Comments on: Even something as simple as standing in line at the supermarket checkout

By: julian

julian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:22:10 +0000

Dear Lune, It seems that you are so closely involved in the motions of life, that you notice every bubble that arises.It must be very painful to be so sensitive. This is some of the best descriptive and honest writing I have come across. I don’t even know that I understand it all fully, but something in me responds to it, especially the feeling expressed of being stuck to our personal responses with rabbit skin glue. A whole life time of learned wisdom can’t shake it off, and yet, and yet, we are lovely as the bare trees arn’t we. we want to have people, both good and bad sit beneath our shelter; we want to watch, listen and love without any judgement. We cannot for we are wired differently. But of course we do love, for the one who nods and agrees with life’s cruel games is not who we are.The wiring does not belong to us. x

By: lune

lune — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:15:05 +0000

There’s someone here who loves it when it happens, ‘cos it makes her feel french and sexy, Deja vu that is……

By: lune

lune — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:12:25 +0000

Oh, the two words thingy was aimed at ‘give up’ (credit where credit’s due).

Life consists of useless things, all to be enjoyed and puzzled over – there’s ironing for God’s sake – done mostly by women of course, who also, as was mentioned, do the vacuuming. x

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:09:50 +0000

Nicholas has a cool essay about deja vu: http://consciousflex.blogspot.com/2009/06/what-does-enlightenment-feel-like.html

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:05:40 +0000

Funky hippie. My normal persona. Will take a picture.

“It is beautiful” is three words. Good thing it doesn’t matter! ;]

Well, writing nothing is certainly an option. There seems to be a slight female vacuum, not that it matters in the least blah blah blah. Am enjoying these things, the urge to do them arises, so I’ll keep having fun with the useless things!

By: lune

lune — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:43:12 +0000

Problem is that there is actually nothing to say – why not just keep quiet??? That could speak volumes! Lots of people go on and on and on and write whole books about this stuff trying to explain the fact that – THIS IS IT!

It actually needs only two words and out of these two words spins huge paradox and incongruity – it is beautiful.

Hey, what about a devil for tomorrow night? x

By: lune

lune — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:37:36 +0000

I live near to Cern, ‘I’ will be one of the first to go into that black hole ……Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

Sometimes, I think I fell into to it already,
Oh, wow huge deja vu!

By: lune

lune — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:32:51 +0000

Hi, Jen,
well, you know nothing has changed, but everything has changed, life is exactly as it has always been, but there is no centre, no personal volition, no choice, no outcome which could ever touch What-Is and that is truly liberating. Advaitans can sometimes seem dull but they come from the same tradition as Gnostics, when Everything has been stripped back to Nothing and profound realisation remains, a realisation which is not tied to any experience, feeling, creed or belief. It does not mean that these things disappear from life, they are just seen exactly for what they are, illusion, and beyond that is a deep knowing of who we truly Are,

Life is a mystery. A mystery so awesome that we insulate ourselves from its intensity. To numb our fear of the unknown we desensitise ourselves to the miracle of living. We perpetuate the nonchalant lie that we know who we are and what life is. Yet behind this preposterous bluff the Mystery remains unchanging, waiting for us to remember to wonder. It is waiting in a shaft of sunlight, in the thought of death, in the intoxication of new love, in the joy of childbirth or the shock of loss. One minute we are going about our business as if life were nothing special and the next we are face to face with profound, unfathomable breathtaking Mystery. This is both the origin and consummation of the spiritual quest.

Tim Freke and Peter Gandy, “Jesus and the Goddess”

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:46:10 +0000

But how can you live your life seeing things in this way? How do you interact with your children, your husband- Is it dull? Life as it is does not involve striving for a better world then? Personal energy is just energy? I am very interested in seeking in a non-duality context, I read a little about it, but it just seems so lifeless and sterile. Where is the passion? I do not feel complete right now however way i look at it. OK, we should be questioning the whole idea of ourselves and our motives, but how do I really seriously start to disbelieve in my own LIFE?

Jen

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:23:01 +0000

Well, there are no words to describe this, but the right words have to be used, evidently. But as I say, no matter. Life unfolds, or seems to, and I’ve been asked by nevernotnow.com to join them on a video Skype meeting on November 29th. I don’t know what to say to these people except “give up”. The useless words come a lot easier when writing than when trying to talk about it!

In the story, lots of useful stuff comes up when something is rejected. There’s no need for lessons to be learned, no one learns them, but lessons are learned nonetheless! Love that incongruity.