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Ramana Maharshi
There is no dissolution or creation, no one in
bondage, nor anyone pursuing spiritual practices. There is no one desiring
liberation nor anyone liberated. This is the Absolute Truth.
--
Never mind the mind.
If its source is sought, it will vanish, leaving the Self
(the pearl) unaffected.
There is no mind to control if you realize the Self.
You have ignored what is real and are holding on to the
mind which is unreal.
-- -- --- -- --
One morning a guest went to Bhagavan and much to his
Amusement handed him a paper on which the following
Was written:
“Bhagavan remembers that I expressed some doubts about
The resemblance between dreams and waking experience.
Early
In the morning most of these doubts were cleared by
the
Following dream, which seemed particularly objective
and real:
“I was arguing philosophy with someone. I pointed out
That all experience was only subjective, that there
was nothing
Outside the mind.
“The other person demurred, pointing out how solid
Everything was and how real experience seemed. It
could not
Be just personal imagination.
“ I replied, ‘No, it is nothing but a dream. Dream and
Waking experience are exactly the same.’
“‘You say that now’, he replied, ‘but you would never
say a
Thing like that in your dream.’”
And then I woke up.
--
To think is not our real nature.
--
In due time you will realize that your true glory
resides where you cease to exist.
--
There is neither creation nor
destruction,
Neither destiny nor free will,
Neither path nor achievement;
This is THE FINAL
TRUTH.
**__**
D.: At present there is a Sino-Japanese war going on.
If it is only in the imagination, can or will Sri Bhagavan imagine it not to be
going on and so put an end to it?
B. (laughing): The Bhagavan of the questioner (whom
the questioner sees as an external being) is as much a thought of his as the
Sino-Japanese War!
--
There are no stages in Realization or Mukti. There are
no degrees of Liberation
There are no levels of Reality; there are only levels
of experience for the individual, not of Reality. If anything can be gained
which was not there before, it can also be lost, whereas the Absolute is
eternal, here and now.
However, although there are no stages of
Self-realization there are what might be called pre-views, glimpses, which are
not yet stabilized or made permanent.
You are the Self even now, but you confuse this
present consciousness or ego with the Absolute Consciousness or Self. This false
identification is due to ignorance, and ignorance disappears together with the
ego. Killing the ego is the only thing to be done. Realization already exists;
no attempt need be made to attain it. For it is not anything external or new to
be acquired. It is always and everywhere—here and now too
-
No one is ever away from his Self and therefore
everyone is in fact Self-realized; only — and this is the great mystery —
people do not know this and want to realize the Self. Realization consists only
in getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized. It is not anything
new to be acquired. It must already exist or it would not be eternal and only
what is eternal is worth striving for.
--
You are not told to shut your eyes to the world, but
only to see your Self first and then see the whole world as the Self. If you
consider yourself as the body, the world appears to be external; if you are the
Self, the world appears as Brahman manifested
--
The wrong identification (of one thing with another)
is the work of the contaminated mind
--
"All that is needed is to give up thking of objects other
than the self. Meditation is not so much thinking of the self as giving up
thinlung of the non-self ...,
"The more you get fixed
in the self the more easily will other thotlghts drop of by
themselves. The mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts and the
me-thought is the root of all of them. When you see who this
"me" is and whence it proceeds, all thoughts get merged in the
Self.
**__**
Regulation of life such as
getting up at a fixed hour, bathing,
Doing mantra, japa, etc,
observing ritual, all this is for people who
Do not feel drawn to
Self-enquiry or are not capable of it. But for
Those who can practice this
method all rules and discipline are unnecessary.
--
The world is a
superimposition on the one Reality, like the appearance of a snake on a coiled
rope seen in dim light.
But here too the wrong identity ceases as soon as the
friend points out that it is a rope. Whereas in the matter of the world it
persists even after it is known to be unreal. How is that? Again the appearance
of water in a mirage persists even after the knowledge of the mirage is
recognised. So it is with the world. Though knowing it to be unreal, it
continues to manifest.
But the water of the mirage is not sought to satisfy
one’s thirst. As soon as one knows that it is a mirage, one gives it up as
useless and does not run after it for procuring water.
--
Meditation is initiated and sustained by a conscious
effort
Of the mind. When such effort entirely subsides, it is
called samadhi.3
If you can keep
still without engaging in any other
Pursuits, well and good. But if that cannot be done,
what is the
Use of remaining inactive only with regard to
realisation? So
Long as you are obliged to be active, do not give up
the attempt
To realise the Self.
