Without writing, un-writing, the unwritten switches over to a question of reading on a board or tablet which you perhaps are. You are a board or a door; we will see much later how a word can address itself, indeed confide itself to a door, count on a door open to the other.
(Derrida)
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again.
No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received from My Father.
(John 10:17-18)
One who sees me in all, and sees all in me, to him I am not lost, and he is not lost to me.
(Bhagavad Gita 6:30)
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again.
No one takes it from me, but I give it up because I want to. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.
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Welcome to the Lord!
The word Om is the Imperishable ; all this its manifestation. Past, present, future—everything is Om. Whatever transcends the three divisions of time, that too is Om.
(Mandookya Upanishad)
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again.
No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from My Father
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The Guru you have in mind, one who gives you information and instructions, is not the real Guru. The real Guru is he who knows the real, beyond the glamour of appearances. To him your questions about obedience and discipline do not make sense, for in his eyes the person you take yourself to be does not exist, your questions are about a non-existing person. What exists for you does not exist for him. What you take for granted, he denies absolutely. He wants you to see yourself as he sees you. Then you will not need a Guru to obey and follow, for you will obey and follow your own reality. realize that whatever you think yourself to be is just a stream of events; that while all happens, comes and goes, you alone are, the changeless among the changeful, the self evident among the inferred. Separate the observed from the observer and abandon false identifications.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again.
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment of my Father.
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Be what you are. There is nothing to come down or become manifest. All that is necessary is to lose the ego. That which is is always there. Even now you are that. You are not apart from it. The blank is seen by you. You are there to see the blank. What do you wait for? The thought, ‘I have not seen’, the expectation to see and the desire of getting something, are all the workings of the ego.
You have fallen into snares of the ego. The ego says all these and not you. Be yourself and nothing more!
Once born you reach something. If you reach it you return also. Therefore leave off all this verbiage. Be as you are. See who you are and remain as the Self, free from birth, going, coming and returning.
(Sri Ramana Maharshi)
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life–only to take it up again.
No one takes it away from me; I give my own life freely. I have the right to give my life, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father commanded me to do.
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… under countless buddhas; and their merit is of every kind. Such men, coming to hear these teachings, will have an immediate uprising of pure faith.
(Diamond Sutra)
20 “I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret. 21 Why question me? Ask those who heard me. Surely they know what I said.”
22 When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby slapped him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.
23 “If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?” 24 Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
(John 18:20-24)
With a confident obedience, with a certain abandon that l fed here in it, the plural seems to follow: an order, after the beginning of an inaudible sentence, like an interrupted silence. It follows an order and, notice, it even obeys; it lets itself be dictated. It asks (for) itself.
(Derrida)
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them and they follow Me.
(John 10:27)
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