To start with....there is no such “thing” as Mind, God, a “me”, world outside, universe, soul, heaven, hell, truth, awareness and enlightenment.
All languages, words and concepts are a lie. There is no truth for someone. Even that is not true (!). With this preparation we can start a conversation, a talk about….
Otherwise we must agree about the “thing” and that’s never going happen.
So first “things” must be cleared out, before we can start a fruitful conversation.
There is no such "thing" called…..
roshi--@hotmail.com
måndag 9 juni 2008
Bob
Bob says: There is no answer in the mind.
"What's wrong with Right Now - unless you think about it?"
"Let the thought go - drop it - if only for an instant - you see that, that silence - that stillness -
that clarity - that shining beingness is there, as it ever was and will be"
"What you are seeking, you already are. So it is foolish to carry on the search. The only place the search started from, is in the mind"
"It is the nature of the mind to divide"
"The false cannot stand up to the investigation"
"It is right here - right now as What Is - In knowing that, how can there be any conflict? -- Relax and be what you are"
"It is only in the mind that this conflict goes on!"
"You never move away from presence. Time is a mental concept."
"And it's the search itself which stops you from really seeing that."
"You're not noticing the evident. You're noticing the content."
Sailor Bob
"What's wrong with Right Now - unless you think about it?"
"Let the thought go - drop it - if only for an instant - you see that, that silence - that stillness -
that clarity - that shining beingness is there, as it ever was and will be"
"What you are seeking, you already are. So it is foolish to carry on the search. The only place the search started from, is in the mind"
"It is the nature of the mind to divide"
"The false cannot stand up to the investigation"
"It is right here - right now as What Is - In knowing that, how can there be any conflict? -- Relax and be what you are"
"It is only in the mind that this conflict goes on!"
"You never move away from presence. Time is a mental concept."
"And it's the search itself which stops you from really seeing that."
"You're not noticing the evident. You're noticing the content."
Sailor Bob
torsdag 5 juni 2008
My life without me
The mind will go on, and on, and on, until it will disappear by its own accord. There are no limits how far it will go with its task. There is “no way out”, and the mind hates this message, there is no were to go, nothing to do, nothing to achieve. This is also why it’s really hard to understand why anyone ever would be interested in the issue, and yet….something lies behind the lines.
You can never “give IT up” because it is itself, it is IT. This is a horrifying insight or recognition by the mind itself. There is no escape or hope. One day it’s going to lose its power and begins to hide in the shadows.
When the mind falls away, by some reason, and THAT what already is appears. And when the “I” comes back, the mind thinks it’s doing it. The mind takes credit for everything, even of the impossible. Look what I did?
The thing that makes it even more confusing is when truth is mixed up with promises, desire, and hope for the tomorrow (unconditional love, peace, happiness, and so on). The “good stuff” is always a byproduct, a absence of the “me”. It’s really hard to “see through” this play of existence.
And last...
Enlightenment is disappearance of the one who wants it.
Sally Ann hughes
Has it ever acoured that you are seeking god with his eyes.
It's the illusion of me that's trying to get somewhere.
Adyashanti
You can never “give IT up” because it is itself, it is IT. This is a horrifying insight or recognition by the mind itself. There is no escape or hope. One day it’s going to lose its power and begins to hide in the shadows.
When the mind falls away, by some reason, and THAT what already is appears. And when the “I” comes back, the mind thinks it’s doing it. The mind takes credit for everything, even of the impossible. Look what I did?
The thing that makes it even more confusing is when truth is mixed up with promises, desire, and hope for the tomorrow (unconditional love, peace, happiness, and so on). The “good stuff” is always a byproduct, a absence of the “me”. It’s really hard to “see through” this play of existence.
And last...
Enlightenment is disappearance of the one who wants it.
Sally Ann hughes
Has it ever acoured that you are seeking god with his eyes.
It's the illusion of me that's trying to get somewhere.
Adyashanti
måndag 26 maj 2008
Satsang or "the meeting"
Sometimes something immensely beautiful happens in the meetings. When the holder of the meeting says something for example like this:
No-one is actually sitting in this room ( and there is lot of people sitting there), and….
This is the worst place for a “mind”, a “I”, separate “me” to be, and….
Poff! And the openness, the space enters, and you don’t ever want to leave the place, the room.
Everything that is said in the meeting makes room for the real happening…..
THIS……
In the crowdie room, there is no meeting- holder or an audience. Just an immensely, beautiful, open space were nothing and still everything happens. This aroma, fragrance fills my inner being with gratefulness….THIS is what the meetings for.
No-one is actually sitting in this room ( and there is lot of people sitting there), and….
This is the worst place for a “mind”, a “I”, separate “me” to be, and….
Poff! And the openness, the space enters, and you don’t ever want to leave the place, the room.
Everything that is said in the meeting makes room for the real happening…..
THIS……
In the crowdie room, there is no meeting- holder or an audience. Just an immensely, beautiful, open space were nothing and still everything happens. This aroma, fragrance fills my inner being with gratefulness….THIS is what the meetings for.
söndag 25 maj 2008
"I"
Your sense of an "I" tells you that you are separate. This sense keeps you away from the whole; witch is always there and has ever been. This “I” is the focus you look with and perceive the world. This “I” divides everything and this dividing make things more and more complex and complicated, but the hope for understanding and clarity in the future, and a feeling of collecting more and more knowledge is what keeps it going on. In the end of the day, the “I” is hopelessly lost.
