Love thy Neighbour

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>From a friend at AdyashantiSatsang - a psalm offered and run with

further and farther than stars long dead leaving light laughter

trailing into my and your and others' mouths, to spill forth now -

 

Love Thy Neighbour

 

 

((( (The liberated soul) has nothing to sin with, for without a will

no one can sin. Now she is kept from sin if she leaves her will there

where it is planted, that is, in the One who has given it to her

freely from His goodness.

(p. 165)

 

She is dissolved by annihilation into that prior existence where Love

has received her.

(p. 219)

 

~Marguerite Porete, 14th century mystic

 

Psalm 139 offered and added to -

 

1 Lord, you have searched me,

And you know me.

 

 

((( Love and such Souls are one thing, no longer two things.

(p. 159

 

One finds something in the place where it is, and because (God) is

everywhere, this Soul finds Him everywhere.

(p. 110)

 

Paradise is nothing other than to see God only.

(p. 171)

 

~Marguerite Porete

 

 

He Knows whom You let Know. None else Knows.

 

~Vedic song

 

 

 

2 You know my sitting down and my rising up.

You perceive my thoughts from afar.

 

 

(((I have only as much being as (God) is able to be of Himself in me.

(pp. 174-175)

 

As long as I will nothing, ... I am alone in Him without myself,

completely unencumbered. And if I should will something, .. I am with

myself, and ... I have lost freeness.

(p. 129)

 

Whoever would ask such free Souls, sure and peaceful, if they would

want to be in purgatory, they would say no; or if they would want to

be certain of salvation in this life, they would say no; or if they

want to be in paradise, they would say no. But then with what would

they will it? They no longer possess any will, and if they would

desire anything, they would separate themselves from Love.

(pp. 86-87)

 

Such a Soul neither desires nor despises poverty nor tribulation,

neither mass nor sermon, neither fast nor prayer, and gives to Nature

all that is necessary, without remorse of conscience. But such Nature

is so well ordered through the transformation by unity of Love, to

whom the will is conjoined, that Nature demands nothing which is

prohibited.

(p. 87)

 

This life is the handmaid and servant who prepares the place for the

arrival and lodging of the great being of the Freeness of Willing

Nothing, by which the Soul is in all points satisfied. That is, [the

Soul is satisfied] by this nothingness which gives all things. For

the one who gives all, possesses all, and not otherwise.

(p. 154)

 

~Marguerite Poerete

 

 

3 You search out my path and my lying down,

And are acquainted with all my ways.

 

 

((( This Soul is so well established that if she possessed all the

understanding of all the creatures who ever were and who are and who

are to come, so it would seem to her as nothing, compared to what she

loves, which never was understood, is not now, and never will be.

(p. 90)

 

For God is none other than the One of whom one can understand nothing

perfectly.

(p. 91)

 

(God) is incomprehensible except by Himself.

(p. 84)

 

Thus it is better that the Soul be in the sweet country of

understanding-nothing ...

(p. 142)

 

~Marguerite Porete

 

 

4 For there is not a word on my tongue,

But, behold, Lord, you know it altogether.

 

 

(((The One in whom she is does His work through her, for the sake of

which she is entirely freed by the witness of God Himself ... who is

the worker of this work to the profit of this Soul who no longer has

within her any work.

(p. 121)

 

I do not owe (God) any work since He Himself works in me. If I should

place my own [work] there, I destroy His work.

(p. 160)

 

((( Meditation on Pure Love has only one intent alone, which is that

the Soul love always loyally without wishing to have anything in

return... Loyal Love would not deign to have any consolations which

might come from her own seeking... For the one who wills that God

cause him to experience God's will in comforts does not trust

perfectly in God's goodness alone, but in the gifts of His riches

which He has to give.

(p. 198)

 

This greater part (of absolute divine Love) shows her her

nothingness, naked without covering; such nakedness shows her the All

Powerful through the goodness of divine righteousness. These showings

make her deep, large, supreme, and sure. For they make her always

naked, All and Nothing, as long as they hold her in their embrace.

(p. 130)

 

~Marguerete Porete

 

 

5 You hem me in behind and before.

You laid your hand on me.

