FRIENDS......C&A 6-30-81

[Guest guest]

Excerpt from: 6-30-81

" Consciousness and the

Absolute. "

 

 

 

You are wrapped up and lost in

your concepts.

 

 

 

For instance, you have a concept

about friendship.

 

How long do you keep your friends?

 

You keep them so long as

they are useful to you.

 

So long as a friend is of some

benefit to you, that's how long you

would like to keep that friendship.

 

 

 

 

Now, how can I actually derive

benefit out of a friend?

 

I as an individual am not there.

 

So how can there be a question

of benefit?

 

Benefit to whom?

 

How can there be a question of

friendship at all?

 

 

 

 

Anybody who comes here can sit.

 

I will allow him to sit for some

time, but later on I will say,

'You may leave.'

 

I have no intention or purpose of

having any friendship with that

person.

 

 

 

 

Ordinarily, there is some purpose

for deriving certain benefits out

of an association with another.

 

When you meet someone in

friendship, there may be some

intention to serve one another.

 

But I have no friends.

 

Even this, " I am ness " ,

will not remain as my friend.

 

 

 

..

[Guest guest]

Relating to the general gist of this one (thanks, Elizabeth), but I

can imagine a possibly amusing situation (no offense intended in this

one, just a contemplation designed to stir up conversation):

 

Nisargadatta, elizabethwells2001 wrote:

 

> Anybody who comes here can sit.

>

> I will allow him to sit for some

> time, but later on I will say,

> 'You may leave.'

 

What if that person said " I will not leave... To heck with you, I

prefer to remain? " :-)

 

> I have no intention or purpose of

> having any friendship with that

> person.

 

Assuming no " enemy-ship " would develop out of that one, I wonder what

Nisargadatta would say? It depends entirely on the situation, I

suppose, but it would have made for an interesting section in one of

the books :-).

 

Namaste,

 

Tim

[Guest guest]

Tim,

 

there definitely are that kind of

situations, in principle,

amongst various passages

in the various books.

 

Although they seem to

arise with willful arrogant

cry babies.

 

El

[Guest guest]

Certainly... yet who's to judge anyone... there are those sneaking

around who are not at all what they appear ;-). Nisargadatta said so

himself in 'I Am That'... " Rarely will a realized one make himself

known to you, and then only for your abiding welfare " (very loosely

paraphrased).

 

Anyway, what did Nisargadatta do... throw them out?

 

Nisargadatta, elizabethwells2001 wrote:

>

> Tim,

>

> there definitely are that kind of

> situations, in principle,

> amongst various passages

> in the various books.

>

> Although they seem to

> arise with willful arrogant

> cry babies.

>

> El