gen and Nial/string on a guitar

[Guest guest]

Beautiful. Thank you, gen and Nial. Nial, a powerful

statement. The mad gypsy plays on! -- Love -- Dan

 

At 12:41 PM 12/15/99 -0800, you wrote:

>bshanti

>

>greetings

>i'll be going to no mail mode for no describable reason whatsoever. i

>leave you with a poem and a few words from brother doug, more precisely

>self-named, Nial Page. no mail, headless way, or a prison with out

>bars--this is where i am

>

>love

>nial & gen

>

>re: nonduality/duality, Nial writes:

>"you cannot communicate *anything* without duality! everything has its

>opposite and if it *didn't* you could not relate to it! I've thought

>about this a lot. Two perceptions, sacred or world. *Now* pay close

>attention, there is a very present danger to trying to bring peace to

>the world. We can only really understand peace as the aftermath of war

>and that would be a mess, I don't know. . . .But if love for your fellow

>beings and steadfast knowledge and faith and good works isn't enough,

>then I will mindfully perish trying!"

>

>Nial adds that he "can hardly wait to log in my own dual self."

>and sends a poem.

>it is called:

>BLOOD and TEA LEAVES

>Some may say i have fractional reality

>Or stereopathic psychosis

>I install dreams on my walls

>And lose the key to the locks

>So i sit under trees

>In the pouring rain

>Like it would really kill me

>Shit, it won't even try

>So i answer questions while i'm miles away

>Looking while they look

>And wonder what they wonder

>Give me tests take my blood

>Scan my brain read my fuckin'

>tea leaves

>And somewhere in the sediment

>At the bottom of a chinese cup

>I filter my distorted vision

>To match the music i hear

>With hundred yard gaze

>I flee

>for all i know

>i'm the string on the neck

>of some mad gysies guitar. ..

> --Nial

>

>>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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   Saved message berkowd (Dan Berkow, PhD)

Wed, Dec 15, 1999, 4:21pm (PST+3)

Re: gen and Nial/string on a guitar

Reply to:

"Dan Berkow, PhD" <berkowd

Beautiful. Thank you, gen and Nial. Nial, a powerful statement. The mad

gypsy plays on! -- Love -- Dan

 

Brother Dan,

I shall certainly pass your kind words along to Nial. Little sis will

do anything for a smile. . ..

which is nothin'!

play on :-). . .

thank you

love

gen