postings, but

>this is based on the assumption that the general spirit of Ahimsa on

>list is respected.

>

>This is an open list and people can post as they please but posting

>should be in the context of nonviolence and amity.

>

>Accusing someone who may have cancer of being a fraud appears to me

>to lack both sensitivity and maturity. Why should the list be a stage

>for this type of conversation?

>

>I am sorry if this hurts anyone's feelings but is not

>for putting others down out of context, denigrating them, or defaming

>them. Please do not use your posts for that purpose.

>

>We have said many times here that enlightened people are dime a

>dozen, and basically we don't give much importance to that stuff. We

>are after people who have generally good manners and are kind; the

>stuff they teach in kindergarten.

>

>Everyone, be in peace, at least here....

>

>

>Love to all

>Harsha

>

>

>

>

></join>http://groups.yaho

>o.com/join

>

>

>

><>

>

>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. Welcome all to a.

>

>

>

>Your use of is subject to the

><>

 

Thank you for this wonderful post which actually helped me today. I'm a

bit weepy from all the steroids and I look like Dead Elvis. I am the

cancer patient with the weird website which was an issue for a member

of your group.

 

 

I would hope that they can learn from me rather than judge me so

harshly. I mean no harm and my website is actually doing quite a bit of

good, strange as it is. Because death information is secretive because

of the funeral industry, as someone who has been classified as

"incurable" I wanted to find out what was going to happen to my body

when I die. Call it morbid curiosity, but my feeling was if I had to

pay for an embalmer to do something to me I wanted to know what it was

they would be doing. As it turns out this is a topic that many people

are curious about, so I put together a website.

 

 

It really hurt to be called a fraud, a capitalist, and basically a scam

artist. I am probably more open about my cancer than most people are

because so many women and men are dying of breast cancer. I would not

have open up myself to even include my feelings in a film on

immortality if I were the scum of the earth.

 

 

My goal with my cancer is to teach people 1) that people with cancer

are still people and we really don't want to be viewed as anything

other than who we are 2) that people with incurable cancer do not lose

their battle with cancer. Anyone who has fought the good fight in my

eyes is not a loser 3) that many of us are being discriminated against

in wanting to continue to work because employers do not wish to modify

our jobs so we can continue working 4) that I wouldn't wish the hell I

am going through on anyone. Here's what I've been put through in three

years thanks to red tape, politics and doctors who don't care.

 

 

Aug 23 1999 after six months of going to doctors for a lump I

discovered in my left breast that moved and hurt I finally got an

ob]gyn to authorize me to have not only a mammo on the lump but a

sonogram. Previous doctors had argued that the lump moved and it hurt

hence it was not cancer. My grandmother, mother and sister all had

breast cancer in their history and my sister died of it last year. The

radiologist discovered through a sonogram that I had indeed a lump

about the size of a raquetball that appeared malignant (cancerous). I

could not wait to select a surgeon so I was set up for surgery the next

day. I begged for a double mastectomy, but was only permitted to have

the lump removed. That meant after surgery I would have to undergo

chemo and radiation.

 

 

All along I kept reporting that my bones hurt and no one did anything

to look into that part of the story.

 

 

Aug 24 1999 The lump was removed, was confirmed to be cancer. Within

weeks I started chemotherapy and then followed 6 months of chemo with 6

weeks of radiation. The radiation burned my esophagus, and caused

nerve damage in my chest that caused me pain for the last three years.

In the interim we discovered my cancer had already spread to the bone.

 

 

After an almost three year battle with doctors and insurance I was

finally approved for a double mastectomy, the was done Aug 20 of 2002

and I feel better than I have felt in 3 years. I am undergoing

reconstruction which is an awful process. They put expanders under your

skin and stretch you out until you think you are big enough for

permanent implants. Your chest is as hard as a rock with these things

under the skin, but the good news is that if you are on a plane and the

plane goes down in the water you have your own built in flotation

devices!

 

 

The damage to my esophagus is irreparable and I will have to undergo

dialation every three months for the rest of my life so I can eat.

 

 

 

My website does have a warped sense of humor, but being able to laugh

at myself at this point in my life and laugh at death is very healing

for me. I don't know if anyone has read the FAQ, but I think you will

see that I am basically harmless.

 

 

 

And I have a jpeg of me bald and bloated if anyone wants to see what

this cancer chick looks like undergoing treatment. I really am a good

person, but am highly sensitive to accusations from people who don't

even know me.

 

 

I would hope that someone would appreciate the fact that I am laughing

at my cancer and it seems to be keeping me alive. If I start to believe

I am going to die of it I do believe I will do so sooner.

 

 

Peace,

 

Toni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

<excerpt><fixed>Dear List,

 

 

I just tuned into check the mail and I am surprised at some of the

 

discussion going on here.

 

 

is completely dedicated to Ahimsa, the philosophy of

 

nonviolence. Being sarcastic to others and/or making fun of them or

 

their websites or their motives without any context seems very odd to

 

me.

