wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yesterday I got up early and drove to Sommières, a
> > village about 30 kilometers away, because they were
> > having a medieval festival, and I'm a real sucker
> > for those kind of things. They always make me higher
> > than a kite.
> >
> > This one was no exception. I was sitting there at a
> > cafe in the town square, drinking hypocras and eating
> > lamb brochettes while watching the townspeople walking
> > by in their costumes, and this huge smile began to
> > form on my face and this almost-irresistable urge
> > came upon me to say "Yes" and just Wake Up.
> >
> > But it was tough getting to "Yes." There was a part
> > of me that was still locked into the dealing-with-the-
> > pissant-parts-of-life mindstate,
>
>
>
>
>
> Here's a mountain.
>
> Here's the top of the mountain.
>
> There's Barry on the top of that mountain.
>
> And here we are
>
> The Hoi Polloi of the world
>
> The pissants of FFL
>
> The Little People
>
> The Nothings
>
> Yet Barry has the mercy
>
> The kindness
>
> Nay, the love
>
> To grace us
>
> With his patient presence
>
> To be
>
> Here
>
> At the bottom of the mountain
>
> And waste his precious time
>
> With us Shit de Shit (as they say in Quebec)
>
> Has there ever been a bigger heart
>
> In the whole wide cable-access universe of 700 channels world?
>
> On behalf of myself, Rick, Peter, Judy, Sneezy, Dopey, Mick and
Keith
>
> I thank you.
Amen.
>
>
>
>
>
> > and that wanted to
> > respond to the wonderful day and the cubic centimeter
> > of chance it had offered me with the standard safe
> > answer, "Yes, but..." You know...stuff like:
> >
> > * Yes, I'm having fun here, but I haven't really done
> > everything I wanted to do with my life yet, have I?
> >
> > * Yes, that stunningly beautiful woman who just walked
> > by and smiled at me *is* wonderful, and just the
> > *sight* of her should make me shout "Yes!" to the
> > universe, but I'm probably too old for her.
> >
> > * Yes, this town and this festival and all these
> > people dressed up in their medieval finery are all
> > cool, but I did read BBC News this morning, and the
> > outside world still sucks.
> >
> > Yes, but. Icky phrase, one we repeat to ourselves in
> > our heads to keep us from fully relaxing into the
> > experience of Now, and thus from realizing that the
> > thing we're relaxing into is not just some emphemeral
> > moment but the eternality of our Self.
> >
> > The proper answer to life when it presents us with one
> > of those cusp moments is "Yes," not "Yes, but..."
> >
> > IMO, far too much of spiritual teaching is about
> > training people to respond to life with "Yes, but..."
> > You all know what I mean. How many times have you,
> > like most seekers, thought to yourself, "Yes, I'd
> > like to be enlightened but...?"
> >
> > It really doesn't *matter* what you put after the
> > "but...," does it? Whether you think it's "stress"
> > that keeps you from being enlightened or some skanky
> > samskara you've never managed to get past, or that
> > incident from ten lifetimes ago that still has you
> > convinced that karmically you are lower than the
> > lint in a snake's navel. *Whatever* it is, it's
> > just an excuse, a rationalization that allows your
> > self to say "No" to the Self.
> >
> > Each of us is already enlightened. The proper answer
> > when the universe presents us with a cool moment and
> > that moment asks us whether we remember our own
> > enlightenment, is, "Yes."
> >
> > By changing your answer into "Yes, but...," you are
> > pushing away the Self and saying, in effect, "I'm
> > not ready to accept that you are me yet, so I'm
> > going to make up some excuse for why you can't be
> > me." Then you put that excuse right behind the
> > "but" in "Yes, but..." and you say it. And as a
> > result, you create it as a seeming "reality" in
> > your life. Sigh. Big fuckin' rut. No fun.
> >
> > There in that cafe in Sommières yesterday, I managed
> > to get beyond "Yes, but..."
> >
> > I sat there trying to not have as much fun with the
> > day as I knew I was capable of having, and then I
> > caught myself doing it. The moment I did, I was
> > able to laugh at myself. And through my laughter,
> > I found my body saying "Yes." Out loud. Weirdest
> > damned thing.
> >
> > Everything changed. Background flipflopped into
> > foreground and the witnessing, a moment before
> > unnoticed, moved front and center and reasserted
> > its Self again. And all it took was getting to
> > "Yes."
> >
> > I'm sure it'll pass...all things do...but it's
> > neat while it lasts. Life's cool sometimes, yes?
> >
>
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