real

Reality is imagined.

when?

When shall I be free?

When I cease to be.


- Shpongle

rock

"Be firm like a rock, deep and serious like the sea. Think of the Earth as a Mother. This is one Earth. Don't be divided by thinking of yourself as belonging to different countries. This is one Earth. "

-Babaji

free

Take someone who doesn't keep score,
who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing,
who has not the slightest interest even
in his own personality: He's free.
- Rumi

change

"Blessings
Do not be overwhelmed. This is a time of great change. Observe. Be Aware. Be Alert. Take one step at a time. Follow what is in your heart. You will understand what your direction is to be. Truth, Simplicity and Love is the guide for living in this world. Observe change through the teachings of Truth, Simplicity and Love. The unreal cannot overwhelm the real. Great change cannot overwhelm the real.

Your strength is greater than the maya of change. Your heart is greater than the maya of change. Your higher self is greater than the maya of change. The maya of change passes, fades into nothing. The real remains, eternal, observing. Attach to the real and triumph over the maya of change. Follow what is in your heart and overcome the maya of change. Change is the Law of the Universe. The lower self is overwhelmed by change. The higher self is unmoved, alert, aware, and unconditionally observing. Change is merely the maya of Shiva's dance. Understand this and rise above the unreal.

Blessings
Babaji"

not used up

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitzer

From Sasha Chua

compressed time

You will find great changes as time compresses. Much will be
accomplished in less time. Events around you are changing in this
fashion.

Be aware of these changes. Be alert to these changes. Be careful.

Observe carefully in silence as events and circumstances are in a
flux. Be alert to emotional changes. Be alert to behavioral changes.
Observe these changes through an unconditioned mind. Do not judge,
nor be critical.

Just observe through silence, through a quiet mind, and you shall see
change. Now chant the mahamantra.

Place all observations through the filter of Truth, Simplicity, and
Love. Observe the truth of change. Observe the simplicity of change.
Observe the love in change.

Place truth into change. Place simplicity into change. Place love
into change. Now chant the mahamantra.

Let the great wheel of change flow like the ring of fire around Shiva
Nataraj. Observe as the ring of fire creates. Observe as the ring of
fire purifies. Observe as the ring of fire destroys. Observe as the
ring of fire creates once again.

Cycle after cycle, bead after bead around the mala, endless creation,
purification, destruction.

Do not attach yourself to change. Be aware. Be alert. Observe
change. This is the law of nature. The law is change.

Apply my message into your life and you will live within the law of
nature. Those who live within the law, understand the law, shall
destroy the lower self and attain mental equanimity.

Babaji

being

An integral being knows without knowing, sees without looking and accomplishes without doing. -Lao-Tzu

gradual

"Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles:
pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest;
turning over an hour glass and watching the sand slowly run through the bottom;
placing your feet in the sand by the ocean?s edge and watching, feeling, and listening to the waves gradually bury them."

- Steve Reich

work

19 SEPTEMBER 1983
Evening
For the sake of Lord Rama, the group that came here yesterday worked wholeheartedly today. Work is Mahayoga, Supreme Yoga. To go astray from the path of Karma is to create trouble for ourselves. Action is the source of all joy. Go on working. Go ahead, making progress. Work until your last breath.
The world is transitory. You will find stability only on the path of Karma Yoga. Only action can take a man to God and give him liberation. The law of Karma is so deep that no words are great enough to describe it. The day Karma stops on this earth will be the day of its dissolution (pralaya).
Brave ones, all of you, continue to work! Through Karma alone will you be able to change the world. It is the only way.
Today the world is playing with fire. We have to be ready to face fire, water and great storms and not be shaken. We have to go beyond the hope of life and the fear of death. Whatever happens, we must go ahead. Then only can we benefit the world. We have to bring the path of Karma into the light. Now the world is in deep darkness. The Revolution spreading in this world can be controlled by Karma alone.
(Babaji then whispered two mantras to Shastriji who repeated them: "Yadatma Dhrishchayaha: He who has control over himself, who is of determined mind, will succeed in life." "Utishchata Jagrata Prapta Varan Nibhoda Yata: Arise! Awake! Go and seek the wise and learn from them.")
You have come here from the four corners of the world. Today you should take a vow to work hard always and to spread the message of Karma wherever you go.
JAI MAHAMAYA KI JAI!
23 SEPTEMBER 1983

Babaji

Why is programming fun?