So long as the ego lasts, effort is necessary. When
the ego
Ceases to exist, actions become spontaneous
No one succeeds without effort. Mind control is not
your
Birthright. The few who succeed owe their success to
their
Perseverence.
Sometimes glimpses of Realisation are attained before
it
Becomes permanent, and in such cases effort still
continues to
Be necessary.
Effort is necessary up to the state of Realisation.
Even then,
The Self should spontaneously become evident;
otherwise
Happiness will not be complete. Up to that state of
spontaneity
There must be effort in some form or another.
D.: Why should I try to get Realisation? I shall
emerge from
This state of illusion just as I wake up from a dream.
We do not
Make any effort to get out of a dream when we are
asleep.
B.: In a dream you have no inkling that it is a dream,
and
Therefore no obligation to make an effort to get out
of it. But in
This life you have some intuition based on your
experience of
Sleep and on what you hear and read, that it is a sort
of dream, and this intuition imposes on you the duty of making an effort
To get out of it. However, who wants you to realise
the Self if you
Don’t want to? If you prefer to be in this dream, stay
as you are.
(Sometimes, however, as in the following very similar
Conversation, the seeker was reminded that even the
effort is a
Part of the illusion of individual being.)
"Your thinking that you have to make an effort to
get
Rid of this dream of a waking state and your making
efforts to
Attain Realisation or real awakening are all parts of
the dream.
When you attain Realisation you will see there was
neither the
Dream during sleep nor the waking state, but only
yourself and
Your real state."
--
If you see a number of men in a dream and then wake up
and recall your dream, do you try to find out whether the persons of your
dream-creation are also awake?
A self-realised
being cannot help benefitting the world. His very existence is the highest good
--
D.: What is the essential nature of upadesa or
spiritual
Instruction given by the Guru?
B.: The word upadesa literally means ‘restoring an
object
To its proper place’. The mind of the disciple, having
become
Differentiated from its true and primal state of Pure
Being, which
Is the Self and which is described in the scriptures
as Sat-chitananda
(Being-Consciousness-Bliss), slips away therefrom and,
Assuming the form of thought, constantly pursues
objects of
Sense-gratification. Therefore it is assailed by the
vicissitudes of
Life and becomes weak and dispirited. Upadesa consists
in the
Guru restoring it to its primal state and preventing
it from
Slipping away from the state of Pure Being, of
absolute identity
With the Self or, in other words, the Being of the
Guru.
The word can also be understood as meaning ‘to present
An apparently distant object to close view’; that is
to say, it
Consists in the Guru showing the disciple what he had
considered
As distant and different from himself to be immediate
and
Identical with himself.
--
You need not eliminate any false ‘I’. How can ‘I’
Eliminate itself? All that you need do is to find out
its origin
And stay there. Your effort can extend only so far.
Then the
Beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless
there. No effort
Can reach It.
--
The notions of bondage and liberation are merely
Modifications of the mind... To those who have
attained this
Realisation and thus abide absolutely identical with
the Self, there
Is neither bondage nor liberation
--
There is no such thing as realising the Self. How is
one
To realise or make real what is real? People all
‘realise’ or regard
As real what is unreal, and all they have to do is to
give up doing
So. When you do that, you will remain as you always
are and
The Real will be Real. It is only to help people give
up regarding
The unreal as real that all the religions and
practices taught by
Them have come into being.
(“There is no such thing as realising the Self ” –
Bhagavan has
Often said this in order to remind those who asked
that the
Self alone is, now and eternally, and is not something
new to
Be discovered. This paradox is of the essence of
non-dualism.)
--
Ceaseless practice is essential until one attains
without the
Least effort that natural and primal state of mind
which is free
From thought, in other words, until the ‘I’, ‘my’ and
‘mine’ are
Completely eradicated and destroyed.
--
SIDDHARAMESHWAR
MAHARAJ
NON - ACTION
"The key
to transcending the illusion lies in doing nothing."
Many people feel that they should do something to
acquire true spiritual knowledge. Then what remedy does the master prescribe to
the disciple to acquire knowledge? If a man is healthy and he asks the doctor
to cure his disease, what can he reply? Then he asks the same question to the
chief of the village and to a lawyer, and they tell him, "You have become
stout." Then he thinks, "What could be the reason that I have become
stout?" He asks the doctor. The doctor feels his pulse and thinks,
"What can I say to him, he has no disease? It can't be diagnosed."
Then someone wise tells him, "You are affected by a terrible disease! What
else can I say?"
Pursuing absolute Truth is similar to the example
given above. People do so many things to attain Truth because they feel they
must act. People tell them, "You have become an individual being
[jiva]." Just brush it all aside, saying "Nothing has happened.
