The Silver Jar/Silver

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First tell me Silver, what jar would/should/could bliss come in?

what would it feel like,

what would it taste like,

what would it smell like,

what would it look like,

what would you think you had to do to find bliss?

And how would bliss speak to you?

 

Ana

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s_i_l_v_e_r1069

Nisargadatta

Tuesday, December 27, 2005 7:34 PM

Re: The Silver Jar

 

 

I have two bottles of shampoo here.

 

The first is a product called, 'Herbal Essences' and makes the claim

that, " Wildly exciting is our normal. " It goes on to say, " Enter a

world of botanical bliss and unleash the power of your beautifully

refreshed hair. Embracing you like a meadow of fresh flowers, this

luxurious shampoo...will take your hair to a place it's never been

before: renewed, radiant and naturally flowing. "

 

The second bottle is a product called, 'Herbal Garden.' It makes no

glowing promises to the buyer other than to say it will leave my hair

feeling " lustrously clean and soft. "

 

Both products contain the same ingredients: aloe, chamomile and

passionflower.

 

I do not experience anything " wildly exciting " from using either of

the two products and my hair looks and feels the same way it always

has afterwards. It doesn't feel renewed and radiant, nor does it

flow. It merely feels clean and soft but not lustrously so. (Hey,

that rhymed!)

 

Where is the promised bliss from gaining enlightenment?

 

Silver

 

Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote:

>

> ah, silver see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

>

> Enlightenment has nothing to do with anything. It is what it is.

Just this.

>

> Enjoy your disappointment. Did ya ever think you could do that?

Well,

> you can if you see the light of enchantment in the land of

disappointment,

> an appointment with the here and now.

>

> Eh?

>

> smiles and hugs,

> Ana

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> s_i_l_v_e_r1069

> Nisargadatta

> Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:17 PM

> Re: The Silver Jar

>

>

> Nisargadatta , " dannyc_1eyeluv "

> <dannyc_1eyeluv> wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 "

> > <silver-1069@h...> wrote:

> > >

> > > > P: listen, my silvery friend,

> > > > as of now, you are a mirror

> > > > with delusions of grandeur.

> > > > The face you reflect isn't 'you',

> > > > you are not even the mirror,

> > > > 'you', are just a self- aware

> > > > reflection of a face that will

> > > > for ever remain unknown.

> > > >

> > > > Deal with it!

> > > >

> > >

> > > A dead end, Pete? If I drive into a dead end, I deal with it

> like

> > > this: I turn around and go back the other way, in search of

> another

> > > open road. So far, all the roads I have travelled have led

me to

> a

> > > dead end. I think I'm starting to realize that all roads

lead to

> the

> > > same place and I'm getting very tired of driving all over the

> place

> > > for nothing. What's the point of my constant searching?

> > >

> > > I declare myself to be a spiritual schitzophrenic! I'm ill,

I

> tell

> > > you.

> > >

> > > But I think I'm getting closer to the final Big Dead End

now. If

> > > that's all I've been searching for all these years, a Big

Unknown

> > > Dead End, then so be it. I'll shut my engine off and park

myself

> > > there for ever. But then, how do you deal with that?

> > >

> > > Or do you mean that I should just drop the search altogether

and

> > > simply accept that I am self-aware. Period. What's the big

deal

> in

> > > that? I know I'm self-aware. So what? Wow! I am. Is that

> it!?!

> > > Big f**king deal! So I am. Now what!?! Where's all the

> > > enlightenment in that? I don't see any fireworks or hear any

> fanfare.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Silver, frustrated with all of it again.

> > >

> >

> >

> > What kind of search for enlightenment have you been engaged in,

> > Silver?

> >I started out with Ramana and ended up with nothing. There's

> > this empty space and stuff arises and falls in it. It's quite

> > miraculous in an ordinary kind of way.

> >

> > dannyc

> >

> ****I've walked as far as I could down many different paths, none

of

> which have enlightened me. Have I wasted years in a frantic

search

> for nothing? To be aware of stuff that rises and falls in empty

> space does'nt seem all that miraculous to me. I guess I expected

> enlightenment to be an extraordinary thing. Yet, it seems that

it's

> not and I'm feeling quite disappointed. Maybe I just don't get

it

> and never will.

>

> Silver

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