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nearoanoke
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 Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 03:11:33 AM
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| These days I keep looking for every small thing to enlighten me. While walking or while working, I expect some experience will awaken me. I initially thought it was a good thing that I am more serious about enlightenment. Last week I went to a satsang where the teacher told (not to me but to someone who asked a related question) whatever the "I" wants or thinks is irrelavant to the unborn (or ultimate or enlightenment). :) |
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karl
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 04:41:43 AM
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Originally posted by maheswari
[quote].i thought you emerged as an enlightened being after your Machuu Pitchu adventure
Only while I kept the light on
I've been enlightenened more times than I care to remember, always just before I get enlightened. |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 04:53:41 AM
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Only while I kept the light on
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karl
United Kingdom
1812 Posts |
Posted - Jan 20 2012 : 06:06:24 AM
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Originally posted by nearoanoke
I initially thought it was a good thing that I am more serious about enlightenment.
LOL
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2012 : 01:27:03 AM
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The disciples were sitting on the bank of a river.
“If I fall off this bank, will I drown?” one of them
asked.
“No,” said the Master. “It isn’t falling in that
causes you to drown; it’s staying in.” |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2012 : 01:28:40 AM
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Word of the Master’s conversation with the
executed man leaked out to the disciples.
“Surely one’s name is something more than
a sound,” they said.
In response, the Master told them about the
street vendor who became a multimillionaire,
only, instead of his signature on a check, he
would mark checks with two crosses because
he was illiterate.
One day the banker was surprised to see three
crosses on a check. “It’s my wife,” said the
millionaire by way of explanation, “she has
social ambitions. The second X in the row is
my middle name.” |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jan 22 2012 : 01:31:20 AM
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An oldie that never dies:
Each day the disciple would ask the same
question: “How shall I find God?”
And each day he would get the same mysterious
answer: “Through desire.”
“But I desire God with all my heart, don’t
I? Then why have I not found him?”
One day the Master happened to be bathing in
the river with the disciple. He pushed the
man’s head underwater and held it there while
the poor fellow struggled desperately to break loose.
Next day it was the Master who began the
conversation. “Why did you struggle so
when I held your head under water?”
“Because I was gasping for air.”
“When you are given the grace to gasp for God the way you gasped for air, you will have found him.” |
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gatito
United Kingdom
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Posted - Jan 22 2012 : 12:12:49 PM
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Originally posted by nearoanoke
These days I keep looking for every small thing to enlighten me. While walking or while working, I expect some experience will awaken me. I initially thought it was a good thing that I am more serious about enlightenment. Last week I went to a satsang where the teacher told (not to me but to someone who asked a related question) whatever the "I" wants or thinks is irrelavant to the unborn (or ultimate or enlightenment). :)
Your true nature is the Consciousness (Love, Peace, Happiness) to which objects appear (and ultimately, of what they are "made"). You uncover this many times a day. This true nature is unveiled when you get what you desire or avoid what you don't desire, which is at the heart of the misunderstanding that makes people attempt to supress desire and aversion in some traditions. The cart before the horse.
At the moment you seem to be looking for an experience. What you seek can't be an experience because then it would have a beginning and an ending. It must be present Now and eternally to "qualify".
Edit: Here's a link to an extract fom "Presence 1 & 2 by Rupert Spira that you may find interesting and useful: -
http://www.non-dualitypress.com/sam...e%20text.pdf
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 05:02:20 AM
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A snake in the village had bitten so many
people that few dared go into the fields.
Such was the Master’s holiness that he was
said to have tamed the snake and persuaded
it to practice the discipline of nonviolence.
It did not take long for the villager to
discover that the snake had become harmless.
They took to hurling stones at it and dragging
it about by its tail.
The badly battered snake crawled into the
Master’s house one night to complain. Said the
Master, “Friend, you have stopped frightening
people—that’s bad!”
“But it was you who taught me to practice
the discipline of nonviolence!”
“I told you to stop hurting—not to stop
hissing!” |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 05:06:50 AM
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The Master became a legend in his lifetime.
It was said that God once sought his advice:
“I want to play a game of hide-and-seek with
humankind. I’ve asked my Angels what the best
place is to hide in. Some say the depth of
the ocean. Others say the top of the highest
mountain. Others still the far side of the
moon or a distant star. What do you suggest?”
Said the Master, “Hide in the human heart. That’s
the last place they will think of!” |
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Bodhi Tree
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Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 4:12:11 PM
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Originally posted by Ananda
“I told you to stop hurting—not to stop
hissing!”
Nice. Very nice indeed.
I went to a really splendid metaphysical church recently, and the pastor did a group card reading afterwards. For one person, she made a suggestion in the form of a dog metaphor: "You don't have to bite, but don't be afraid to show your teeth." For me, she said: "You have a tendency to take people out at their knees. Keep your dogs by your side if it's not your fight." Very insightful and direct.
Thanks for these little nuggets, Ananda. |
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Ananda
3115 Posts |
Posted - Jan 30 2012 : 5:06:35 PM
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You're most welcome my dear brother |
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One Minute Nonsense