Surely, nothing has happened." Let your understanding be this, and thus
become absolutely free. Can there be any talk about that which never existed?
When you say "I", the notions of "mine" and
"yours" emerge simultaneously, and this is the main problem.
There is one and only one Truth. When you say, "My
hand is paining me", you know that you are not your hand. Knowledge is for
learning what you have heard. One should know God as he is, then there is
nothing left to achieve. When you understand the true meaning, then nothing is
left to be done. So to understand Truth, all that is illusory must be
destroyed. People make all kinds of efforts to conquer the illusion, but the
illusion is very tricky. It still resides in the one who says he has to conquer
the illusion. So how should it be tackled? And what has to be done after one
realises the Truth? If you ask this, the answer is – "You have to do
nothing regarding the body, your household, etc... Let them be as they
are."
Suppose while you were asleep you had a dream that you
met a bear while walking on the road. You wrestled with it, sat on its chest
and finally killed it. The moment you awoke there was no bear to be seen, there
was nothing. Similarly, to feel that "I am realised", "I am a
saint", "I am an aspirant" or "I am after spiritual
knowledge" is delusion. To feel that God "comes" and "goes
away" is an illusion. Your illusory concepts play the role of the bear –
when you wrestle with them, sometimes they make you fall and at other times you
make them fall. The master's advice is, "Why do you meddle in this? All
this chaos is the chaos of illusion." Let the objects be wherever they
are. If you try to manage affairs, you will forget the primordial Supreme.
Doership is the illusion and non-doership is Self.
The aspirants always think of that which is untrue.
They ask, "What shall I do, Maharaj?" The Guru asks him not to sniff
tobacco, and the disciple immediate reacts by putting his nose into the box
containing tobacco! Or he may say, "You say that all this is false, yet
you yourself also indulge in it." There are only two things in the world:
worldly existence and Reality. To take interest in what has happened is to get
involved in worldly affairs. If you abandon all these things, true knowledge
will dawn. This is why a man gets caught in bondage. Individuality is to
involve the mind in the objective world, and Godhood is to do nothing. God is
in the temple while there are rocks lying outside. Why should God value rocks?
For this God [your own Self], to live among stones is called
"individuality" or "ignorance".
Saint Tukaram says, "God is quite ancient."
God is prior to everything. A jnani has understood that the Supreme being
[Paramatman], which is prior to all, is silently sitting in his heart. Leaving
this God alone, people think of doing good or bad. That is the illusion for the
individual being. The illusion makes man knowledgeable, makes him a narrator of
the Vedas, and makes him play this worldly game. If a thing is good, it is
good; if it is bad, it is bad; if one is wealthy, he is wealthy; and if one is
poor, he is poor. Who is the real aspirant? He is the one who has understood
the illusion is nothing. However much you may have wrestled with the bear in a
dream, it is still all false. But the illusion does not allow the aspirant to
be victorious.
The concept of "I" and "you" is a
delusion, as is the concept of "aspirant". Even the idea "I am
God" is a delusion. This world itself is rooted in delusion. If I and you
are God, then why should there be any supposition? As told before,
"Abandon everything!" Ignorant people start beating cymbals for
worship. This knowledge is actually ignorance. Hence, even this knowledge has
no true value. Only knowledge of the Self destroys ignorance. The individual
"I" is the one who dabbles in the illusion. So just do nothing. The
aspirant is tortured by those who tell him, "You must do this and you must
do that." All this is to fool him. The illusion has long horns on his
head. If you supersedes him, he gores you, and if you fall behind, he kicks
you.
Thus, the key to
transcending the illusion lies in doing nothing. All happiness, misery, worry and
anxiety are inherent in the illusion. You have to do nothing, you
have to abandon nothing. In Dasbodh, Saint Ramdas says, "Action and
non-action are illusion." So those who have not understood this illusion
may dance wild. The illusion is dreamlike. If you wrestle with a bear in a
dream, your victory or defeat is irrelevant. So it is said that the illusion is
unconquerable, even for Lord Brahma, Vishnu, Harihera, etc., since they all
take it to be true. Vishnu said, "I shall protect them", so he became
a four-handed God. This is an illusion, yet all are engrossed in it.
Suppose a barren woman's son said that he had held a
torch at Maruti's [an eternal celibate] wedding. This world in the form of
illusion is just as fictitious. So those who say they have conquered the
illusion are thoroughly deceived. The devotee of God does not experience the
happiness or misery arising from the illusion. His glory is small, but higher
than that of the gods Hari and Hara. The reason is that he takes everything as
untrue and knows that there is no action, cause or doer. Wherever there is a
feeling of cause and effect, it is due to the feeling "I am not
Reality." This feeling is the effect and the "I" is the cause.
