Archive for September, 2009

Ramesh Balsekar Death

September 27, 2009

Betty Camhi sent the following notice about 30 minutes ago:

I just got this message from Wayne Liquorman.

Love,
Elliott
(eliyahu)
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Dear Friends,

It is with the heaviest of hearts I write to tell you of the passing of our
beloved Ramesh this morning at 9AM in his home in Bombay. His death was quick and peaceful.

Ramesh was truly an extraordinary being. His life as a successful banker, author and spiritual teacher directly enriched the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Having met Ramesh was one of the defining moments of my life, as I am certain it was for many of you reading this note. His generous spirit, open, loving presence and spiritual Understanding combined to make him one of the truly great Sages of the 20th century. We are truly blessed to have known him…be it “in person” or through his Teaching.

Ramesh lives on. Though his body will this evening return to the elements, his spirit lives on in his books and in the hearts of all of us who have known him and loved him..

Twenty-two years ago Ramesh came into my life. Today his body leaves it. To have been able to walk beside him for all this time and to have been able to bow at his feet has been for me the greatest of life’s blessings.I shall miss not being able to sit with Ramesh, to watch a cricket match together or to share some chocolate or to laugh at some silly joke he reads from the newspaper. It is not the greatness of the man I will miss most…his greatness remains undiminished by his death…it is the little things, the human things..

Many of you will share with me the exquisite human pain of the loss of a beloved one. If you take a moment to quietly look at it you may see in the pain the wonder of Life itself. If so, it will truly be the Grace of The Guru.

With much love,

Wayne

The Nonduality Business as Stale Bread

September 19, 2009

Let’s not forget that we’re in business. Nonduality is a business. Your business is to find out your true nature. It’s not to get involved in the nonduality business. The nonduality business has been established to help you find out your true nature, or to see things as they are. You don’t need to be involved in the nonduality business unless you are driven to do so.

The nonduality business is always bringing you stale bread. That’s the best we can do. But in delivering that stale bread we deliver sustenance. It is up to you to break down the sustenance to substance and, further, to particles of reality.

Don’t get too invested in stale bread: all the books, websites, videos, satsangs, all of it. But take the sustenance that is least stale to you, least refined, and let it fall apart in your hands into the fresh and great display of existence, stale bread and all.

Lucid Dreaming Meets A Comfortable Bed

September 18, 2009

Are you ever frustrated that during a lucid dream you cannot fly, walk through walls, run fast, or get someplace you want to go?

Consider that your mind, by restricting your activity, is telling you to stop fooling around and to do what you’re supposed to be doing: sleeping deeply.

Sometimes the best thing to do during a lucid dream is find a comfortable bed and get into it.

Standing As Awareness: The Direct Path

September 7, 2009

Greg Goode’s new book, Standing As Awareness: The Direct Path , is going to be published by premiere house Non-Duality Press, in late October.

I was pleased and honored to have written the Foreword which is a glimpse into the personality of Greg and the new possibilities offered by his book.

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From Greg’s website:

Standing as Awareness: The Direct Path
(New, Expanded Edition! Foreword by Jerry Katz. Forthcoming from Non-Duality Press, October 2009)

The book’s title comes from one of Sri Atmananda’s teaching methods. When you take a stand as awareness, you don’t take yourself as an object such as the body or a personalized mind state, but as awareness itself. Sri Atmananda passed away in 1959, but his teachings are as radical and crystal clear today as ever.

This new edition retains the selection of dialogs from a decade of New York City nondual-dinners, but adds three new chapters on the fundamentals of the Direct Path, such as How to Stand as Awareness, Falling in Love with Awareness, and “The Witness – from Establishment to Final Collapse into Pure Consciousness.”

The new chapters include several experiments in awareness that can help establish and stabilize your experience that the world, body and the mind are nothing other than pure consciousness itself.

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