Category: RAM DASS

BLESSED RELIEF "...boundless space." "Nothing to dissolve." "...impregnate the matter..." March 31, 2019

3/31/2019

Continuing with the Sharing of
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
This Sharing began 3/26/19
There are 20 chapters
Below is Chapter 6

*NOT ‘WHAT?’
RATHER THE ETERNAL NOW “IS”….
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THE CESSATION OF ALL SEEKING/QUESTIONING
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THE VAST SILENCE “IS”
ELIMINATING ANY ABILITY TO PRETEND OTHERWISE
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BLESSED RELIEF*
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4:18 AM-3/31/19
*See Read More at end of Afternoon Photos
for a Splendid Synchronistic Arrival

Knowledge
Chapter 6

1
I am boundless space.
The world is a clay pot.

This is the truth.

There is nothing to accept,
Nothing to reject,
Nothing to dissolve.

2
I am the ocean.
All the worlds are like waves.

This is the truth.

Nothing to hold on to,
Nothing to let go of,
Nothing to dissolve.

3
I am the mother-of-pearl.
The world is a vein of silver,
An illusion!

This is the truth.

Nothing to grasp,
Nothing to spurn,
Nothing to dissolve.

4
I am in all beings.
All beings are in me.

This is the whole truth.

Nothing to embrace,
Nothing to relinquish,
Nothing to dissolve.

ABOVE:
The Heart of Awareness
A Translation of the
Ashtavakra Gita
Thomas Byrom
Chapter 6

Entire Book (pdf) with Excellent Introduction:
http://mystic7.org/images/companies/1/Books/Free/The%20Heart%20of%20Awareness.pdf?1445090941313

Sunday, March 31, 2019
In the morning we go to contemplate the sun rising.
In doing so, we eat it and drink it,
and its living light and warmth spread to all the cells in our body enlightening them, strengthening them, purifying them and vivifying them.

Every day, you are before the sun which projects particles of light into space.
By looking at it, imagine that you free yourselves of your body's impurities
to replace them with the particles of light the sun sends you.
With all your heart, with all your soul,
take these divine particles and place them within you.

And so, little by little, thanks to the sun,
you will impregnate the matter
of your being with spiritual vibrations
and become more and more alive.
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
https://www.prosveta-usa.com/sunrise-at-the-the-cells-of-our-body-are-permeated-with-the-sun-s-life-and-light_2019-03-31
ON ABOVE LINK,
THERE IS ABILITY TO SEARCH FOR MORE RE: SUN
AND MANY OTHER SUBJECTS

Let your heart be like the sky,
that transparent, that close.
Touch everything. Be so quiet
against each leaf, each face.
Where lovers move, be there.
Where bullets strike, be there.
Around each voice, be that air.
Now you know how God feels.

Pir Elias Amidon

AFTERNOON

Journey Out of Time -
Ram Dass, Rupert Spira, Elias Amidon

Time is a box formed by thoughts of the past and future.
When you're not dwelling in the past or anticipating the future,
but are just here - you're outside of time.

Dwelling in the moment is dwelling in Eternal Presence.
From within here... you are not being in time.
You [just] Be, and time goes by, as if you were
standing on a bridge, watching it all go by.

Ours is a journey toward simplicity, toward quietness,
toward a kind of joy that is not in time.
In this journey out of time,
we are leaving behind every model we have had
of who we thought we were.

This journey involves a transformation of our being.
It's a journey that takes us from primary identification with our
psyche to identification with our souls, then to identification
with God, and ultimately beyond any identification at all.

Life is an incredible curriculum in which we live richly and
passionately as a way of awakening to the deepest truths of
our being. As soul, I live in the moment, in each rich and
precious moment, and I am filled with contentment.

Ram Dass
from Polishing the Mirror:
How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

The Eternal Now,
when seen through the mind,
appears as time.

The Now is our Self.
We are not present in the Now.
We are the Now.

The Now is not a container that contains our Self
along with everything else.
It is our Self, Eternal Presence...