 

 

Why should an HS member be posting here other people's websites

 

and/or calling them frauds, etc.? There is no point to all this. We

 

don't censor long term members of the list in their postings, but

 

this is based on the assumption that the general spirit of Ahimsa on

 

list is respected.

 

 

This is an open list and people can post as they please but posting

 

should be in the context of nonviolence and amity.

 

 

Accusing someone who may have cancer of being a fraud appears to me

 

to lack both sensitivity and maturity. Why should the list be a stage

 

for this type of conversation?

 

 

I am sorry if this hurts anyone's feelings but is not

 

for putting others down out of context, denigrating them, or defaming

 

them. Please do not use your posts for that purpose.

 

 

We have said many times here that enlightened people are dime a

 

dozen, and basically we don't give much importance to that stuff. We

 

are after people who have generally good manners and are kind; the

 

stuff they teach in kindergarten.

 

 

Everyone, be in peace, at least here....

 

 

 

Love to all

 

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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. Welcome all to a.

 

 

 

 

Your use of is subject to the

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I somehow missed the series of emails that this email refers to, so I

backtracked and checked it out.

 

It seems that there was missed communications all around. I must say

that I expected better from some of the people on this forum who

might have found a better way to deal with what they perceived.

 

As a cancer survivor, dealing with the imminent threat of death is a

shock to the system and it cannot be understood by anyone who has not

materially met their own mortality. Different people met their death

in different ways and to judge that as fraudulant is insensitive in

the extreme, at least without checking the facts.

 

As I looked at Toni's website I can see, on the other hand, that

someone encountering its contents might have problems with its

contents. We don't really want to look at the reality of death, what

it means, and what the consequences are.

 

We see our spiritual endeavors as all sweetness and light, filled

with love and bliss. This is a kind of wish. We want our world and

consciousness to be Sat-Chit-Ananda. We really want to believe that

all that war, rape, pillage, murder, disease, violence, destruction

of people and the environment, etc. is really all just an illusion --

and ANYTHING WHICH MIGHT THREATEN OUR WISH is an assault upon our

belief system!

 

The "flower children" of the sixties ended their reign of love at

Kent State when a trigger-happy idiot shot one of them. And the story

of love ended there in that movement. The fact that a drug-crazed

hippie high on LSD and PCP raped and murdered the daughter of a

friend of mine in Haight-Ashbury didn't stop the movement, but a

gunshot at Kent State did! So much for illusion...

 

Not everyone has met Ramana Maharshi, and not everyone has dealt

with, as many Buddhists have, the charnal field. A charnal field is a

place where bodies are left to rot in the open. A Buddhist monk who

believes that they have found enlightenment spend a good bit of time

in such a place to get reality on bodies, and their transience.

 

There is our image of India, and the reality of India. I have many

yogi friends who studied Yoga in the US and developed a desire to

meet the "real" India. A trip to Calcutta ended that illusion. They

couldn't handle the odors.

 

I am not sure where this meant to go -- but I am concerned as one who

has had to deal with his own potential death, not as an idea, as a

belief that someday ..., but as a "I'm going into the operating room

and I might not come out the same way I went in."

 

And I didn't, of course. Eleven hours in surgery, 18 days in ICU, and

I am still eating on a feeding tube, because the surgery was in my

throat and the cancer was climbing up a major artery into my brain,

so they took out a whole lot of stuff on my left side throat and up

into my head. On the left side I can directly feel the cervical

vertabrae, there is no muscle or other tissue covering them any more.

 

My view of life and death changed quite a bit after I got out of the

hospital, the next year was mostly a blurr. The importance of things

has changed radically. When I deal with something now -- it is real.

Like Love...I don't need to spout pretty words about it...I met it

everyday...and there is no music playing in the background when I

walk down the street -- except from the too loud music coming from

the Latino car playing Hip Hop music at 160 decibels.

 

If you haven't met your death, you haven't met your life yet.

If you haven't met the reality of things as they are, then don't

judge the reactions of another to reality.

 

For the person who wrote these words...

"Your cancer is a fraud."

I say your Love and Bliss is a fraud!

All that pretty poetry is just odors on the wind until you can walk

your talk!

 

, Harsha wrote:

> Thank you Toni for sharing your story so openly.

>

> I don't know much about your website but am really sorry if any

words originating with a member of this list caused you any hurt

feelings.

>

> All of us, being human, make mistakes and have to depend on each

other for compassion and understanding.

>

> It may be of some interest to you Toni that one of our satsangh

members (Vicki) here has a similar story of cancer about her husband

(which she will be sharing in the next issue of the HS magazine).

>

> There are many different ways that we all cope with the stresses,

difficulties, challenges, and illnesses in our lives.

>

> I would pray that all of us find the strength to forgive each other

and to love each other. The healing of the spirit lies in that.

>

> God bless you all with all good things.

>

> Harsha

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On 11/5/02 at 7:06 AM John Logan wrote:

 

[...]

ºIf you haven't met your death, you haven't met your life yet.

ºIf you haven't met the reality of things as they are, then don't

ºjudge the reactions of another to reality.

