Homer & the Boys 2

[Guest guest]

Homer: Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you.

But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.

Let attention go to manifestation,just know that manifestation is

Brahman.Let there be creations and destructions.All is Brahman and

you are beyond even That always.~Papaji

Homer: Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower.

Don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.

Remember that you are beyond the experiencer, ever unborn and deathless.

In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge,

the light of unconditional awareness.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Homer: Here's good news! According to this eye-catching article,

SAT scores are declining at a slower rate!

Lisa: Dad, I think this paper is a flimsy hodgepodge of pie graphs,

factoids and Larry King.

Homer: Hey, this is the only paper in America that's not afraid to tell the truth,

that everything is just fine.

How shall we seek real knowledge?By renouncing knowledge.How shall we

seek salvation?By renouncing our own salvation.How shall we seek

Existence?By renouncing our existence.~Rumi

Homer: No matter how good you are at something,

there's always about a million people better than you.

Fame is watercarried in a basket.Hold the wind in your fist,or tie up

an elephantwith one hair.These are accomplishmentsthat will make your

famous.~Lalla

Homer: I can't fake an interest in this, and I'm an expert at faking

an interest in your kooky projects.

Marge: What kooky projects?

Homer: You know, the painting class, the first aid course,

the whole Lamaze thing.

Do not run away from worldly activities,

Only always keep in the "I am SELF," stay

as the screen on which all the projected activitiestake place. In all

activities simply keep quietand know "I am Home."

Your business is to keep quiet.~Papaji

Homer: Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.

When you have understood that all existence,in separation and

limitation, is painful, andwhen you are willing and able to live

integrally,in oneness with all life, as pure being, you havegone

beyond all need of help. You can help anotherby precept and example

and, above all, by yourbeing. You cannot give what you do not have

andyou don't have what you are not. You can only givewhat you are -

and of that you can give limitlessly.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Homer: Come on, Marge, I want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town.

I want to explore the world

I want to watch TV in a different time zone.

I want to visit strange, exotic malls.

I'm sick of eating hoagies.

I want a grinder, a sub, a foot-long hero...I want to live,

Marge! Won't you let me live?

Solitude is in the mind of man. One mightbe in the thick of the world

and maintainserenity of mind. Such a one is in solitude.Another may

stay in a forest, but still be unableto control his mind. Such a man

cannot be said tobe in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind.A

man attached to desires cannot get solitudewherever he may be, whereas

a detached man isalways in solitude.~Sri Ramana Maharshi

Homer: I've always wondered if there was a god.

And now I know there is -- and it's me.

This was my inward way, until I cameinto the presence of a Moon, this

new knowledgeof how likenesses unite. Good Friend,everything is You.

I see only God.Now the delightful forms and motionsare transparent. I

look through themand see myself as the Absolute. And here'sthe answer

to the riddle of this dream:You leave, so that we twocan do One

Dance.~Lalla

Homer: Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike:

you just go in every day and do it really half assed.

That's the American way.

Keep in tune with the source and all youractions will be correct. If

you don¹t therewill be trouble no matter what you do.With arrogrance

of ego there is not skillfulnessand without arrogance everything is

skillful.~Papaji

Lisa: Dad! Can't you have some other type of party,

one where you don't serve meat?

Homer: All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque

and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?'.

I'm trying to impress people here Lisa.

You don't win friends with salad.

The desire to find the self will be surely fulfilled,

provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest

with yourself and really want nothing else.

If in the meantime you want many other things

and are engaged in their pursuit, your main purposemay be delayed

until you grow wiser and cease being torn

between contradictory urges. Go within,

without swerving, without ever looking outward.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Homer: Lisa honey, are you saying you're never going

to eat any animal again?

What about bacon?

Lisa: No.

Homer: Ham?

Lisa: No.

Homer: Pork chops?

Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal!

Homer: Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

By itself nothing has existence. Everything needsits own absence. To

be, is to be distinguishable,to be here and not there, to be now and

not then,to be thus and not otherwise. Like water is shapedby the

container, so is everything determined byconditions (gunas). As water

remains waterregardless of the vessels, as light remains

itselfregardless of the colours it brings out, so does thereal remain

real, regardless of conditions in whichit is reflected. Why keep the

reflection only in thefocus of consciousness? Why not the real

itself?~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Homer: Marge, I'm bored.

Marge: Why don't you read something?

Homer: Because I'm trying to reduce my boredom.

But why worry so much about causation?What do causes matter, when

thingsthemselves are transient? Let come whatcomes and let go what

goes - why catchhold of things and enquire about their

causes?~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Homer: What's the point of going out? We're just gonna wind up back here anyway.

The Ishvara concept is an automatic outcomeof your belief in the

reality of the world andwhen the world exists, ishvara has to existas

the cause thereof, but if the world does notexist, Ishvara need not

exist because if theeffect is not there, what is the use of the

cause?~Swami Krishnananda

Homer: Well of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.

I used to have fiery intensity,and a flowing sweetness.The waters were

illusion.The flames made of snow.Was I dreaming then?Am I awake

now?~Rumi

Homer: To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

Every pleasure, physical or mental, needs an instrument.

Both the physical and mental instruments are materials,

they get tired and worn out. The pleasure they yield is

necessarilylimited in intensity and duration. Pain is the background

of all your pleasures.

You want them because you suffer. On the other hand, the very search

for pleasure is the cause of pain. It is a vicious circle.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Lisa: [wiping her dress] Oh, I can't get the smell of slurry out of my clothes

I was a fool to help that horrible old man!

Homer: I hope you learned your lesson, Lisa.

Never help anyone.

I have stilled my restless mind, and my heart isradiant: for in

That-ness I have seen beyondThat-ness, in company I have seen the

ComradeHimself.Living in bondage, I have set myself free: I

havebroken away from the clutch of all narrowness.Kabir says: "I have

attained the unattainable,and my heart is coloured with the colour of

love."~Kabir

Homer: Facts are meaningless, you can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true!

It's not the Cosmosthat's going to tumble down back into your

bottleneck,into the bottle; it's the breath in the bottlewhich has to

mingle with the Cosmic breath.It's the Oneness which the objective

worldhas to seek rather than expectingthe subjective Divine to

descendinto egotistical bottles with labels on them.~Swami Amar Jyoti

Homer: Marge, can we go home? All this fresh air is making my hair move

and I don't know how long I can complain.

My experience is that everything is bliss.But the desire for bliss

creates pain. Thusbliss becomes the seed of pain. The entireuniverse

of pain is born of desire. Give upthe desire for pleasure and you

will noteven know what is pain.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

Homer: I'm having the best day of my life, and I owe it all to not going to Church!

After you have rejected what was to be rejectedand accepted what was

to be accepted,then only acceptance remains hollow.At that end you'll

say, 'What's this acceptance for, even?I don't need it." Then you'll

arrive at 'Who am I?'~Swami Amar Jyoti

Homer: Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

God is not hiding! When you do not seeGod it is only because you are

lookingelsewhere. So you must absolutely seeGod and nothing else.

Then it is Godthat is looking through your eyes.~Papaji

LoveAlways,

Mazie

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[Guest guest]

Dear Mazie,

Who'd have thought that Homer would be the Sage of the Age!? It's

kind of interesting to be laughing through tears of recognition...

thanks for posting these!

Love,

Shams

.................................................................."Mynd

yøu, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti..."

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Mazie Lane

Sunday, February 16, 2003 3:54 AM

Homer & the Boys 2

Homer: Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you.

But lets just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.

Let attention go to manifestation,just know that manifestation is

Brahman.Let there be creations and destructions.All is Brahman and

you are beyond even That always.~Papaji