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Issue #7 - Awakening into Awareness - August, 2000
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A free ezine dedicated to
exploring the nature of Reality and
the experience of Realization
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Metta Zetty, Editor email: AIA@awakening.net
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Contents
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* Introduction / AIA Update
· AIA's new Awareness Center
· AIA's new daily mailing list: "In This Moment"
· Insight Mentoring Letters: Now Free
· AIA's new Archives: Now Searchable
· Chat Sessions & Intensives: Now Available
* Excerpts from:
· Kiss of God
- Marshall Stewart Ball
· The Way to The True Happiness
- Durius Nguyen
* Wisdom and Insights
· You are the space...
- Éric Baret
· There is no creation...
- Ramana Maharshi
· A lamp I am...
- Jesus
· The opposite of a true statement...
- Nils Bohr
· Looking for the Truth
- Robert Pirsig
· Looking for Enlightenment
- CoolSig.com
* Letters
· Awakening: Dark Night and Grace
· Witnessing This Body-Mind....
· Your Contagious Enthusiasm
* Metta's Reflections
· The Infinite Present
· Suffering
· I Am
* Reader Reflections
· Beloved Face, Eternal Mirror
· Simple Awareness
· Remembering...
· Glad to see the return of AIA's ezine
* Reader Resources
· Cloud of Unknowing
· Along The Way
· Sunlight / Ruminations
· Thou Art That
· Vichara Monastery
* AIA Awards and WebRings
· Lotus Light Award
· Awakened Teachers WebRing
· SpiritWalk WebRing
· Consciousness WebRing
* General Information
· About Awakening into Awareness
· Ezine Subscriptions
· Back Issues, Copies and Reprints
· AIA Mailing Lists
· Insight Mentoring
· Correspondence
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Introduction
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Hello friends and AIA visitors!
It's been several months since the release of AIA's last issue
of the ezine, and I appreciate your patience with this work-
related delay. My update is posted in my current "Note to
Website Visitors":
http://awakening.net/Note.html
In recent weeks, I've upgraded the AIA website and made
several important changes. Here's a quick overview:
· Subscriptions to AIA's newest mailing list, In This Moment,
are now available. This daily list is an invitation to
awaken into an Awareness of your own essential nature,
and is designed to serve as a contemplative guide to
ending your search. Subscriptions are available in either
a daily (M-F) or weekly digest format, and include
subscriptions to AIA's ezine and Insight Mentoring Letters.
http://awakening.net/Moment.html
Free, 2-week trial subscriptions are also available
simply by sending a blank email message to:
FreeMoment@awakening.net
· Subscriptions to AIA's Insight Mentoring Letters mailing
list are now available free of charge:
http://awakening.net/Letters.html
You may subscribe to this mailing list now by sending
a blank email message to the following address:
Address: AIASubscribe@awakening.net
Subject: Mentoring Letters
· Back issues of all of AIA's mailing lists are now posted
in a new searchable online archive:
http://awakening.net/Mail.html
http://awakening.net/Archives.html
· I am now offering online chat sessions and individual
mentoring intensives for individuals who are interested
in exploring the Insight Mentoring process in greater
depth: http://awakening.net/Mentoring.html
http://awakening.net/Chat.html
http://awakening.net/Retreats.html
I will look forward to keeping in touch with you all in the
weeks to come, and I thank you again for your continuing
interest in exploring the experience of Awakening.
With appreciation,
Metta Zetty
P.S.
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This service will keep you posted on AIA site changes
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_Kiss of God_ http://www.marshallball.com
By Marshall Stewart Ball marshall@thoughtfulhouse.com
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Marshall Stewart Ball is a brilliant child who touches people's
hearts through a veil of silence. Although he can neither
speak nor walk and depends on others for physical help, he is
a constant source of inspiration and guidance for people in
matters of the mind and of the heart. Having been evaluated
in public school at a twelfth-grade reading comprehension level
at age nine, his capacity to think and feel constantly amazes
his teachers, friends and family. Marshall knows the meaning
and spelling of words with which even his family and teachers
are not familiar. Even more amazing is the powerful impact
he has on everyone he meets.
Marshall's parents realized early on that he did not think
like an average child. He constantly wrote of love, knowledge,
freedom and God on his alphabet board. Since 1992 (when
Marshall was 6 years old), he has completed hundreds of
pages of writings. _Kiss of God_ is a collection of selected
works, including letters written to friends and family,
answers to questions people have asked him, and several
writings he composed for the sole purpose of teaching.
