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Shanti
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 Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 1:11:05 PM
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Fall in love with the gift being given to you
Not the box it comes in.
Fall in love with the silence
Not the practices that bring you silence.
Fall in love with the truth being revealed to you
Not the guru or system that is delivering the truth.
We miss so much by focusing on the form that delivers the truth to us.
The ego will analyze, judge, defend, a guru or a system.
That is what the ego loves to do.. engage itself in something.
But when we let go the judgment, the analyzing, the defending...
We let the actual teachings in.
These teachings are real subtle and beyond the mind.
Hence the mind does not get it.
Be....
....silent......
Let go the attachment to the gift box
And start enjoying the gift.
The truths being sent to us
The blessings being poured into our lives.
Fall in love with....
The guru in you...
The silence.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh...... |
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CarsonZi
Canada
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Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 1:15:36 PM
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Yonatan
Israel
849 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 1:38:36 PM
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Kirtanman
USA
1651 Posts |
Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 5:30:59 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Shanti
Fall in love with the gift being given to you
Not the box it comes in.
Fall in love with the silence
Not the practices that bring you silence.
Fall in love with the truth being revealed to you
Not the guru or system that is delivering the truth.
We miss so much by focusing on the form that delivers the truth to us.
The ego will analyze, judge, defend, a guru or a system.
That is what the ego loves to do.. engage itself in something.
But when we let go the judgment, the analyzing, the defending...
We let the actual teachings in.
These teachings are real subtle and beyond the mind.
Hence the mind does not get it.
Be....
....silent......
Let go the attachment to the gift box
And start enjoying the gift.
The truths being sent to us
The blessings being poured into our lives.
Fall in love with....
The guru in you...
The silence.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh......
Beautiful, Shanti!
Thanks for this!!
You have a gift for translating into a few poignant lines some of the key milestones and/or pointers we all experience on our non-journey home.
Ego and complete silent presence are mutually exclusive.
Awakening can involve so much needless struggle, because we think the form or content has something to tell us ... not realizing it's the silent awareness that's identifying with the form or content that is the answer we're seeking ... the answer we already are, now.
This poem articulates that truth beautifully.
Thanks Again!
Heart Is Where The AUM Is,
Kirtanman |
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cosmic
USA
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Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 5:41:18 PM
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Very lovely, Shanti
The gift comes to us on its own. The form it takes is... just a form...
This is what I feel.
Thank you
Love
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Akasha
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Posted - Sep 23 2009 : 7:47:38 PM
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The Gift Box
Thanks for sharing,Shanti.
Beautiful
Very thought-provoking........ but True
The Inner....Not the Outer |
Edited by - Akasha on Sep 23 2009 8:01:02 PM |
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christiane
Lebanon
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Posted - Sep 24 2009 : 02:54:18 AM
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Once you taste the gift, you will fall in love with it and all that has to do with it.. including the box :)
You will see the gift inside the box but also IN the box and IN all, because all will become the gift.
Thank you Shanti for the simple and beautiful lines..
Simplicity is powerful and beautiful..
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miguel
Spain
1197 Posts |
Posted - Sep 24 2009 : 06:57:39 AM
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manig
India
88 Posts |
Posted - Sep 25 2009 : 03:09:11 AM
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QUESTION: WHAT IS A SAGACIOUS STUDENT, AND WHAT IS A DULL STUDENT?
ANSWER: A SAGACIOUS STUDENT DOES NOT DEPEND ON HIS TEACHER'S WORDS, BUT USES HIS OWN EXPERIENCE TO FIND THE TRUTH. A DULL STUDENT DEPENDS ON COMING TO A GRADUAL UNDERSTANDING THROUGH HIS TEACHER'S WORD: A TEACHER HAS TWO KINDS OF STUDENTS; ONE HEARS THE TEACHER'S WORDS WITHOUT CLINGING TO THE MATERIAL NOR TO THE IMMATERIAL, WITHOUT ATTACHING TO FORM OR TO NONFORM, WITHOUT THINKING OF ANIMATE OBJECTS OR OF INANIMATE OBJECTS... THIS IS THE SAGACIOUS STUDENT; THE OTHER, WHO IS AVID FOR UNDERSTANDING, ACCUMULATES MEANINGS, AND MIXES GOOD AND BAD, IS THE DULL STUDENT.
