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Resting In Acceptance (18 Nov)

  • November 18, 2012
    Key learnings from Master on 18 Nov evening. Pls add on if anything missed/need correcting:

    1) This is the problem...........there's so much mind because of the loss of sacredness....such that your beauty is always reduced, you are made nothing.
    2) The Guru is needed for you to you acknowledge your sacredness.....open the door.
    3) Attending a wedding....in just participating...in honouring the union....the sanctity of the union.....you heal.
    4) Everybody watch out how unconsciously you dishonour others. Slowly undo, restore the honour back so that you may glow.
    5) Figure out how to do this and have this be more important than breath iteself.
    6) If you are the only one who must profit from it, no one else will be luminous. It is your attitude. ''When I see it in me, it is a glimpse..... ....when I see it in others, it is my truth.''
    Example: as a sannyas, when you witness others taking sannyas, it becomes your truth.
    7) There is demand out there to make everybody nothing. You are not all that they said you are. In order to see, you need to see it in everybody else.
    8) The Giri Order......make it grander .......beautify. View the Sanggha as a womb........a place where many buddhas are born.
    9) Look upon yourself rightly, uphold the highest of royal characteristics. Remember your sannyas name....live it out according to the name.
    10) See everybody as beyond their 'sins'.
    11) Don't fight. Accept. In this life you may be undoing what is needed from the past life. Accept what is and live it out in acceptance. Example: If one is born poor, live this out.....one may grow eventually to be other than poor but do not deny what is and live it out (instead of fighting it).
    12) The struggle is you are not accepting your birth (without resisting). Accept your birth as it is. Be at peace with it. One makes every effort to try to escape the avatar and not live it in acceptance....and grow from there.
    Question: How come it is not okay to accept the avatar?
    13) The mind is always thieving. It always wants what it does not have / cannot have. It wants to do what it cannot do and with what it can do or have, it cannot have joy.
    14) Most look at a man/woman not as whether it is right for them, instead they look at whether it is profitable.........thieving mind.
    15) Look at what is. The problem is you want it to be different......wishing/desiring. Don't take it personally. Be transcendental. Live out your avatar of currrent life. Watch the tendencies that gets in the way (i.e. vasanas from past life) and manage it better.
    16) What you consider as self identify is all the thinking of what you want to be......the sum total of your desires. Can't one see......if one is to be have something, one would have it already? Question: Why are you identifying with your desires?
    17) Acceptance of this is the rest. Own your birth....own what is (in this life). Live out your truth. It is for all too (not just about you).
    18) Find your bribes.....and accept you don't need them (example if you have been alone most of your life (i.e no wife/husband/partner).....accept this. Claim your past. Don't deny it.
    19) Likewise, how one met your Guru the first time.....don't change the dymanics of that too. Hold that. As it progresses, whatever changes, keep it internal.
    20) What is trying to unfold in you, that you are blocking? Watch how you respond to things.....be more mindful. What is stopping you from participating? What is stopping you from seeing others in their happiness? Participate fully...........existence will always have others ready to step in to play out what existence needs to play out. It is nothing personal. Question: What is stopping /blocking you from participating fully?