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Issue # 1504

Saturday, July 26, 2003

Editor: Christiana

Love itself

is the actual form of God.

-Ramana Maharshi

Art: Andy Goldsworthy - rowan leaves

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The Nisargadatta Song of I Am

(Edited by Jerry Katz)

Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are.

When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as

you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows

you the world as it is, will also show you your own face. The thought

'I am' is the polishing cloth.

'I am' is ever afresh. You do not need to remember in order to be. ...

At present your being is mixed up with experiencing. All you need is

to unravel being from the tangle of experiences. Once you have known

pure being, without being this or that, you will discern it among

experiences and you will no longer be misled by names and forms.

....the 'I am' in movement creates the world. The 'I am' at peace becomes the Absolute.

In the immensity of consciousness a light appears, a tiny point that

moves rapidly and traces shapes, thoughts and feelings, concepts and

ideas, like the pen writing on paper. And the ink that leaves a trace

is memory. You are that tiny point and by your movement the world is

ever re-created. Stop moving and there will be no world. Look within

and you will find that the point of light is the reflection of the

immensity of light in the body, as the sense 'I am'. There is only

light, all else appears.

http://www.nonduality.com/iam.htm

Andy Goldsworthy

I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp

stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each

day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will

be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and

branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that

there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn.

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from

the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and

another begins. The energy and space around a material are as

important as the energy and space within.

The weather, rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm is that external space made visible.

When I touch a rock, I am touching and

working the space around it. It is not

independent of its surroundings, and the

way it sits tells how it came to be there.

I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick,

it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the

processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these

processes continue.

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature,

the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of

touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as

my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key

to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes

in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays.

Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I

find in nature.

http://cgee.hamline.edu/see/goldsworthy/see_an_andy.html

Jan Sultan offers a free e-book

....following the example of Jerry's excellent

ebook[http://nonduality.com], I have decide to select postings

from the SufiMystic group and compile them in ebooks.

SufiMystic Selections Vol 1.pdf

Harsha

Maitri Bhavnu song recorded by Mukesh in 1969.

http://www.jainmeditation.org/pages/maitribhav.html

Stephen Wolinsky from:

I Am That I Am: A tribute to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The I AM made easy

One who is completely rid of one's very own concept of I AM is

completely liberated. Nisargadatta Maharaj

p. 203 Seeds of Consciousness

What is the I AM? To begin with, according to Nisargadatta Maharaj,

the I AM has two levels. The first is the Verbal I AM.

According to Nisargadatta, the verbal I AM is all you can say about

yourself after you say, I AM. All else after this verbal I AM is to

be discarded.

The Non-Verbal I AM: The I AM is the glue of individuality, and the

primal illusion which holds the mirage together.

The non-verbal I Am has no thoughts, memory, emotions, associations,

perceptions, attention or intentions and is the Gateway and

touchstone to the Nothingness. The Non-Verbal I AM is the stateless

state or No-State state, that is prior to the verbal I Am.

By staying in the gateway, I AM, the Consciousness which the I AM is

made of, absorbs the I AM like a dry sponge absorbs water. - Stephen

Wolinsky

Be in that Beingness then it will tell you how beingness turns

into Non-Beingness. - Nisargadatta Maharaj

p 5 Nectar of the Lord's Feet

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