ShantiMayi. Something for everyone and. Something for everyone and No thing for no one. Passages and poems for awakening

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1 ShantiMayi Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Passages and poes for awakening 1

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4 Design Soething and for layout: everyone Jivanjili and No thing for no one Photos on page: ShantiMayi: crow photo, 8, 12, 14, 22, 26, 27, 29, 33, 35, 36, 42, 43, 47, 48, 50, 53, 56, 57, 61, 62, 65, 67, 69, 70, 72, inset back Deva Deep: 6, 10, 11, 16, 19, 30, 40, 44, 54, 55, 58, 74 Atara: cover photo Ganga, 38, 39 Sharana: 0 Gyani: 2 Shunyata: 52 Second edition 2009 To order: ShantiMayi s website: ShantiMayi All rights reserved 4

5 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Soething for everyone and No thing for no one 5

6 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The Aboriginals say: When the crows are talking aong theselves, they speak of the ancient wisdo. 6

7 ShantiMayi Passages and poes for awakening 7

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9 Table of Contents Fro beginningless tie 2 Give everything 3 Duality / Illusion 5 Out of conflict 13 Desire 17 Surrender 21 Oneness 25 Iperanence 31 Eptiness 37 No One 41 The Sage 45 Teachings 51 Daily life 59 Truth 63 Heart / Copassion 71 9

10 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Wearing white light for all to See the inner clarity of God shining everywhere, That is Sacha. 10

11 Fro beginningless tie people have looked for God by pilgriing the distance between doubt and wisdo. Walking into the Mountains, following the rivers. Along their journey they have prayed in the teples. They have been blessed by the yogis. They have looked for God in all these places. Those pilgris for truth have been rewarded by vistas of snow capped Hialayas while Bathing in holy waters. Long peaceful editations in the golden orange glow of evening. This is Gods way to speak to hi self Nature. There is one of wisdo s secrets that is kept in the silence of the heart. There God reinds the pilgri when he is willing to listen. All this is Me alone. All of this is Myself and is within you. The beauty, the perfection, the teple, the sunset. I a yourself, the very truth within every oent, every step of your journey. In His love 111

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13 Fro the very first oent, I knew I had never known like this before. I, so haggard, yet so willing. Fro there he took y hand and lead e far beyond yself. Wherever I a there he is, wherever he is there I a. There are not enough breaths, lives, tears; not enough gold. The debt is too great. Gratitude, however grand, is still too sall. He only gave one coand: Give everything to the, live and die for the, enlighten the, love the and show the the way beyond theselves. 13 3

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17 Duality / Illusion What stands before you ay fool you for sure. Since what is before you is naed and sees to be different. You could be attracted or you ay be repulsed. You ay think it is what it is not. Therefore it is ost essential to see beneath those shrouds of ipression and into the eternal sourcelessness. Other wise What stands before you ay fool you. For sure. 717

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19 Duality / Illusion This dual natured existence is the doain of heaven and hell. We on earth are caught in-between until we find our way beyond the two, beyond the any here and now, only here and now. Thoughts of e and ine, but not you and not yours, or you and yours, but not e and not ine, are called overflowing illusory ind. Cessation of e and cessation of you is Awakened unobstructed ind Cessation is awareness awareness is the way beyond and into the center, here and now, always here and now. When two sides eet in the center hell disappears into heaven, any disappears into One. Earth exeplifies all of life as the voice of incoprehensibility Here. The sage eets herself in eptiness Now. One vanishes again into e and you Vanishes into any. The way is new every oent, although it is ancient in origin. It is the illusory. 919

20 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Meaning is your own creation, an environent of diversity and possibility. To struggle to be soething has eaning. To strive to be nothing also has eaning. Meaning is like a irage of purpose, an oasis of ornaents. To be or not to be. Without the vision there sees to be lack

21 Duality / Illusion Everything that you perceive, good and bad, high and low, is within you. You can know nothing outside of yourself. What you don t know is also within you. All that is, is within you. All things coe to be known are within you. Whoever you are

22 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Meory and iagination are here and now. what you see is as it is and is not as it is... Grasping this or that gives one a splitting headache and never solves a proble that is rootless

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24 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one There is only one way out of conflict; through openness