Marshall often writes about love and listening. His writing
style is unique and at times quite unpredictable, but it
will touch you deeply and open your eyes to the simple
truths of life. He refers to himself as a teacher, and
wrote:
"Questions want good answers. With the help of my
family and dear friends, I have been able to answer
thoughts concerning old beliefs about questions
regarding why people are not happy. Answers come
when we are listening to beautiful poetry. When
good thoughts patiently come, questions are answered."
When I wrote to Marshall to request permission to quote
from his new book, he graciously replied:
"Good Marshall thanks you for giving that
Marshall Love to all.
That Marshall is caring grandly about you.
Marshall gives that sweet good love to you."
"That Marshall is giving you the good Kiss.
Would you give the teaching Kiss to others?
That Marshall thinks love will take us to God.
Would you go?"
Marshall's book, _Kiss of God_ may be ordered online
through his website, and he may be contacted at:
Marshall Stewart Ball
P.O. Box 340045
Austin TX 78734
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"Remember Rooms Rest"
Inspired by the music of Bach; written at the age of 6.
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"The wind changes direction.
There is lovely music that feels soft.
Marshall is there thinking
lornfully gorgeous thoughts.
I, listening marvelously
juxtaposed in wonderment
finding solitude near!
Sweeter moments are surrendered to their just rooms,
like some sweet lornful friends.
My pleasure is finding, beauty will have swoonfully
cear sovereignty.
Soul might rest listening nicely!"
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My Harmony Prevails to Free
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"Even though my individuality finds sweet knowing perfection,
I listen for the answers to wishes from above. I listen to
good thoughts like something cloudy over mountain tops.
Fine messages clearly govern my thinking. Feelings grow
harmoniously making Love possible. Harmony might justify
every marvelous idea given to Love. The seeing Marshall
hopes to free the hopeless. Dear harmony needs progress
governing fine thinking that I feel. I see harmony as
the final known answer."
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Righteous Thoughts
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"Real thoughts are good to share. I write words to you
because pleasant feelings can change the righteous
person's thoughts. Listening, sometimes there is progress
made when thoughts find their home. Fine thinking reveals
marvelous freedom from the righteous person's sorrow."
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Choices Are Yours
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"The now I give to a good thinker.
Go to feelings that give good to others.
You make the choice to think good or bad.
Real true thoughts go to happy givers.
Begin now to make good choices."
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Teaching Clouds
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"Inside some clear, swift, gorgeous,
gentle, giving clouds
is some incredible true love.
Lovely, dear, golden,
good fine clouds emerge
from God's excellent teaching thought.
That gentle Love finds
there is true freedom in free clouds."
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"I see myself as a teacher that knows about God.
Good thoughts come to me and they teach."
"Marshall has been here for millions of lifetimes."
"You are the thoughts of God.
Go to a good thought and you will know God."
"The growing thought learns to listen to God."
"Answers come when we are in our right place."
"Real comes when we love."
"That good thoughtful lovely person
grows love to make freedom reign."
"To judge another is to judge God."
"Destruction is the need to find being in matter."
"Poetry is the magnificent kindness of the heart."
"Understanding takes a dear good listening thinker."
"Kindness generates happiness."
"The hour needs your love.
Time takes us to a good thought.
Make time now to help others.
Giving good will make you happy.
Make a time to love all things.
The hour needs your love."
"Love pours, freeing me."
.o00o.
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The Way to The True Happiness theriver@planet.nl
By Durius Nguyen http://members.tripod.com/Durius/index.htm
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Recently, I had the good fortune of being introduced to
the extraordinary wisdom of Durius Nguyen. The account
of his awakening, and his subsequent writings are clear
and disarmingly fresh, revealing a profound level of
Natural Insight. His gifts are a blessing, and it is a
privilege to be able to share his gifts with you all.
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The Morning Breeze
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Before walking for a while in my sitting room every morning,
I always open the door, slowly take several deep breaths and
smell the beginning of the day.
When I opened the door one early morning in the Autumn last
year, suddenly I felt the morning breeze. It touched my face,
it was slowly coming into every cell of my body. It passed my
surroundings and into the sitting room.
Listening to the leaves from a tree nearby and the warm sound
of autos from the highway at some distances, I said to myself:
It is Autumn now!
