Guest guest Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote: > Hey you, you with the stars in your eyes,....... > > Damned skippy, that I dreamt you in my Dream. You get to have all this joy, Lucky, Lucky you..... but I AM you, or you are me, or all is me and you ... etc > > a. ;-) > - > Gene Polotas > Nisargadatta > Friday, May 13, 2005 1:39 PM > doing what cannot be done > > > Dear GP, > > Extracting from your message: > > 'all " you " (the imaginary-doer, that is just another word for > LOVE) have to do is learn this language of LOVE that will take you > to a JOY and Laughter - an Ecstasy - that is far, far beyond your > wildest and wackiest of dreams .' > > How does " one " learn this language? > > Love, > Tapan > =-=-= > > OM Tapan > -- cut -- > =-= > Dear GP, > > Thank you, some understanding about your concept of Love arises > through reading this message. How would you respond to the > contradiction of the imaginary (non) doer having to " do " something > i.e. learn this language of love? > > Love, > Tapan > =-======================================= > > OM Tapan > Excellent question that my mind asks in your name. > It's all just a game of words in which the mind is dreaming that > it is awake. The subject, verb and object of this dream, game- joke > is the same, the mind. > > But most minds don't know it. Most minds don't get this joke, > game. Most minds are dreaming that they are awake. This is the joke, > game. > > The simple answer to my (your) question: Whatever the mind thinks let > it think and then sit back and be Entertained. > This detachment of the observer from its observations, the detachment > of the dreamer from its dream, is more or less the Self verbalized > into JOY, Entertainment. > > If the mind thinks it can control its thoughts then let it control > its thoughts to learn a new language called LOVE. IT IS THAT > SIMPLE. > Give your mind all the rope it wants and let it do the impossible. It > is impossible because if learning a language is not written into the > Movie called maya then there is nothing the mind can do to learn it. > If the language is written into maya then there is nothing that mind > can do not to learn it. That is the game, the Joke. > Let the mind think it can control what cannot be controlled and ENJOY > being the SELF, as " it " enjoys the show the mind performs as > it tries to do the impossible. > That is what Krishna was telling Arjuna - you have no choice in > the slaughter - so go do what has to be done (because it has > already been done.) And if you have to do your duty, then you can > enjoy it with reckless abandon because there is no doer that is doing > anything. (It's all just a dream, maya.) This > enjoyment/detachment is the Self, verbalized. > > If the mind thinks it can understand Advaita then let it understand > the not-two non-doer of Advaita. The Joke, again, is that there is > nothing to understand - it is that simple. SO simple in fact > that there is no mind simple enough to understand it. That again is > the game/joke. In fact from all directions it, this dream called > maya, has to be a game/joke. > So if the mind thinks it can understand the simplicity of Nothing > then sit back and be entertained as it tries to do the impossible and > understand the Nothing that is literally Everything, the Self. > Again, the same joke, game: understanding the Reality that is the > Nothing that is Everything. > > The Joke is even more simple than that: the mind thinks it is > thinking but it cannot think. If the mind could think then it would > be a separate doer from the Self. There is no doer. The mind is the > thoughts and not any process of thoughts. > > Thoughts come out of Nothing to return into Nothing to be Nothing > - thinking is just the imaginary control of these thoughts. This > thinking - the process of controlling thoughts -- is in fact the > illusion, fiction, called maya. This illusion is like thinking that > there is continuity in a movie when the movie is just made up of lots > of separate pictures that appear to be continuous. Again, it is all > the same dream, game, Joke. > > When " I " can detach myself from my mind, and its body, and > observe the mind and its body go through the motions of maya then > life, maya, turns into the JOY of dreaming. This JOY is the > verbalized-Self. This non-dualistic JOY of dreaming, entertainment, > is the Self - but only because it is non-dualistic. The JOY of > entertainment in a tragedy and comedy is the same - just > entertainment, there is no duality. Think about a movie. I go see > a tragedy for the same reason I see a comedy: entertainment. The > difference between crying and laughing is just the mind. That is why > I can cry with Joy because they are the same. > > Imaginary dualities are needed in entertainment for the karma, > friction, turmoil, without which there would be no entertainment. > > When the imaginary-doer is detached from thoughts and actions to > become an Observer then it is just the JOY of the verbalized- Self. > The Self obviously has no roles to play because it is playing all > the roles on the Movie-screen, which it is, for its movie called > maya, life. Again the same dream, joke-game: the Self has no roles to > play because it is playing all the roles. > > So the answer to " imaginary (non) doer having to " do " > something " - If my mind knows that life is but a dream > then " I " am Awake and life is just my dream. If my mind > does not know it is dreaming then I will let it do all it wants and > JUST enjoy the SHOW, the movie called maya. > > And if " I " cannot detach myself from the thoughts called > mind then that is because my role in maya is to generate karma that > maya needs to be entertaining. > =-= > But I must understand this: Since the Self is playing all the roles > of saints and sinners THERE CANNOT BE ANY LOSERS IN THIS GAME OF > MAYA - there can only be winners, the same Self. And so when > thoughts die then all the imaginary doers become-are the same Self > that is an ocean of such unfathomable JOY that is makes the universe > into not even an imaginary drop. > > So I can forget about reincarnation and its heavens and hells, and > guilt and shame, because they are just a part of the imaginary > dualities maya needs to be entertaining. > =-= > > My mind can think whatever it wants, and its body will follow. But > whatever my mind thinks the fact is that the universe is MY DREAM. > And in this DREAM, (fiction, life, maya) there are a few other > imaginary dreamers that are aware that they are also dreaming. These > dreamers in my dream cannot entertain ME much. But there are > billions and billions of imaginary-characters that think they are not > dreaming when they have to be because it is MY (your) DREAM, Joke, > entertainment. > > These billions are just an endless source of entertainment my dream > needs to be entertaining, JOY. > > this JOY you are and all is > > > > > > ** > > If you do not wish to receive individual emails, to change your subscription, sign in with your ID and go to Edit My Groups: > > /mygroups?edit=1 > > Under the Message Delivery option, choose " No Email " for the Nisargadatta group and click on Save Changes. > > > > > -- ---------- > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 13, 2005 Report Share Posted May 13, 2005 Nisargadatta , " Gene Polotas " <semmin@e...> wrote: > Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote: > > Hey you, you with the stars in your eyes,....... > > > > Damned skippy, that I dreamt you in my Dream. You get to have all > this joy, Lucky, Lucky you..... > >but I AM you, or you are me, or all is me and you ... etc > Koo Koo Kajoob! (I am the egg man...) fuzzie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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