Posts Tagged ‘Gangaji’
Never Mind!
“We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.”
~ Buddha
This world is wrought with naught but thought.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Thinking and Being can’t coexist.
So stop thinking and start Being.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Forget who you think you are
to Know what you really are.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Spirit speaks when mind is mute.
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Theory Of Everything:
Consciousness = Subject = Object = Self
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Never Mind!
From mind comes this:
From this comes that:
But that is this –
and this is that.
So, never mind –
And that is THAT!
Ron’s audio recitation of “Never Mind!”
Ron’s Explanation of “Never Mind!”
Dear Friends,
The foregoing six line whimsical “Never Mind!” poem suggests – jestingly but seriously – that each person’s experience of this world is but an illusory mental projection of Cosmic Consciousness – which is the Absolute non-duality Reality.
I ‘channeled’ this poem many years ago during a Marin County public program by U.S.A. non-duality teacher and author Gangaji, which I attended years after my beloved Guruji had returned to India from his only visit to the US.
I had then begun relying for spiritual guidance upon inner – rather than outer – authority, and was increasingly aware that “inner” and “outer” were like obverse perspectives of the same Absolute non-duality reality. So soon after composing this poem I stopped attending public programs or lectures by incarnate spiritual teachers.
During her program, Gangaji openly entertained questions from the audience, mostly from confused or emotionally distraught people caught up in their personal ‘soap operas’. Gangaji calmly and respectfully listened to and dialogued with each questioner, attempting to direct them to a non-dualist resolution of their worldly concerns. But most questioners didn’t seem to understand her teachings.
As I listened to Gangaji’s dialogues, I felt frustrated by the questioners’ frequent inability to comprehend Gangaji’s remarks. Whereupon I ‘channeled’ the foregoing simple but universal poetic answer to every confused questioner.
Please enjoy “Never Mind!”.
Dedication of “Never Mind”
May these whimsical verses
And above Sutra Sayings
Help us remember that
This apparently stable, tangible, visible, audible world,
Is an illusion – samsara or maya;
That ‘reality isn’t real’,
But just our thoughts.
That this “reality” is
A kaleidoscopic, fractal and holographic theater of the mind.
An illusory mental projection of ineffable absolute non-duality Reality.
And that is THAT!
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
