Guest guest Posted September 14, 2008 Report Share Posted September 14, 2008 > > " Sundararajan " <sundar22ca wrote: > > > > In Truth, there is the Universal aspect - no longer the limited > self. I wonder how to put this aspect in our practice. I mean, how to > > simultaneously be me, you, him, it, the stone & everything? > > How to not have the mind that limits us to our limited self? > > > Sundar, greetings... > > How I see it, is that we don't need to put the Universal aspect in our > practice, rather to understand that our practice is a manifestation of > that Universal aspect, and THIS specific knowledge is the one that we > need to assimilate. > > Glimpses of the Self we all have, but being established and abiding in > that Seeing is a different story. > I have to be honest with myself, here, there is forgetfulness still. > The main problem is not to get identified with the practice itself, > and for that, the best practice is the Abidance in the Self!!! > It seems paradoxical but it's not, because we KNOW who we are, problem > is the different tendencies created in the relative past keep pushing > us outwards... Practice weakens those tendencies that obstruct the > Understanding from shining forth. > > All the different " techniques " and " practices " of all true religions > can be reduced to patiently coming back home (self-enquiry but with > different names), that's all that is required, because each time we > come back home we realize that we never left... and someday we won't > have the need to go " out " anymore. That " someday " is now. > Between patiently coming back home and a glimpse. A universe? In this light, that's a ray of gentle humour too. http://www.ferryfee.com/Bluesky/Shores/Between.html Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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