THE SAGACIOUS STUDENT UNDERSTANDS INSTANTLY; HE DOES NOT RAISE INFERIOR MIND WHEN HE HEARS THE TEACHING, NOR DOES HE FOLLOW THE SAGE'S MIND, HE TRANSCENDS BOTH WISDOM AND IGNORANCE. EVEN THOUGH ONE HEARS THE TEACHING AND DOES NOT CLING TO WORLDLY DESIRES, DOES NOT LOVE BUDDHA OR THE TRUE PATH, IF, WHEN HE HAS TO SELECT ONE OUT OF TWO, HE SELECTS QUIETNESS FROM CONFUSION, WISDOM FROM IGNORANCE, INACTIVITY FROM ACTIVITY AND CLINGS TO ONE OR THE OTHER OF THESE, THEN HE IS A DULL STUDENT. IF ONE TRANSCENDS BOTH WISDOM AND IGNORANCE, HAS NO GREED FOR THE TEACHING, DOES NOT LIVE IN RIGHT RECOLLECTEDNESS, DOES NOT RAISE RIGHT THINKING, AND DOES NOT HAVE ASPIRATIONS TO BE A PRATYEKA-BUDDHA OR A BODHISATTVA, THEN HE IS A SAGACIOUS STUDENT.
...if you choose between inactivity and activity, if you choose at all between right and wrong, you are a dull student. Choice makes you dull.
Don't choose and be free; choose and you have chosen your bondage. Choose and you are imprisoned immediately. Each choice is a prison.
There are people who have much but still desire more; their poverty is beyond belief. And there are people who don't have much and still don't desire anything more; their richness is beyond measure.
The only secret key is choiceless awareness.
These answers of Bodhidharma can be reduced to this single phrase: choiceless awareness. But don't cling to the words, experience it, because it is only experience that liberates.
Truly Right :)
http://www.balbro.com/lotus/ |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Feb 24 2013 : 05:55:17 AM
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that is an awesome post dear Shanti....will share it with friends  |
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Ananda
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Posted - Feb 24 2013 : 06:08:14 AM
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 24 2013 : 08:11:15 AM
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Goodway
USA
99 Posts |
Posted - Feb 24 2013 : 12:28:16 PM
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Personally, I'd like to fall in love with a girlfriend, but there aren't many girls around here to date.  |
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sivasambho
USA
136 Posts |
Posted - Mar 12 2013 : 11:10:39 PM
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| Nice words shanti! |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Mar 13 2013 : 09:01:19 AM
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bewell
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Posted - Mar 13 2013 : 5:42:48 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Shanti
Fall in love with....
The guru in you...
The silence.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh......
Ok. |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Mar 13 2013 : 6:29:13 PM
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Radharani
USA
843 Posts |
Posted - Mar 19 2013 : 01:23:52 AM
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mattb23
Australia
99 Posts |
Posted - Apr 06 2013 : 7:49:52 PM
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Your observations are very poignant Shanti as Kirtanman noted, and deliberately so.
I've actually been contemplating this subject a lot myself these past few days, particularly the following famous words by Joseph Campbell:
"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."
This bliss truly is "Spiritual". By that I mean it does come from within. When we recognise this and approach our spiritual study/practices accordingly, they become even more fruitful as you articulated above.
Our practices are merely a vehicle (as is this human experience as a whole), the Spirit (or Guru) within us is the driver. When we recognise this it's much easier to keep our hands on the wheel and enjoy the ride!
Thank you for sharing dear friend.
Namaste,
Matt 
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Apr 09 2013 : 08:57:34 AM
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Thanks Matt!
I don't share much these days as my reality seems to change by the min.  So when there is a "seeing" and I want to share it, I wait a few days, and by then it has already deepened or changed so there is nothing more to share.
But this was one thing that came to me in 2009 and still holds true, just as much now as it did then. |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Apr 09 2013 : 12:17:52 PM
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I wait a few days, and by then it has already deepened or changed so there is nothing more to share.
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