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It must be shared and passed along and, like love, the more this beauty is shared; the more it continues on, alive in you. - NDhighlights <NDhighlights > NDhighlights <NDhighlights > Monday, July 13, 2009 2:49 PM [NDhighlights] Digest Number 2876 Nonduality Highlights <NDhighlights;_ylc=X3oDMTJjODFoczQ2BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE\ 1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEc2VjA2hkcgRzbGsDaHBoBHN0aW1lAzEyNDc\ 1MTA5NzU-> Messages In This Digest (2 Messages) 1. #3590 - Saturday, July 11, 2009<about:blank#1> markwotter704 2. #3591 - Sunday, July 12, 2009<about:blank#2> markwotter704 View All Topics<NDhighlights/messages;_ylc=X3oDMTJlY3Rrbmly\ BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA2F0\ cGMEc3RpbWUDMTI0NzUxMDk3Ng--?xm=1 & m=p & tidx=1> | Create New Topic<NDhighlights/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJlZDZvM3BjBF9TA\ zk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA250cGMEc\ 3RpbWUDMTI0NzUxMDk3Ng--> Messages 1. #3590 - Saturday, July 11, 2009 <NDhighlights/message/3590;_ylc=X3oDMTJwMGkybmZxBF\ 9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEbXNnSWQDMzU5MARzZWMDZG\ 1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMjQ3NTEwOTc2> Posted by: " markwotter704 " markwotter704 <markwotter704 markwotter704 <http://profiles./markwotter704> Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:40 pm (PDT) Archived issues of the NDHighlights are available online: http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm<http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm> <http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm<http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm>> Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3590, Saturday, July 11, 2009 Ed note: today's selections are all from Poetry Chaikhana - Sacred Poetry from Around the World, a lovely site. Secretly we spoke Secretly we spoke, that wise one and me. I said, Tell me the secrets of the world. He said, Sh... Let silence Tell you the secrets of the world. - Rumi, English version by Jonathan Star and Shahram Shiva Be still. Listen to the stones of the wall. Be silent, they try to speak your name. Listen to the living walls. Who are you? Who are you? Whose silence are you? Who (be quiet) are you (as these stones are quiet). Do not think of what you are still less of what you may one day be. Rather be what you are (but who?) be the unthinkable one you do not know. O be still, while you are still alive, and all things live around you speaking (I do not hear) to your own being, speaking by the unknown that is in you and in themselves. " I will try, like them to be my own silence: and this is difficult. The whole world is secretly on fire. The stones burn, even the stones they burn me. How can a man be still or listen to all things burning? How can he dare to sit with them when all their silence is on fire? " - Thomas Merton Though the air is full of singing my head is loud with the labor of words. Though the season is rich with fruit, my tongue hungers for the sweet of speech. Though the beech is golden I cannot stand beside it mute, but must say " It is golden, " while the leaves stir and fall with a sound that is not a name. It is in the silence that my hope is, and my aim. A song whose lines I cannot make or sing sounds men's silence like a root. Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there - Wendell Berry When the desire for the Friend became real, all existence fell behind. The Beloved wasn't interested in my reasoning, I threw it away and became silent. The sanity I had been taught became a bore, it had to be ushered off. Insane, silent and in bliss, I spend my days with my head at the feet of My Beloved. - Abu-Said Abil-Kheir still the body still the mind still the voice inside in silence feel the stillness move friends this feeling cannot be imagined - Kabir why fear this moment when no thoughts come at last I lie naked in the arms of experience why fear this moment when no words come at last I find rest in the lap of silence why fear this moment when love finds itself alone at last I am embraced by infinity itself why fear this moment when judgment falls away at last my defenses fail to keep intimacy at bay why fear this moment when hope is lost at last my foolish dreams are surrendered to perfection - Nirmala, from Gifts with No Giver: a love affair with truth Back