tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post7075031106693996056..comments2023-12-16T16:12:08.051-08:00Comments on Self-Knowledge and Self-Realization: Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-52816726149051911652012-06-10T13:10:02.214-07:002012-06-10T13:10:02.214-07:00How stupid, how utterly stupid to think that just ...How stupid, how utterly stupid to think that just because I have given birth to children that now I must also do certain things a certain way and if I don't I'm not a good mother or if the family doesn't appear such and such a way that somehow I am a failure.<br /> <br />I have so little interest in my role as a mother and yet it all, at least that which is of utmost importance, continues to happen, mostly by the efforts of others. <br /> <br />When I see things like this in a deeper way, I always feel intense anxiety and my skin starts burning like crazy.<br /><br />I thought freedom would be like a pleasant stroll through the park, or some cosmic shift and you go from shitty to...oh, everything is just perfect. <br /> <br />All those asshole teachers who espouse this shit ought to be given lethal injections. <br /> <br />It's like being skinned alive, the skin being all those layers and layers of ideas, beliefs, conditionings, conventionality that I identified myself with.<br /> <br />No wonder it's painful!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-30149989867216033392012-06-06T08:01:10.347-07:002012-06-06T08:01:10.347-07:00Just back from Tibet Darchen where Chinese autorat...Just back from Tibet Darchen where Chinese autoratice are highly alert for there are 2 cases of selfimmolation in lhasa last week. Now tibet borders seems to be closed for all forners. We maked a Kailash kora with a clear blue sky. How fortunate to have that possibility.<br />I am happy Ed and many thanks for your speaking truth so frankly. Very rare to find people like you. By the way I stopped reading anonymous reply no matter how beautifull they are. Love dennis, nepal.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150430873373794955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-61133814816925454222012-05-31T13:25:12.883-07:002012-05-31T13:25:12.883-07:00These posts above and your message Edji, are so fr...These posts above and your message Edji, are so freakin beautiful! There is something so compelling about hearing the story of Ramana, Francis of Assissi, Robert Adams, Ed Muzika.<br /><br />In my simplistic mind set I love the stories as if I am watching a documentary of how and why God knocks someone on their ass and they stay there instead of getting up and running away from the SELF as I and most people do.<br /><br />Ramana seems to have explained the phenomenon as: only a ripe soul will understand the Jnani state.<br /><br />That is comforting to me because I then can feel and see the importance of allowing the process of ripening or "being cooked" as a preparation of the inward journey. Maybe it takes "lifetimes" I don't know or care. <br /><br /> Also, there does not really seem to be many journeys, only One. Only One Soul. Only One Self with the appearance of many. One journey with the illusion of different paths.<br /><br />Respectfully, Mike. (I noticed the other day, there is at least another Mike in the enclave, very cool).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-85671952871843859592012-05-31T03:34:48.232-07:002012-05-31T03:34:48.232-07:00Awakening
Daylight Breaks
The Mind Is Stilled
Sil...Awakening<br /><br />Daylight Breaks<br />The Mind Is Stilled<br />Silent, At Peace<br />Movement Nil.<br /><br />No Pebble Drops Into Its' Pool<br />No Ever Widening Ripple<br />A Placid Mirror Lake<br />Untouched By Thought<br />Serenity Stands On Its' Shore To Watch.<br /><br />The Sun Appears.<br />Rays Of pure Light<br />Engulf The Landscape Mind<br />And In The Vanished Scene<br />Birds Sing For All Mankind.<br /><br />- Robert Adams, November, 1994Arvydashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930435403396428739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-53926331633143671322012-05-31T00:53:01.755-07:002012-05-31T00:53:01.755-07:00Fantastic Ed. A very interesting book showing a m...Fantastic Ed. A very interesting book showing a more human side to Ramana Maharshi (reading between the lines a little) is 'Living by the Words of Bhagavan' by David Godman. Annamalai Swami's comments in this book are extremely interesting.<br />Lester IrvingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-91341039382895701762012-05-30T20:02:01.567-07:002012-05-30T20:02:01.567-07:00The hardest is to be quiet around the guru. Espec...The hardest is to be quiet around the guru. Especially for those who feel his presence. The mind gets very active when confronted by old traumas. All kinds of expectations and disappointments arise then. There is certainly something extraordinary about the guru that triggers all kinds of ordinary problems and situations. Keeping quiet is then the only way out it seems and yet the hardest to do when energies run high. Persistence is in order and if visited by Grace forgiveness and love will embrace us to water and nurture a humbling existence and surrender.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27560333.post-27343759649756090092012-05-30T19:31:30.347-07:002012-05-30T19:31:30.347-07:00You sure go where few dare to tread.
D.C.You sure go where few dare to tread.<br /><br />D.C.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com