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YetAnotherBuddhistMonk |
| Date: |
13-Apr-2001-16:36:28 |
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We see the stars... |
I don't know if this was ever posted here. This is from Rama, Dec. 1989:
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We see the stars.
At night we go outside, on a clear, cold night. We see millions of stars all over the place, bright and beautiful, each one shining forever. And each moment is forever, it's shining in each moment forever. And each moment is forever.
We connect the dots in the drawing with our mind. We give them a meaning, a figurative sense which is self-reflexive in that it creates us, because we are the experiencer of the moment. All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars, through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.
We fall into states of illusion, we forget all this. We get caught up in desires, frustrations; political movements, create philosophies, religions; the getting of a living, the pain of a body, the pleasure of a body. We forget everything.
We forget about the space between the stars, the pure and perfect space that's also the eye of God. To penetrate the mystery is to become the mystery; to penetrate infinity is to become infinity; to penetrate light is to become light.
Who is so brave and noble that they could hurl themselves at infinity without any question, with complete trust and complete certainty that that infinity will destroy them forever, in such an absolute and perfect way that they would sacrifice themselves and all that they are, all their fears, all their dreams, all their dramas?
Who has that absolute trust? That perfect and pure trust, consciously, not as an emotional whim, not as another egotistical embrace of the self, but with a quiet dispassion, and yet with a quiet passion, to fling yourself into immortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or esctasy or boredom?
Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.
--Rama, Dec. 1989 |
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