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Sponsor |  rumisong | Dec 13, 2007 6:35am |
My friend wrote:
Right now it is because it seems like a forum is a place of honesty.
Inquiry is honesty; natural honesty that unfolds as looking happens in the moment. So it seems. :)
Oh, I like inquiry! Inquiry dissolves perceived limits that aren't real.
And I watch inquiry in me and as it unfolds for others ( according to my perceptions)...
and this came to me:
"I watch inquiry in me (and) As it unfolds for others"
theres the really cool thing about inquiry though ... AS others inquire into themselves, THEN do I get to see something that was tucked away and hiding in me ... it loosens up these bits of stuck belief ... like a chunk of peanut from the peanut butter, stuck in the corner of ones teeth, that the tongue just cant seem to get to it - you know that sense? ... but what loosens is actually this SHARED honesty ... I can be as honest as I can be with myself, but thats only ever half the story ... as soon as I can be honest WITH another, then the mirror of relationship becomes clear ... then I see in the other what was always there hiding in myself ... inquiring by myself, Im not sure I ever would have seen that ... (and certainly, positing something to compare with another, I would not have seen anything but my own posit - nothing new ever comes of that)
there is a loosening, that happens ... and Im very curious about that ... not the "me" aspect of this loosening... but the WE aspect of it ... that NEW things are loosened in inquiry between two ... and the biggest reason for my curiosity is that in the end, the looking is still "Alone" ...
I mean really - isnt that the strangest thing!? I Saw it when I was with you - but there it was in me Alone ...
do you see this?
My friend went on to say:
The looking for truth has stopped, except for the craving for truth that sometimes appears. The craving feels honest, yet every time the the craving is allowed to unfold and followed through, results are the same:
I don't care about truth. The only thing that matters is what is here and now. It seems like truth is a concept for me.
To which I said:
what has been happening here when I come right up into the face of my craving for truth, is that I can feel in my bones, my Love of the Truth, is SO MUCH MORE than any idea I may have ABOUT the truth ... so what Im face to face with in those moments of craving, is merely my idea of truth - underneath that though is a Love for the truth, that brought me there - and that is all I care about ... not any of the products of truth, because those are inevitably MY products ... all that wisdom is willing to show me, is myself - and wow, thats all I need to see! Everything else, is already my Love of the truth - revealing itself ...
I can only report this, and not make a religion of this ... its either there, or it isnt - the honesty of the reporting is all ...
if I state this in any way that is not itself an inquiry, then it becomes a religion ... a dead thing - the ALIVE Love of truth is there in the here and now, just as you say ... not "My" Love of truth really ... but my witnessing of Love of truth enfolding me into itself ...
that is what brings me here ...
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Sponsor | | rumisong | Aug 30, 4:06am | some people dont "care" that they are ugly - they just want what they want - possessiveness is much more important to them ... if I dont want ugly in my life, I will simply walk away and not add any of the same energy to it ... Love can be this sort walking away - not feeding the pain and the scarcity that bears possessiveness ...
Love allows for ugliness I think - love can love ugliness - it does not have to fight it, or alter it, or change it in any way ...
ugliness, wants what it wants, needs what it needs - nothing but love can change that, ...a paradox, I know - but it is so ... adding more possessiveness to this pain and this "need" only feeds what is ugly about it ... beautification of mind then, is seeing all that is possessive in Oneself, and oneself only - as soon as one looks outside of oneself, that is possessiveness again ...
If I love something that is ugly by walking away - if it gets to see its own ugliness in that and it knocks on ones door again, to inquire into love, that is beautiful ... if it never gets to see its own ugliness, Love has still made itself present to it ... Love still resides where it is sourced
The "perfect action" where everything changes because of Love, is a myth ... it is based on an illusion born of possessiveness ... Love already loves what is - no change is necessary - only Love knows this though - ugliness must trip over it some night in the dark, and stub its toe on itself, and maybe ugliness will come to see light ... Love is there, always available, unwavering in its source... |
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Sponsor | | rumisong | Aug 30, 4:55am | Love gives naught but itself
and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;
For love is sufficient unto love.
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart,"
but rather, I am in the heart of the Divine."
And think not you can direct the course of love,
if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
~Khalil Gibran |
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Sponsor | | anitab | Sep 6, 8:42pm | i do love truth.. but sometimes it is too raw and brutal.
being honest is not easy. standing in truth is painful.
sharing with others... is probably healthy and good for you...
but it's only for the brave. |
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