[NondualitySalon] your mail to saloon,Surrender/Saranagathi.

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Tony O'Clery <aoclery

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Thursday, February 24, 2000 1:38 PM

[NondualitySalon] Re: your mail to saloon,Surrender/Saranagathi.

 

>Tony O'Clery <aoclery

>

>Namaste All,P,

>

>

>--- P> wrote:

>> Hi Tony,

>>

>> From your message , it seems that you're one who has

>> surrendered, or

>> surrender has happened . If I may ask, how long

>> has it been like this.

>> Have there been periods in between when you doubted

>> the surrender or this

>> "method" of surrender?

>>

>> Regards,

>> P

> Tony's answer:-

>I am not totally surrendered. It is an ongoing

>practice. I am still holding on to the corner of the

>envelope so to speak. Like us all! If I was totally

>surrendered there would be no 'I', to write on here.

>Realised people don't write, usually.

 

Dear Tony,

 

Well, I offered to follow Jerry around taking notes, but out of kindness to me

and my family, he promised to write once in a while all by himself. Tony, this

seems another expectation that belongs in the trashcan. I mean Ramana was

perfectly realised, and also aware that his spoken comments were being written

down in notes, where do you think the book of his Talks came from? Sometimes he

would even read! Just to expound on the meanings of various written sutras and

stuff. Perhaps at a time when "everyday, ordinary people" are becoming awakened,

more ordinary stuff like actually writing for oneself might be standard

operating procedure? I am very leery of "rules" about this. If the "I" has to so

totally disappear as to do nothing literally, who would eat or take walks even?

There is a difference between attachment thru identification and being like in a

coma!! Good heavens!

 

Glo