Suddenly I understood the powerful mechanism of the universe,
the impermanence, the progression of life. Spring. Summer.
Autumn. Winter. Young. Old....
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Many years I was a stranger in my surroundings. So many years
I did not recognize the morning breeze. At age of nine, before
setting to school I always stood for a while at the garden gate
listening to the morning breeze from the rice field nearby.
And then the war, the military life, the concentration camp,
the life in another country. Years went by I never had time
for a morning breeze!
.o00o.
Suddenly I understood: before I could be truly happy, I have
to find myself in my surroundings, in Time and Space, in the
Present Moment....Before I could be truly happy, I have to
listen to the morning breeze....
.o00o.
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24 Hours
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When we get used to Walking in Full Awareness, the way of
body-and-mind in harmonious motion becomes integrated in
our daily life. The way we are sitting. The way we are
lying down. The way we are working. The way we are
looking...And even the way we are thinking...We are more
and more in Awareness of what we are doing...
At the first glance, it looks as if we use so much energy
to be in Full Awareness. But on the contrary, by letting
our mind be in our breath, we do not get entangled into
the busy mind. At the same time, there are less and less
blocking in our body by unnecessary concentration of
energy, caused by the unawareness of motions. As the
result of that, so much energy is used mainly for our
real daily life, and our life will be more and more
pleasant.
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Awareness
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Let your mind be in your breath!
When you are angry, you know you are angry.
When you are not angry, you know you are not angry.
When you are afraid of something, you know you are
afraid.
When you are not afraid of something, you know you
are not afraid of anything.
When you desire something, you know you are desiring
something...
Every time you discover your mind is busy with something
else, not the same as what you are doing, let thoughts
go by. Be nonthinking.
Walking, sitting, listening, talking, looking, reading,
eating...always in Full Awareness. You are always
to be fully aware of what you are doing.
You are always to know exactly what you are doing...
Let thoughts go by...
Let your mind be in whatever you are doing.
Washing. Taking a shower. In the toilet. Cooking. Cleaning.
Grass cutting in the garden. Changing clothes...
Always in slow motion, in Full Awareness.
Before you are about to do something: reading, cooking,
walking, sitting, eating...just take a few second to
evaluate your body-and-mind, to be in Full Awareness
of whatever you are going to....
.o00o.
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Wisdom and Insights http://awakening.net/Wisdom.html
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You are the space where perception happens.
Éric Baret
There is no creation or dissolution.
There is no path or goal.
There is no free will or predestination.
Ramana Maharshi
A lamp am I to those who see me,
A mirror am I to those who know me.
Jesus
_The Gospel of Thomas_
Recently shared in AIA's Awareness Center:
http://pub5.ezboard.com/bawarenesscenter
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may be another
profound truth. Nils Bohr
It's a puzzling thing.
The truth knocks on the door and you say,
"Go away, I'm looking for the truth,"
and so it goes away."
Robert Pirsig
_Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance_, p. 5
Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight,
when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.
http://coolsig.com/bin/getsig?hmmm&page=3
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Awakening: Dark Night and Grace http://awakening.net/Q17.html
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Could you please answer the following question: I have heard
about two ways that people have described their experiences
of "awakening": in one case, the awakening came out of nowhere;
in the other, it came after a period called (by some people)
"the dark night of the soul" -- a period in life when you're
totally dissatisfied, don't know what to do, and there seems
to be no way out.
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The "dark night" is often seen, in classical religious thought,
as a profound transitional stage in spiritual development,
one that presages a shift in energy and experience often
described as an "illumination" or an "awakening." In this sense,
the "dark night" signals an energetic readiness for opening --
for movement beyond the limitations not only of the "darkness,"
but also the limitations of a polarized perspective in which
we see life and our experience in the universe in terms of a
light/dark duality.
As the energy of awakening moves in and through our experience,
the "dark night" begins to dissipate into receptivity --
into a surrendering and an openness to the larger window
of possibilities available to us. As we begin to see and
understand our experience within these broader terms, we
also begin to recognize that *both* the Dark and the Light
are aspects of a larger Reality which is far more vast,
more whole and more complete than we had ever imagined.
As the experience of awakening continues to deepen and mature
within us, we begin to recognize the play of light and shadow
in our lives are simply facets of the Infinite making itself
manifest in and through finite form. When the focus of our
attention, energy and understanding shifts to the Background
and Source out of which this movement manifests, then the
"darkness" is replaced with a profound Satisfaction with the
perfection and completeness of Reality, exactly as it is....
