An Invitation/Anna

[Guest guest]

, "Anna Ruiz" <nli10u@c...>

wrote:

 

Dear Mazie,

 

I have been very recent 3-4 months to lists, the UK list has been

approx. 6 mos. So I am a babe, so to speak, about the comings and

goings of these

comings and goings.

 

I imagine you are back at tv from our exchange, please return there

for a moment and see if this goes as it went and won't go as it

could/should. My words are my life and I gotta do what I

must this world is beautiful exquisite and full of truth that doesn't

want to be seen. I have my place in this Seeing, and it seems you

also do Sister.

 

Love is Peace by bringing a new under

the sun....

 

Anna

 

 

Dear Anna,

 

I would if I could -- but I've been removed from the group

truevision by the owner and/or moderator(s.)

 

Self-moderating myself now, here's something of a 'truevision'

given to us via our Beloved Sri Ramana:

 

 

"What is the undercurrent which vivifies the mind,

enables it to do all this work?

 

It is the Self.

 

So that is the real source of your activity.

Simply be aware of it during your work

and do not forget it.

 

Contemplate in the background of your mind

even whilst working. To do that,

do not hurry, take your own time.

 

Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive,

even while working, and avoid haste

which causes you to forget.

 

Be deliberate.

 

Practice meditation to still the mind

and cause it to become aware of its true relationship

to the Self which supports it.

 

Do not imagine it is you who are doing the work.

Think that it is the underlying current which is doing it.

Identify yourself with the current.

 

If you work unhurriedly, recollectedly,

your work or service need not be a hindrance."

 

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi, "Be As You Are"

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

edited by David Godman

 

 

 

I look happily forward to many conversations

and exchanges with you, Dear Anna.

Your poetry is so superb, a real powerhouse of Wow!

And how, that Wow, Anna!

And how!

 

And now, back to our Sponsor:

 

 

"Mukti or liberation is our nature.

It is another name for us.

Our wanting mukti is a very funny thing.

It is like a man who is in the shade,

voluntarily leaving the shade,

going into the sun,

feeling the severity of the heat there,

making great efforts to get back to the shade

and then rejoicing, "How sweet is the shade!

I have reached the shade at last!"

We are all doing exactly the same.

We are not different from the reality.

We imagine we are different, that is

we create the bheda bhava [the feeling of difference]

and then undergo great sadhana [spiritual practices]

to get rid of the bheda bhava and realise the oneness.

Why imagine or create bheda bhava and then destroy it?"

 

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi,"Be As You Are"

The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi

edited by David Godman

 

 

 

Love & Peace,

 

Mazie