When you feel that you are not Reality, you become an individual "I".
When you feel that you are neither an "I" nor Shiva, you become Final
Reality. "I", "good", "bad, etc., all these are signs
of delusion rising up from the material world. All this is a game of
"blind man"s bluff". Reality is the one who covers the players
eyes, and hence, he is not part of the game. He blindfolds the participants
only once. Knowledge and ignorance are the material cause of the world [prakriti].
This itself is delusion. Who expounds the scriptures and who conveys knowledge?
Chanting, penance, methods, study, etc., are all the mesmeric activities of the
illusion. You cross over the material world only when you are free from all
"duties". These are all matters at this initial stage. So long as
there is knowledge, there is delusion. Reject whatever you suppose you are.
"Reject" means do not dabble in anything whatsoever. Continue your
worship: "I am the Self, I am Reality, I am not the body, I am not the name."
The one who is speaking inside is "I", is God. Just be convinced of
that.
There was a princess who wanted to find a lazy man to
marry. Accordingly, an announcement was made in every village. Prospective
suitors claiming to be lazy soon arrived at the palace. The princess wanted to
assure the validity of their claims. One man pretended to be so lazy by
arriving on the shoulders of someone else. Another feigned silence in support
of his claim, and another refrained from using his hands to eat food. There
were as many pretensions of laziness as there were suitors. The princess
rejected them all. But there was one shrewd fellow who simply informed the
princess that he had come to get married to her. She asked him, "How can
you prove that you are lazy?" He replied, "All the others are merely
pretending. They are only actors and are not lazy at all." Maintaining
silence, not walking, and not eating with the hands – these are all external
actions meant to deceive. These qualities are not of the nature of a really
lazy person. Similarly, for a jnani, it is absolutely evident that he is
Reality.
The true mark of a saint is taking the world to be
untrue. If it is not understood that it is in the nature of the material world
to be false, then one cannot get "married to the princess." Laziness
does not mean abandoning outward actions. The individual "I" has the
habit of engaging itself in constant activity. To do something is in the nature
of the body consciousness. What has to be done, and for whose sake? Illusion
implies "my idea". There is a proverb: "He started worshipping
God when he got tired of doing things."
If you reject all that is untrue, then you become God
Reality. The illusion is believing that "I ought to first do this and that
, manage this and that, become rich, and then afterwards I will become a saint
and start acting differently." So leave things exactly as they are. If you
meddle in things, your body consciousness will get enhanced and you will
constantly feel that you ought to be doing something. This is the obstruction
for attaining Final Reality. When you are not the body, then it is useless to
think about wealth or poverty. All is untrue. Then why this unnecessary query?
Godhood is "not to do anything." We say, "Remain quiet, like
God", but in actuality we indulge ourselves in body consciousness.
To not worry about anything means to be at peace
--
Karl Renz
Whatever you
put attention to is not what you are.
Put attention
to that what is attention!
Be the seer and
not that what can be seen, that is putting attention to the Absolute Seer which
never can be seen in anything, neither presence or absence.
Put attention
to that what is not an idea and not any concept and that is That what you are.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Put total
attention to That what is in spite of presence or absence, and not putting
attention to the knowing or the not knowing.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Nothing is more
ecstatic than that which doesn't need to experience any ecstasy at all
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You are That
what you call Life in spite of experiencing life or no-life. That is Eternal
Life and not what you can experience as life.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
What you are is in spite of the mind understanding or not
understanding... Not because!
So the Peace you are doesn’t depend on the mind who
understands or not. The realization of mind is very nice and very fine in the
world, but not for What you are. It’s not good enough!
So, you have to see the emptiness of the realization of
the mind. Whatever the mind is realizing is empty or false... It’s as
artificial as the mind is. It’s temporary... It comes and goes.
So, it’s like a ghost realization.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You fall in love with the first light, the first
awareness, which is already presence.
But it is not That what you are.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
The ‘I’ is just a center where you look from.
It’s just a camera position that you call as ego, a
reference point, that’s all.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
What You Are doesn’t need to remember itself.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
And then those of Love begin to offend others.
“You speak from the mind, but I speak from the heart”.
Incredible!
Always making distinctions between mind and heart.
"And I am a person of heart and you are a mental
person".
Fantastic how these hearted people offend everyone around.
I really hate them (laughter).
