Guest guest Posted December 15, 2002 Report Share Posted December 15, 2002 I do not know myself, nor you, my Lord. I mistook the body for my identity. I didn't know that you are me, and I you, yet still I keep wondering who you and I are. ~Lalla Listen it's just like this... simple really can't really put it into words though... would like to but I can't... ok, so here it goes, (drum roll please...) everything? you know what I mean, EVERYTHING! it's vitally important we're on the same page here... Everything is well, it's ....everything. I don't get it either. And neither would I expect you to... but, ....Everything... makes me shiver like a cold dream character ~David Bozzi When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment, which is the dying now to the now. For living is dying. Without death life cannot be. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj All that you are attached to, all that you Love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the real and the unreal. The known is unreal and will come and go so stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging Truth. All which appears and disappears is not real, and no nectar will come from it so don't cling to it, and once you let go do not turn back to it. Stay as Eternity in your own Being. ~Papaji Monkey swings from branch to branch till one day, for no reason, just lets go. Mind, No-Mind -- fists full of air. ~b Clouds & moon travel at the same time, walk together, with no beginning or end, no before or after. ~Dogen Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything; that to which there is no birth, nor death. That immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj In reality, He is the Creator of all effects, but the People of Skin see nothing but secondary causes. A kernel that has not left its shell behind has no escape from doctors and diseases. When man is born for the second time, he plants his foot upon the head of all secondary causes. ~Rumi such irony...you seem to have to, i mean really have to get caught up in war and hatred and violence. and fer christ/allah/brahma/who the hell ever's sake just have to be right! what an absurd obsession! what pinheads. sigh...you just don't seem to get it, do you? there is no need to be killin' and slandering and subjegating and bee'n all 'round mean to each other. no need at'all. just a thought - anyhoo. This Rant sponsered by Damnital! The elixer of joy and abundant living. Why, Folks, one sip of Damnital and those unwonted urges to murder and mayhem simply fade away. Yes, one little sip and the ordinary becomes divine and the divine becomes rather mudane. Try the New and Improved Damnital* see the world of the super mundane. Don't let your heart stop beating until you've tried it. ~Michael Read Being the source of both, the self is beyond both knowledge and power. The observable is in the mind. The nature of the self is pure awareness, pure witnessing, unaffected by the presence or absence of knowledge or liking. Have your being outside this body of birth and death and all your problems will be solved. They exist because you believe yourself born to die. Undeceive yourself and be free. You are not a person. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj Nothing matters. Nothing. It's like drawing on water with a finger. It happened, yet nothing happened. Much ado about nothing That's us humans Enlightenment, God, you, me ... all writing on water this too ... ~Jan Sultan How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal? That is the significance of the comparison made between the world of the waking state and the dream world. Both are creations of the mind and, so long as the mind is engrossed in either, it finds itself unable to deny their reality. It cannot deny the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it is awake. If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind completely from the world and turn it within and abide there, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self which is the sub- stratum of all experiences, you will find the world of which you are now aware is just as unreal as the world in which you lived your dream. ~Sri Ramana Maharshi 11/30/02 This evening Ananda declared, "Mommy, when I am gwown up I will call you Kheyawa." Somehow I doubt that. *giggle* ~Kheyala LoveEternal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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