Heart Words

I believe what I was hoping to find was a way to live without pain. But I found out that pain is the flip side of a coin, pleasure being the other. Pain is natural and unavoidable. I also wanted to experience absolutely no fear and to be immune to life’s horrors. But that is not possible. I can only surrender (if given the Grace) and surrendering is the only way I can live in peace, no longer searching for a one sided coin. The peace I am looking for is when I give up trying to escape life. There is no escape. But in this Acceptance there is an opening to something which is possible.
L

The fog is rolling in now
Out my window…beautiful
A magic pill is what I wish
To encapsulate this understanding
Of what IS
Prior to the big experiences
Love
Witnessing
Unity
I am
Lies peace
Simple equanimity in pleasure and pain
Amazing in its matter of factness
Extraordinary in it’s ordinariness
With no control to hold it
After ten days
It may slip through my fingers
In the next moment
like before
Or it may be everlasting
Or perhaps even in its slipping it is everlasting
The fog is rolling out now
Out my window
More ordinary
Equally real
A complete circle In the time it takes
To put these words down

J.

No one in their right mind goes here! All the social clumps – family, school, work – condition us to view ourselves as solid, separate, lumpen chunks or chumps. How many life times have I spent scrunched up in a reactive ball striving to be a first class chump!

That mallet of yours is a damn fine thing! This clay pot cracked clean wide open.

Warm regards,

J.

There is nothing so much enjoyed as the Nothingness of it all. The understanding – the tap, tap, tapping with the same mallet until the shell breaks – and then “all there is, is Consciousness” is understood, completely, deeply, intuitively, then you need read no further… Yes indeed. “Nothing is wasted, everything is preparation for the next scene”.

J.

It’s always a great blessing to spend time in your presence, to receive the generous flow of your love and acceptance. But I’m very happy too that this time there’s also a feeling of looking forward to go home and continue my painting and enjoying the glow of these great days in my everyday life, including the increase of freedom that I feel inside me.

I wish you a pleasant journey back home. I love you and send my love along with you.

Love,
A

Oh Boy!
I’m IT, rejoicing
Oh Gee, it’s true;
thy voice sings
Come Be, loving –
My word is a mass –
My ass
Sits on Holy Ground.

J.

The reason I want to make contact is to simply tell you how much your teaching is clicking in for me. I have known about you for 3 years. When I first saw a DVD or read your words it very much resonated with how I have perceived things since I first started thinking about these things in the 70’s. I came to see you in NYC last spring and was not disappointed with your strong presence. Both my husband and I received your words with great joy. But it is in the last few months I have been reading your books in such a way that every word and every sentence screams out to me… and I miss no words (which is very opposite to how I usually read) I am wanting to hear more and more…it is the only thing I want to read and think about for now…The best surprise is that I am starting to relax into myself, knowing… well… that I am who I am. The fact that I am not running the show offers me conceptual relief, but it is forgotten every half second…

K.

Isn’t it remarkable

how this love is kindled

one moment

the heart touched

so irretrievably

Isn’t it remarkable

there is no one doing this

no form from which it is given

or one receiving it

Isn’t it remarkable

how this love

feels so endless

like God talking non stop

to God

J.

Why am I compelled

to be in your presence

where nothing happens

except my heart

burns to shreds

like a rocket

hurtling through space

where silence

comes then

and a peaceful heart

ticks unnoticed

unfettered

still

J.

I always feel good when I can give you some money.

Yesterday morning I’ve tried to clean a shadow on the kitchen floor away.

I think I missed the point.

With love,

M.

I am ravenous

but not for the meat

I am starving

but not for the words you feed me

or the look you give me

or even for the silence

around you

I am hungry for something

I cannot even know

and I feel helpless

and I am terribly grateful

for the grace I feel

in your presence

J.

We have 7 inmates here who are studying the nonduality teachings (this is a small prison). Personally, I have found Ramesh’s books to be very descriptive, very condensed and to the point – and perfectly accurate from the standpoint of Pure Advaita. We are using the book “Consciousness Speaks” to promote the spirit of self-enquiry. We are going through the book one question at a time. The subject matter does indeed provoke a lot more questions of the same nature.

We all certainly appreciate your goodwill in sending us these books, myself particularly! Advaita is a true ray of light in this dark place.

In gratitude,

S.

I have always believed you and what you are saying. In yesterday’s seminar you once again said that everything simply happens, and your words suddenly were no longer just a belief, it became obvious.

There were a lot of emotions and I could not tell you that then. Now that clear seeing has grown dull again, but deep inside I know it is so!

Let’s see what happens. Thank you
L

You are always present in my mind and in my heart.
I wish I was an artist. Just to be able to express my love for you.
I only find silence and more silence and something very beautiful in my heart.
I cry in gratitude.
Maybe this is my way.

C