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September 1st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- God Seed
With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd – I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Edward Fitzgerald
It takes a divine man to exhibit anything divine, Socrates, Alfred, Columbus, Wordsworth, or any other brave preferrer of the still voice within to the roar of the populace -- a thing very easy to speak and very hard to do for twenty-four hours. The rest are men potentially, not actually, now only pupae or tadpoles -- say rather quarries of souls, heroes that shall be, seeds of Gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God.
Meister Eckhart
We are like thistle-down blown about by the wind – up and down, here and there – but not one in a thousand ever getting beyond seed-hood.
Samuel Butler
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 2nd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Put Down Your Burden
Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He Bears them. Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not?
We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?
Ramana Mahashi
The 'letting go' (of the false self ... or 'awakening') can only 'happen' as a result of the clear understanding of the difference between what-we-are and what-we-appear-to-be. And then, non-volitional life or being-lived naturally becomes 'wu wei', spontaneous living, living without the unnecessary burden of volition. Why carry your luggage when you are being transported in a vehicle?!
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 3rd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Different Kind of Seeing
We sat silently and he (the Tibetan spiritual teacher) and he looked at each of us in turn. I noticed for the first time what I would notice often with him -- his gift of silence.
He always spoke softly and slowly when he did speak, in a deep, sonorous but gentle voice, but often he would not speak at all, he would sit, as he was sitting now, with his hands folded casually in his lap, looking at everyone in the room in turn, with a relaxed and playful but charged intensity....
(After the audience) Moneesha said, " He makes you feel immediately at home with him. He does not want anything from you. He is tender to all the people around him ... you feel you have been seen by him.
He is a very beautiful old man. I like that. And he is kind. He does not look at me as if I were a leper or something. I think he rather likes me. He sees my soul."
Andrew Harvey -- A Journey in Ladakh
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 4th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Taking Us Closer
We must be still within ourselves still and calm, and yet we must also, at the same time, be moving forward, moving further and deeper towards other, towards the world.
What is not useful for this transformation must be abandoned; anything that prevents finer flowering of our spirit must be left behind: anything that hinders us from dealing with the world as it is, with ourselves as we are, in this place and in this time, with all the dangers and fears and sadnesses of this time and this place, must be renounced, and renounced, if possible, without grief and without nostalgia.
Every truthful transformation takes us closer to the world, closer to things, closer to each other; the clearest and wisest man becomes the world, becomes Buddha, becomes "awake", enters without fear and without hope, and without any consolation or protection, into the full presence of Reality.'
Andrew Harvey -- A Journey in Ladakh
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 5th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Simply Waiting
The mind's terror of boredom is the more acute because the mind suspects that through boredom, through its extreme experience, another reality might be reached that would threaten its pretensions, and perhaps even dissolve them altogether.
The Ladakhis are not afraid of monotony, of this kind of boredom; nor are the Indians. It is what in them is perhaps most alien to us. Nothing is stranger to me in India than to see the rows and rows of people waiting for trains hour after hour, without anger, without complaint, waiting without eating or talking, simply waiting.
In India I had never managed to surrender to this rhythm, I had never been able to give up my European need to be entertained, and stimulated.
In Ladakh, increasingly, I found myself able to be empty, to wait without any expectation, to be bored without being annoyed or afraid at my boredom, sometimes without even calling it 'boredom' and so defining it in my own old terms, giving it a power it need not have. It was a very strange, unexpected, mysterious joy to me, this emptiness, this simple bare surrender.
Andrew Harvey -- A Journey in Ladakh
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 6th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Giving That is Perfect
Wisdom is needed as well as openness and generosity ... the wisdom of Sunyata, of Emptiness, is also needed if giving is to be perfect. The only giving that is perfect is the giving by a giver that knows both giving and giver are not real, are empty, and that the receiver is empty too, does not inherently exist.
This does not mean that there is no need to give -- on the contrary, giving becomes natural, an action so natural that you do not need to call it "giving". The flower does not "give"; it opens, that is all. The giver does not praise himself for giving, does not celebrate his gift, nor patronise in any way the person who is receiving.
The wisdom of Sunyata reveals that you cannot give to another without giving to yourself, and also that there is no giver, no receiver, no gift. And so you give spaciously, with freedom, claiming nothing, hoping nothing, planning nothing. The greatest happiness is to give like this. Shantideva said, "Through giving away everything you pass beyond sorrow.'
