Posts Tagged ‘Gangaji’

“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!”

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 American 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 writing 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!”.

May these whimsical verses help us to remember that what appears to be a stable, tangible, visible, audible world, is an illusion – samsara or maya; that ‘reality isn’t real’, but a kaleidoscopic, fractal and holographic theater of the mind.

And so may it be!

Ron Rattner