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onsdag 15 september 2010

This day is your whole life...

I am going to take a break or time out for a while from my blogg. From the beginning it was ment to be a diary for me but I got lot of respons to what I delivered on the blogg. It all started 2007 when I discovered Non-duality. After many years of seeking and practising there were the answers. A great "Ahaa" arisied. In a simpel maner Tony Parsons, Jeff Foster, Nathan gill, and others pointed out a possibility I never had heard before....maybe in me something were ready for the message.....in absolute reality there never was "anyone" there from the beginning, and still...the appearance of a person is there. It IS and it isn't. The living paradox in life.

The reason we miss IT is beacouse of the simplicity of it all and the intimate nature of IT. We all are "That", like the eye can not see itself. We are that seeing, hearing, smelling whatever.

When I start the blogg again, I am going to speak and write from my own window, from the appearance of "Roshi"...if... I start the blogg again. As a last gift, Jeff....latest. And links to the main teachers or what you want to call this "pointers":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxEZnYd7gz0

http://www.theopensecret.com/

http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/

http://www.nathangill.com/index.html

http://www.richardsylvester.com/

Quotes of the day:

"The end of SEEKING, and the end of the SEEKER,is SEEING life as it is..."

"This day is whole your life"

Jeff Foster

This two Books can sum up all this years:

Being: The bottom line Nathan Gill 2006 (ISBN 0955176220)
Already Awake Nathan Gill 2004 (ISBN 0954779223)

Namaste

Roshi

fredag 13 augusti 2010

Quotes of the day

-The only question worth asking: 'What are you defending?'

-Nothing is not nothing , not the absence of all things, but also the presence of them, so that nothing is really everything.... and so it all ends not in nihilism, but in wonder, in fascination, in the kind of gratitude that breaks your heart.

-Yes, all that is left is a radical simplicity that cannot be taught, cannot be formulated, reified, systematized, and ultimately cannot even be named - but still, it is all there is, and all there has ever been, and all there needs to be, because only a separate mind would ever want more.

-....in the end, which is also the beginning, life is the only authority, and all the teachings of the world burn up in the fire of this unbounded freedom...

Jeff Foster

Namaste

Roshi

måndag 26 juli 2010

Poem by Rumi "the wolf is my shepherd,"

This is a lovely poem by Rumi I got from a dear friend:

"the wolf is my shepherd,"

The Sea boils with passion for you
The clouds pour pearls at your feet
A lightning from your love has pierced the earth
This smoke curling to heaven is its child.

We were green: we ripened and grew golden.
The Sea terrified us: we learned how to drown.
Squat and earthbound, we unfolded huge wings.
We started sober: are love’s startled drunkards.

You hide me in your cloak of nothingness
Reflect my ghost in your glass of being
I am nothing, yet appear: transparent dream
Where your eternity briefly trembles.

This love sacrifices all souls, however wise, however “awakened”
Cuts off their heads without a sword,
hangs them without a scaffold.

We are the guests of the one who devours his guests
The friends of the one who slaughters his friends....
Although by his gaze he brings death to so many lovers
Let yourself be killed by him: is he not the water of life?

Never, ever, grow bitter: he is the friend and kills gently.
Keep your heart noble, for this most noble love
Kills only kings near God and men free from passion.
We are like the night, earth’s shadow.
He is the Sun: He splits open the night
with a sword soaked in dawn....

The man to whom is unveiled the mystery of Love
Exists no longer, but vanishes into love.
Place before the Sun a burning candle
And watch its brilliance disappear before that blaze,
The candle exists no longer, it is transformed into Light,
There are no more signs of it, it itself becomes sign....

You are my soul, my universe:
what do I have to do with the soul and the universe?

For me you are ever-flowing treasure:
what do I have to do with profit and loss?
One minute, I am the friend of the wine,
another the friend of him who burns me.
I have come to this age of ruins,
so what do I have to do with time’s melodrama?

I am terrified by the whole world,
I am sprung free of the whole world,
I am neither “hidden” no “apparent.”
What do I have to do with existence or space?
I am drunk on union with you,
I need and want and care about no one else.

Since I am your prey, what do I care
about fate’s bow and its arrows?
I live at the bottom of the stream,
why would I go looking for water?
What could or would I say about this stream that flows and flows?
I have given up existence,
why go on staggering under the burden of this mountain?

Since the wolf is my shepherd,
why put up with the pretensions of the shepherd?
What abandon! What drunkenness!
You hold the cup in you hand
Blessed is the place you are,
and glorious to the eye of the heart.
Each atom, by your grace, is a universe,
each drop of water a soul.

No one who has ever had a sign from you
need worry again about “name” or “sign.”
To find the place of splendor,
at the bottom of the Sea of truths
You have to dive, dive head first:
what do I have to do with feet that scurry?

With the sword of the One God you have hacked a Path for us:
You have stolen all my clothes:
What will I give to the toll-man?
From your beauty ablaze like the sun,
from the curls of your hair,
My heart has become ecstatic:
O my soul, hand me this brimming cup,
Do not weigh pain and misery,
contemplate love, contemplate friendship:
Do not mull over tyranny and neglect:
think of all those who have their eyes fixed on you.
Surname all grief ‘grace’:
transmute pain and anguish into joy
And ask from joy all happiness, all security, all peace.
Demand that security, that peace, demand them,
Choose the company of those withdrawn in love

Rumi

Namaste

Roshi

tisdag 1 juni 2010

Adyashanti - Simple Awareness

Here Adyashanti is talking about simple Awareness and the sense of the "nothing", I love it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohVRK3nlsgQ

Some inspiring words from John Sherman;

You are here, if you look at that, everything else is taken care of. This is the only thing you can do by yourself, nobody can do that for you, and its easy, you are here. What could be easier. It's to look at the fundamental thing that you know.You are here. Just that! Looka at it. It looks like you. Already you are exactly as you are. You don't have to change anything to see this.

John Sherman


Namaste

Roshi

lördag 29 maj 2010

Quotes

-The thought of knowing it keeps you from being it.

-Arrogans is to claim that you know what anything is.

So, is it to not to try to 'Know' it ?....can we avoid arrogans?

Maybe it is not either....

Now where do we stand?

Do we have a choise?

Namaste

Roshi

torsdag 13 maj 2010

Zen

"If you understand, things are just as they are...
If you do not understand, things are just as they are."

- Zen Saying

Namaste

Roshi