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When you awake in the middle of the night and your

mind is empty, and all is dark, and all is silent, and

the silence and the darkness seems to spill over the

world and never end. Do not stir from that. Stay on

board, that's the midnight train. It has come to take

you home, it's home. If you stay on board for a few

seconds, if you recognize it for what it is. Then

that's it. There is nothing else, there will be no

longer a you. You are the midnight train and the train

is all there is. Even when you feel you are not on

board, you are it.

 

The darkness vanish, the world appears in resplendent

light, but that is no other than the midnight train.

The silence vanish and you hear the rattling of

wheels,

your thoughts are chanting their hypnotic tune, that

is also the midnight train. The whistle blow, you feel

it as pain, but that is nothing but the train. The

train labors belching smoke, you see it as ignorance,

but fret not, it's nothing but the engine doing it's

job.

 

The tunnel of death might loom ahead, but fear not,

under or above the train will never stop.

 

All aboard!

 

Pete

 

 

 

 

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Nisargadatta, pete seesaw <seesaw1us> wrote:

 

 

When you awake in the middle of the night and your

mind is empty, and all is dark, and all is silent, and

the silence and the darkness seems to spill over the

world and never end. Do not stir from that. Stay on

board, that's the midnight train. It has come to take

you home, it's home. If you stay on board for a few

seconds, if you recognize it for what it is. Then

that's it. There is nothing else, there will be no

longer a you. You are the midnight train and the train

is all there is. Even when you feel you are not on

board, you are it.

 

The darkness vanish, the world appears in resplendent

light, but that is no other than the midnight train.

The silence vanish and you hear the rattling of wheels,

your thoughts are chanting their hypnotic tune, that

is also the midnight train. The whistle blow, you feel

it as pain, but that is nothing but the train. The

train labors belching smoke, you see it as ignorance,

but fret not, it's nothing but the engine doing it's

job.

 

The tunnel of death might loom ahead, but fear not,

under or above the train will never stop.

 

 

 

 

KKT: The film (The Midnight Train)

is projected on a << blank >> screen :-))

--------------

 

 

All aboard!

 

Pete

 

 

 

The End.

 

 

KKT

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Sorry KKT. You missed the train. Maybe next time.

 

Pete

--- phamdluan2000 <phamdluan wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta, pete seesaw

> <seesaw1us> wrote:

>

>

> When you awake in the middle of the night and your

> mind is empty, and all is dark, and all is silent,

> and

> the silence and the darkness seems to spill over the

> world and never end. Do not stir from that. Stay on

> board, that's the midnight train. It has come to

> take

> you home, it's home. If you stay on board for a few

> seconds, if you recognize it for what it is. Then

> that's it. There is nothing else, there will be no

> longer a you. You are the midnight train and the

> train

> is all there is. Even when you feel you are not on

> board, you are it.

>

> The darkness vanish, the world appears in

> resplendent

> light, but that is no other than the midnight train.

> The silence vanish and you hear the rattling of

> wheels,

> your thoughts are chanting their hypnotic tune, that

> is also the midnight train. The whistle blow, you

> feel

> it as pain, but that is nothing but the train. The

> train labors belching smoke, you see it as

> ignorance,

> but fret not, it's nothing but the engine doing it's

> job.

>

> The tunnel of death might loom ahead, but fear not,

> under or above the train will never stop.

>

>

>

>

> KKT: The film (The Midnight Train)

> is projected on a << blank >> screen :-))

> --------------

>

>

> All aboard!

>

> Pete

>

>

>

> The End.

>

>

> KKT

>

 

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Nisargadatta, pete seesaw <seesaw1us> wrote:

 

 

 

Sorry KKT. You missed the train. Maybe next time.

 

Pete

 

 

 

 

 

KKT: Never mind, Pete.

 

I remain in the Samsara

and take the Bodhisattva vow :-))

 

 

KKT

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Hi KKT,

 

You raised an interesting point:

The taking of the bodhisattva vow.

Do you need to take a vow to give correct directions

to lost drivers and pedestrians? If someone ask you

for directions do you think you have done anything

special that has accumulated any merits?

 

So what is different with telling people how to stop

torturing themselves with useless concepts?

Isn't the whole posture of taking a vow, a little

grandiose and dramatic? Are we not saying the universe

is screwed up, but I, this little speck of nothing, is

going to fix it?

 

Do you honestly think that there is an entity who is

not a bodhisattva now, but will become one later?

Do you honestly think you have a choice to stay or

leave a place call samsara?

Isn't it the very idea of samsara and separated

entities to be saved from it, samsara itself?

 

Stop discriminating, film from screen, this from that

and everything will be accomplished; You will do, what

you will do. No vows needed!

 

Pete

--- phamdluan2000 <phamdluan wrote:

>

> Nisargadatta, pete seesaw

> <seesaw1us> wrote:

>

>

>

> Sorry KKT. You missed the train. Maybe next time.

>

> Pete

>

>

>

>

>

> KKT: Never mind, Pete.

>

> I remain in the Samsara

> and take the Bodhisattva vow :-))

>

>

> KKT

>

 

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