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How You Treat Others (repeating the beat)

 

Spiritual people often want unconditional support and understanding

from their friends, family, and mates, but all too often seem blind

to their own short commings when it comes to the amount of

unconditional support and understanding that they give to others. I

have seen many spiritual people become obsessed with how unspiritual

others are and assume an arrogant and superior attitude while

completely missing the fact that they themselves are not nearly as

spiritually enlightened as they would like to think that they are.

Enlightenment can be measured by how compassionately and wisely you

interact with others; with all others, not just those who support you

in the way that you want. How you interact with those who do not

support you shows how enlightened you really are.

As long as you perceive that anyone is holding you back you have not

taken full responsibility for your own liberation. Liberation means

that you stand free of making demands on others and life to make you

happy. When you discover yourself to be nothing but Freedom, you stop

setting up conditions and requirements that need to be satisfied in

order for you to be happy. It is in the absolute surrender of all

conditions and requirements that Liberation is discovered to be who

and what you Are. Then the love and wisdom that flows out of you has

a liberating effect on others.

The biggest challenge for most spiritual seekers is to surrender

their self importance, and see the emptiness of their own personal

story. It is your personal story that you need to awaken from in

order to be free. To give up being either ignorant or enlightened is

the mark of liberation and allows you to treat others as your Self.

What I am describing is the birth of true Love.

 

~Adyashanti

 

 

Medicine

 

" Thirteen prophets come as a group to the city of Saba

that has been so blessed

 

with material wealth. " Where is your gratitude in this? "

The one who gives you

 

your head wants only one bow. " The Sabaens answer,

" There is no thanksgiving

 

in us, only weariness in receiving gifts. We're

tired of wonder, tired

 

of rest, tired of excitement. No more orchards, please,

no more beauty. The gift

 

of being does not delight us anymore. " " But this is the

soul-sickness we

 

cure, " say the prophets. " Your death-in-life makes sweet

things bitter and those

 

who poison you seem like noble friends. Your perception

is jaded. You hear

 

fresh phrasing that carries truth and you say, 'Cliches.

I've heard all that

 

before.' When we make you well, you'll hear new

implications in every old

 

story. Ordinary doctors check the heart by finding a pulse.

We listen without nintermediary.

 

We see from the high belvedere of clairvoyance. Physicians

tend the health of animal

 

energies, wheras the ray of divine majesty moves through

us with right language and

 

action. We know what keeps you on the way and what

distracts. Physicians look

 

at urine samples. we wait for inspiration and ask no

fee, the feel of sacred

 

ambiance being enough. so bring your alaise, your

dullness, your callous

 

ingratitude. As we meet you, the coming together itself

will be medicine. We

 

are the cure, the look that opens your looking.

 

~Rumi

 

 

Self inside self, You are nothing but me.

Self inside self, I am only You.

 

What we are together

will never die.

 

The why and how of this?

What does it matter?

 

~Lalla

 

 

 

Questioner: Without God's power nothing can be done. Even you would

not be sitting here and talking to us without Him.

 

Maharaj: All is His doing, no doubt. What is it to me, since I want

nothing? What can God give me, or take away from me?

What is mine is mine and was mine even when God was not. Of course,

it is avery tiny little thing, a speck the sense 'I am',

the fact of being. This is my own place, nobody gave it to me. The

earth is mine: what grows on it is God's.

 

Q: Did God take the earth on rent from you?

 

M: God is my devotee and did all this for me.

 

Q: Is there no God apart from you?

 

M: How can there be? 'I am' is the root, God is the tree. Whom am I

to worship, and what for?

 

Q: Are you the devotee or the object of devotion?

 

M: Am neither, I am devotion itself.

 

Q: There is not enough devotion in the world.

 

M: You are always after the improvement of the world. Do you really

believe that the world is waiting for you to be saved?

 

Q: I just do not know how much I can do for the world. All I can do,

is to try. Is there anything else you would like me to do?

 

M: Without you is there a world? You know all about the world, but

about yourself you know nothing. You yourself are the tools of your

work, you have no other tools. Why don't you take care of the tools

before you think of the work?

 

Q: I can wait, while the world cannot.

 

M: By not enquiring you keep the world waiting.

 

Q: Waiting for what?

 

M: For somebody who can save it.

 

~Sri Nisargadatta

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie