The Seer

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Superficially, most of the Nasruddin stories may be used as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and caravanserais, in the homes and on the radio waves, of Asia. But it is inherent in the Nasruddin story that it may be understood at any of many depths. There is the joke, the moral - and the little extra which brings the consciousness of the potential mystic a little further on the way to realization. Here’s a sample:

One hot day, Nasruddin was taking it easy in the shade of a walnut tree. After a time, he started eying speculatively, the huge pumpkins growing on vines and the small walnuts growing on a majestic tree.

Sometimes I just can’t understand the ways of God! he mused. Just fancy letting tinny walnuts grow on so majestic a tree and huge pumpkins on the delicate vines!

Just then a walnut dropped off and fell smack on Mullah Nasruddin’s bald head.

He got up at once and lifting up his hands and face to heaven in supplication, said: Oh, my God! Forgive my questioning your ways! You are all-wise. Where would I have been now, if pumpkins grew on trees!

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Awakening to inner freedom is the only way out of illusion. Awakening frees you from the ego’s grip and its endless fears and insecurities. It brings you to the joy of your true nature, the joy not dependent on objects or reflected light, but the light shining from within you, the light which you are. This is the light that Jesus spoke of when he said, “I am/you are the Light.”

It is important to remember that awakening is not just about your own bliss and freedom. The deeper you move into the enlightened awareness of your real nature, the more you feel your connection with the rest of humanity.

Then your motive for awakening becomes less personal, and more about the larger picture. You realize the sooner a critical mass of us wakes up to our true, divine nature, the sooner we’ll have a world working for everyone and everything. If you have children, people, pets, or things
you love then having a world which is a safe, nurturing, and harmonious environment for all of us becomes a real priority.

The teaching and practice are powerful tools to bring you into the place where wisdom and love meet, where mind and heart become one. As more of us find this union within ourselves, then regardless of whether we live in relative anonymity, or hold positions of leadership and influence, there is a cumulative effect.

The social atmosphere starts to become saturated with consciousness, and others, still not quite awake, pick up on it. It’s beautiful how it works.

From: End Your Story, Begin Your Life, Ch. 3. by Jim Dreaver

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John Sherman was sent to gaol in the US for being an anti-capitalism terrorist! — would that be a crime today?

In these moving video clips, John tells how he met Gangaji in gaol and how he was helped by the recorded talks of Ramana Maharshi. Just go to Part 1 and then, Part 2.

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Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble
Courage in our own.

Adam Lindsay Gordon — Ye Weary Wayfarer. Finis Exoptatus

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“Brederen.” Said the black preacher in his sonorous voice. “Wees got to do somethin about dis ear Status Quo.”

After a long silence, one of the congregation arose and asked, “Preacher, what am dis ear Status Quo?”

“Brudder Leroy,” said the preacher gravely, “dis ear Status Quo am Latin for de mess wees in!”

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During one star-filled night, deeply drawn into a silent prayer of longing, Jesus suddenly became awake to a clear, still awareness; his mind was lifted beyond itself into a pure, eternal, Consciousness. He had become one with the Mind of the universe.

In that exalted awareness, there was no longer a Jesus and his God, but a one, all-pervading, Reality which had no division in it at all. He had entered what he was later to call, “the kingdom of God,” and knew himself as the one Being existing in all.

He knew the unsurpassably joyful truth that he was, and had always been, the one Existence that lives in every single form on this earth, animating them all as by a magic projection of Himself onto a universal screen. He was the eternal Soul of all, appearing as all, yet beyond all,
unaffected by the play of all these infinite forms.

Gone were all illusions; gone was all suffering and confusion; he was eternally present, yet eternally free, eternally unchanging and untouched by the fortunes or misfortunes of the world.

To read the complete article, by Swami Abhayananda, >Click Here.

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We are now in the throes of a major global economic meltdown. We can see it is a crisis, or we can see it as yet another opportunity to become more conscious in the way we live upon this earth.

It is another opportunity for us to awaken. Maybe this will do it! The extinction of thousands of species each year does not really concern us. Genocide in Darfur does not seem to disturb us. We can digest a daily diet of rape, murder and pillage on our cable news channels.

But if our wallets, and our 401K’s, and our share portfolios are threatened, then that is different! That might just create a sufficient disturbance within the dream that we will begin to awaken from it.

To read the complete article by Leonard Jacobson, >Click Here

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In 1947 India was in extreme crisis. Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs were killing each other. Enforced mass migration was causing anger, fear, and despair. The country was in chaos.

At the same time, Papaji sat in bliss at Ramana’s feet and at the feet of the holy mountain Arunachala. One day, after reading in the newspaper of the horror, Ramana asked Papaji about his family and the dangers they were in as they were being forced to leave the Punjab and relocate to Hindu governed Lucknow. Papaji responded, “That is all an empty dream. I am here in the bliss of your grace.”

Ramana looked deeply at Papaji and said, “If it is all a dream, where is the problem of taking care of your family? Go and help them.”

Papaji left that night for the Punjab. He was able to help get all his family out in time. Just in time. He was on the last train allowed out.

>“Finally one discovers there is no difference between inside and outside. Between form and emptiness. To cling to either is to miss the whole” ~ Gangaji

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“When will the Kingdom come?”
Jesus answered:
“It will never come
If you are expecting it.
Nobody will say
Look here or look there.
Yet the Kingdom of the Father
Is spread throughout the earth
And no man sees it.”

The Gospel According to Thomas

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Once upon a time in a village somewhere in Asia, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $5 each.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest, and started catching them.

The man bought hundreds at $5 and put the monkeys in a big cage which he had built nearby.

As supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. So he further announced that he would now buy at $10. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to other pursuits. The offer doubled to $20 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man then announced that he would buy monkeys at an incredibly generous $80! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. “Look in the big cage over there at all the monkeys that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at $40 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $80 each. You’ll double your investment.”

The villagers rounded up with all their savings and bought all the monkeys. Then they never saw the man, nor his assistant again, only monkeys everywhere!

Now you have a better understanding of how the ’stock market’ works.

(Tony Scott, on Crikey.com)