Rupert Spira

You cannot "shop" for truth.
Truth cannot be seen.
What is necessary is a different seeing,
whole seeing,
seeing from within,
from the Source of all seeing.
*****
No one is born and no one dies.
This dream-world of phenomena
is merely something to be witnessed in passing.
March 31
The Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar

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DERVISH-WHIRL BAH HUMBUG! "STOP TALKING & THINKING." "IT'S ALL PERFECT.....!" January 4, 2019

1/4/2019

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RESPITE FROM ‘MINDING MIND’
BIRTHS THE GLORY OF
PEACE & AWE
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TRUTH OF BEING -THE IMMORTALITY
OF BEYOND
ALL THOUGHTS & WORDINGS
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A DERVISH-WHIRL-“BAH HUMBUG!”
TO ALL
MENTAL ACUMEN AS ILLUSORY SOURCE
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3:33 AM-1/4/19

Quotes in this color font below from Osho-SOSAN
HSIN HSIN MING-BOOK OF NOTHING...
Chapter 3-Truth Cannot Be Sought.....
(capitalized words from SOSAN
other words from OSHO)
full book on this link:
http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/zen/Hsin_Hsin_Ming_The_Book_of_Nothing.pdf

TO DENY THE REALITY OF THINGS IS TO MISS THEIR REALITY;
TO ASSERT THE EMPTINESS
OF THINGS IS TO MISS THEIR REALITY.

THE MORE YOU TALK AND THINK ABOUT IT,
THE FURTHER ASTRAY YOU WANDER FROM
THE TRUTH.

STOP TALKING AND THINKING,
AND THERE IS NOTHING
YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO KNOW

Seeing is direct, touching is direct – thinking is indirect.
That’s why thinking misses.
A lover can know the reality,
even a dancer can know it,
a singer can feel it,
but a thinker goes on missing it.

The problem for a man who is seeking reality
is how to stop the vicious circle of thinking,
yet be aware.
Because fools also don’t think,
but they are not aware.

Be aware –
the energy that moves into thinking
should become awareness.

Consciousness that goes on
in a vicious circle with thinking
should be retained, purified.
Thinking should stop,
the whirling of consciousness should stop,
but not consciousness.
Consciousness should become more crystallized
and action should be there,
action should not stop.

Awareness plus action,
and you will attain reality immediately.
And not only you – you will create a situation
in which others can also attain reality.

You will become a milieu,
a climate around which
things will start happening.
That’s what happened with a Buddha,
with a Sosan,
with a Chuang Tzu

Quotes in this color font above from
Osho-SOSAN
HSIN HSIN MING-BOOK OF NOTHING...
Chapter 3-Truth Cannot Be Sought.....
(capitalized words from SOSAN
other words from OSHO)
full book on this link:
http://www.oshorajneesh.com/download/osho-books/zen/Hsin_Hsin_Ming_The_Book_of_Nothing.pdf

AFTERNOON

The Daily Lesson – January 4, 2019
“I in the midst of me feeds me, clothes and houses me,
I in the midst of me has never been limited.
I in the midst of me has provided me
with everything necessary,
for I is not dependent on ‘man,
whose breath is in his nostrils.’”
~Joel S Goldsmith
A PARENTHESIS IN ETERNITY

Isaiah 2:22 (KJV)
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?
i have no business of my own –
I am About The Father’s Business.
~Al Denninger
www.iwso.org/thedailylesson.htm

The Soul never loses its communion with God.
Only the mind needs Atonement.
The miracle joins in the Atonement of Christ
by placing the mind in the service of the spirit.
This establishes the proper function of the mind
and corrects its errors.
. ACIM OE T.1.I. par 45
http://www.jcim.net/acim_us/TxtChap-1-1.php

Below in this color font
are notes from first 20 minutes of a Fueling/Confirming YouTube interview
with Ram Dass after his major "stroke".
RAM DASS SOULAND - YouTube 1h31m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZvx3B2fQg

I LOVE THE UNIVERSE - ALL OF THAT IS MANIFESTATION OF THE ONE
IT'S ALL CREATED - IT'S CREATED BY THE CREATOR

I SEE SOMETHING...I LOVE IT...I EVEN LOVE THE UNIVERSES...IT'S ALL CREATION
I't'S BECAUSE I INHABIT MY SOUL...AND THE SOUL LOVES EVERYTHING...

I'M A SPIRITUAL BEING DIPPING INTO HUMAN-NESS...
AND WHEN I'M GETTING INTO MY SOUL I START WITH MY MIND...
AND THEN I GO TO THE SPIRITUAL HEART.....
THE MANTRA: 'I AM LOVING AWARENESS"....GETS TO SPIRITUAL HEART.

IN SPIRITUAL HEART,
THERE IS A DOORWAY TO ANOTHER DIMENSION OF CONSCIOUSNESS...
....WHICH I CALL SOUL-LAND....
...WHERE ALL THE SOULS HANG OUT...
AND YOUR SOUL IS HANGING OUT ThERE.
SOULS ARE BEINGS OF LIGHT.

THE SOUL HAS BEEN INCARNATED ...INFINITELY...NOT BIRTHDAYS AND THINGS LIKE THAT...
EGO IS MANIFESTATION OF THE KARMA....
KARMA IS THE MIND....AND....
THIS SOUL HAS GONE THRU SO MANY BIRTHS...
ALL OF THAT HAS ACCUMULATED KARMA...

(SILENCE HERE AT ABOUT 12:45m INTO VIDEO...
IMPORTANT THAT SILENCE ANSWERS THE QUESTION
-dmm/ew note)

THE SUFFERING OF MY BODY GETS ME SO CLOSE TO GOD....
MAHARAJI SAID
"RAM DASS....DON'T YOU KNOW IT'S PERFECT? IT'S ALL PERFECT.....!"
HE SEES IT FROM GOD'S MIND...EVERYTHING HE SEES FROM GOD'S MIND..

SEE EVERYTHING AS PERFECT...STEP BACK INTO THE WITNESS..
..WITNESS IS A PART OF THE SOUL...AND THE SOUL LOVES EVERYTHING..

..WITNESS IS YOUR THOUGHTS...LOOK THRU YOUR THOUGHTS AND A THOUGHT WON'T GET YOU ANYWHERE...I BETTER LOVE THE THOUGHT(S)
MY ANGER...WOW!
i BETTER LOVE IT....BECAUSE THE WITNESS IS PART OF THE SOUL
AND THE SOUL LOVES EVERYTHING.

NEGATIVITY HURTS MY SOUL...SO I LOVE MY ANGER...
I LOVE MY DOUBT...
I LOVE ALL THOSE NEGATIVE THINGS...
A COMBINATION OF BHAKTI AND KARMA YOGA..
.LOVE BAHKTI YOGA....A PATH OF LOVE...
MAHARAJI GAVE ME THAT PATH
BECAUSE HE LOVED ME UNCONDITIONALLY..
.A BLAST OF LOVE....

(END ABOVE NOTES AT 20 MIN INTO VIDEO..
..UNCONDITIONAL LOVE SHARINGS BEGIN AT 20 MIN...)

Above in this color font
are notes from first 20 minutes
of a Fueling/Confirming YouTube interview
with Ram Dass after his major "stroke".
RAM DASS SOULAND - YouTube 1h31m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzZvx3B2fQg

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TRUTH OF BEING "...no name and no home." "His boat is empty." "...flow like Tao, unseen,..." December 18, 2018

12/18/2018

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12/18/18 6:39AM

AS ULTIMATE TRUTH OF BEING
IS
AKASHA TAO CORE SILENCE
ALL DIMENSIONS OF MENTAL CHATTER &
EXPLANATIONS OF THIS LIFE
ARE LIES VEILING SOUL*
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4:10 AM-12/18/18
*Rumi & Ram Dass – a few quotes below
&
All in
Read More below Afternoon photos

12/18/18 6:59 AM

A man once asked Rumi, "Why is it you talk so much about silence?"
His answer: "The radiant one inside me has never said a word.

― Coleman Barks
The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

All quotes below in this font from Ram Dass
Link for these at end of Read More below Afternoon Photos

Only that in you which is me
can hear what I'm saying.

I dropped into my soul
and left my ego behind.

Being here now—when a stroke
has happened this is what I AM.
This is aging…WOW!

It’s all new…AH!
When comparing past and present,
we are NOT living in the present.

Send love to any ache or pain…
when you are in soul
you see physical body hasn’t
much to do with you…like having an old Ford

Identify with one another via souls..NOT our bodies…
When you identify with soul, then other people
look like souls and love one another.

Love everybody
…judging mind doesn’t allow that…
Love everybody and tell the truth.

In aging, we’re content…
Just Here..
…then you delve into the moment.
Moment has no time or space
The moment when your baby is born – Wow!
Just this moment…this moment is precious…
No time. No space
In the moment……is GOD…
…is your guru….and you…
In this moment.

All quotes above in this font from Ram Dass
Link for these at end of Read More below Afternoon Photos

AFTERNOON

Who can free himself from achievement
And from fame, descend and be lost
Amid the masses of men?

He will flow like Tao, unseen,
He will go about like Life itself
With no name and no home.