 

Of course John: life & death are 2 sides of the same coin but what connects

them?

Giving up one side implies giving up the other, spontaneously showing what

connects

both yet is neither is the message carried by the Kathopanishad.

 

Avoiding this issue is like seeding a cancer that inevitably will grow as

"clinging",

showing as mental turmoil whether "enlightened" or not, alive or in the process

of dying. As nature has a like for the simplicity of recursion and apparently

the "enlightened condition" has been forgotten at least once, some "sensible"

enquiry is required to stop the wheel, which comes natural for Yama's visitors.

 

Strictly speaking, the Buddha was one of those visitors too, facing death

instead

of enlightenment, after several years of ascetic yet fruitless practice. Giving

up the "last bit of clinging" resulted in a deep insight that could be shared

and

easily lived up too, as nothing is more inspiring than a living example.

 

Peace,

Jan

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Hi Jan,

I'm not sure what your point is. My point was, to put it

into "liberation" terms, rather than "process" terms as I wrote it:

it is not in the giving up but in the acceptance.

 

To reiterate your question: What is the coin of which life and death

are the same?

 

When we have met our death, then our priorities change, what is

important changes, and all things become more equal and level. Yet as

has been said, we still "chop wood and carry water".

 

After all the pretty words we are "here, now" and must deal with it

as it appears here, now. Only what we think about it is different, it

is only in our thoughts that the illusions lie, but there also lies

the truth as well.

 

When we have met our death truly, the conditioning is unmasked, we

have nothing more to lose, we have nothing more to gain, except, for

me at least, each moment is filled with appreciation for the gift of

that moment.

 

Anne Cushman, "The world is impermanent, but the world is also a

sacred place."

 

Nameste,

John L.

 

 

, "ecirada" <ecirada@m...> wrote:

> On 11/5/02 at 7:06 AM John Logan wrote:

>

> [...]

> ºIf you haven't met your death, you haven't met your life yet.

> ºIf you haven't met the reality of things as they are, then don't

> ºjudge the reactions of another to reality.

>

> Of course John: life & death are 2 sides of the same coin but what

connects them?

> Giving up one side implies giving up the other, spontaneously

showing what connects

> both yet is neither is the message carried by the Kathopanishad.

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At first, maya is maya and Brahman is Brahman...

Then there is no maya, only Brahman... (vice-versa in the case

of 'dark night of the soul')

Finally, maya is Brahman.

 

Samsara is most definitively Nirvana. Not that they equate... the

two both lose meaning as separate things, the mind no longer divides.

 

Peace,

 

Tim

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On 11/8/02 at 4:28 AM John Logan wrote:

 

ºHi Jan,

ºI'm not sure what your point is. My point was, to put it

ºinto "liberation" terms, rather than "process" terms as I wrote it:

ºit is not in the giving up but in the acceptance.

 

Hi John,

 

When a dog here loses a leg because of a traffic accident it remains

basically the same dog, mobility is reduced.

That's acceptance.

º

ºTo reiterate your question: What is the coin of which life and death

ºare the same?

º

ºWhen we have met our death, then our priorities change, what is

ºimportant changes, and all things become more equal and level. Yet as

ºhas been said, we still "chop wood and carry water".

 

Probably true for the author and you, in my case, not so.

º

ºAfter all the pretty words we are "here, now" and must deal with it

ºas it appears here, now. Only what we think about it is different, it

ºis only in our thoughts that the illusions lie, but there also lies

ºthe truth as well.

 

Regarding the acceptance of invalidity, pets are closest to see how

to accept effortlessly. They still eat, drink and defecate, to paraphrase

the above quote: they don't complain.

º

ºWhen we have met our death truly, the conditioning is unmasked, we

ºhave nothing more to lose, we have nothing more to gain, except, for

ºme at least, each moment is filled with appreciation for the gift of

ºthat moment.

 

Unless the death experience results in being unattached, directly translating

into irreversibly changed behavior, (Ramana is a good example of that),

conditioning still rules the waves.

º

ºAnne Cushman, "The world is impermanent, but the world is also a

ºsacred place."

 

When sacredness can be perceived, so can sacrilege as the two

are inseparable. That is among what a death-experience could convey.

 

Peace,

Jan

 

º

ºNameste,

ºJohn L.

º

º

º, "ecirada" <ecirada@m...> wrote:

º> On 11/5/02 at 7:06 AM John Logan wrote:

º>

º> [...]

º> ºIf you haven't met your death, you haven't met your life yet.

º> ºIf you haven't met the reality of things as they are, then don't

º> ºjudge the reactions of another to reality.

º>

º> Of course John: life & death are 2 sides of the same coin but what

ºconnects them?

º> Giving up one side implies giving up the other, spontaneously

ºshowing what connects

º> both yet is neither is the message carried by the Kathopanishad.

º

º

º

º/join

º

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º

º

º

ºAll paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights,

ºperceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and

ºsubside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not

ºdifferent than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the

ºnature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present.

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

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

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

ºall to a.

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ºYour use of is subject to

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