To paraphrase a good friend, Leo Hartong:
Have a great NOW in the dream of living Reality we label 2012!
Whenever you are, it is NOW, isn't it?
Wherever you are that wherever is always known naturally as HERE, isn't it?
Look at the ONE FACT no one can deny: I AM! As the great recently departed Sage Ramesh Balsekar put it so elegantly: "True understanding is of the same nature as the simple knowledge I AM ... that I AM alive, that I exist, and that I do not need anyone else's confirmation to prove that I am alive and present."
The non-dual spiritual teaching of "Kashmir Shaivism" proposes, "Nothing exists that is not Shiva". Let us take that deeper: NOTHING (No Thing!) Exists. And THAT is Not Shiva. "Shiva" is a word invented to point to Everything i.e. God i.e Totality. The Nothing that is Eternity is neither Shiva nor not Shiva. Hmmmm??
Remembering another quite different expression, that of Benjamin Franklin, a man of tremendous appetites and great wisdom: "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end there (HERE!) it is."
The Eternal, Self-Evident and Self-knowing Truth cannot be put into words. It is too big! Only in the Eternal Silence that IS may the truth be naturally known. That said (pun intended), to BE is impossible to attain and impossible to escape. Can we "get to" Here from Here?!?
Have a great NOW in the dream of living Reality we label 2012!
Whenever you are, it is NOW, isn't it?
Wherever you are that wherever is always known naturally as HERE, isn't it?
Look at the ONE FACT no one can deny: I AM! As the great recently departed Sage Ramesh Balsekar put it so elegantly: "True understanding is of the same nature as the simple knowledge I AM ... that I AM alive, that I exist, and that I do not need anyone else's confirmation to prove that I am alive and present."
The non-dual spiritual teaching of "Kashmir Shaivism" proposes, "Nothing exists that is not Shiva". Let us take that deeper: NOTHING (No Thing!) Exists. And THAT is Not Shiva. "Shiva" is a word invented to point to Everything i.e. God i.e Totality. The Nothing that is Eternity is neither Shiva nor not Shiva. Hmmmm??
Remembering another quite different expression, that of Benjamin Franklin, a man of tremendous appetites and great wisdom: "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end there (HERE!) it is."
The Eternal, Self-Evident and Self-knowing Truth cannot be put into words. It is too big! Only in the Eternal Silence that IS may the truth be naturally known. That said (pun intended), to BE is impossible to attain and impossible to escape. Can we "get to" Here from Here?!?
So when the Sage Ramana Maharshi noted,
"Be as you are", he was not offering an instruction, he was stating a
FACT. You ... ARE. Being. Just That and nothing else ... or as
'Sailor' Bob Adamson likes to say, "One essence appearing as everything". As Bob always loves to say, "Full Stop!"However: When you
r "identity" is stuck into the content of the Empty Sky of Freedom that you are, there will be suffering. That's the deal! The livingness-aliveness of the Real You ... IN (and AS) THAT, i.e. the ever-fresh always-open HERE-NESS, NOWNESS, there is NO suffering.Yet when the "identity" (I AM) is the Sky, there may well be pain and pleasure (that is also the deal!) The freedom You ARE is not "freedom for 'me'" but rather freedom FROM any 'me'.
Got it? Cool! May all your poker pots be monsters and all your pockets contain Aces in the Happiest Ever Now, 2012.
With greatest Respect and Love to you all,
Happy New Year!!