Simple is he, without distinction.
To all appearances he is a fool.

His steps leave no trace.
He has no power.
He achieves nothing,
has no reputation.

Since he judges no one
No one judges him.
Such is the perfect man:
His boat is empty.

~ Chuang Tzu
translation by Thomas Merton
from The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
http://beautywelove.blogspot.com/2017/09/flow-like-tao.html

The sound of water says what I think.
― Chuang Tzu

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RETURNING< TO SOULAND A MOLTING OF ALL.... "Intercourse with God" “...let go lightly.” Milestone 12/9/18

12/9/2018

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MOLTING OF ALL THAT IS OUTMODED
NATURE’S NATURAL WAYS ABIDE
RETURNING <RETURNED TO SOULAND∞
YET REMAINING IN FORMED FORMLESSNES
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GRACEOPATHY REPLACING/REPLACED
MAN-LABELED PATHOLOGIES
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2:30 AM-12/9/18
∞Ram Dass
https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-ep-131-navigating-the-journey/

My body is 87, with all its aches and pains.
I don’t identify with my body. I’m inside and I am infinite.
I’m a soul and I watch the whole drama of my body,
my personality and my ego.
The witness, which is part of the soul,
I identify with that rather than all the drama.
– Ram Dass
https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-ep-131-navigating-the-journey/

Love compassion, wisdom, peace and joy are all in you.
When you sit down and identify with your being,
not your doing,
you will find all these things in you
and you will radiate joy and love.
Then those who have been hard to relate to,
you will mirror their souls and they will just be souls.”
– Ram Dass
https://beherenownetwork.com/ram-dass-ep-131-navigating-the-journey/

These bodies we live in,
and the ego that identifies with it,
are just like the old family car.
They are functional entities in which our Soul
travels through our incarnation.
But when they are used up, they die.
The most graceful thing to do
is to just allow them to die peacefully and naturally –
to “let go lightly.”
Through it all,
who we are is Soul .
Ram Dass
https://www.ramdass.org/dying-is-absolutely-safe/

Below is exerpt from the story of
Ram Dass and the Guru who was NOT changed by taking LSD

At the end of an hour it was obvious nothing had happened.
His reactions had been a total put-on.
And then he asked, “Have you got anything stronger?”
I didn’t. Then he said,
"These medicines were used in Kullu Valley long ago.
But yogis have lost that knowledge.
They were used with fasting.
Nobody knows now.
To take them with no effect, your mind must be firmly fixed on God.
Others would be afraid to take.
Many saints would not take this.” And he left it at that.
When I asked him if I should take LSD again, he said,
“It should not be taken in a hot climate.
If you are in a place that is cool and peaceful,
and you are alone and your mind is turned toward God,
then you may take the yogi medicine.”
Ram Dass

See Read more for full story
or
this link
https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/

Intend to cast off the shackles of your habitual manifestations.
Nanci L. Danison
Backwards: Returning to Our Source for Answers

AFTERNOON

The seeming death of the body
is the real birth of the soul.
Bowl of Saki, December 9,
by Hazrat Inayat Khan
https://wahiduddin.net/saki/saki_new.php
https://wahiduddin.net/

The soul is our real being,
through which we realize and are conscious of our life.

When the body,
owing to loss of strength and magnetism,
has lost its grip upon the mind,
the seeming death comes;
that which everybody calls death.

Then the soul's experience of life remains only with one vehicle,
that is the mind, which contains within itself a world of its own,
photographed from one's experience on earth
on the physical plane.
This is heaven if it is full of joy,
and it is hell if it is filled with sorrow. ...

...But the soul is alive.
It is the spirit of the eternal Being,
and it has no death.
It is everlasting.

from https://wahiduddin.net/mv2/V/V_45.htm

Rather than trying to define our self-worth with judgments and evaluations,
what if our positive feelings toward ourselves
came from a totally different source?
What if they came from our hearts,
rather than our minds?

Self-compassion does not try to capture and define
the worth or essence of who we are.
It is not thought or a label, a judgment or an evaluation.

Instead, self-compassion is a way of relating
to the mystery of who we are.
Rather than managing our self-image
so that it is always palatable,
self-compassion honors the fact
that all human beings have both
strengths and weaknesses.

Rather than getting lost in thoughts of being good or bad,
we become mindful of our present moment experience,
realizing that it is ever changing and impermanent.

