Guest guest Posted February 22, 2001 Report Share Posted February 22, 2001 > ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` > > > Enlighten your desires. > Meditate on who you are. > Quit imagining. > > What you want is profoundly expensive, > and difficult to find, > yet closeby. > > Don't search for it. It is nothing, > and a nothing within nothing. > > - Lalla > 14th Century North Indian mystic > > ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` > > > From "Naked Song" > Versions by Coleman Barks > Maypop 1992 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2001 Report Share Posted February 23, 2001 And *nothing* is easy to find, apparently. Or, since it's nothing, perhaps it is hard to find. How does one find nothing if they don't know what it looks like? Simple, it's said, one just goes out and looks for .... nothing. Until one finds it! - Vicki RamanaMaharshi Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:52 PM [RamanaMaharshi] Enlighten your desires > ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` > > > Enlighten your desires. > Meditate on who you are. > Quit imagining. > > What you want is profoundly expensive, > and difficult to find, > yet closeby. > > Don't search for it. It is nothing, > and a nothing within nothing. > > - Lalla > 14th Century North Indian mystic > > ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` > > > From "Naked Song" > Versions by Coleman Barks > Maypop 1992 > Sponsor Click here for Classmates.com Post message: RamanaMaharshi Subscribe: RamanaMaharshi- Un: RamanaMaharshi- List owner: RamanaMaharshi-owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/RamanaMaharshi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2001 Report Share Posted February 23, 2001 Oh, my God, not again! Do you always use to complicate things like this?! My hope is that Miles will write something for you from "Talks" ! , Vicki. - Gordon Rosenberg RamanaMaharshi Friday, February 23, 2001 10:19 AM Re: [RamanaMaharshi] Enlighten your desires And *nothing* is easy to find, apparently. Or, since it's nothing, perhaps it is hard to find. How does one find nothing if they don't know what it looks like? Simple, it's said, one just goes out and looks for .... nothing. Until one finds it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2001 Report Share Posted February 23, 2001 Hi, namaste, If we objectify this nothing (whatever it may be) we're lost. Instead find that which is the eternal, boundless and limitless subject, "...because there is nothing alien to the Self." (from Talk; 42) Vicki's verse says, " Meditate on who you are. Quit imagining." To imagine what something (nothing) is...is to be lost. To search for 'it', as an objectified entity, will always be problematic. To search for the searcher however, to trace back to the sole source, is undoubtedly "...an easy thing." So easy in fact that it is regularly dismissed in a furious search for complications. Analysis of the many is superseded by enquiry into the One. Nothing can be outside of this immediate, endless, unbroken, multi-dimensional Self. It is 'my' subjective realisation which reveals this. Something exists only so long as there is someother to observe it. 'My' subjective realisation extends beyond this limited 'me'. LOL om namo bhagavate sri ramanaya Regards Miles > ---------------------- > Oh, my God, not again! > Do you always use to complicate things like this?! > > My hope is that Miles will write something for you from "Talks" ! , > Vicki. - > Gordon Rosenberg > RamanaMaharshi > Friday, February 23, 2001 10:19 AM > Re: [RamanaMaharshi] Enlighten your desires > And *nothing* is easy to find, apparently. > > Or, since it's nothing, perhaps it is hard to find. > > How does one find nothing if they don't know what it looks like? > > Simple, it's said, one just goes out and looks for .... nothing. > > Until one finds it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2001 Report Share Posted February 23, 2001 If we objectify this nothing (whatever it may be) we're lost. Miles > And *nothing* is easy to find, apparently. > > Or, since it's nothing, perhaps it is hard to find. > > How does one find nothing if they don't know what it looks like? > > Simple, it's said, one just goes out and looks for .... nothing. > > Until one finds it! Hi Gordon & All, I found other verses from Lalla's poetry that could clarify more - I think- the meaning of "nothing" that people on a spiritual path strive for, I hope you'll like this, Vicki _ With repeated meditation practice the expanse of the visible universe with all its qualities dissolves to nothing, to where there is only health and great joy. - Lalla 14th Century North Indian mystic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 23, 2001 Report Share Posted February 23, 2001 Hi folks, namaste, ----- > With repeated meditation practice > the expanse of the visible universe > with all its qualities dissolves > to nothing, to where there is > only health and great joy. > - Lalla > 14th Century North Indian mystic --------- This dissolution IS the infinite expanse of the "boundless Subject". The Self is all that has been, is, and ever will be. One without another. "Meditate on who you are, Quit imagining." Sage advice!! regards Miles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.