Andrew Harvey -- A Journey in Ladakh
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 7th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Humility to Want to Change
A man is starving in one dark room, while in another just across the corridor from him there is enough food for many lives, for eternity. But he has to 'walk' to the room, and before he can walk to it, he has to believe that it is there. No one else can believe for him. No one can even bring the food from that room to him. Even if they could, he would not believe in the food or be able to eat it....
Beings are freed through the teaching of truth, of the nature of things. But to be taught, they have to want to listen, and to learn they have to have the humility to want to change. No one can make them listen or want to change....
Often when men say they are helpless, trapped, imperfect, they are really saying, "I do not want to endure my own perfection, I do not want to bear my own reality." Imperfection is more comforting, more human than perfection. Many men want to believe that man is imperfect because it makes it easier to live with their own imperfection, more forgiving towards themselves. And who can blame them?
Andrew Harvey -- A Journey in Ladakh
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 8th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Realising Our Own Perfection
To understand that even despair at oneself can be a deception, perhaps the most dangerous; and to discover an inner power, that is completely good and gentle, is frightening; it robs us of every comfort, every safety in resignation or irony.
Who can live naked to his own perfection? And yet who, once seeing and acknowledging his own perfection, could bear not to try to realise it in living? To see it is hard; to realise it within life is the hardest thing.
Somewhere men know that, and that is why they cover up their knowledge. They prefer the nightmare of Samsara which they know to the Awakening which they do not. And in a sense they are right.
Once they have acknowledged Reality, they will have to learn how to die into it; they will have nowhere to hide any more, no corner of the world to feel safe in any longer. They will have to "abide nowhere and alight on nothing".
Andrew Harvey -- A Journey in Ladakh
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 9th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Constant Awareness
Awakened "entities" may be engaged in their respective occupations and carry on their normal activities as if they are interested, but truly they are always in perfect equilibrium. There is neither the craving for pleasure nor the desire to get rid of it.
They take life playfully accepting events as they come along .... they are constantly aware of the truth that they are the infinite and universal Consciousness within which innumerable universes appear and disappear like waves and ripples on the ocean water.
With the apperception comes the conviction -- or with the conviction comes the apperception -- that the distinction between the universal Consciousness and the personal consciousness was only notional. It was like the distinction between the wave and the water in the wave, or between the word and that to which it refers.
Waves may appear and disappear on the surface of the ocean, worlds may arise and vanish on the surface of Consciousness, but while the ignorant are swayed by the appearances, the awakened are always aware of the calm equanimity of the sub-stratum beneath.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 10th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- While Our Body Exists
As long as the psychosomatic apparatus known as the body exists, so long must that apparatus act in accordance with the way it is programmed to react physically and psychically to outside stimulus.
As long as the body exists, so long must the physical organs respond to stimulus and so long will also naturally exist the different moods. Any resisting or rebelling against such states or reactions would be like "attacking space or empty air with a sword".
The natural function of the body continues as here-to-fore. The body responds to pain or satisfaction like any other body and may weep or laugh, but, deep down, there is neither elation nor depression, but perfect equilibrium.
The ignorant regard the body as the source of suffering, but to the enlightened, the body is the source of infinite delight and joy. And being unattached to it, he is not sorry to part from the body when its span ends since he had always regarded it merely as an instrument.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 11th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Ultimate Understanding
The essence of the ultimate understanding is contained in an extraordinary transformation in the vision of life. In it the usual separation between "me" and the "other" is healed so completely that the organic unity of the world is not a mere intellectual inference but a deep and lasting experience. It is not just a belief but a confirmed faith.
However, one must realize that this sense of unity is not necessarily demonstrable in practice. While there may not be a desire to embrace the beasts and reptiles, there is certainly a firm conviction that our feelings about the creepy and the slimy creatures are feelings not outside ourselves but "the hidden aspects of our own bodies and brains".
What is realized is that the sense of unity is not "a sort of trance, in which all form and distinction is abolished, as if man and the universe merged into a luminous mist of pale mauve". There is understanding that the wide variety and multiplicity seen in the universe are not warring opposites but complementaries like the various organs and parts of the body.
