A candle blew out. There was nothing to teach and no one to be taught. There was no memory of something called a candle. It can't be said, therefore, that a...
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RejaJoy@...
Feb 1, 2001 2:38 pm
In a message dated 02/01/01 9:30:40 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... I'm beginning to realize that life is not the opposite of death. It IS what IS. When I flow...
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Stephen
user@...
Feb 1, 2001 3:02 pm
From: RejaJoy@... YES!! Pardon me for jumping in here. ;-) I've been watching your dialogue and wanted to tell you about a little game my twin sister and I...
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Stephen
user@...
Feb 1, 2001 3:04 pm
From: <dswgos@...> Subject: [Nisargadatta] Re: Impossibility ... Hi Kelvin, I think the word you're looking for here is 'expedient. In a more broad ...
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M.K. Hovila
hovila@...
Feb 1, 2001 6:53 pm
As much as I love Nisargadatta and enjoy this list, I am going to depart due to time constraints. I would enjoy meeting with any of you on the NoDoer list, a...
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Hur Guler
Hur1@...
Feb 1, 2001 11:47 pm
... spontaneously, ... Process ... this ... Dear David, I'd like to post the parapraph in question before addressing your point. "...realization is explosive....
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 2, 2001 12:59 am
~ David... I hear your statement that 'there is no such thing' as 'I have not yet discovered it'......
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 2, 2001 1:04 am
~ Funny, David He taught me to notice it....
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 2, 2001 1:12 am
~ He used whatever it took......
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Daniel Berkow
berkowd@...
Feb 2, 2001 1:34 am
Hee. That was Dan, Xan, and I'm glad ;-) -- D....
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RejaJoy@...
Feb 2, 2001 2:43 am
In a message dated 02/01/01 11:26:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... John Moir (England) lent me a copy back in 1994 (?) but I had to send it back to him. I plan...
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ameyhng@...
Feb 2, 2001 3:51 am
If anyone interested. 1 The Sense of `I Am' PG1 Q: It is a matter of daily experience that on waking up the world suddenly appears. Where does it come...
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dswgos@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:29 am
RejaJoy...Now You're Starting to Sound Like a River...! ... with it. ;-)...
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Michael Read
maread@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:34 am
... yes yes yes yes and a deep deep bow! Loveya - michael...
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dswgos@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:42 am
Okay...Xan...Take Me to One Place there is Silence in this Universe and I Will Agree with You...! ... a ... Thing...!...
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dswgos@...
Feb 2, 2001 6:44 am
Xan...How can You Notice Silence when there is No Observer...?...
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:54 am
~ I shoulda known. :-)...
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 3, 2001 12:57 am
~ If this means you are allowing for surprises, well Good News!...
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:04 am
~ There may be no observer, but there is observation. You are observing these words now, are you not? What is that which observes, which is aware? Mental...
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thomas murphy
tma@...
Feb 3, 2001 1:18 am
In 'Be Here Now' Alan Watts presented an idea, paraphrased here... Imagine a supreme being, author of anything and everything, including inventing the...
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Daniel Berkow
berkowd@...
Feb 3, 2001 2:10 am
Ram Dass wrote Be Here Now. M.C. Escher made pictures of impossibility. I made the supreme being that made the machine. You made the surprise button that made ...
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dswgos@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:19 am
Yes...You are Right...Xan...there is Observation taking Place and there are No Mental Attempts to Resolve the Paradox of Finding the Final Answer other than "I...
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dswgos@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:27 am
I Pushed a Button...I Know not Why...Maybe I'll Push It Again and See if I Can Turn It Off... Last Night I worked On My Clothes Dryer...It was Kind of Working ...
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Hur1@...
Feb 3, 2001 3:36 am
Eremon, Thanks for the paraphrase from Alan Watts. Like Nisargadatta Maharaj, Alan Watts is one of the greatest spiritual teachers of the 20th century. I...
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RejaJoy@...
Feb 3, 2001 5:12 am
In a message dated 02/02/01 1:32:42 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Yes...perfect! A River. ;-) ================= http://members.aol.com/rejajoy/joie.html...
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thomas murphy
tma@...
Feb 3, 2001 5:54 am
As someone else has pointed out, the book by Alan Watts that this came from was not 'Be Here Now,' which, of course is by Ram Dass. I believe this anecdote ...
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Daniel Berkow
berkowd@...
Feb 3, 2001 5:24 pm
Namaste, David. I appreciate your profound question and other observations you've shared about silence that can't be observed ;-) You cannot notice silence. ...
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Xan
xanma@...
Feb 3, 2001 8:41 pm
~ Truth is that which does not change. "I don't know" is my favorite space, David......
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thomas murphy
tma@...
Feb 5, 2001 2:44 am
~~ David: Truth is that which does not change. ~ Xan: "I don't know" is my favorite space, David... ...not limiting it to What I don't know. Nice....
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Hur Guler
Hur1@...
Feb 5, 2001 5:02 am
Maharaj: For meditation you should sit with identification with the knowledge "I am" only and have confirmed to yourself that you are not the body. You must...