You are.....

Originally Posted by Xan

Remember this oldie?

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?


Xan

If my memory serves me well in my youthful age...I surely cannot remember this oldie...but I am going to google it now..for reasons not apparent to me just yet....

OK for reasons apparent to me now I did finally manage to connect and find one that not only introduced me to the song....but another wonderful connection that made me smile too...its a wonderful tune by the way...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvC9q...eature=related

[hybrid]

If I was to translate the enlightened state down into human terms, I'd
have to describe it as contentment. Being nobody, going nowhere,
needing no reason to exist. To the ego, that probably sounds a little
boring, and of course to an ego it is. But then again, there's really
nothing for the ego in enlightenment. In enlightenment, the egoic false
self is rendered an irrelevant illusion, a mask, a character that
nothingness wears while pretending to be human.

Not only is there nothing in enlightenment for the ego, the ego is the
defense against enlightenment. I'm not saying that ego is bad or evil
because it's not. I'm saying that ego is a social and personal construct
and therefore an illusion. But there's nothing wrong with an illusion.
A painting is an illusion; a movie is an illusion; a good novel is an
illusion. The problem isn't with illusion; the problem is with the
emotional attachments and addictions of ego.

~ Adyashanti

[Saggi]

Originally Posted by hybrid

If I was to translate the enlightened state down into human terms, I'd
have to describe it as contentment. Being nobody, going nowhere,
needing no reason to exist. To the ego, that probably sounds a little
boring, and of course to an ego it is. But then again, there's really
nothing for the ego in enlightenment. In enlightenment, the egoic false
self is rendered an irrelevant illusion, a mask, a character that
nothingness wears while pretending to be human.

Not only is there nothing in enlightenment for the ego, the ego is the
defense against enlightenment. I'm not saying that ego is bad or evil
because it's not. I'm saying that ego is a social and personal construct
and therefore an illusion. But there's nothing wrong with an illusion.
A painting is an illusion; a movie is an illusion; a good novel is an
illusion. The problem isn't with illusion; the problem is with the
emotional attachments and addictions of ego.

~ Adyashanti

Can you explain this sectionof writing a bit more for me please, Hybrid?

I'm not quite grasping the meaning of it,,,

Many thanks

Love and hugs

Jo

XxXx

[Xan]

You are nameless

Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all.
Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless,
realize that every mode of perception is subjective,
that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined,
is in the mind and not in reality,
and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.


- Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Xan]

When you know beyond all doubting that the
same life flows through all that is
and you are that life,
you will love all naturally and spontaneously.


~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Originally Posted by Xan

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You are the light that sees light and darkness.

You are the light of consciousness that sees individual consciousness, cosmic consciousness, and beyond.

You are the intelligence that gives rise to the intellect and recognizes itself in nothingness.

You are the incomprehensible love.

I know this because you are my own self.

You are the self. You are all and more.


- Gangaji

I am.

[Jyotir]

Hi Xan,

a few 'you are's...



You are divinely great.
Do you know why?
Because
You are unbinding love.
You are supremely great.
Do you know why?
Because
You are unattached devotion.
You are eternally great.
Do you know why?
Because
You are unconditional surrender.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are gifted.
Therefore
The world appreciates you.
You are special.
Therefore
The world admires you.
You are divine.
Therefore
Both God and the world
Love you
and
Love you,
Forever
and
Forever.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are unknown
To doubt.
Who can be as great
As you are?

You are unknown
To hate.
Who can be as good
As you are?

You are unknown
To failure.
Who can be as brave
As you are?

- Sri Chinmoy

You are great
If you think that you are
Of the strong.

You are good
If you feel that you are
For the weak.

- Sri Chinmoy

When you are smiling
I see how beautiful you are.
When you are crying
I see how meaningful you are.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are blessed
If you are fearless.
You are twice blessed
If you are doubtless.
You are thrice blessed
If your mind is completely thoughtless.

- Sri Chinmoy

You see without looking;
Therefore
You are divinely great.

You see while looking;
Therefore
You are supremely good.

You love while seeing;
Therefore
You are eternally perfect.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are wise twice:
Once when you are ready
To live in the world,
And once when you are ready
To look far beyond the world
While remaining in the world.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are armed in mind-honesty.
You will go far.

You are armed in heart-purity.
You will go farther.

You are armed in soul-beauty.
You will go farthest.

You are armed in God-receptivity.
You will grow into the ever-transcending
Divinity's Reality.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are at once
God and man.
You play the role of God
In man
When you give,
And
You play the role of man
In God
When you receive.
Truth to tell,
Both the roles
Are of equal
Importance.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are a tree,
Yet you bear no fruits.
You are a flower,
Yet you are devoid of fragrance.
You are of God,
Yet you never care for God.

- Sri Chinmoy

Remember,
You are not only the body,
You are not only the vital,
You are not only the mind,
You are not only the heart,
But you are also the soul,
Especially the soul.

- Sri Chinmoy

When you doubt You are contagious.
When you believe You are prosperous.
When you love You are glorious.
When you surrender You are victorious.

- Sri Chinmoy

Who says
You are a weak mortal?
You are not!

Who says
You are an erring human child?
You are not!

What are you then?
You are God in His preparation
For His ever-transcending Height.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are your soul's
Transcendental summit.
You are your heart's
Universal door.
You are your mind's
Invincible courage.
You are your life's
Sleepless sacrifice.

- Sri Chinmoy

You hide just because you are afraid.
You divide just because you are insecure.
You are insufficient just because
You want supremacy.

- Sri Chinmoy

God will reveal
All His Secrets to you
Only when He sees
That you are not false to yourself.
You are false to yourself
When you think you already are
Another God.
You are false to yourself
When you feel you can never become
Another God.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are loved,
Therefore
You are significant.
You are significant,
Therefore
You are needed.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are not
What others think of you.
You are not
What you think of yourself.
You are precisely
What God's Compassion-Heart
Asks you to be.

- Sri Chinmoy

To live with man
Is to live with what you have.
To live with God
Is to live with what you are.
What you have: God-aspiration.
What you are: God-realisation.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are not
Your likeable ideas.
You are not
Your respectable ideas.
You are
Your adorable goal.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are insecure
Because
Your belief is not sustained
By the inner faith.

You are insecure
Because
Your faith is not sustained
By the unconditional surrender.

You are insecure
Because
Your surrender has not
Breathed the life of oneness supreme.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are telling me
That you have nothing to do
And therefore
You are not doing anything.
But I am clearly seeing
That you are doing something:
You are starving poor God to death.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are lost
When you believe your doubts.
You are dead
When you doubt your beliefs.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are a fool
If you mistake earth for Heaven.
You are a greater fool
If you mistake Heaven for earth.
You are the greatest fool
If you do not know
How to cry soulfully with earth
And
How to smile powerfully with Heaven.

- Sri Chinmoy

You are in no way obliged
To perfect the world.
You are in no way obliged
To see perfection in the world.
But you are definitely obliged
To perfect yourself.

- Sri Chinmoy

Because you are great,
You belong to the world.
Because you are good,
The world belongs to you.

- Sri Chinmoy




...from SriChinmoyLibrary.com

~ J

Brilliant!

[Xan]

Wonderful!

I take each one to heart.

Thank you Sri Chimnoy and Jyotir.


Xan