| [March 11 2009] Dear Rin, Yes, now I see, I understand. You describe it very well. It helps me also to understand what you mean by delusion. You have been on a long journey. Now you see your way ahead. This aspect of life has been very confusing for me. It has been a battle. I still have not found rest. Only in inwardness has there been times of peace. Shakespeare wrote, "The world is a stage and we are all actors in it." That is how it seems to me. But in the act of making something or of doing, in itself, the doing, that in my experience transcends identity. I am the doing, while I am doing. I am the thinking while I am thinking. I am the feeling while I am feeling. Participation in the experience of the moment. When I get away from that: confusion. Love and Peace to you dear Rin George |
| [March 12 2009] Rin, have you heard of the woman from India who spends her life hugging people? She has hugged over a million people. People will wait all day to get a hug. She was in San Francisco lately, but I didn't hear about it until after she was gone. George |
| [March 12 2009] Dear George, Her name is Mata Amritanandamayi Devi. She is called as the hugging saint. You will find many youtube videos about her. This is one of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTh4MXQ8H2I&feature=related She is beautiful. Love&Peace, Rin |
| [March 14 2009] Yes, she is Mother to all. Rin, there are three of your emails that I read over and over, I have printed them out so I can study them better. Above all I keep in mind that this is your experience rather than an idea that you conceived of. The three are:'Art is communication' 2/24, 'Re: still wondering'3/3, 'Re: maybe you wondered why I asked' 3/11 I have the experience of looking into a deep pool when I ponder these writings. What I wonder about most is delusion. When I say I wonder, I do not mean that you have not described your experience accurately, because you have, but the wonder is of delusion itself. I experience my own delusions and it is a wonder to me how one day, for no apparent reason, the delusion can just pop like a balloon, or others wear away so slowly,like sea shells in the tide. Sometimes I wonder what else about me is delusion? On the other hand, I cannot share the same faith in the concept of reality that so many people hold. The concept of reality, I think, must have been conceived in doubt, otherwise how would it come about? I do not think ancient peoples would have said, 'this tree is real', it would have been nonsensical. I find myself in a kind of no man's land of terminology. My experience is something more like this, 'hello oak tree, you are a mighty being'. Now many people would say that is delusional and I would have no grounds to argue against it, only it would not move me from my experience. When Amma speaks people listen because she is a lover and people are longing to be loved. People feel the love in her embrace. It is a comfort to know that such a person exists. Love is in every person she says, it just has to find its way to come out. Here in the US she stands in such a contrast to purely materialistic endeavors. ' Here in the United States people know everything except their own Self.' Materialism creates grand delusions. Growing up here I would have to say was the experience of a grand reversal of values. A fantastic delusion. What will be the sound when that balloon pops? Love and Peace, George |
| [March 15 2009] Dear George, You wrote you are wondering, what you wonder about is delusion. I too wonder what you meant in your writing every time. You explained delusion is like a balloon.I like it because it's more fun to look at it than calling as delusion. And I translated your balloon as a bubble for my understanding. Sometimes because you are wondering so deep in the pool, I cannot find you so easily. Or, maybe because I am so busy in a shallow, I cannot find where you are. But I see bubbles come out of you. I see bubbles come out of me. I see bubbles coming out of Amma too. Bubbles pop. They are popping everywhere. We just keep blowing bubbles up. Confusion? It's just a bubble. It will pop eventually. Love&Peace, Rin |
conversation March11~ March 15 2009 |