Our successes and failures come and go-
they neither define us nor do they determine our worthiness.
They are merely part of the process of being alive.
Our minds may try to convince us otherwise,
but our hearts know that our true value lies
in the core experience of being
a conscious being
who feels and perceives.
~Kristin Neff
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/12/09/28414/

isn't it refreshing to know that imperfection is
exciting, surprising, and true......
inquiry for today~
may your day be as unique
as your most unpredictable moods.....
.https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/12/09/28414/

There are parts of me that will always remain
untamable, messy, and reckless,
but I refuse to apologize for it anymore.
~Kaitlin Foster
https://makebelieveboutique.com/2018/12/09/28414/

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Full Story of Ram Dass, Guru & LSD
Additional Afternoon Photos

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"...BLISSFULLY UNAWARE..." NO LONGER DNA WITHIN..... "...don't speak the truth!" Milestone August 10, 2018

8/10/2018

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FIRE IS GONE
FOR PRIOR REALITIES OF MURDER AND MAYHEM
∞
JUST AS
NATIVES COULD NOT SEE APPROACHING SHIP OF COLUMBUS
THERE IS
NO LONGER DNA WITHIN
TO PERCEIVE MURDER AND MAYHEM*
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“BLISSFULLY UNAWARE”**
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5:14 AM-8/10/18

*https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/
**I'm sure there is plenty drama
to be blissfully unaware of right now.
Love you! Talk to you soon.
IN NOTE FROM SON JUSTIN CULBERSON
8/9/18

...AND THIS MORNING FOR FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS
WE ARE NOT BABBLING/TALKING THE ABOVE REALIZATION IMMEDIATELY….
NOT EVEN TO ‘OURSELVES’
=
….WEARING IT, BEING IT AND BEHOLDING…..
∞
TALKED AND THOUGHT
+
WORDS & THOUGHTS
=
DILUTE
TRUTH OF BEING
∞
ORIGINAL SILENCE SUFFICES
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5:39 AM-8/10/18

The third monkey denotes
"don't speak the truth";
otherwise you will be condemned, crucified, poisoned and tortured
by the whole crowd,
the unconscious people.
You will be condemned,
don't speak the truth!

The fourth monkey denotes
"Keep your pleasures, your joys, hidden.
Don't let anybody know that you are a cheerful man,
a blissful man, an ecstatic man,
because that will destroy your very life.
It is dangerous".
via OSHO!!!
See full article:
http://www.merinews.com/article/when-the-fourth-monkey-joins-gandhis-three-wise-monkeys/15926885.shtml&cp

https://vsuete.com/four-wise-monkeys/

Let what comes come.
Let what goes go.
Find out what remains.
― Ramana Maharshi

Become conscious of being conscious.
Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it.
Be aware of the stillness that follows the “I am”.
Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness.
It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad,
or any other attributes.
It is the spacious womb of all creation,
all form.”
― Ramana Maharshi

There is an intimacy with Silence
that is indefinable,
luminous and still...

A fluidity of
s p a c i o u s
Silent Awareness

A limitless depth and breadth,
that embraces, surrounds, and fills
every crack and crevice
of the body and mind,
soothing and aligning the "energies"
softening their flow ~ ~ ~

There is a sanity in this Silence
that is beyond
any acquired knowledge...

It is felt as

The Breath of the Infinite
The Kiss of the Mystery
The Whisper of Love...
~
I know that I am Home...

...resting in
The Primordial Womb
of Life!

~

Mystic Meandering
Aug. 8, 2018
Intimacy With Silence

Above sand path when leaving sunrise beach

AFTERNOON

When one remains without thinking
one understands another
by means of
the universal language of silence.
― Ramana Maharshi

7/28/15

Photo above from this day/OceanSpeak below:

https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-and-more/july-28th-2015

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BLESSED RELIEF "...boundless space." "Nothing to dissolve." "...impregnate the matter..." March 31, 2019

DERVISH-WHIRL BAH HUMBUG! "STOP TALKING & THINKING." "IT'S ALL PERFECT.....!" January 4, 2019

TRUTH OF BEING "...no name and no home." "His boat is empty." "...flow like Tao, unseen,..." December 18, 2018

RETURNING< TO SOULAND A MOLTING OF ALL.... "Intercourse with God" “...let go lightly.” Milestone 12/9/18

"...BLISSFULLY UNAWARE..." NO LONGER DNA WITHIN..... "...don't speak the truth!" Milestone August 10, 2018

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