----Original Message Follows---- From: "Satsang interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: List Member <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dream time Date: 27 Aug 1999 02:39:48 -0000 Satsang interest - www.vartman.com Namaskar, Here is an excerpt from the last day of the Byron Bay retreat. Love Vartman ************************************************************* Namaskar Welcome to satsang Here we are.last moments of the retreat. I don't know if many of you know much about cars but there is a thing that you can buy and bolt on your car called a turbo charger. you can make your Ford Escort go like a Porsche..... for about 3 weeks. (laughter) The problem is if you push things that aren't meant to go that fast they invariably blow up. Well humans seem to have the ability to turbo charge life with a thing called the mind. By using thoughts, imagination, fantasising and hoping we can tell ourselves great stories about how well we are doing things, how great we are at controlling life and how impressive we are. The result is that we can appear to make life far more juicy, fast and flashy. This would be great if we could sustain this.. the problem is that you can't push the river forever... and when we give up the thoughts start to chase us. It seems like these are the times that we realise that we have turned our back on the peace and quiet of resting in who we are.... and with so much vested interest in our thoughts it appears almost impossible to leave them alone. The price of turbo-charging life is the unique human experience of mental suffering. So last night there was a trap laid for you. After a week of silence and relative isolation we had dancing, conversation and no structure. Of course in this release there is a champagne effect of release and celebration... only natural. The real lesson is you can be aware that at a certain point your mood and feelings exhausted themselves. Instead of letting it go and returning to your natural state of resting in This, there was a clinging to the good times....the Peace of who we are was just too boring, and besides it will always be there later when we need it. . right now life is great, I'm great... I'll get back to It when I need it. I have seen that over the last few days especially virtually all of you have recognised who you are and even muttered this blasphemy that "There is always happiness here now." So I ask the question and we will see how many honest people there are here.. How many of you are aware that you turned your backs on This last night in search for something better.. (half the participants raise their hands) This is how the experience is lost. Not in the dark times but abandoned in the good times to pursue our mind interpreted version of "our lives" of look what I can do with this stillness and this open heart... The beauty of this realisation is that Love will never abandon you... only you can put your attention on something else that you think that you want more than to rest in your pure nature. Vartman ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
