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Sitaram · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 1079

Date: Sun Aug 17, 2003 10:10 am
Subject: Beyond Sorrow

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All your agonies arise from wanting something that cannot be had.
When you stop wanting, there is no more agony.

-`Signs of the Unseen: The Discourses of Jalaluddin Rumi'

If one truly understands that life's very nature is change, then
the burning desire to wrest permanence from a world of passing
sensations begins to die; and as it dies, the mind begins to taste
its natural state, which is joy; not a sensation, but a state of
consciousness unaffected by pleasure and pain.

- Eknath Easwaran

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is
freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

- Dhammapada

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Word spread across the countryside about the wise Holy Man who lived
in a small house atop the mountain. A man from the village decided to
make the long and difficult journey to visit him. When he arrived at
the house, he saw an old servant inside who greeted him at the
door. "I would like to see the wise Holy Man," he said to the
servant. The servant smiled and led him inside. As they walked
through the house, the man from the village looked eagerly around the
house, anticipating his encounter with the Holy Man. Before he knew
it, he had been led to the back door and escorted outside. He stopped
and turned to the servant, "But I want to see the Holy Man!"

"You already have," said the old man

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Man becomes what he believes himself to be. Abandon all ideas
about yourself and you will find yourself to be the pure witness,
beyond all that can happen to the body or the mind.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

from "I Am That", Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973

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I saw a wise man dying of starvation.

Leaves fall in the slightest
wind in December.

And I saw a wealthy man beating his cook
for some mistake with the spices.

Since then, I Lalla, have been waiting
for my love of this place to leave

- Lalla, 14th Century North Indian mystic

From "Naked Song", Versions by Coleman Barks, Maypop, 1992

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