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20-Mar-2007-20:32:48 |
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Your Favorite Rama One-Liner |
No cheating now. The first one that pops into your head, and why.
I think it would be a fun thread.
Mine is from the days of the Neptunian Women's Club. Magical evenings. And the one I treasure most is the night that Rama stopped in the middle of a talk and just *looked* at us. For a couple of minutes. He sat there looking out at all these flaky assholes he'd attracted as students and at all the shit they put themselves through, and then he sighed.
One of those heavy-duty spiritual teacher sighs...you know what I mean.
And then he said, "You know...the only difference between you and me is that I'm ahead of you in time."
I like that. That's a really neat thing for a spiritual teacher to say. It levels the playing field and it cuts through the bullshit and it gets down to the real nitty-gritty question that pretty much every spiritual teacher in human history has had to ask themselves -- "What is it that these guys are not getting that I am?"
In my opinion none of them have ever found a suitable answer, or else all of their students would have realized their own enlightenment. Right?
But what if the only difference between those who have realized their always-already-present enlightenment and those who have not is this strange feeling that we "need" something to make it happen? We're all aware of the things that we "need" to make that happen. We "need" the right teacher, or the right job, or the right business suit, or the right Mercedes, or the right black belt, or the right meditation, or the right speech, or the right action, or...well, you get the point. If these things were just in place, our progress to enlightenment would be slicker than frozen deer guts on a pump handle. There'd be no problem.
What if there's no problem?
What if it's just a matter of time, in a universe in which time does not even exist?
Wouldn't it be a real trip if the ultimate technique for realizing enlightenment turned out to be the realization that there is no need for a technique to realize enlightenment?
Wouldn't it be a real trip if we all just forgot about this "time" thing that we imagine separates us from our own enlightenment and just lived it?
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