RE : the aroma of friendship

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> Nisargadatta , " anabebe57 "

> <kailashana wrote:

> >

> > Nisargadatta , OConnor

> Patricia <gdtige@>

> > wrote:

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > Friends have no need of reassurance

> > > Although the voice of their beloved

> > > chases lurking demons far away.

> > >

> > > Friends have no need of words,

> > > Althought their words are always

> > > a beacon of wisdom to the beloved's ear.

> > >

> > > Friends are woven from the same

> > > essentiel thread of silence,

> > > surrounding, holding patiently,

> > > And yet their breaking that Silence

> > > in a most foolish way

> > > is always touching and deepening

> > > their beloved`s path

> > > Into the Light they

> share.

> > >

> > > Patricia

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > p.s: compared to Silence, words are foolish.

> >

> > >

> > Thank you ever so much for this Patricia, I was

> wondering where

> > you were, and here you are;-)

> >

> > I am distressed with the 'Niz and Larry'

> scenario. I wonder

> > ladies and gentlemen how Niz or Naz would have

> acted and reacted to

> > this " dramedy " .

> >

> > Are we so weak that we can not take 'words' and

> throw someone out

> > of, of all places, a Nisargadatta venue? Or our

> hearts? Are

> > the 'bylaws and declarations' of the group more

> important than the

> > individual?

> >

> > I think the individual is tantamount to the

> group. Are spiritual

> > groups no better than religious organizations that

> ostracize, shun,

> > expel, excommunicate their parishioners for their

> 'sins'?

> >

> > I know this is how we cast our own selves out of

> the Garden of

> > Eden.

> >

> > I choose, and the operative word here is CHOOSE

> to live by a

> > precept from Naem Karoli Baba:

> >

> > " Do what you must, but never throw anyone out of

> your heart. "

> >

> > and IMHO, must must be willing to go

> beyond--the situation and

> > the person we are now and the person we are at

> odds with.

> >

> > Yours In Love,

> > Ana

> >

> >

> I feel the same way.

>

> However, I can also relate to Hur:

>

> I have been getting unsolicited e-mails from Larry,

> who insisted on

> treating me as though I were Bob Nixon, simply

> because I had shared

> that I liked Bob. No amount of patient explaining

> could convince Larry

> to be civil toward me. So I finally wrote Larry

> back letting him know

> that I wasn't going to be reading his posts.

>

> All the while, I continue to see myself in Larry: a

> seed profoundly

> unloved and unable to live up, either to others'

> ideals or my own,

> seething with anger at the hypocrisy I experienced

> in both myself and

> in others. Wanting desperately to fit in, but

> unwilling to compromise

> my sense of authenticity to do so. Feeling

> authentically despised,

> and despising authentically back.

>

> Having experienced " truth " as abrasive, harsh,

> bitter and intolerant,

> I told myself and others " the truth " in the same

> scalding way.

>

> Like my parents, I too am an immigrant. They

> suffered a persecution

> that brought them to this country. But persecution

> is not merely a

> State, but a state of mind.

>

> It takes a lot longer to pass through customs than

> most think.

> Sometimes decades, sometimes generations. Sometimes

> never. The

> barrier transcends language.

>

> The language of the soul must be learned, yes, in

> silence, but also in

> profound patience.

>

> Wisdom begins

> to cure the disease of living

> with the serenity of dying

> to a frenetic world:

>

> Nothing to do

> Nothing to say

> Nowhere to go

> Nothing to be

> But the being of ease

> And the easing of being

>

> ~*~

 

 

....and in those last words, the melting away of

profound pain,

and in the very center of that hard shell:

your peace...

 

Love

 

Patricia

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