to top <about:blank#toc>Reply to sender <markwotter704?Subject=Re%3A%233590%20-%20Saturday%2C%20July%20\ 11%2C%202009>| Reply to group <NDhighlights ?Subject= Re%3A%233590%20-%20Saturday%2C%20July%2011%2C%202009>| Reply via web post <NDhighlights/post;_ylc=X3oDMTJwaXI5Z2FwBF9TAzk3Mz\ U5NzE1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEbXNnSWQDMzU5MARzZWMDZG1zZwRzbG\ sDcnBseQRzdGltZQMxMjQ3NTEwOTc2?act=reply & messageNum=3590> Messages in this topic <NDhighlights/message/3590;_ylc=X3oDMTM0am84dGkwBF\ 9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEbXNnSWQDMzU5MARzZWMDZG\ 1zZwRzbGsDdnRwYwRzdGltZQMxMjQ3NTEwOTc2BHRwY0lkAzM1OTA->(1) 2. #3591 - Sunday, July 12, 2009 <NDhighlights/message/3591;_ylc=X3oDMTJwa21uMmJpBF\ 9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzIwMzU3MARncnBzcElkAzE3MDUwNzczNjAEbXNnSWQDMzU5MQRzZWMDZG\ 1zZwRzbGsDdm1zZwRzdGltZQMxMjQ3NTEwOTc2> Posted by: " markwotter704 " markwotter704 <markwotter704?Subject= Re%3A%233591%20-%20Sunday%2C%20July%2012%2C%202009> markwotter704 <http://profiles./markwotter704> Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:33 pm (PDT) Archived issues of the NDHighlights are available online: http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm<http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm> <http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm<http://nonduality.com/hlhome.htm>> Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3591, Sunday, July 12, 2009 Rest and Be Taken When there is deep abundance there is nowhere to abide. There is nowhere to rest or grasp onto and yet there is rest The sky abides yet it never rests. Neither can we say that the sky is not always at rest. We talk about the sky as if it were something as if it actually exists - and yet we cannot say that the sky does not exist. The sky is nothing but coming and going. Everything is perfectly spontaneous. The coming and going arise mutually instantaneously. If the true I is asleep you will miss the point entirely and you will continue to dwell in the world of opposites. So see the two as one and the one as empty and be liberated within the world of duality. At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky. Life and death becoming and begoing are only words. In order to save your life you must see that you die instantaneously moment to moment instant to instant. Now where are you going to abide? And where are you not abiding already? Indeed there is nowhere to rest your head and there is nothing but rest. So let go of all ideas about permanence and impermanence about cause and effect and about no cause and no effect. All such notions are dualistic concepts. The Truth of what you are is completely beyond all duality and all notions of non-duality, and yet it includes duality and non-duality alike. Like an ocean that is both waves and stillness and yet un-definable as waves or stillness. The truth of being cannot be grasped by ideas or experiences. Both waves and stillness are the manifest activity or your own self. But self cannot be defined by its activity nor by its non-activity. The truth is all-transcendent ungraspable, all-inclusive and closer than your own skin. A single thought about it obscures its essence. The perfume of true life is right in your nose. There is nothing you can do to perceive it and yet you must do something. I say: Rest and be taken. Rest and be taken. - Adyashanti, from My Secret is Silence: Poetry and Sayings of Adyashanti Thoughts When all thoughts Are exhausted I slip into the woods And gather A pile of shepherd's purse. Like the little stream Making its way Through the mossy crevices I, too, quietly Turn clear and transparent. - Ryokan You Are the Only Student You Have You are the only faithful student you have. All the others leave eventually. Have you been making yourself shallow with making others eminent? Just remember, when you're in union, you don't have to fear that you'll be drained. The command comes to speak, and you feel the ocean moving through you. Then comes, Be silent, as when the rain stops, and the trees in the orchard begin to draw moisture up into themselves. Rumi, Mathnawi V:3195-3219, version by Coleman Barks Word, Thought, Kula and Akula cease to be there! Neither silence nor yogic postures gain you admission there; Neither Shiva, nor Shakti abide there! Whatever remains is That; this is the Lesson! - Lalla, English version by B. N. 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