Jerry's guest appearance on SpiritualChicks.com

"When that ball comes to you, you see it coming and it comes. It might slap your palm, sting, and fly out. But you've touched it. You know it."

Full article is here. Jerry's always coming up with good metaphors, and this one about baseball is no exception. His writing in general is gold, as is his teaching. Here's a good morsel from his front page at Nonduality.com:

Words cannot describe I Am, but words in any combination are I Am. Mind cannot describe I Am, but mind is I Am. Consciousness cannot reveal I Am, but consciousness is I Am. I Am is what is as it is. All things are pierced by I Am, consumed by I Am. Out of that ground of knowing arises the utterance, "I Am That I Am."

We're going for Chinese this afternoon, so I'll get to have a dharma talk with him over some ginger chicken and steamed broccoli. Or we may just talk about women.

Buddha's bio

This long yet rewarding read is a contextualized account of Gautama the Buddha's life story, from his richly-textured life as Prince Siddhartha to his awakening under the bodhi tree, and then onwards to his spreading of the dharma thereafter. I came across this excerpt in this morning's Nondual Highlights, and its original source is a monthly newsletter published to the site ExoticIndia.com. Two short excerpts from the excerpts before presenting the excerpt are as follows:

It is a part of the hero's evolutionary destiny to knit together the world of higher spiritual bliss with the mundane world of everyday existence, as he had bridged together transient time and eternity.
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The essential message of Buddha's life is that each of us (irrespective of sex or creed) is capable and deserving of Nirvana, having a potential Buddha hidden in us. Buddha was born an ordinary mortal. His path to fulfillment was not smooth and uneventful. Rather it was a journey full of exciting experiences and mistakes made. He learned from each of his mistakes, making it a springboard for all future, and finally the ultimate success. The day we realize and awaken the Buddha within, that would be our own Nirvana, which though personal, would bind us to all humanity like never before.

The latter excerpt underlines the fact that enlightenment is here and now, available to us all, in this very instant. The former resonates with what I've always perceived my own [decidedly unheroic] quest to be in this life: namely, to reconcile a higher spiritual understanding with my regular, everyday life.

( The excellent full text is here... )