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Re: Nizzy's I Am

 

Nisargadatta , " anabebe57 " <kailashana wrote:

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> ....sometimes.... ;-)

 

When I bore ya, you have my permission to stop reading -- I know you enjoy my

arty hearties a lot, but I do drag on and on. You poets love abstraction cuz it

gives your brain the triggering ya wants but still allows you to personalize the

meaning you project into words arbitrarily such that your sense of creative

freedom is not pinched. I get it.

 

Me, not so much a poet, cuz I write to manipulate, and that requires precision

that I have yet to master, and so I barf and retch long after my stomach's

empty. Sigh.

 

But, defensively let me state: saturation requires repetition and the intellect

can easily make the mistake of discounting the value of therapeutic iterations.

 

It is human nature to repeat -- and hey, who doesn't know this? If I said, " I

love you " merely once to my gal and then insisted that once was enough, cuz,

" hey you understood me, " why I'd be in a world of hurt, right?

 

Something gets built with repetition that cannot be gained by merely

intellectual transfer of concept. The concept isn't really integrated until one

" fits it into " many, many, many life scenarios. I've gotta tell her I love her

when she's just getting out of bed in flannels with a hair bump and bad breath,

right? She wants to know that I'm seeing her as transcendental to her parts,

right?

 

Just so, one must woo the brain into adopting the Advaitan intellectual point of

view. Keep telling the brain " that's resonant, and that's resonant, that tastes

like Advaita " and sooner or later the brain will be well versed, and a sort of

intellectual quiescence is thereby achieved. Not that seeking stops, but that

the urgency of seeking is greatly lessened. One knows that inquiry is valid and

to stay on that path now makes " gelled sense. " One is no longer obeying a

command to do inquiry as much as one is downright in love with inquiry.

 

Nowadays, I can read any scripture and see Advaitan concepts being bandied for

the people targeted when the scriptures were written. Christ spoke of a father

in heaven -- I get it. Hindus speak of Mother Divine -- I get it. Those with

eyes can see.

 

And, now I can work on heart much more, cuz the intellect is clear that the

heart is naturally resonant with Advaita and should be nurtured more than

instructed. There's goodness in everyone that is sooooooo thirsty, eh?

 

Still reading? Was it too much again? Sue me!

 

Edg

 

 

 

I finished the whole thing, can you dig it?

 

Advaita stretches itself to include everything and everyone.

 

However, it does not always work with personalities.

 

Personalities have always been on one or the other side of being...

able to *get along*.... ie. understand one another...and behave in a manner in

which one remembers that the common bond is our ability to

share our feelings, thoughts and lives.

 

Instead of destroying willfully the *other* side.

 

~A