Digest Number 369

[Guest guest]

At 07:17 PM 10/26/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Buddha once said, "Stop. Stop. Do not talk. The highest

>Truth is not even to think!" Alas, that's the rub. You can think

>about enlightenment all you want, but that is not going to bring you

>to it. What is needed is your own practice and effort, directed in a

>way that can move your focus past your own mind and ego.

 

1 Corinthians 2

12

And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that [is] of

God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

13

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in

those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things

comparing,

14

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for

to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because

spiritually they are discerned;

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Yes, thank you for again pointing to how it is the spirit behind the words, far

more than the words themselves that carries the message. That was exactly what

removed my usual resistance reaction to a concept that had been presented

previously with a negative feeling behind it. Of course Bhagavan Ramana's words

carry the love with which they were first said by him.

 

And welcome to the list, Tom.

 

With love,

Gloria

 

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Tom DiCorcia

RamanaMaharshi

Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:12 PM

Re: [RamanaMaharshi] Digest Number 369

 

 

At 07:17 PM 10/26/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Buddha once said, "Stop. Stop. Do not talk. The highest

>Truth is not even to think!" Alas, that's the rub. You can think

>about enlightenment all you want, but that is not going to bring you

>to it. What is needed is your own practice and effort, directed in a

>way that can move your focus past your own mind and ego.

 

1 Corinthians 2

12

And we the spirit of the world did not receive, but the Spirit that [is] of

God, that we may know the things conferred by God on us,

13

which things also we speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in

those taught by the Holy Spirit, with spiritual things spiritual things

comparing,

14

and the natural man doth not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for

to him they are foolishness, and he is not able to know [them], because

spiritually they are discerned;

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Gloria,

 

Maybe the third verse of Sri Ramana's poem

"Forty Verses on Existence" are relevant here.

The last few words may surprise some people:

 

.. "The world is real;"

.. "it is an illusory appearance;"

.. "the world is intelligent;"

.. "it is not;"

.. "the world is happiness;"

.. "it is not;"

 

.. of what use is it to argue thus?

 

.. That state of egolessness is acceptable to all,

.. wherein leaving the world and understanding

.. oneself, one is freed from notions of unity and

.. duality.

 

(Mahadevan's translation.)

 

Rob

 

 

 

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"Gloria Lee" <glee

<RamanaMaharshi>

Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:25 PM

Re: [RamanaMaharshi] Digest Number 369

 

 

> Yes, thank you for again pointing to how it is the spirit

> behind the words, far more than the words themselves

> that carries the message....