From: raj@globe1.att.com
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: A few flowers from the garlands of SRE
Date: 22 Jan 1993 09:59:57 -0800
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		TRUTH IS ONE, SAGES CALL IT BY MANY NAMES.

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Nature is not good or bad. It just is. Just as conditioning just is.

What a wonderful koan the universe presents to us in individuality. 

I have no religion, I'm a buddhist.

Creation is simply one aspect of manifestation. 

Thoughts and reason leave us at a point quite indecisive; they cannot go 
beyond.

The more something needs interpretation, the less it is needed.

"I can't"  means "I won't". 

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To surrender is to give in to love and do what it demands.

Mother Teresa once told the story about a poor woman in India with
a large family (they were Hindus)  that had not eaten anything for
4 days. Mother Teresa went to their dwelling and gave a little
rice to the woman. The first thing you might expect the woman to
do would be to cook the rice. But no, the first thing she did was
to divide the rice in half (ie. two equal portions) and take half
to a neighbor who also had a large family and hadn't eaten in 4
days or so and they were a Muslim family. Now, Mother Teresa said
that she could have gone back to get some more rice to give to
this woman that evening but she decided to wait until the next
day. Why? "Because", she said, "I wanted her to feel that Joy that
comes from unselfishness". This is surrender, ie. a surrender of
ego, a surrender and giving up and letting go of selfishness, no
more "i".

Surrender to God means to surrender to the Guru who is one with God.

Take refuge in the Buddha  [not in the person of Buddha].

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   Have faith fair bird
	in your flight
   the awakened ones
	they speak no lies
   be patient fair bird
	and 'fore long, you too will
   reach that land so pure
	utterly freed from
   sorrow's mighty jaws.
	
Happiness is just a remembrance away.  

Dissolve thoughts in the very Source by any means.

Realization is relative when the seeker tries to realize something 
outside himself without first realizing the truth behind himself. 

   The noble quest is 
	looking within not without
   the noble quest is
	looking through not looking at
   as do cooling waters
	it seeks to cool the heart of
	bewilderment and torment
   as does the raging forest
	it seeks to burn away
	suffocating limitations
	and dogmas
   as do the roaming winds
	it seeks to sink
	into the deep caverns of truth
   as does Mother Earth
	it seeks to receive
	the blessings of the
	compassionate stay.
	
"The Path is like a slow-moving river.
It winds, lazily, through the forest of knowledge.
It does not care what course is proper.
It does not concern itself with restriction.
The river simply follows the path of least resistance.

Realize the nature of reality through meditation.

Inquire who is the knower.

To hold onto the quest "who am I?" undistractedly with efforts is 
practice; when the same becomes effortless and natural, it is Realization.

What does labeling with the word "real" change in actual experience?

All phenomenon arise and disappear back into Sunyata.

   I remember the pilgrim
   that passed by this way
   i am him
   a lonely traveler
   moving along with the mind
   leaves no footsteps
   only a familiar trace
   of abandonment and tears

   there are desert to cross
   and horizon to reach
   by moving only in the present
	moment
   the whole world is spanned.

   Empty handed I entered the world.
   Barefoot I leave it.
   My coming, my going--
   Two simple happenings that got entangled.

   Existence through time is a myth,
   eternity is in the moment.
   The great Tao has no gate,
   water being - moving waves.


A disciple and his teacher talked about the true self.  The
teacher compared it to looking under one peel of an onion after
the other. What would the essence be that was left after
uncovering the last peel?

"Nothing!" said the disciple.

"Everything!" said the teacher.


Life is new every moment.

Transcending all dualistic notions implies the disappearance of the
nirvana-sansara duality also.

Absolute Realization is simply being the ultimate Self spontaneously.

I can't see the forest, there's a log stuck in my eye!

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BUDDHA: O MONKS, YOU MUST REALIZE THAT WHEN I SAID I TEACH YOU SOMETHING,
IT'S JUST A FIGURE OF SPEECH.  IN REALITY,  I TEACH NOTHING TO NO ONE.

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---raj