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December 2008 
Nothing is Everything
Posted on Sep 28th, 2006
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David
David
This one caught me (in my inbox) at just the right time. I love how that happens. Life is amazing in so many ways!
From Tricycle's Daily Dharma
The great Indian teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once said, "Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between the two my life flows." "I am nothing" does not mean that there is a bleak wasteland within. It does mean that with awareness we open to a clear, unimpeded space, without center or periphery--nothing separate. If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love. Being nothing in this way, we are also, inevitably, everything. "Everything" does not mean self-aggrandizement, but a decisive recognition of interconnection; we are not separate. Both the clear, open space of "nothing" and the interconnectedness of "everything" awaken us to our true nature. This is the truth we contact when we meditate, a sense of unity beyond suffering. It is always present; we merely need to be able to access it.
--Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness
The picture is from my recent trip to Monterey. I felt very connected that afternoon.
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Let me say that photo should be published David!
WOW…..
it pulled me so quickly to the words which are “everything”
to me ;to the US of US who wish to get to this place of nothingness.
It is exciting to feel the all of everything in that place..sometimes it
happens most when we try the least and look away,obviously from self.
I salute this nothingess,this everythingness,which is in turn the Whole.
Cheers to being not separate anymore.
yes, great photo - for me, it goes with the words in that light shines through the grounded, interconnected trees just as it shines upon us in the grounded, settled mind of meditation - a clarity and brilliance that cannot be grasped - but one that happens as the unintended side-effect of one’s letting go……………surrendering to the universe
shine on, brother
Thank you guys!
Very well said.
It's funny how we're wired to think we can find all the answers through the intellect yet when we let go we find something beyond it. Something that is everything and nothing. Both are important and necessary for us to access true nature (it seems).
What a crazy circle huh?
Here's to surrender and engagement.
Another good one from the Daily Dharma which you can sign up for here.
Liberation From the Dross of Learning
Enlightenment is liberation from the dross of learning and experience that, without one's being aware of it, has accumulated and settled like so much sediment–or like cholesterol into one's arteries! It is the vivid, lively manifestation of the heart with which one is born–the heart that is no-form, no-mind, nonabiding, attached neither to form nor to thought, but in dynamic motion. Consequently, enlightenment is not an endpoint, but rather a place to start.
–Soko Morinaga in Novice to Master
from More Daily Wisdom, edited by Josh Bartok
Thank you so much for posting this amazing quote which makes me FEEL the reality, the unity, of EVERYTHING (nothing) so deeply. I find I'm drawn to re-read it frequently. I'm feeling feisty today, so I'll say I feel that there is so much I could teach you about everything, and so much you could teach me about nothing (hee hee hee, I just love how that sounds)…..But of course, when you peel back all the layers, it's really the very same thing. That's what we all have to realize. Beautiful.
Hi David,
Nice thought to share!!!
I am inviting you to visit my blog http://tsabapathy.wordpress.com/ which talks about self-realization.