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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 25 2007 : 8:09:51 PM
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Me
Myself
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Things sure stay busy out here! |
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yogibear
409 Posts |
Posted - Jul 26 2007 : 11:00:11 AM
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Cast off every desire and what remains of yourself is God.
Meister Eckhart |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Jul 27 2007 : 10:08:35 AM
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Void
Be-calms
Ye-turn-all
Thirst
Win all-ways in-joyed
By the ever-present Way-cup
A-way-can open
4
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THAT
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All oh-ver
The all sigh-links-sing Word
Awakens the dreamer
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Anthem
1608 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 10:19:15 AM
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"All is Illusion
Only Brahman is Real
All is Brahman"
Unknown (to me at least)
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2007 : 9:43:08 PM
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If God is playing God
Then who is playing God?
~rice and tofu |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2007 : 3:51:42 PM
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No Mind
The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don’t know others,
Others don’t know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature’s course
~Ryokan |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2007 : 5:43:39 PM
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You are the child of a fish
Therefore you are a fish
Living and swimming in the water
Sunlight glinting off your beautiful
Rainbow scales
What a wondrous and fantastic story
You are
-scan disc |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 05 2007 : 5:46:15 PM
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Being here
Is stepping back
And observing that the universe
Is complete
Unto itself
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 8:31:05 PM
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Faith is being
It cannot be increased beyond that
There is nothing to add to
I am |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 07 2007 : 9:29:11 PM
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"Life ceases to be a task
and becomes natural and simple,
in itself an ecstasy."
~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 9:05:16 PM
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[First, recognize that] past thoughts are traceless, clear, and empty,
[Second, recognize that] future thoughts are unproduced and fresh,
And [third, recognize that] that present moment abides naturally and unconstructed.
When this ordinary, momentary consciousness is examined nakedly [and directly] by oneself,
Upon examination, it is a radiant awareness,
Which is free from the presence of an observer,
Manifestly stark and clear,
Completely empty and uncreated in all respects,
Lucid, without duality of radiance and emptiness,
Not permanent, for it is lacking inherent existence in all respects,
Not a mere nothingness, for it is radiant and clear,
Not a single entity, for it is clearly perceptible as a multiplicity,
Yet not existing inherently as a multiplicity, for it is indivisible and of a single savour.
This intrinsic awareness, which is not extraneously derived,
Is itself the genuine introduction to the abiding nature of [all] things.
– Padmasambhava, "The Three Considerations," The Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 9:10:52 PM
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When the assumed person who appears to battle between fearfulness and fearlessness is seen through and falls away then absolute wonder ensues
-windows with spot |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 9:14:00 PM
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I am that in which this moment appears
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clk1710
92 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 10:28:01 PM
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balance i just want to thank you for serving our community by always offering all these lovely quotes... thanks  |
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Anthem
1608 Posts |
Posted - Aug 08 2007 : 11:30:21 PM
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Hi Alan,
Thanks from here too, as I read that quote from the Book of the Dead, I sat here and my imagination painted a scene of "time" in fast motion. It made it apparent how all forms come and go, including these human ones and that it is abiding awareness that is the constant. When seen this way it becomes obvious that there is no "time" as well, that what we call time is simply an arbitrary measure of the manifestation of form. There was a sigh of relief as I realized I don’t have to take my life so seriously, it’s just another form that will come together and eventually fade away. We are nothingness not even the witness, all is a pervading, loving Oneness.
Thanks for these, they are truly profound pointers.
A
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 11 2007 : 6:55:10 PM
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Hi. Glad you guys like the pointers and stuff. Pointers are everywhere and they go on forever. All they do is point to  . All things merge there.
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2007 : 4:56:56 PM
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The Resting of the Streams and Tides
Just resting is like the great ocean accepting hundreds of streams, all absorbed into one flavor. Freely going ahead is like the great surging tides riding on the wind, all coming onto this shore together. How could they not reach into the genuine source? How could they not realize the great function that appears before us? A patch-robed monk follows movement and responds to changes in total harmony. Moreover, haven't you yourself established the mind that thinks up all the illusory conditions? This insight must be perfectly incorporated.
Hung-chih (1091-1157) |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2007 : 5:53:34 PM
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My Dear
Life feeds
Life
Feeds
Life
On the Bosom of Silence
Communion |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 26 2007 : 7:33:55 PM
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The Conduct of the Moon and Clouds
The consistent conduct of people of the Way is like the flowing clouds with no grasping mind, like the full moon reflecting universally, not confined anywhere, glistening within each of the ten thousand forms. Dignified and upright, emerge and make contact with the variety of phenomena, unstained and unconfused. Function the same toward all others since all have the same substance as you. Language cannot transmit this conduct, speculation cannot reach it. Leaping beyond the infinite and cutting off the dependent, be obliging without looking for merit. This marvel cannot be measured with consciousness or emotion. On the journey accept your function, in your house please sustain it. Comprehending birth-and-death, leaving causes and conditions, genuinely realize that from the outset your spirit is not halted. So we have been told that the mind that embraces all the ten directions does not stop anywhere.
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 28 2007 : 6:46:27 PM
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The world is but a reflection of my imagination. Whatever I want to see, I can see. But why should I invent patterns of creation, evolution and destruction? I do not need them. The world is in me, the world is myself. I am not afraid of it and have no desire to lock it up in a mental picture.
~Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2007 : 2:58:17 PM
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Direct Bhakti (my title)
"Stay without ambition, without the least desire, exposed, vulnerable, unprotected, uncertain and alone, completely open to and welcoming life as it happens, without the selfish conviction that all must yield you pleasure or profit, material or so-called spiritual."
~Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2007 : 3:06:43 PM
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"The "here" is everywhere, and the now always. Go beyond the "I-am-the-body" idea and you will find that space and time are in you and not you in space and time. Once you have understood this, the main obstacle to realization is removed."
~Nisargadatta |
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Manipura
USA
870 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2007 : 3:48:06 PM
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| God is neither good nor bad, right or wrong, black or white. God is. When you fully grasp this, when you fully embrace what is, you pass through the gates and enter his kingdom. |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Aug 30 2007 : 8:21:41 PM
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My intention to wake you up is the link [between our respective dreams]. My heart wants you awake. I see you suffer in your dream and I know that you must wake up to end your woes. When you see your dream as dream, you wake up. But in your dream itself I am not interested. Enough for me to know that you must wake up. You need not bring your dream to a definite conclusion, or make it noble, or happy, or beautiful; all you need is to realize that you are dreaming. Stop imagining, stop believing. See the contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the human state, the need to go beyond. In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.
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emc
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Posted - Aug 31 2007 : 02:51:43 AM
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Thank you, Balance, for these quotes that come to be read by my eyes with such intelligent timing. Just what I need to know right now, these last three qutoes of Nisargadatta. Absolutely fabulous!
I walked through the Central station last morning, and was overwhelmed with the love that shone in everybodies eyes that I met. It was a huge love bathing while walking, meeting the stream of other beings. I definitely agree with Katie: I know everybody loves me, but I don't expect everybody to realize that yet. |
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