Hello Everyone

[Guest guest]

Hello everyone. Just got back into town today. Hope you are all well. I will be

catching up on some of the e-mail over the next few days. As the year 1999 comes

to a close, many people are anticipating major events and changes in their life.

Same old stuff every 1000 years. Life is happening now. Always now. Twenty five

hundred years ago, Buddha carefully analyzed the human condition and said that

life inherently involves suffering of some type or another. Suffering indeed

appears to be universal. One need not look far to see examples of horrific

suffering due to poverty, neglect,

ignorance, war, injustice, greed, and abuse. Joys come intertwined with sorrow.

Pleasures and pain often follow each other in a natural cycle. We are all born

wearing the garland of suffering. A sage once said that all fruits that fall

from the tree of life are bitter sweet-- but two fruits are sweet only. One is

meditation on the nature of the Truth of Self. Second is Satsanga or keeping

company of people who walk the path of Truth. The pathless path truly goes

nowhere. Truth cannot be found elsewhere or at another time. It exists always in

the Present--As Presence of the Heart. The

Heart is the both the ultimate mystery and the ultimate simplicity. It cannot be

known in the sense of objective knowledge. It Eternally Knows It Self. Once I

heard that Aristotle reasoned that God being perfect must always be meditating

on perfection. But since there is no perfection other than God, it follows that

God must be in constant meditation on His/Her Own Self. So the Sages declare

that God sits in the Heart as one's own Self. That is the Truth we must drink

deeply of. That is the nectar of immortality. That Thou Are!

[Guest guest]

Thanks to Harshadeva for this briliant post, i feel that was a sign for the

better life in the Millennium.

Good reading to start this new year :-)

Let's make this world a better place for all beings.

 

With Love & Light,

Nasir

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> Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar)[sMTP:hluthar]

> Friday, December 31, 1999 10:34 AM

> ; Advaitin ;

> NondualitySalon

> Hello Everyone

>

> "Harsha (Dr. Harsh K. Luthar)" <hluthar

>

> Hello everyone. Just got back into town today. Hope you are all well. I

> will be catching up on some of the e-mail over the next few days. As the

> year 1999 comes to a close, many people are anticipating major events and

> changes in their life. Same old stuff every 1000 years. Life is happening

> now. Always now. Twenty five hundred years ago, Buddha carefully analyzed

> the human condition and said that life inherently involves suffering of

> some type or another. Suffering indeed appears to be universal. One need

> not look far to see examples of horrific suffering due to poverty,

> neglect,

> ignorance, war, injustice, greed, and abuse. Joys come intertwined with

> sorrow. Pleasures and pain often follow each other in a natural cycle. We

> are all born wearing the garland of suffering. A sage once said that all

> fruits that fall from the tree of life are bitter sweet-- but two fruits

> are sweet only. One is meditation on the nature of the Truth of Self.

> Second is Satsanga or keeping company of people who walk the path of

> Truth. The pathless path truly goes nowhere. Truth cannot be found

> elsewhere or at another time. It exists always in the Present--As Presence

> of the Heart. The

> Heart is the both the ultimate mystery and the ultimate simplicity. It

> cannot be known in the sense of objective knowledge. It Eternally Knows It

> Self. Once I heard that Aristotle reasoned that God being perfect must

> always be meditating on perfection. But since there is no perfection other

> than God, it follows that God must be in constant meditation on His/Her

> Own Self. So the Sages declare that God sits in the Heart as one's own

> Self. That is the Truth we must drink deeply of. That is the nectar of

> immortality. That Thou Are!

>

> > 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.

>