First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake.

Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder "for Daddy's office."

Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate.

Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both.

Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (...)


Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separately from the construct itself. It prints results, draws pictures, produces sounds, moves arms. The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be.

Programming then is fun because it gratifies creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have in common with all men.

The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks

determination

Spring Navaratri 2009

essence

` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of
the present moment, harmony with things as they
happen. A saint does not want things to be different
from what they are; he knows that, considering all
factors, they are unavoidable. He is friendly with
the inevitable and, therefore, does not suffer. Pain
he may know, but it does not shatter him. If he can,
he does the needful to restore the lost balance
or lets things take their course.
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973

fail better

"ever tried. ever failed. no matter. try again. fail again. fail better."

Samuel Beckett

blessings

Blessings:

Do not be overwhelmed. This is a time of great change. Observe. Be
Aware. Be Alert. Take one step at a time. Follow what is in your
heart. You will understand what your direction is to be.

Truth, Simplicity and Love is the guide for living in this
world. Observe change through the teachings of Truth, Simplicity and
Love.

The unreal cannot overwhelm the real. Great change cannot overwhelm
the real.

Your strength is greater than the maya of change. Your heart is
greater than the maya of change. Your higher self is greater than the
maya of change.

The maya of change passes, fades into nothing. The real remains,
eternal, observing.

Attach to the real and triumph over the maya of change. Follow what is
in your heart and overcome the maya of change.

Change is the Law of the Universe. The lower self is overwhelmed by
change. The higher self is unmoved, alert, aware, and unconditionally
observing.

Change is merely the maya of Shiva's dance. Understand this and rise
above the unreal.

Blessings
Babaji

feb 14th

"I am no-thing. I am no-body. Fifteen years ago I left that body, worn by the problems and emptiness of all who sought me out to solve those problems. They wore the body down and that is why I left it. I have taught humans how to solve their problems. Few have listened. Now I try again in a different way (emails and website) to impart my message to those who will listen. Understand?
"If you live in truth,simplicity and love and if your purpose is to serve, then the black hole,the emptiness that cannot be filled with money, power or knowledge, will no longer be a cause of your bitter sadness.

"Nothing will stop it. Not intoxicants, not relationships, not material things, not power, not scholarship, not wealth, no-thing will stop the endless wheel of maya from spinning round and round, over and over, cycle after cycle of unending misery,sadness and emptiness. But Truth will stop it. Simplicity will stop it. Love will stop it. Service will stop it.
"That is my message on this anniversary of maha samadhi. In this body, I will not let it be worn by the problems of the many. I will let it inspire the few to transmit the teachings and let them serve as a beacon of hope for humanity."

Babaji

maha

"With thy sweet soul, this soul of mine
Hath mixed as water doth with wine
Who can the wine and water part
Or me and Thee when we combine
Thou art become my greater self
Small bonds no more can confine
Thou hast my being taken on
And shall not I now take on Thine?
Me Thou for ever hast affirmed
That I may ever know thee mine
Thy love has pierced me through and through
Its thrill with bone and nerve entwine
I rest a flute laid on Thy lips
A flute, I on thy breast recline
Breathe deep in me that I may sigh
Yet strike my strings and tears shall shine."

Akka Mahadevi

ascetic

For hunger, there is the village rice in the begging bowl,
For thirst, there are tanks and streams and wells
For sleep temple ruins do well
For the company of the soul I have you, Chenna Mallikarjuna

Akka Mahadevi

self

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High self-esteem and low self-esteem are just
different sides of the same coin.
They each assume that there's a separate and
independent self that's feeling?or that's not
feeling?a certain level of esteem about itself.
Both positions equally support the illusion of the
actual existence of a real coin?a real historical
self.
In true awakening, though, there can be no
coinage.
- Chuck Hillig
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Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003

the one

In spite of your beliefs to the contrary, you are not what you think,
feel, say, do, have, want or fear. You're actually the context or the
space in which all of those other things appear to show up in. In
short, you are "what is." You are what creates you. It's all
happening both within?and AS?you. So, instead of reacting out of your
fear, you need to learn how to respond out of your love. Romantics
are always looking for "The One." But, everywhere you go, you're
always (and only) meeting "The One."

Every one is "The One."

- Chuck Hillig

koan

haskell koans