Guest guest Posted August 1, 2000 Report Share Posted August 1, 2000 In a message dated 8/1/00 2:45:04 PM Mountain Daylight Time, hluthar writes: << Similarly, one who is cultivating compassion and love for others need not worry whether these are attachments that will stick or not. Indeed when one is full of love for all sentient beings and all life, that attitude itself produces the needed deep relaxation which unties the knot of ignorance leading to Self-Realization >> This is super. A few weeks ago I found myself unexpectedly and uncharacteristically in deep communion with the Divine Mother. Good little non-dualist that I am, I wondered, Holy Cow, am I going backwards? Am I going to end up with a pantheon of deities and sacrifice rituals?! Fortunately I could ask Mom and she assured me that all was well and on course (not that I have any choice about this anyhow). Who am I but She and Nobody Else could design a path this strange and surprising. Holly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 1, 2000 Report Share Posted August 1, 2000 Repost from May 1999 Harsha <<Gloria Lee: But seriously, now..is detachment the equivalent of indifference?? Believe it or not, I think I did understand your original point about making vows being redundant, but just the word indifferent is a puzzle to me...even in relation to just chocolate (there is no such thing as "just" chocolate..to a true aficionado)... are you going back to your "don't care" one way or the other?? Are you saying that even wanting all beings to be free of suffering is ALSO an attachment to some preference of desire?? Or just that making vows would be unnecessary >> Dear Gloria, you ask such deep and wise questions that I want to flee in shame! But where to go? I must gather courage and answer all calls of nature. Some say the nature of mind is that of attachment. Therefore the practice of detachment and indifference involves mental effort. As such, it does not reveal the Truth. Knowing that it is the mind itself that creates the illusion of bondage and that of liberation, one should be still in awareness. The secret Harsha method is as follows. If one is attached, it is all right. If one is detached, it is all right. If one has taken a Boddhisattva vow, it is all right. If one rejects all vows, it is all right. It is the nature of one who is on the spiritual path to have compassion for one self and others. When one is constipated and takes a laxative, one does not worry whether the laxative will leave the body or not. Similarly, one who is cultivating compassion and love for others need not worry whether these are attachments that will stick or not. Indeed when one is full of love for all sentient beings and all life, that attitude itself produces the needed deep relaxation which unties the knot of ignorance leading to Self-Realization ......Harsha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 1, 2000 Report Share Posted August 1, 2000 In a message dated 08/01/2000 4:45:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, hluthar writes: << Harsha: If one is attached, it is all right. If one is detached, it is all right. If one has taken a Boddhisattva vow, it is all right. If one rejects all vows, it is all right. Annette: All right! *g* It is the nature of one who is on the spiritual path to have compassion for one self and others. When one is constipated and takes a laxative, one does not worry whether the laxative will leave the body or not. Similarly, one who is cultivating compassion and love for others need not worry whether these are attachments that will stick or not. Indeed when one is full of love for all sentient beings and all life, that attitude itself produces the needed deep relaxation which unties the knot of ignorance leading to Self-Realization .....Harsha >> I think your deep understanding leads to compassion, this then is your wisdom, and of its nature is love, this divine... i will try and contribute... but i am a momentito a human do-ing, more than a human be-ing, so, i cannot promise to even lurk well, but it is very beautiful to be back in a place of so much love, and i feel very blessed to have heard from Harsha, thank you, gentle Harsha, just truly for being on the planet... ..... such secrets ... that all sentient beings have a Harsha to unravel their secrets *g* ... thank you for subscribing me, again, hello to all i missed... laughing, i am sappy even for me tonight, but muchliest... Love*Light*Laughter, Annette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2000 Report Share Posted August 2, 2000 Wow, Holly and Harsha. I love you guys! Holly, you have communicated something very beautiful here! Loving the Mother, seeing the Mother, but not seeing the Mother as different. Who says the non-dual writes just a drab story? Love, --Greg At 06:06 PM 8/1/00 EDT, Hbarrett47 wrote: >In a message dated 8/1/00 2:45:04 PM Mountain Daylight Time, >hluthar writes: > ><< Similarly, one who is cultivating compassion and love for others need > not worry whether these are attachments that will stick or not. Indeed when > one > is full of love for all sentient beings and all life, that attitude itself > produces the needed deep relaxation which unties the knot of ignorance > leading to Self-Realization >> > >This is super. A few weeks ago I found myself unexpectedly and >uncharacteristically in deep communion with the Divine Mother. Good little >non-dualist that I am, I wondered, Holy Cow, am I going backwards? Am I >going to end up with a pantheon of deities and sacrifice rituals?! >Fortunately I could ask Mom and she assured me that all was well and on >course (not that I have any choice about this anyhow). Who am I but She and >Nobody Else could design a path this strange and surprising. Holly > > > >// > >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. > >To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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