Xan/the human community

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Xan - you make a good point here. Jesus said, "Why do you seek to remove

the splinter from your neighbor's eye? First, remove the beam from your

own eye." He also said, "When the blind are leading the blind, they will

fall into the ditch." Calls to arms, radical programs to get everyone to

"see the light", etc., often perpetuate more error than they supposedly

"cure". Seeing the light occurs in unique, individual ways that are

simultaneously universal.

 

It's important that we don't make a dogma out of the concept "there is no

individual". The individual is the universe, and vice versa. There is no

division. A person can't "make" someone else see this because such an

attempt is a contradiction in terms - it begins from the assumption of a

division between me and you, me and the world. For me to try to "make the

world better" I need to see the world as separate from me. If I say "there

is no separation" and I will bring this important message to the people,

I've created a separation between me and them, between the reality that is

all-prevading and the message I must bring to others. This (perhaps

unavoidable) paradox is involved in all religions, as far as I can see.

 

Love, Dan

 

At 03:43 PM 11/17/99 -0500, you wrote:

>Xanma

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>>The point of article is more about what would be a healing therapy for the

>>species..for the nations , for the community.. why do we just see therapy as

>>for individual "selves" when its the whole of mankind is ailing? Like that,

>>anyway, sorta..

>>Later, Glo

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>This is a pardox, as I see it. Although we may recognize that an individual

>'self' does not actually exist - at least as we have believed it does - in

>this world nations and communities are made up of individuals. Group

>consciousness reflects the majority of individuals within it. There is a

>truism that's been around for a while: The best gift one can give to the

>world is the awakening of their own personal consciousness. How anyone

>expresses that recognition of unity and love is also a private affair.

>

>Ramana Maharshi said there are many people living solitary lives who are

>contributing to the world by pure consciousness of Self alone.

>

>As a friend of mine used to say, "There is only one of us."

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>xan

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>>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.

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