Wednesday, January 21, 2009
SUFFERING
Our indifference
to our neighbors sorrow
brings suffering to our door.
Suffering
is primarily
a call for
attention.
Whenever love is withheld
and suffering is allowed to spread,
war is inevitable.
Trust
Test
Taste
Without a receiver,
what can a giver do?
Memory feeds imagination.
Imagination generates
desires and fear.
It is enough
to be conscious
of oneself.
Merge:
To become one with everything.
To recognize oneself in everybody.
To recognize everybody as oneself.
Suffering is a mental disease.
Pain is a physical reminder.
When the pain
gets great enough,
the pain itself
is the catalyst
for seeking.
One thinks themselves into delusion.
One has to think themselves out of it.
Every body has the sense of I AM.
The problem lies in whatever is added to the I AM.
Earnestness
is
the
key.
Don’t
become
anything.
Don’t label.
It is the label,
which keeps one away
from the direct experience.
Life is expressed in many different ways.
Life is flowing through an instrument.
A ‘Capricorn’ instrument or an ‘Aquarius’ instrument.
Time
erodes
everything
away.
Timeless –
One exists out of time.
There is a distinction between listening & hearing.
Many people listen, not many hear.
There is a distinction between looking & seeing.
There is a distinction between touching & feeling
There is a distinction between tasting & taste.
The fear of living
has to become greater
than the fear of death
for one to put a gun to their head.
My = ownership
“My feet are cold.”
Who is saying that?
Pure
intelligence
is
the
Guru.
Breathing
is the same
in all bodies.
The candle burns
and gives light.
The loser is the candle.
The right answer
brings satisfaction.
The world, (trees, birds etc,) cannot be changed.
There is nothing wrong with it.
It is perfect.
See the world
for what it is,
through the eyes of
affectionate detachment.
Dependence
on anything
for happiness
is utter misery.
Pain is created by pleasure.
Pleasure is created by pain.
Perfection
includes
imperfection.
To be born is misery.
To die is freedom
from the body concept.
It takes
a quiet mind
to understand
the simplicity
of truth.
All pictures
are obstacles,
but some can be
used appropriately
and then discarded.
The brain is a computer.
Through continual misuse
it overheats.
A noisy mind
creates
imagination,
illusion &
dreams.
What
is
imagination?
How can life
be good or bad?
Life is life.
Mantra –
for communicating
with oneself.
Mother Earth says,
“Now, all of you who are not going to play by the laws of this environment
–OUT!”
You cannot see it
until you are beyond it.