For more information about experiences of "awakening" that
come "out of nowhere" by Grace, see the following links:
Question #2: http://www.awakening.net/Q2.html
Mentoring Letter #23:
http://escribe.com/religion/aialetters/index.html?mID=24
.o00o.
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Witnessing This Body-Mind.... http://awakening.net/Q19.html
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Today there was the realization, that everything that is,
is just witnessing this body-mind and nothing else....I
have to ask because my experience is not "all there is is
consciousness," but just a body-mind sitting here and
writing these lines -- and this is just witnessed....
Somehow this feels enough -- certainly the mind still
wants to know what happens after death and if there still
IS something, but this is also witnessed and goes by....
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What a beautiful description! Yes -- the discovery of
this witnessing and the miraculous sufficiency of it is,
at its essence, I believe, consistent with realizations
and recognitions described by many others. The language
we choose to use in describing this discovery may vary
tremendously, depending upon our perception and our
experience of it:
· "Witnessing of the body-mind"
· "Background of Awareness"
· "Unitive consciousness"
· "Clear Seeing"
· "Headlessness"
· "No-self"
· "Emptiness"
· "Fullness"
· "Natural Great Perfection"
· "Ground of Being"
In my own case, the recognition was/is one of experiencing
the absolute completeness, fullness and sufficiency of the
body-mind and the larger (Infinite) universe within which
it appears.
Regardless of how this discovery is described, I suspect
the recognitions are very similar -- in fact, kindred --
reflections of the same Reality. They vary only by virtue
of the fact that the lenses through which this Reality is
seen/experienced (our body-minds) are different.
Years ago my Asian Religions professor provided two brilliant
exercises to illustrate this point. He asked his students
to define a chair, or to describe an object (a pot) which
he had set in the middle of the group. As you might well
imagine, each description was very different from the others,
and yet the students were all seeing/experiencing/describing
essentially the same object.
So it is, I believe, with our "experiences" of Reality.
The length of our focal depth, along with our own unique
perception and perspective, will flavor the way we describe
the "witnessing" or "completeness" we discover. From my
point of view that, too, is part of the miracle: no matter
where we sit, and no matter where we look, the Reality
toward which we point is, essentially, one and the same.
In light of this discovery, the mind will, of course,
continue to inquire about the infinitude of details,
since it is the nature of the mind to inquire, explore
and speculate. And, yet, there is nothing inherently
"wrong" or inappropriate with the continuation of this
inquiry. As you so wisely indicated, all the busy-ness
and activity of the thinking process is simply subsumed
within the larger, constant and unbroken witnessing field....
.o00o.
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Your Contagious Enthusiasm http://awakening.net/Q18.html
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I am happy to tell you that your enthusiasm is contagious and
operates as a teaching vehicle in its own right. It literally
transmits expansive spiritual energy. I felt it immediately
upon reading your message - and that is not a common
experience for me.
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What a gift! I'm grateful for your kind words about my
"enthusiasm." You know the root of the word?
"To be inspired"
...which ultimately is based on the root of "inspire":
"To infuse with the breath of life."
Needless to say, I take "enthusiasm" as a high compliment,
and gratefully appreciate your generous acknowledgement.
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Reader
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On the Internet it has happened only once before: a couple
of weeks ago when I was browsing the site of a teacher
who mentioned an innate and conscious ability to channel
and focus energy. He apparently focused it into some of
his writings. That ability is a highly useful teaching
and transforming tool that only some teachers seem to
have; I would probably not be aware of it at all except
for the powerful influence of one of my own past teachers.
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Reply
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I'm very interested your reaction. Franklin Merrell-Wolff
described this energetic phenomenon as a "Current of Bliss"
-- which is both powerful and transmittable. I am keenly
aware of it, especially when I write or reflect on this
Awareness. I find it to be profoundly nourishing and it
is, I am sure, one of the reasons I have been attracted
to the mentoring process....
(It has also, interestingly enough, significantly reduced
my need for sleep!)
.o00o.
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| The preceding letters have been excerpted from |
| Metta's Insight Mentoring correspondence. See: |
| AIA's Questions |
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| AIA's Insight Mentoring Archives |
| http://awakening.net/Archives.html |
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| For subscription information, see Metta's |
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Metta's Reflections http://awakening.net/Reflections.html
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The Infinite Present
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The present moment is infinite and boundaryless.
