Sri Frankji's Wisdom

[Guest guest]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom and insight Sri Frank-Ji and you have our

gratitude.

Your emphasis on simplicity is, as usual, sheer eloquence. We never tire of

reading it! :-).

Who would have thought that so many graced with knowledge and wisdom would

gather like this on cyberspace!

What people might not know that behind the intellectual power of Frank-ji

(and Sadaji, Danji, Ramji, Janji, and so many others) is spiritual wisdom

housed in a warm, tender, and compassionate heart. We feel blessed to know

you.

 

I will pass this on to other lists as well.

 

Love to all

Harsha

 

 

f. maiello [egodust]

Thursday, July 27, 2000 9:17 AM

advaitin

the mind's obsession

 

 

hariH OM!

 

the real essence of the problem that everyone *appears*

to be having [or *believes* that they're having] is

predicated on the fact that the truth is FAR TOO SIMPLE

to apprehend with the mind. that, to begin with, there

is no understanding required! yet the mind is obsessed

with the idea of understanding...of a hands-on grasp of

whatever it is before its perception--in this case, the

nature of reality or the Self. and this is precisely

where all the problems begin.

 

whereas: the nature of the Self is simple BEING.

 

but the mind simply refuses to believe that that's all

here is. that that's all it really comes down to.

 

and yet the strange wonderful thing about it all is, that

when the mind does come down to it...that is, surrenders

its obsession to understand/behold...the simple nature of

WHAT IS is indeed seen to be fantastic! therefore the

circle is intact. therefore to arrive at 'the fantastic,'

the mind has to abandon all notions of the 'fantastic.'

a paradoxic predicament. yet the entirety of the

predicament is itself an illusion! thus there is no paper

bag made out of dream dust that the mind has to punch its

way out of.

 

thus we come full circle: the problem is seen to exist

only in the mind. yet there is no real mind, as such.

so, how can there possibly be a problem?!

 

thus the laughter of the zen idiot makes all the sense in

the world.

 

as harsha, dan and sada recently--as well as greg's article

on wittgenstein--so glaringly poignantly indicated: that

the primordial thing we're seeking lies beyond the mind of

words and shows...resolving simply in the silence in the

Heart...where it has *always* been.

 

OM TAT SAT OM