Thursday,
December 29, 2011
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MESSAGE FROM WAYNE
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Hello my loves,
If you open your eyes and look around, you can't help but
marvel. Life in all its amazing diversity there to behold.
Like the woman who used to sit on the sidewalk at the corner
of Ramesh's block in Bombay selling bananas. Amidst the filth
and billowing clouds of exhaust she sat, immaculately groomed
and seemingly serene, her round basket of bananas set out
before her.
See the patterns the shadows make on the wall? Listen to
the sound of the small plane overhead. Someone is up there
looking down on where you are and to them it is but a speck,
if they notice at all. A bird jumps from the fence to the
ground to eat a worm and another bird darts in to steal the
meal. Which one eats it is probably of little consequence
to the worm, and I certainly have no preference, but the birds
seem to care. The wind comes up and the bamboo clacks together
in primal music. My stomach rumbles. Somewhere someone has
just won the lottery and their financial problems are over,
soon to be replaced with a whole set of new ones. My excited
daughter calls to tell me she is pregnant again. An email
comes announcing the funeral for an old friend. A pretty girl
passes and my gaze follows her. Close your eyes and watch
the show that plays out on the inside of your eyelids. Smell
your fingers and remember where they have been.
Anywhere your attention moves there is something to be discovered.
You need only lift your gaze from the demands of your "self"
to realize the miracle that is life and living.
May it find you now.
With love,
Wayne
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POINTERS FROM RAMESH
BALSEKAR By Gautam Sachdeva
Gautam Sachdeva first visited the Advaita sage Ramesh
Balsekar in February 2000, and has been attending his
talks ever since. Over a period of eight years, he also
found himself taking on the role of a publisher, working
intimately with Ramesh in the process of publishing
some of his books.
In May 2007, Gautam wrote an article in Life Positive,
India’s leading spiritual magazine, as a tribute to
Ramesh on his 90th birthday. With the heartwarming response
from readers to this article, and Ramesh’s suggestion
to make it into a booklet, he then put down what he
considered the core of the teaching as presented by
Ramesh – to seekers from all over the world – in his
morning talks.
Most of Ramesh’s books have been published from his
original hand-written notes, or are transcripts of dialogues
with seekers. This book is a summation of the core concepts
in the “spoken word” of Ramesh, as if he were walking
the seeker through his entire teaching in one morning
talk.
This is what Pointers from Ramesh Balsekar is about
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and pains, with equanimity and peace of mind – from
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The author Alan Jacobs is well-known for his several
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IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK by Wayne Liquorman
ACCEPTANCE
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SPEAKS by Ramesh S Balsekar
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THE TEACHING by Ramesh S. Balsekar
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A
LIVING GEM FROM RAMESH
(never before published)
Even if the wave on an expanse of water were endowed
with sentience, its presence as a wave would still be
a matter in which it had no choice. Suppose a wave wished
to be a super wave, or considered its presence as a
wave to be a bondage and wished to be freed of his bondage.
Stupid? Man wanting to be a superman – or wanting freedom
from bondage - is just as stupid.
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WORDS FROM THE
HEART |
I would like to express my gratefulness and
appreciation for having you in my life as a guide through
your teachings and your books. I cherish deeply every opportunity
to be in front of you even from a distance and have that sense
that there is no need to ask any question at that moment....even
though there are questions in me.
Feeling that warmth in my chest when I see you or think about
you is more than I can ask for.
Love,
M
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