TODAY'S CONSIDERATIONS
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The quotations being offered now are excerpted from the book QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more.
The quotations and pointers are being arranged by category and subject matter.
To continue with the sharing of certain quotes which point toward the non-dual understanding:
Speculation and evidence combine to suggest that the migration happened because of changing weather conditions, because of depleted food supplies, and because they were being invaded by whites (later called, "Huns" or "Germans") from the west. The general consensus is that they began moving off the Strait and heading further east and then south some 20,000 years ago.
[Ironically, as they moved east, at least partially to escape brutal white invaders coming from the west, they would settle in "the Americas" but would then eventually be invaded by the descendants of their original invaders who would invade, this time, from the east.
In what is now called "the U.S.," 98-99% of the indigenous peoples would be killed and the remaining survivors would be interred on the remaining 1% of the land on which they had lived and which was "reserved" for "Indians" only.
I once mentioned that when returning to Texas from Louisiana, I passed the remnants of a plantation and the remains of several slave quarters. Soon after that, I passed the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation.
Both provide reminders of what the descendants of those white invaders did - and continue to do - to Asians and to Africans and to Hispanics and to other non-whites to this day, even as some textbooks in U.S. schools are re-writing the facts, lying, and covering up that history.]
One of the descendants of those who survived "The American Holocaust" was born to a Cherokee couple in 1884. She lived in East Texas and would come to be known to me as "Grandmother." She would give birth in 1916 to a son who would be known to me as "my father."
I never heard Grandmother mention the terms "non-dual pointers" or "the Eastern teachings," but both non-dual pointers and certain Eastern teachingsw ere brought by Asians across the Bering Strait and were spread from (a) the Far East to (b) a small remainder of the still-visible part of the Bering Land Mass (specifically, Diomede on the western coast of Little Diomede Island) and were then spread all the way eventually to Ushuala at the southernmost tip of what is now called "South America."
Though neither she nor her fellow indigenous relatives and tribe members likely ever heard the term "non-duality," what they shared from their body of wisdom was exactly that, traceable all the way back to their earliest ancestral home in "the Far East."
Here are some pointers from various tribe members that were in touch with the understanding:
"If in doubt, be still and wait."
"That which is inhaling and exhaling is an illusion; truth can only be found in the empty space of the absolute quiet and the empty moments in between."
"Peace can only be found in the silence; once found, it can remain under any conditions."
"It is possible to be alone and truly like the company kept in the empty moments."
"Only excursions into that which is natural can reveal truth."
"Even the seasons form a great circle, but they always come back again to where they were."
"The life of a human is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where energy moves."
"There is no birth. There is no death. There is no creation. There is no destruction. There are only the cyclings of elements, air, and energy; there is no body-mind-personality continuity."
"Harmony with all things is possible, but it cannot manifest in the presence of inner turmoil or in the absence of full realization."
"I saw more than I can tell, and I understood more than I saw, for I was seeing the shape of all shapes living in harmony as one."
"We are but one thread."
"Peace comes from within when oneness with the universe is realized."
"It was seen that power need not be sought except for the strength required to fight the greatest enemy - self."
"It was seen that when self has been eliminated, no more power or strength is required."
"It came to be known that another can be disappointed if that is required in order to be free of dual-mindedness and to be true to self."
"It was seen that, to be trustworthy, one must first be faithless."
"I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."
"Earth, teach me humility; Earth, teach me to forget myself."
"We are but one."
“Walk in balance."
"Above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace which is within.”
“It appears that where marriage is solemnized by the church and blessed by the priest, it may at the same time be surrounded with customs and ideas of a frivolous, superficial, and even prurient character. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking.”
“I want to know
(a) if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself
and
(b) if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul.”
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
To be continued.
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