I turn Scott Morrison - "No path"

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The path is exactly so long,

home

to where the heart is.

Alan

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fewtch

Monday, December 02, 2002 5:45 AM

Scott Morrison - "No path"

There Is No PathIt seems to keep on cropping up -- maybe we haven't

looked closely enough, so let's go through it again. Is awareness a

"spiritual path?" Can love be taught? Is freedom something that can

be acquired or possessed? Or, how about this one: Can just anybody be

awake? When we pit Buddhism or Christianity or Advaita or Yoga or 4th

Way or Sufi or some other school or path, subtly or overtly, against

"the others," we indulge in a kind of political competition and

identity control game that creates endless confusion and resentment.

It is one of the main reasons most scientists, and the public at

large, don't trust religions, and rightfully so. So why waste any

more timewith this absurd practice of spiritual one-ups-manship, of

comparing Gods or enlightenments or dharmas. The truth is simply the

truth. It has no defense and does not need one. The maneuver to make

my group, my tradition, my lineage, my teacher, my spiritual path, my

religion, my dharma, my enlightenment superior, is simply a devious

way of saying "I am superior." (And therefore not inferior.) When we

try to whitewash these painful old feelings of unworthiness and

inferiority with the implication that now we are on this

"spiritually" superior path, we keep ourselves wounded, unhealed, and

separate. Stop it! Just stop. Tend to these childhood and adolescent

wounds with the compassion and understanding they need, for as long

as it takes, and let them heal, once and for all. "Love" is not

Christian, and "The Dharma" is not Buddhist, "Satsang" is not Hindu

or yogic, and "Conscious Beings" are not 4th Way. Awareness does not

belong to anybody. Does not everything belong to Awareness? Everyone

is included in this. No one is excluded. No one. There have been

encounters in your life, possibly, perhaps even in yourself, with a

heart so open and so direct and so sincere and so honest, that you

were deeply moved by it. It wasn't limited to bodies or points of

view. Just Pure Being, without a name. Why not give yourself to This?

- Scott Morrison

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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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and we are already at the end :}

Gelf

Al Larus

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Scott Morrison - "No path"

The path is exactly so long,

home

to where the heart is.

Alan

-

fewtch

Monday, December 02, 2002 5:45 AM

Scott Morrison - "No path"

There Is No PathIt seems to keep on cropping up -- maybe we haven't

looked closely enough, so let's go through it again. Is awareness a

"spiritual path?" Can love be taught? Is freedom something that can

be acquired or possessed? Or, how about this one: Can just anybody be

awake? When we pit Buddhism or Christianity or Advaita or Yoga or 4th

Way or Sufi or some other school or path, subtly or overtly, against

"the others," we indulge in a kind of political competition and

identity control game that creates endless confusion and resentment.

It is one of the main reasons most scientists, and the public at

large, don't trust religions, and rightfully so. So why waste any

more timewith this absurd practice of spiritual one-ups-manship, of

comparing Gods or enlightenments or dharmas. The truth is simply the

truth. It has no defense and does not need one. The maneuver to make

my group, my tradition, my lineage, my teacher, my spiritual path, my

religion, my dharma, my enlightenment superior, is simply a devious

way of saying "I am superior." (And therefore not inferior.) When we

try to whitewash these painful old feelings of unworthiness and

inferiority with the implication that now we are on this

"spiritually" superior path, we keep ourselves wounded, unhealed, and

separate. Stop it! Just stop. Tend to these childhood and adolescent

wounds with the compassion and understanding they need, for as long

as it takes, and let them heal, once and for all. "Love" is not

Christian, and "The Dharma" is not Buddhist, "Satsang" is not Hindu

or yogic, and "Conscious Beings" are not 4th Way. Awareness does not

belong to anybody. Does not everything belong to Awareness? Everyone

is included in this. No one is excluded. No one. There have been

encounters in your life, possibly, perhaps even in yourself, with a

heart so open and so direct and so sincere and so honest, that you

were deeply moved by it. It wasn't limited to bodies or points of

view. Just Pure Being, without a name. Why not give yourself to This?

- Scott Morrison

-http://www.openmindopenheart.org//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.

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to the

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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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