The essence of the ultimate understanding is to see the What-Is as the manifested expression of the unmanifest reality. It is seeing with the whole mind of the present moment here-and-now, without any effort to make life mean something for the individual in terms of the future.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 12th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Desire for Security
At the root of all desire for security is the belief that there is something within us which endures through all the changes in life.
The desire for security will vanish only when this belief in a "me" gives way to the faith that there is indeed the changeless within us -- I Am -- the Consciousness which is our true nature.
This faith is indeed the essence of the ultimate understanding. It is the awareness of our true nature -- here and now. This faith symbolizes the understanding that there cannot be any permanence or security in life. There cannot be any "me" or "mine" to be protected.
In this awareness, there is no entity that is aware. The awareness is pure awareness, without any "one" to be aware of the awareness.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 13th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Letting Go
Peace of mind, which is what most of humanity wants, consists not in grasping life in order to keep it secure for us, but in "letting go". It is rather ironic that the ultimate understanding comes not by holding on to the concepts of God but by relieving ourselves and letting go of all concepts concerning God.
The ultimate understanding can come neither by straining to hang on to the material pleasures of the world nor by making efforts to seek and grasp the infinite absolute. It comes by accepting the finite and relative world of living, with all its limitations and its interrelated opposites, as the objective expression of our own subjective Self....
It requires no effort to accept that "Thy will be done" because Thee ("I", the subjective noumenon) is all there is, immanent in and transcendental to all manifestation.
So long as a person considers effort as 'his' personal effort, with the purpose of achieving something, he is rejecting the all-mightiness of the Almighty. So long as a person wants something from the Almighty, he is rejecting the fact of the "Thy will be done". True love of God means surrender to Him, wanting nothing, not even salvation.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 14th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- True Meditation
A fundamental part of the process of Self-enquiry is that it not be restricted to any set hours of meditation (which could give it the feeling of a spiritual "drill") but that it be gradually extended throughout the waking hours until it becomes "the undercurrent of all thought and action".
Self-enquiry is not so much a positive process of doing some disciplined practice, but rather a negative process of letting the mind subside by seeking its source. It may begin with positive meditation at fixed times, but what happens is that as the enquiry proceeds, the undercurrent of enquiry begins to awaken spontaneously and spreads gradually to all activity without intruding or forcing itself on the activity.
Such ceaseless awareness of the working of the mind ultimately takes the form of witnessing whatever happens without any choosing or judging. Intruding thoughts are cut off as soon as they occur. When conceptualizing is thus nipped in the bud, undiluted attention gets centered on the activity in hand, leading to much greater efficiency, and less and less interference from the "me". Thus is achieved true meditation even during daily activity.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 15th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Space and Time
What you perceive externally as space and time are ultimately illusory, but they contain a core of truth. They are the two essential attributes of God, infinity and eternity, perceived as if they had an external existence outside you.
Within you, both space and time have an inner equivalent that reveals their true nature, as well as your own. Whereas space is the still, infinitely deep realm of no-mind, the inner equivalent of time is presence, awareness of the eternal Now. Remember that there is no distinction between them.
When space and time are realized within as the Unmanifested -- no-mind and presence -- external space and time continue to exist for you, but they become much less important. The world, too, continues to exist for you, but it will not bind you anymore.
Hence, the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world. Just as you would not be conscious of space if there were no objects in space, the world is needed for the Unmanifested to be realized.
You may have heard the Buddhist saying: "If there were no illusion, there would be no enlightenment." It is through the world and ultimately through you that the Unmanifested knows itself. You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Eckhart Tolle
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 16th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Soul of Life
Love is the true means by which the world is enjoyed: our love to others and other's love to us. We ought therefore above all things to get acquainted with the nature of love. For love is the root and foundation of nature: love is the soul of life and crown of rewards.
Thomas Traherne
Then was my Soul my only All to me, A living endless Eye Scarce bounded with the Sky Whose Power and Act and Essence was to see; I was an inward sphere of Light Or an interminable Orb of Sight Exceeding that which makes the days, A vital Sun, that shed abroad its rays, All Life, all Sense, a naked, simple, pure, intelligence
Thomas Traherne
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 17th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Finding the Hesperides
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing, the new direction of Time. If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me! If only I am sensitive, subtle, Oh delicate, a winged gift! If only, most lovely of all, I yield myself and am borrowed By the fine, fine wind that takes its course through the chaos of the world Like a fine, an exquisite chisel, a wedge blade inserted; If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split, we shall come at the wonder, we shall find the Hesperides. Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul; I would be a good fountain, a good well-head, Would blur no whisper, spoil no expression.
