Guest guest Posted November 9, 1999 Report Share Posted November 9, 1999 Harsha, You're a beautiful, precious jewel, thank you just for being alive! "Dan Berkow, PhD" <berkowd Present The present moment seems to move. And yet it is never not, never other than here. What a wonderful illusion that constructs movement from nonmovement. What an incredible happening! Dan, To think on this from meditative stillness, it makes, perfect sense. To think of it from the movie it's so incredible as to be mind-blowing... how movement from nonmovement, but, it is actually true, an awe-inspiring event. So, and how did that happen? Jerry, thanks for the many beautiful links, you have no idea what it provides to this one's day, and for writing last week on the Silence and Stillness, very beautiful. I'm still working my way through your and Jan's texts, trying hard here to catch up *g* to nowhere. Sorry to wrap together but much work to accomplish here. Much Love, Anna Maria~ Annette (etc., you'd be appalled at how many names I really do have *g*) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 1999 Report Share Posted November 9, 1999 Thanks Rainbo for the nice messages to everyone. And Dan, Jan, and Xan are really something are they not. Here is what I wrote yesterday in response to a post on Advaitin on the nature of effort, Grace and letting go and thought I should share. The Sages tell us that we cannot help engage in activity if we are meant to. Whether that activity is business, some profession, meditation, etc., does not matter. I vaguely recall Bhagawan Krishna saying to Arjuna (when he refused to fight) that Arjuna's own nature would make him fight. Similarly, anyone whose nature it is to engage in spiritual practice will do so. I do not know if it is possible by will to let go of any kind of effort or dissolve the Ego or anything like that. I do know that Grace allows for letting go. The gap here is subtle and beyond the intellect. Therefore intellectual answers are not helpful. The words of the great Sage of Arunachala acted as Grace for me when the moment was ripe. The words of scriptures are Grace. Our human capacity to have deep faith in those words and absolute certainty is Grace. Grace Awakens one to what one already has known and intuited for an eternity, and it is only one's own Self, that ancients called Sat-Chit-Ananda. Sat-Chit-Ananda is One Whole. The Sat (Existence) is intuited to some extent or another at all times even through the veil of the mind. Therefore, the wise say to pay not the attention to the mind, but to that which animates it. Holding on to that feeling of existence in the form of "I AM" is one type of pure meditation. Grace allows for the effort. Grace ends the effort. In the end, all is Grace Only. Harsha RainboLily [RainboLily] Tuesday, November 09, 1999 10:35 AM Movement illusion/Harsha/Dan/Jerry RainboLily Harsha, You're a beautiful, precious jewel, thank you just for being alive! "Dan Berkow, PhD" <berkowd Present The present moment seems to move. And yet it is never not, never other than here. What a wonderful illusion that constructs movement from nonmovement. What an incredible happening! Dan, To think on this from meditative stillness, it makes, perfect sense. To think of it from the movie it's so incredible as to be mind-blowing... how movement from nonmovement, but, it is actually true, an awe-inspiring event. So, and how did that happen? Jerry, thanks for the many beautiful links, you have no idea what it provides to this one's day, and for writing last week on the Silence and Stillness, very beautiful. I'm still working my way through your and Jan's texts, trying hard here to catch up *g* to nowhere. Sorry to wrap together but much work to accomplish here. Much Love, Anna Maria~ Annette (etc., you'd be appalled at how many names I really do have *g*) All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into It Self. Welcome all to a. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 9, 1999 Report Share Posted November 9, 1999 On 11/9/99 at 10:35 AM RainboLily wrote: [...] > >(etc., you'd be appalled at >how many names I really do have *g*) Despite so many names, I don't think you can ever outperform God The Hindu pantheon may be impressive but all names reveal only a tiny aspect so even 6 billion wouldn't do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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