Guest guest Posted February 18, 2000 Report Share Posted February 18, 2000 Here's more from Arjuna Nick Ardagh's, "How About Now? Satsang with Arjuna." May I, for a moment, offer that we are Internet nondualists, those of us awakening on the email lists, not in formal Satsang. We would recognize, enjoy, partake in, and grow as a result of attending Satsang, yes, but many of us are mainly Guerrilla Nondualists, doing it all on the Internet, in lonely rooms set aglow by a monitor, in tiny groups with our friends and no recognized teacher, on the phone with Gene Poole, in chat rooms, in motel rooms, in mental institutions, alone with good husbands in the living room, alone with wives who don't understand, alone with good books, alone in bed and in chronic physical pain, paired in bed and in joy, in our offices, at our work stations, in prisons or in streets among the homeless, in the cemetaries of our love ones, many taken while too young, on the top of London busses, in revolving doors, driving cabs, in E.R.'s: yes, many of us are Guerrilla nondualists, doing the nondual attention thing by loving the one they're with and the place they are now and knowing it's as good or much better or no different than formal Satsang. Guerrilla Jerry Katz offers more from Arjuna Nick Ardagh: "...for many of us it's time to move beyond preoccupation with the minute fluctuations of 'my freedom.' 'Am I getting identified with thought? Am I getting caught up? Or am I resting? Maybe I should do another retreat, or maybe I should have a session.' There comes a time when all that becomes like a hamster on one of those wheels. The very preoccupation with one's own state of consciousness is what keeps identification in place. What arises spontaneously from here is a life of service. That is the greatest secret." .... "As soon as the body is used in service, the attention goes off this illusion of separate identity and starts to be concerned with the larger mind/body. For many of us, it's time to move beyond 'my freedom'. There's a pull of the heart, a call of the heart, to something bigger than 'my spiritual state'." ---- I like this quote because Guerrilla Nondualism is all about service; it is not about sitting in an audience and watching a great and enlightened speaker. That's easy. Guerrilla Nondualism is about spending twenty or forty hours a week on the internet or in groups with people and taking by giving and giving by taking, but not even thinking of those words and not even thinking of service and not even thinking that you're serving, but only having a great time! But to outside eyes it would look like service, what we do. Nobody here looks at it that way. That's why it works. Jerry _ NONDUALITY SALON WEBSITE http://www.nonduality.com http://welcome.to/nondualitysalon MAILING LIST //nondualitysalon HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE MAILING LIST //ndhighlights PHOTOS, GRAPHICS, ARTWORK, OTHER FILES NondualitySalon/ NONDUAL PEOPLE http://www.nonduality.com/morea.htm NONDUAL DELIGHTS http://www.nonduality.com/context.htm CHAT ROOM http://www.eScribe.com/religion/nondualitysalon/chat New to Chat? http://dragon.minopher.net.au/WebEd/protocol.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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