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody wants to do us harm.
No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
D H Lawrence -- The Song of the Man Who has Come Through
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 18th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Garment of Radiance
How could the soul not take flight When from the glorious presence A soft call flows sweet as honey, comes right up to her And Whispers, 'Rise up now, come away.'
Rumi
And my letter, my awakener, I found before me on the road; And as with its Voice it had awakened me, So too with its Light it was leading me, Shining before me in a garment of radiance, Glistening like royal silk. And with its Voice and its guidance, It also encouraged me to speed, And with his Love was drawing me on.
Bardesanes
Far from the daily accident, The false reality, I awake: Thunder and sweetness fill the cup, Strong plumes and jewels in my hair.
Lewis Thompson
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 19th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Laughter of Liberation
On the day of liberation you will laugh, but What Is on the day of laughter is also now.
Ramana Mahashi
Your whole body must be united in laughter ... you should shake with merriment from head to foot ... I want you to laugh with your whole heart and soul, with all the breath of life ... you will see how the laughter that comes from such a heart defeats the world.
Ananda Mayi Ma
When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are born. To speak in hyperbole, when the Father laughs to the Son and the Son laughs back to the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love and love reveals the Consciousness with which the Holy Spirit is one.
Meister Eckhart
Love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance.
Coventry Patmore
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 20th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Bees of the Invisible
I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination. What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
To obtain a vision of Beauty and Divinity, each individual should begin by making himself or herself beautiful and divine.
Plotinus
We of the here and now are not for a moment hedged in by the time-world, nor confined within it ... we are incessantly flowing over and over to those who preceded us ... We are the bees of the invisible. We deleriously gather the honey of the visible, to accumulate it in the great golden hive of the invisible.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Dive deep, O mind into the ocean of Divine Beauty. You will discover a new gem instant after instant.
Ramakrishna
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 21st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Love That Flows
There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up to wordless gentleness and flows out to me from unseen roots of all created being.
Thomas Merton
Effortlessly Love flows from God into man, Like a bird Who rivers the air Without moving her wings. Thus we move in His world One in body and soul, Though outwardly separate in form, As the Source strikes the note, Humanity sings -- The Holy Spirit is our harpist, And all strings Which are touched in Love Must sound.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
There is a Musician-Poet-Playwright at the heart of things.
PSS
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 22nd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Joy of Quietude
When the moon rises in the Heart of Heaven And a light breeze touches the mirror-like surface of the lake, That is indeed a moment of pure joy. But few are they who are aware of it.
Taoist Sage
Lately I became aware of the meaning of Quietude. Day after day I stayed away from the multitude. I cleaned my cottage and prepared it for the visit of a monk Who came to me from the distant mountains.
He descended from the cloud-hidden peaks To see me in my thatched house. Sitting in the grass we shared the resin of the pine. Burning incense we read the sutras of Tao.
When the day was over we lighted our lamp. The temple bells announced the beginning of the evening. Suddenly I realized that Quietude is indeed Joy, And I felt that my life has abundant leisure.
Wang Wei
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 23rd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Touch Divine
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide ... Patience is everything.
Rainer Maria RIlke
In the transformation of his mind the calligrapher borrows the brush. It is not the brush that works the miracle. The transformation can only take place when the mind is tranquil and penetrates into the utmost subtlety. Thus spirit responds and mind is transparent. This is similar to plucking the harp; silken sounds and subtle melodies are produced at ease.
Yu Shih-Nan
Then, set free from the worlds of sense and of intellect, the soul enters into the mysterious obscurity of a holy ignorance and ... loses itself in him who can be neither seen nor appreciated ... Then the soul comes to know a special joy: fruition or the touch divine.
Dionysius the Areopagite
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 24th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Light That Smiles
The more serious the face, the more beautiful the smile.
