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This coming Saturday there is a zoom meetup (3:00 pm est) that may open up a new way of dialogue for you and I.
If you are interested in what true dialogue could be like… check it out.
https://meetu.ps/e/KZ44g/B5vS0/i

I am That – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Chapter 3 The Living Present

Getting Stuck
Q: My mind is restless, greedy of the pleasant and afraid of the unpleasant.
M: What is wrong with the mind seeking pleasure and shirking the unpleasant? Between the banks of pain and pleasure the river of life flows. It is only when the mind refuses to flow with the river of life, and gets stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem. By flowing with life I mean acceptance- letting come what comes and go what goes. 6

Stamp of Reality
Surely, the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is a livingness about it, an actuality; it started out as if illumined. There is the ‘stamp of Reality’ on the actual, which the past and future do not have. 6

The Present
Q: What gives the present that ‘stamp of Reality’?
M: What makes the present so different? Obviously, my Presence…A thing focused in the now is with me, for I am ever present; it is my own Reality that I impart to the present event. 7

A Happy Mind?
Q: Our question is: can there be a happy mind?
M: Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. Moments of pleasure are merely gaps in the stream of pain. How can the mind be happy? 8

The Limited Mind
Q: Is pain a cosmic fact, or purely mental?
M: The universe is complete and where there is completeness, where nothing lacks, what can give pain?…isolation …What makes for isolation? Limitations of the mind…Can there be some other mind, which unites and harmonizes, which sees the whole in the part and the part as totally related to the whole?
Q: The other mind – where to look for it?
M: In the going beyond the limiting, dividing and opposing mind. In ending the mental process as we know it. When this comes to an end, that mind is born. 8

Love Is the Bridge
Q: Between the spirit and the body, is it love that provides the bridge?
M: What else? Mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it. 8

Seriously?

the unbearable lightness of being

born through a giggle

a virgin birth

The tree said to the squirrel: You really think you can move?

Dear David, I feel great love for you; my chest feels warm… I just started my second load of laundry.

Around noon I replied to your email on my small phone, while sitting in the car, waiting at the dealership; I am sorry in case I was distracted and not fully present; I felt relaxed and the sun was shining. Re-reading my words right now, I feel neither pride nor shame.

Did I misjudge your sincere hunger for truth?

I don’t mind if your person judges my person as arrogant, pushy or embarrassing, in the last analysis we only see our own material.

Being blamed doesn’t feel “nice”, but our coming together – as far as I am concerned – is dedicated to practically refine our discernment between “me” (psychological thinking mind) and I am (Presence).

David, I still call you friend, and I trust your maturity as a long-time TM Practitioner with 2,000+ clients that your words come from a place of love and wisdom, and are not just an escape from surrendering your own subtle “I don’t like this”.

I am thankful for heartfelt feedback, it is always a win-win; nobody wants to be stuck in faulty thinking and unexamined muscle-memory.

David, again, I am sorry that I seem to have misjudged your desire. I wholeheartedly assumed you want to be free from the person; if your only dediction is the freedom in the person then we clearly have no common ground.

We cannot serve two masters, we cannot dance on two parties at the same time; we cannot be half-pregnant. Nonduality, the way I experience, is not a “thing”, it is a transmission from heart to heart, a letting go of past investments; the paradoxical willingness to be nothing and to have nothing to hold onto.

With gratitude for all our wonderful moments, with thankfulness for Spector pushing so many buttons in “me”; and the gift of Grace to see my own egoic investments in entertaining those buttons.

Even anger and frustration is a means of the separate-self to strengthen its pretended reality.

Thank you David, I wish you well; the Garden of Friends is an open space for like-hearted beings, dedicated to the highest human discovery; ego kindergarten is allowed, but only for the sake of clarity.

Peace,
Holger