25 Out of conflict Resistance obscures the unobstructed. Truth is unrestricted openness. What is closed is also Truth. When seen with transparent eyes, even a Buddha cannot offer you what you are. Buddha persuades whispering into the current of the dhara ind strea: Enter. Enter the way beyond, into and past. Where there is conflict, enter silence Where there is anger, enter release. Where there is confusion, enter relaxation. Where there is fear, enter editation. Here you will eet the stranger you are seeking

26 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Everything is for you and nothing is against you. This is the creed of the wise. Up and down are siply waves of illusion to be conquered. What great fortune is this? It is a fortune insisting to be discovered. Every oent is an offering to you and fro you. Understanding that this is so, huility in the for of eptiness opens the I as blae and disappointent disappear

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28 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one It is natural to want. Even the newborn wants its other. The fields want the day and night. The leaves the wind The roots want the rain. Just enough, not too uch The an wants his woan. Too uch is not enough. The oonlight wants the night. The whole world is wanting. Desire anoints the turning of the wheel of delusion and increases devotion to the dhara light illuination. As with all things in this two way world, desire is poison. What is natural is also poison. Isn t that the way it is? Nectar to poison, or poison to nectar in one single drop. To understand this well loosens the binds of ind, opening up and surpassing liit after liit

29 Desire If everything has to accord with your desire, you're already living in hell. Yield here and now. Then enter heaven's gate. 1929

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32 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Surrendering to possibility gathers strength, therefore relinquish a cage and open a door with no grip; confusion and rigidity naturally cease. Clear siplicity reains, and that is all

33 Surrender Accept everything as it is, all of it, every bit of it. Awaken in acceptance, bathe in acceptance, eat it, sleep it, breathe it, touch it, sell it. Taste it, adore it and befriend it. Be it, preach it, teach it. Live it every second of every day. Start fro there and then go on. There is only one true authority: Life. 233

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36 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Stillness is rooted in otion. Moveent is constant. Silence shapes sound. Moveent and stillness, silence and sound are not two things. Like all things they are undivided This is the origin as well as the end of separation. Realizing this One is always centered in stillness and action, silence and claor. One is undivided

37 Oneness There are as any realities as there are stars scattered throughout the heavens. The views, beliefs and angles through which people perceive, depend upon and refer to, to define their lives, are infinitely diverse. Oceans of stars and eons of galaxies are suspended in one perfect universe, so too a I. We, and all of our differences are coposed of and suspended in one indistinguishable totality. 2737

38 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Coonness is the highest spiritual experience. Every experience is extraordinary. Every experience is an experience of God, of Tao in oneself. Every experience is phenoenal, a coon experience absolutely un-shattered, undisturbed by singularity or differences, opens hidden Secrets, Awakens the sleeping. We begin in the sae way, in the iddle we go different ways only to end in the sae way. This is the way of the beginningless and the endless. Looking like any, being unique, this is coon and true. Opaque and confused, siple and clear is all the One silence being itself in every little detail. Going its way in I a until again dis-illusion. What a beauty

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40 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Within and without see to be different but they are the sae, one and the sae. Relax the pointing finger. If not, within is the ost iportant direction. One is One ordinarily extraordinarily One. This is the song of erging

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42 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one What appears to be born appears to die, don t be surprised. This is the iutable law of the turning of the wheel. Whatever tie is allotted to you, in this drea of coing and going, ay you use your days well. Coe to understand. May peace be your cofort and wisdo your best friend, your very best friend. May you see less and less of the lines drawn between. May you see ore and ore the boundless glory within your heart. For after all, iperanence is faithfully iediate

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44 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one One ust endure the sound of words. Get beneath the and beyond the. Let the go through and understand the. Listen and sense the like a cricket s song on a suer night. The sage is not tepted by words. No atter how sweet they taste or how foul they sell. Speaking or hearing is here and gone, hear and gone, like a cricket s song at sunrise

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46 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Huans unlike any other life expression endure an ego-sense struggle to fulfill the folly of being soething, soething at soe tie to soeone, proclaiing to a reflection in a irror that I a (this or that or this and that). This and That adds a little artistically applied ake-up to the facade of character. And yet we know, however uch we ay add, that intrinsic beauty is truly not dependent on what can be washed away with water or by tie