Chateaubriand
There are smiles and smiles, and there are people who do not recognise a smile. Indeed there are many smiles that address themselves to one order of intelligence and not to another.
Thomas Mozley
In the sixteenth century, a devout peasant was asked what he understood by prayer. He replied, 'Whenever I attend to my heart, I find my Lord and and there for a time we just look at each other. Sometimes He speaks to me and I speak back. Always He smiles at me and that makes me smile too.'
Source unknown
Oh, light eternal, who only abides in yourself, only yourself can comprehend and, of yourself comprehended and yourself comprehending do love and smile.
Dante
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 25th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Flame of Knowledge
Legend has it, that when Tukaram, the 15th century Indian peasant mystic reached a certain intensity of insight, he was given the gift of spiritual enlightenment or 'Knowledge'. After Tukaram received this intuitive understanding, he said, "I went to see God and came back being God".
PSS
The flame of Knowledge hath been kindled in me: I know, I know: That which Is eternally, Beyond all form and sign, I know: My mind abideth there, In That which Is: And this poor (conditioned mind-body) self of mine Hath rest in loss of (identification with the egoic) self, dear Lord, With Thee.
I have seen, yea I have seen, Love fathomless, Goodness supreme, Joy immortal, Compassion infinite, Brotherhood universal -- And all, in the the knowledge of God.
Tukaram
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 26th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- You Have Your Gold
If you could gather every piece of gold, Regardless of their many forms, And melt them down to make a golden ingot, Then would all this gold still be as it was, pure gold, But now it would be one form, Or in a certain sense ... formless.
It would have borne the testing, fiery heat, And finally, surrender to the Infinite Mould:
Then you shall carry away your gold, To bear it with you wherever you go, And always within you and in all you meet, You have your gold.
So is it with all those that have known And been known by That which some call, God.
Tukaram
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 27th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Seeing and Knowing
Take Lord, unto Thyself, My sense of self: and let it vanish utterly: Take, Lord, my life, Live Thou Thy life through me: I live no longer, Lord, But in me now Thou livest: Aye, between Thee and me, my God, There is no longer room for 'I' and 'mine'.
When thus I lose myself in Thee, my God, Then do I see, and know, That all Thy universe reveals Thy beauty, All living things, and all lifeless things, Exist through Thee:
This whole vast world is but the form, In which Thou showest us Thyself, Is but the voice, In which Thyself Thou speakest unto us:
Tukaram
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 28th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Working Mind
The working mind of the Sage continues even after Enlightenment. If the Sage has to catch a plane all the planning for the future will be done by the working mind. What is missing? It is the thinking mind.
The Sage won't think, "What if I miss the plane?" The thinking mind is concerned about the consequences. The working mind is not.
The Sage understands that all that he can do is to make a decision. Whether he makes a right decision or wrong one will still be the will of God and the destiny of the bodymind organism.
A Sufi-saint said, "Have trust in God but tether your camel". The Sage is totally convinced that nothing happens unless it is God's will and yet he will tie up his camel. Having tied up the camel, he goes to sleep because the thinking mind in the Sage is totally dissolved.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 29th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Absolute and Matter are One
Before seeking begins in the body-mind organism, there is a feeling that only that which you see or feel or hear exists. Then the seeker turns his back to manifestation and tries to understand that God is all there is.
It is important for the seeker to understand that matter is also God. Only then peace can come about. He thinks, "The only way to reach God is to reject matter".
Matter or form is not different from the Essence. It is not that the Absolute has more value than matter or form. The Absolute is superior to matter or form in the sense that the Absolute is changeless. The shadow is real because it is an expression of the Absolute.
Manifestation is ever changing but it does not exist outside of Consciousness.
Ramesh Balsekar
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
September 30th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Becoming the Understanding
As understanding of what might be called 'The Teaching' has arisen for me, there have been many gains and benefits in my life experience, and one of them has been a complete dissolving of the fear of death.
Why would a person care much about a small candle flame being extinguished when for him or her a glorious day has dawned ... a day on which no sun can ever set?"
One does not so much 'use' this understanding as 'become' it, if you know what I mean. You experience the teaching.
You become aware, that not only has the day dawned, but that on the deepest level, light is your very essence ... that you are nothing other than light ... that it is you, your true Self, that shines when the universe manifests itself.