There is no way to escape it, and
there is no Reality outside of it.
Each of us is always here and now;
it is only the mind that wanders....
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Suffering
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Suffering is the ultimate challenge to a narrow and limited
sense of identity. It provides an invaluable opportunity for
each of us to discover that we are more than the body, mind
and emotions with which we tend to identify.
As we begin to recognize our ability to observe our own
suffering, we will also begin to recognize that the Essence
of who/what we are is not bound or limited by suffering as
it arises. We are, instead, the nameless Reality which lies
beyond. We are that vast field of Awareness which contains
our suffering, and all the experiences of our humanness.
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I Am
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For most human beings, identity is centered in the
experiential awareness, "I am." When identified with
the finite, "I am" manifests as ego. When identified
with the Infinite, "I am" is revealed as the Presence
of Awareness -- inseparable from the Essence of Reality.
.o00o.
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Reader Reflections http://awakening.net/Reflections.html
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These reflections from AIA readers are shared with gratitude
for the generosity and openness of the authors....
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Beloved Face, Eternal Mirror Ragnar
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The springtime inside of me...
The sun on wet, white winter,
The sound of drops of melting snow,
And the ever living brooklets of my Heart....
Beloved face, eternal Mirror,
Shrouded in the frosty mists of time,
How could I forget that you'd return
To tell me who I am, was and ever will be!
That I am you and you are me,
That all creation is together
In the sound and beauty of
The glimmering, sunny water
Of the wintry fields of Spring!
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Simple Awareness Michael
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Awareness is effortless.
Just be aware that I am aware.
Awareness is freedom from resistance.
Just be aware that I am resisting.
Any effort I make to stop only increases the resistance.
It is enough to just be aware in the present moment.
Thoughts are like clouds, they come and they go.
Thoughts are like waves, they rise and they fall.
Whatever comes this too shall pass.
I am as I should be.
There is nothing I have to do.
There is nowhere I have to go.
This moment is as it should be.
My process of life is natural.
Awareness of Consciousness.
Slowing down...watching...observing.
I am aware of being aware.
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Remembering... Jeff
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What a gift it is to be understood....I've not heard of entasy,
so maybe my term for what I experienced [ecstasy] limited the
description of it. I was not outside myself in any way. In
fact, I have never felt more in touch. It seemed as if the
water surrounding the many islands of my life's topography
had just drained away, revealing the bedrock of what was
always there, obscured.
I was me, but exponentially unfolded. My true identity had
been literally in my face for the whole of my life. It's the
big cosmic joke played on each and every one of us, even as
we scurry after that dangling carrot in the sky. We are each
doing the same thing.
I think that was my initial recognition, and out of that
recognition came an immensely deep respect and compassion
for every person I met and for the task they had set out
to achieve, which I believe is to remember.
.o00o.
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Glad to see the return of AIA's ezine.... Dennis Trunk
3rd Millennium Gateway" http://www.stas.net/tmg/index.html
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I'm glad to see the return of your newsletter. Your discussion
of the various terms and points of view that can be used to
express spiritual awareness is particularly interesting.
After all, many of the nonduality teachers around the world
are saying exactly the same thing, but by saying it in their
own unique way, they can reach individuals who might respond
only to that unique way. It's a varied approach to an
infinitely rich reality.
.o00o.
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| If you have any reflections or questions about the |
| experience of Awakening you would like to share, |
| please feel free to send them to: AIA@awakening.net. |
| In addition: your feedback and reflections about the |
| AIA ezine and website are always welcome. I will |
| look forward to hearing from you! - Metta |
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See also "Ruminations" for a discussion of Rumi's poetry:
http://www.egroups.com/community/ruminations
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Thou Art That
http://www.thouartthat.com
Email: "Kothai Nandaswamy" <kothai@yahoo.com>
"Thou Art That" is a spirituality guide dedicated
to self-inquiry and consciousness.
The man of Tao remains unknown
Perfect virtue produces nothing.
"No-Self" is "True-Self"
And the greatest man is Nobody.
-- Chuang Tzu
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Vichara Monastery
http://home.yosemite.net/~stacy/
Recommended Reading:
· How to Practice Vichara (Reflective Inquiry)
· Frequently Asked Questions:
-- What is meditation?
-- How can I stop ignoring?
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