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48 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one You ask why? Eptiness has no voice, has no answer, has no question. Everything is as it is because it is as it is, and that is how it is, and that is that. See how it is? See how it is! 48 38

49 Eptiness Eptiness is like a beggar s bowl, bottoless, without end. No atter what you put in it, everything falls through. Never filled. Never exhausted. Potential is fullness briing with unspent abundance. It can never be barren or exhausted. Eptiness is potent. Potential is epty. These two are one undivided. An overflowing bottoless beggar s bowl. That s what the universe is ade of. 3949

50 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one In this nowhere land there is one infinite eternal swirl of eptiness, briing and radiantly potent. Who gets caught between this vacant thought and that vacant thought? Liitations are indistinct lines drawn in an epty thought

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52 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Everyone wants to be a Buddha. No one wants to be no one. Buddhas are everywhere seated in saadhi throughout infinite universes appearing and disappearing in wide-open Buddha fields of illusion. Buddha is no one

53 No One The greatest expressions of creativity occur in spite of the sense that I a personally the creative. The flow of creativity is ever present, with or without a e to clai creative exclusivity. This is what the spiritually ature begin to understand. Going in stillness, reaining forever stationary in otion. Here, nothing can disturb, no one to be disturbed. Not even in the heat of disruption

54 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The sage is vast like a shore-less sea, higher and as stable as Everest. How can it be that the sage is so dignified, so ajestic? Because he is not greater than any one. Therefore he is greatness in all that is. Why is the sage the greatness in all? The sage is no one. That s why

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56 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one At dawn the world is silent like editation. The busy city is still, like a placid lake. Light, leisurely devours the last shades of darkness. Only shadows reain to dance through the day, by the grace of a brilliant star. Way, way above the swallows are diving, swishing, like dolphins in the sky, blessing those below with trails of siple joy, siple joy. So subtle, so silent like a sage secretly passing by. Who will notice? On the hour, the bells toll, few enter the inner sanctu, while the rest reain asleep. Still, toorrow there s another orning and the sage s voice rings once again. Sleep oves deeper with every passing day and hour, another chance gone by. Isn t that the way it is? Wave crest

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59 The Sage Surrender the faithless to the faithful one, whose irror ind is undisturbed, deep and epty, peaceful and ready for stors and rubles, for beauty and all that s in-between. Lightening striking and rain s pounding; the lake s surface is turbulent, but there is peace in deeper waters

60 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The wisdo of the Ancients resounds forever and ever. It is unspeakable, tacit, unstructured and is spoken in words as well. Its eaning is never lost, is never surpassed. Those who realize it have been consued by its iplications. Those who have not been, shall be. Though oons rush by and ions disappear, nothing really changes in the fundaental atter of being, essence, ind and enlightenent. Like diaonds and water are valued forever So too, the brilliance of the ancestors and sages lights this oent, assisting and piercing straight through

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62 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The ost basic teachings are great jewels. Pristine and uncoplicated they are incredibly precious. 'Siply do no har to anyone, ever'. This will awaken every cell in your body, lighten your heart and bring down the borders that were never in your ind

63 Teachings When the rains fall, everything is cleansed and quenched. When the sun absorbs the haze, everything is bright and renewed. Too uch rain and floods rush in, sweeping away and drowning life. Too uch sun and all of life dries up, parched ud, cracked dust. Not too uch, not too little. Not too tight, not too loose. These potent words were once the Buddha s aster. Open wisdo of every occurrence is found in the center. Like the heart of everyone resides in the iddle. This is surely the way

64 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The root of ability is understanding, The root of understanding is insight. The root of insight is without root

65 Teachings Effortlessness eans non-discriination. All else is effort. When effortlessness is isunderstood, it eans disastrous overconfidence

66 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Yes, I have always said the sae: "If you include, include everything. If you exclude, exclude everything. Then and only then have you soething intangible to behold." 66 56

67 Teachings There is beneath the surface (so to speak) an unidentified sense of being, I a. This three-letter utterance conveys the greatest teaching of ego-less totality. Cherishing the seeds of possibility, cultivate the in the furrows of illusion. The ripe fruit of such a seed bares penetrating insight. 5767