 

 

(((Surrendering

 

You have nothing to delay in giving up yourselves, for no one can

rest in the highest restful repose if he is not fatigued first -- of

this I am certain. Let the Virtues have what is theirs in you by

sharpening the will in the core of the affection of your spirit until

they have acquitted you of what you owe Jesus Christ.

(p. 169)

 

There is no greater life than always to will the divine will.

 

~Marguerete Porete

 

 

6 This knowledge is beyond me.

It's lofty.

I can't attain it.

 

[Psalms 139] offered from Simo

 

 

(((... The Deity would work His divine works in us, for our sakes,

without us.

(p. 184)

 

Even if they drive themselves each day with themselves to enlarge

upon the perfection of the apostles by the effort of the will, they

will not be unencumbered from themselves .. that is neither from the

body nor from the soul. Truly no ... since no matter (what one

attempts to do through one's own efforts), it will still only be self-

encumbrance.

(p. 153)

 

~Marguerete Porete

 

 

((( ... she has fallen into certainty of knowing nothing and into

certainty of willing nothing. And this nothingness ... gives her the

All, and no one can possess it in any other way.

(p. 156)

 

~Marguerite Porete – 14th century French christian Mystic

 

 

We, human beings, did live in the past

and we alone will be in the future also.

>From ancient times to the present,

we have activised this world.

Just like rising and setting of the sun, a usual routine,

the immanent Shiva (jiva) will never be relieved of birth and death."

 

~Lalla, 14th century mystic

 

 

.... The Divine Goodness pours out from [His] bosom one rapturous

overflow of the movement of Divine Light. Such movement of Divine

Light, which is poured into the Soul by light, shows to the will of

the Soul the rightness of what is and the understanding of what is

not in order to move the will of the soul from the place where it now

is, where it ought not to be, in order to dissolve it where it is

not, whence it comes, and where it ought to remain.

(p. 191)

 

 

This Soul ... is totally dissolved, melted and drawn, joined and

united to the most high Trinity. And she cannot will except the

divine will through the divine work of the whole Trinity.

(p. 143)

 

(The liberated soul) has no emptiness in her which would not be

completely filled by Me, which is why she cannot host either care or

memory, and so she possesses no semblance of them. And yet ... piety

and courtesy are not departed from such a Soul, as long as there is

time and place.

(p. 154)

 

(The soul says) For if I owe You as much as You are worth, You owe me

as much as You have, for such is the largesse of Your divine

nature... these two debts continue ... and are made completely one

from now on. And I completely consent to it ...

(p. 155)

 

(The liberated soul) loses her name, for she rises in sovereignty.

And therefore she loses her name in the One in whom she is melted and

dissolved through Himself and in Himself. Thus she would be like a

body of water which flows from the sea, which has some name, as one

would be able to say Aisne or Seine or another river. And when this

water or river returns into the sea, it loses its course and its name

with which it flowed in many countries in accomplishing its task. Now

it is in the sea where it rests, and thus has lost all labor.

(p. 158)

 

This Soul ... is imprisoned and held in the country of complete

peace, for she is always in full sufficiency, in which she swims and

bobs and floats, and she is surrounded by divine peace, without any

movement in her interior, and without any exterior work on her part.

These two things would remove this peace from her if they could

penetrate to her, but they cannot, for she is in the sovereign state

where they cannot pierce or disturb her about anything.

(p. 156)

 

…into Love, and from Love into Nothingness, and from Nothingness into

clarification by God, who sees Himself with the eyes of His Majesty,

who in this point has clarified her with Himself. And she is so

dissolved in Him that she sees neither herself nor Him, and thus He

sees completely Himself alone, by His divine goodness. He will be of

Himself in such goodness which He knew of Himself before she ever

was, when He gave her ... Free Will, which He cannot take from her

without the pleasure of the Soul. Now He possesses [the will] without

a why in the same way that He possessed it before she was made a lady

by it. There is no one except Him; no one loves except Him, for no

one is except Him, and thus He alone loves completely, and sees

Himself completely alone, and praises completely alone by His being

Himself.

(p. 167)

 

This Soul ... is at rest without obstructing the outpouring of divine

Love.

(p. 186)

 

(The liberated soul) no longer seeks God through penitence, nor

through any sacrament of Holy Church; not through thoughts, nor

through words, nor through works; not through creature here below,

nor through creature above; not through justice, nor through mercy,

nor through glory of glory; not through divine understanding, nor

through divine love, nor through divine praise.