The only way out (if there is any) is when the “I” sees when it went wrong in the first place, seeing this, it knows it owns helplessness. In this seeing through, “I” knows its place, the limits. It’s just a part in the whole. Its inside the whole. The part can ever be the whole. But the whole includes the part.
The only way out (if there is any) is when the “I” sees when it went wrong in the first place, seeing this, it knows it owns helplessness. In this seeing through, “I” knows its place, the limits. It’s just a part in the whole. Its inside the whole. The part can ever be the whole. But the whole includes the part.
lördag 17 maj 2008
The angel in the tree
Everything that appears in awareness is nothing other than awareness, your co-workers, clients, superiors, absolutely everything, including the premises, the furniture and the equipment. First understand this intellectually, then verify that this is so. There comes a moment where this feeling of intimacy, this benevolent space around you no longer goes away; you find yourself at home everywhere, even in the packed waiting room of a train station. You only go out of it when you go into the past or the future. Do not stay in that hovel. This immensity awaits you right here, at this very moment. Already being acquainted with its presence and once having tasted the harmony underlying appearances, let the perceptions of the external world and your body sensations unfold freely in your welcoming awareness until the moment that the background of plenitude reveals itself spontaneously.
This reversal of perspective is analogous to that which allows the sudden recognition of an angelic face in a tree in one of those early twentieth century prints that so delight children. At first we only see the tree, then informed by a caption under the picture that an angel is hiding there, we begin a meticulous examination of the foliage until we finally see the angel which had always been right there before our eyes. What is important is to know that there is an angel, where it is hiding and to have once experienced the process by which the tree progressively loses its form to the point where the lines of which appearance is composed begin to appear as such and then recompose to confide the secret of the image to us.
Once the way is paved, subsequent reversals of perspective are easier and easier until we see the angel and the tree simultaneously, so to speak. In the same way, once our true nature has been recognized, the remaining distinctions between ignorance and awakening become progressively blurred and yield to the fundamental suchness of being.
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Be ready. Be available. You are available when you understand that there is nothing that you can do on your own to get to the King. When you acknowledge your total powerlessness, you become an empty room. As soon as you become an empty room, you are a sanctuary. So the King can enter, take the throne and grace you with immortal presence.
Francis Lucille
http://www.francislucille.com
This reversal of perspective is analogous to that which allows the sudden recognition of an angelic face in a tree in one of those early twentieth century prints that so delight children. At first we only see the tree, then informed by a caption under the picture that an angel is hiding there, we begin a meticulous examination of the foliage until we finally see the angel which had always been right there before our eyes. What is important is to know that there is an angel, where it is hiding and to have once experienced the process by which the tree progressively loses its form to the point where the lines of which appearance is composed begin to appear as such and then recompose to confide the secret of the image to us.
Once the way is paved, subsequent reversals of perspective are easier and easier until we see the angel and the tree simultaneously, so to speak. In the same way, once our true nature has been recognized, the remaining distinctions between ignorance and awakening become progressively blurred and yield to the fundamental suchness of being.
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Be ready. Be available. You are available when you understand that there is nothing that you can do on your own to get to the King. When you acknowledge your total powerlessness, you become an empty room. As soon as you become an empty room, you are a sanctuary. So the King can enter, take the throne and grace you with immortal presence.
Francis Lucille
http://www.francislucille.com
tisdag 13 maj 2008
My words
The clue is what the "mind" is doing and why the mind can’t undo itself…it’s impossible.....if it was, it would be suicide....no way, says the mind..Mind is missing all the time the essential......there is "no way out".
My question is this: How to handle that?
Maybe let the mind do what it does. Don’t fight whit it. Maybe were there never problems in the beginning.
From the beginning I knew that every act "I" am going to do is going to miss the target. How to act from that?
Or you where never wrong in the first place, everything is right, nothing is denied. Everything is allowed. Saying yes to everything, too all. But that is madness from the mind “point of view”.
The nature of language is to divide. Whatever you are going to say is false. Maybe it’s not even pointing to the right direction. The best pointer is the pointer who is silent..is it?
To talk about that there is a problem creates and feeds the desire to solve it.
To talk about non-duality is to create and feed a desire to achieve something, to get something, that there is a problem, something need to be fixed, something is wrong, something is missing inside me, feeling of los. The desire is there and it will be fed by the talk, the target fades away by the noise. To say this is maybe to totally misunderstand what non-duality rely is, but it can’t be wrong, even misunderstanding could be right in the sense of non-duality
In the moment you say “now” it’s past….? More right to say never ending movement…or?
Roshi...my words!
My question is this: How to handle that?
Maybe let the mind do what it does. Don’t fight whit it. Maybe were there never problems in the beginning.
From the beginning I knew that every act "I" am going to do is going to miss the target. How to act from that?
Or you where never wrong in the first place, everything is right, nothing is denied. Everything is allowed. Saying yes to everything, too all. But that is madness from the mind “point of view”.
The nature of language is to divide. Whatever you are going to say is false. Maybe it’s not even pointing to the right direction. The best pointer is the pointer who is silent..is it?
To talk about that there is a problem creates and feeds the desire to solve it.
To talk about non-duality is to create and feed a desire to achieve something, to get something, that there is a problem, something need to be fixed, something is wrong, something is missing inside me, feeling of los. The desire is there and it will be fed by the talk, the target fades away by the noise. To say this is maybe to totally misunderstand what non-duality rely is, but it can’t be wrong, even misunderstanding could be right in the sense of non-duality
In the moment you say “now” it’s past….? More right to say never ending movement…or?
Roshi...my words!
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