68 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one One great Master said Easy requires weakness difficulty requires strength

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70 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Genuine wisdo is functional. To know is not enough. If knowing the way is all you have, you have nothing. Until you have woven wisdo into your daily life, and step-by-step you are able to access clear understanding at the exact right oent, well, you have only knowledge. And that eans you have nothing. Knowledge applied is wisdo, and that is the shining light of freedo. Wisdo applied is insight, is freedo reaching beyond understanding what wisdo actually is

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72 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one It is always a atter of letting those insightful passages just fall out of our heart and into the situation at the right tie. Ebodying one siplicity yields ore wisdo than years of studying the Way

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74 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one There is a blunder, a stone in the way, that people stuble over and over again fro beginningless tie until this very oent. They think, now I have it - now it s gone. Calling it nothing, they attribute it to soething. Thinking in easure, distance, tie and it, it, it. They think, one day, when conditions are right, the truth will stay with e forever. They think like that again and again, around and around it goes

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76 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one I was in y favorite antique shop the other day and I saw a nice old, well worn down, and therefore polished, Chenrezig in bronze. I asked how uch it was? 500 rupees the reply. Then I knew the polish was false, the age was false. Therefore I bought it and iediately saw three exact copies displayed in the shop! How uch like the world of appearances is this bronze casting? Looking one way and being another. Everything is understanding or isunderstanding and both can lead to insight. The Truth is evident everywhere, though it ay not be noticed

77 Truth The greatest obstacle to Truth is I a The gateway opened to Truth is I a Truth is I a and free of I a at once 67 77

78 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Enlightenent is not restricted, partial, exclusive or isolated. Every being is fully established therein, knowingly or unknowingly, sentient and insentient. The Truth is without bias or preference. Total expanding throughout infinite oceans of eternities, inside and out, here and now. This is a well spring of wisdo. Drinking fro this deep, pristine source, the arid thirst of perplexity vanishes like darkness disappears at sunrise. Lacking the certainty of this perfect wisdo, whatever ay be done or not done, only results in trying to be what you already are

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80 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The hidden beauty in Truth is whatever is, is Truth, whatever is not is Truth. There is no arrival nor was there departure. Doesn t that just turn your heart copletely inside out? 80 70

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83 Heart / Copassion The sages have told that generosity is illuinating. It erases the liits of yours and ine. Erasing the liits of yours and ine, opens the heart to receive the Tao as one s self. Everything belongs to the Tao and is the Tao fro beginningless tie until forever. No one gives to another, it only appears to be so. This is why the sages point to generosity of heart as a way. A way to see with clarity that all who give and all who receive are the Tao and the Tao alone. Giving with expectation or threads of attachent, is a dilea churning approach, an ardent restraint and an abundance of dissatisfaction. Why is it so? It is because everything belongs to the Tao, every hand, every breath, every heart, every offering. The one who receives is the one who gives. Though there is no profit in offering, how clean the ego-sense washes away when one gives without being noticed

84 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one The jewel in the lotus of our heart shines ore brilliantly by huility than by value. Precious beyond knowledge or worth, every being is this jewel, evident or obscure. Step deep into the basin of tenderness, cleans away all doubt in the tear strea of Chenrezig. Open your ind and find your heart within. Forgive everything iediately and carry on. Soon you will forget why it was even necessary to forgive

85 Heart / Copassion Arousing loving kindness is the rearkable advantage in generosity. Copassion naturally flows fro an open heart like fragrance drifts fro a rose. Let those oents of fragility and doubt blosso into copassion for all of those who are fragile and doubtful. When one is naturally loving in the copany of anyone, under any condition, then one has truly entered perfect understanding. The loving sage does not love all equally. The loving sage loves all totally. So natural, so natural

86 Soething for everyone and No thing for no one Our days on this earth are few though at ties they see too any. An open heart is the way of the lion, not the ouse. There are sall thinking people in every corner, on every street, in every oent. Even the great sky gazers gave the rule of the heart to the lion, Leo. We have coe together to bring out the best in you for the tie we have here on this earth. So let us do that and let us not do anything else. Maybe we have any, any years, aybe we have oents, this is always left unknown. But what we truly have is an open heart, which gives an unusual strength and great wisdo at all ties

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