Getting to the point ((Meditation: A Waste of Time?

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I love your poetry, Ana. You're like an Open Heart. Oh,

yeah....isn't it nice to wake up to BS? Lol.

 

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Nisargadatta , " Anna Ruiz " <nli10u@c...> wrote:

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> Nisargadatta

> Thursday, January 26, 2006 4:56 AM

> Getting to the point ((Re: Meditation: A

Waste of Time?

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> " B " : So you connect " having a point " with being meaningful...

> Hence a rephrasing of the " having a point " discussion

> could be, what is meaning, what is it to be meaningful?

> What makes life meaningful?

>

> " S " : Sure. Sounds good to me. Meaningfulness in itself means

> nothing. It's a word we use to describe a state of mind. When

the

> mind gives a meaning to anything it is superimposing over Reality

a

> dark film through which we have difficulty seeing.

>

> " B " : I suggest that is a better course of investigation than

> the notion of " what is it to realize? " . " To realize " is

> just an idea, really, and not a particularly important

> one. Things must start " at home " , with oneself to be

> real.

>

> " S " : Yes, I agree with you. But what do you mean by 'with

oneself

> to be real'?

>

> " B " : So what is it for the moment to be meaningful for you? It

> certainly must be looked at from the perspective of the moment,

of

> now, to be really meaningful, would you agree?

>

> " S " : Yes, only the present moment, the everfreshness of Now, can

> have any real meaningful relevance. Now is all that exists, all

that

> I witness. And so, I conclude that without me, the witness of

the

> present moment, nothing could exist, not even the present moment

of

> Now. I have to be present before anything can be made to appear

> meaningful to my senses, including the Now. It is I who

witnesses

> the present moment and it is I who gives it meaning. When I turn

my

> attention upon myself and witness the 'Who I Am', it is because I

> have appeared meaningful to myself. I only give myself meaning

> because I love myself. If it weren't for Self-love, I wouldn't

have

> the capacity to give myself any meaningful relevance. So, thank

God

> for Self-love! And when I look at the world I see it with the

eyes

> of love because it is myself. Everything is myself and so I love

> everything! Love gives meaning to my existence and is the ground

of

> my being.

>

> " B " : Have we moved past the " having a point " business by

> now?

>

> " S " : Yes, I believe so, lol.

>

> " B " : True meditation, in my veiw, entails a vivid, acute

> witnessing of " opposing energies " when they arise.

>

> " S " : Yes. Exactly. Good... er...point.

>

>

> Good morning

> er... b and s ;-)

>

>

> synergy:

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> I am attachment to all things

>

> transitory in nature I live for

>

> these moments I dream of

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> days and nights forgotten

>

>

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> I am the nature of attachment

>

> I am the longing of desire to

>

> find an object to complete my

>

> Circle, to define the arc of creation

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>

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> I am the creative element of attachment

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> to all things considered I walk a thin

>

> red line between destruction and folly,

>

> between the cessation of beginnings and endings

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>

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> I am significance and the perchance meeting

>

> myself in Soul, a distant mirror, emptied

>

> and readied to become desire for the Soulful, now

>

> a walk in Silence, unattached and made ready.

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>

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> I am Spirit.

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>

> sorry it's the only way I can speak well, in poetry,

>

> Love,

>

> Ana

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