(p. 160)

 

 

Such Souls ... possess as equally dear, shame as honor, and honor as

shame; poverty as wealth, and wealth as poverty; torment from God and

his creatures, as comfort from God and His creatures; to be loved as

hated, and hated as loved; to be in hell as in paradise, and in

paradise as in hell; and in small estate as in great, and great

estate as small ... They neither will nor not-will anything of these

prosperities nor of these adversities.

(p. 95)

 

.... she has fallen into certainty of knowing nothing and into

certainty of willing nothing. And this nothingness ... gives her the

All, and no one can possess it in any other way.

(p. 156)

 

~Marguerite Porete

 

 

Another psalm - from M

 

1 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name!

Who hast thy glory far advanc'd above the starry frame.

 

2 From infants' and from sucklings' mouth thou didest strength

ordain, For thy foes' cause, that so thou might'st th' avenging foe

restrain.

 

3 When I look up unto the heav'ns, which thine own fingers fram'd,

Unto the moon, and to the stars, which were by thee ordain'd;

 

4 Then say I, What is man, that he remember'd is by thee?

Or what the son of man, that thou so kind to him should'st be?

 

5 For thou a little lower hast him than the angels made;

With glory and with dignity thou crowned hast his head.

 

6 Of thy hands' works thou mad'st him lord, all under's feet didst

lay;

 

7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts that in the field do stray;

 

8 Fowls of the air, fish of the sea, all that pass through the same.

 

9 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name!

 

~Psalms

 

 

 

There is a passion in me that doesn't long for anything

from another human being.

 

I was given something else –

A hat to wear in both worlds.

 

It fell off.

No matter.

 

One morning I went to a place beyond dawn:

A source of sweetness that flows and is never less.

 

I have been shown a beauty that would confuse both worlds

But I won't cause that uproar.

 

I am nothing but a head

Set upon the ground as a gift for Shams.

 

~Rumi

 

 

We think that there is something hiding our

reality and that it must be destroyed before the

reality is gained. It is ridiculous. A day will dawn

when you will yourself laugh at your past efforts.

That which will be on the day you laugh is also

here and now.

 

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

Man oh man brothers and sisters,

the Mirthful One Yips like a divine coyote

baying at the moon of Self rising

and lighting up

everything

everywhere

and it was never so funny,

it was never so hilarious

as it is this moment.

 

We've been laughing and stumbling around

these streets for three months

in three hundred lifetimes

in three seconds

in the trinity concept

of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva.

Or God the Father,

the Son

and the Holy Ghost.

Being emboldened by Love

we've thrown them across the space

it takes to enter in

the Horizon

of pre-existence.

 

Pretty funny, eh?

 

 

"In this state there is no Shiva,

nor any holy union.

 

Only a somewhat something moving

dreamlike on a fading road."

 

- Lalla

 

 

Whatever it is,

it just keeps on going.

Han Shan wandered all over China looking for it.

He was It looking for itSelf.

Han Shan was about one foot

(if we're still talking in the time rhyme)

one foot from stepping into the Void.

God that looks so funny in print.

Say that at a non-dual party

and see how far it gets you!

 

All this night waltzing with

the likes of Wu Wei Wu,

Ramana and Nityananda too,

well it simply cracks us up so much

we can't stop crying

between bhakti bhajans

and standing timelessly

in transmissions given

by the jnanis wandering around with us.

 

What're ya gonna do?

 

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

 

Somehow,

Lovers are absolved

from doing anything.

They're so done up in jnani originals

they can't tell where bhakti begins

and jnani ends.

 

Here's the real deal:

 

It never fucking ends.

 

 

"Deham - The body

 

Naham - I am not

 

Koham - Who am I?

 

Soham - I am He"

 

~Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

 

The essential purpose of the Vedas

is to teach you the nature of

the Imperishable Self.

 

Ah...

 

Supreme Consciousness!

 

Thou art That!

 

Having discussed this stuff in-depth

and having been aware of the Presence

of Sri Ramana and Nisargadatta Maharaj today,

i think it's safe to say this -

 

"I, the tiny bubble of laughter

have become the Sea of Mirth ItSelf."

 

~Sri Yoganandaji

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie