"Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. Don't be all the time immersed in your experiences. Remember that you are beyond the experiencer, ever unborn and deathless. In remembering it, the quality of pure knowledge will emerge, the light of unconditional awareness." N.M.
How many times does Nisargadatta use the term "remember" in what he just said? No accident there. No accident in any words from a sage. They grace us with pointers toward the ineffable, words that exhaust intellection purposefully. Listening to him is like tracking footprints in water.
A wonderful pointer is the Hindu term for the Supreme: Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. The entire process of realization is bound up in those words. I feel as though I've come within the gravitational pull of this thing. I've left my clutch for an automatic transmission.
Vultures circle their carrion--
Black motes floating
In the clear blue eye.
Each day our dog, Jake, gives me a lesson in living and preparing to die. He is almost thirteen and has lost the use of a hind leg for many months now, a consequence of hip dysplasia. He begs his bread like a good monk and lies about endlessly abiding within himself. I think at times he smiles--that black retriever lip on his gray muzzle is very suggestive of mood, whether his or mine I'm not certain. He is a daily lesson in acceptance, surrender, living in the present moment, enjoying to the fullest a good petting or a morsel tossed his way.
"It is a simple state, smaller than the smallest, bigger than the biggest. It is self-evident, and yet beyond description....Just puzzling over my words and trying to grasp their true meaning is a practice quite sufficient for breaking down the wall [of ignorance]....What is needed is sincere interest. Earnestness does it." N.M.
How do you describe something void and brimming at once? A symphony of silence?
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