Stefan The Absolute

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Nisargadatta , Insight <insight@s...> wrote:

> J: Very nice, Stefan.

> Post more often?

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> Hi,

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> may I throw in my 2 cents. When I remember correctly how the dialog

> started, it was an advice not to trust second hand knowledge too much.

> And even Nisargadattas words are second hand knowledge, Lewis has

> said.

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> Yes, and even: what else can knowledge be than second hand? Once I

> " know " something it has already been experienced. And then the

> recognizing of the known is again an experience. And what I think I

> know today might reveal itself as a mirage tomorrow. It is all always

> in a flow.

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> When I read a book, a posting, hear someone speak... how can this

> receiving be anything else than my experience. Where did those words

> come from? What is the source? Searching for the cause of any word is

> like searching for the cause of language itself.

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> One gives to the next, and so on... a trans-fering (tra-dition). So

> the music of Mozart became possible, the words of Nisargadatta were

> possible. In the words, in the music... all is woven into it that ever

> has been said and sung. And it is flowing on, never ending.

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> Sitting together with the master is surely still another caliber of

> experience, and Nisargadattas words have always happened in such a

> situation.

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> But when those words, those sounds reach me - they become my

> experience, fresh like the morning dew or cold like an icy morning

> wind. When I feel that those words, this music... carry something of

> that which cannot be sung, cannot be said... this is again my

> experience and my wonder. A finger is pointing to the moon. Should I

> look at the finger? The moon is my experience and even the moon is

> merely a reflection.

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> Love

> Stefan

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