There is a continuous offense by claiming that you are a
mental person and I am a person of heart.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
K: Master phantom needs awareness to exist. What kind of reality
would it be that needs awareness to exist?
Q: It would be a f**king limited one...
K: Yes.
Then the f**king phantom - called "mind" -
minds around – all day long. That’s called mind-f**king mind and then the
mind-f**king mind pronounces that – I Am the awareness!
---- -- -- - -- --
The phantom never did anything and what-you-are is
inexhaustible. Even the phantom is inexhaustible because when you-are, the
phantom-is – energy itself.
How can you exhaust energy?
But you try and you never succeed.
-- -- -- --
By trying to end this imagination, you create another
image of yourself. So, the false creates false.
It starts false and it creates false.
False, false, false, false, false – everywhere.
Here, there and beyond – false, false, false.
Whatever you imagine – is false.
But how to end that?
Trying to end it – is false.
The phantom is ‘I’ and ‘I’ will I-magine.
The false trying not to be false. The unreal trying not
be unreal – trying to become real. That’s his bloody nature.
Consciousness trying to know consciousness.
Consciousness already is unreal. Then consciousness tries
to know consciousness – penetrating consciousness. A phantom penetrating a
phantom and creating other phantoms – infinite phantoms, more and more
phantoms. Now there are seven billion Adams and Eves, Kane and Able and all of
that – coming out of that first Adam, which is already false.
-- -- -- -- --
To say "it doesn’t matter" is a nice saying,
but everyone wants to get rid of the phantom, because this mind, phantom, is
suffering – from the beginning till the
end.
But whatever you do to get rid of it, confirms that there
is one who is in it. It doesn’t work.
You cannot get rid of that phantom by any doer,
meditation and tra..la..la.
So you better be what-you-cannot-not-be and that is the
only way of getting rid of whatever concepts and ideas you have about yourself.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Q: So, what-you-are is effortlessness, but the
personality is the effort...
K: It wants to survive. It’s like the phantom tendencies
of this body want to survive. You want to live forever as what you think you
are, but it’s not possible. You cannot survive – but you try. You eat organic,
you go to wellness clubs, you do enema, you try your best to live longer.
Actually you don’t like to live, but you want to live longer.
It’s crazy!
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You really have to make a lot of effort to memorize what
happened before and how you are, because if you don’t memorize how you are,
there’s no ‘me’ anymore! Every morning you have to jump in, memorizing how you
are and how you react to a circumstance otherwise you don’t exist. It’s just a
little memory effect, like a computer memory.
Then there’s a software program running, trying to keep
things in check.
Trying to make it a good ego.
A lifetime work of being a good person!
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
What you can enjoy cannot bring the joy of What You Are.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Every emotion is fiction.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
I want to make you an absolute addict for That what you
are and by that addiction alone, by that surrendering to that addiction, your
longing is being devoted only to That. This is like giving attention to only
That what is what you are. That’s burning you down... But not by trying to make
it more bearable.
So I try to make it something that is the only thing
worth being, and the rest is... Whatever it is.
Who cares?
Only being That what you are is ending all the
beginnings.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Fear is only there in the false evidence that you are.
Fear means False Evidence Appearing Real. That appearance... That evidence that
you have... This ‘me’, this mind that I can experience, is a false evidence,
because it needs an evidence to exist.
And whatever needs an evidence to exist, is false,
because That what is the Absolute existence doesn’t need to exist to exist. It
doesn’t need any proof of existence.
The Truth you are never needs to be proven.
It doesn’t need any confirmation of any kind. And that
what now has experiences is just a story. A story of the mind, of ‘me’ and all
of that. It started at one point and at one point it will be over, but What you
are, it was, it is and will be what it is... In spite of that story of the one
that is, or is not, in peace.
These samadhis, this peace and whatever can be given, is
a dependency.
So, peace off.
Because That what you are doesn’t need any peace and that
what needs peace will never find peace. For there’s no peace in the world,
there’s no peace in anything because they are all ideas!
The peace you are, you never lost. That what you never
lost, you cannot find in any of this so-called... Whatever you call it.
The peace you can experience is not the peace you are...
Be happy that you don’t have to be happy!
And that happiness you are doesn’t know any difference
between that and That.
That Absolute indifference of whatever is... Cannot be
achieved by any difference –
it cannot be reached by any mind that makes a difference, and the mind makes differences because it needs the differences
to survive.
But what you are doesn’t need anything.
So what?
Then the mind even comes up with ‘Oh, I’m the unborn.
I’ll take some landing in the unborn.
I’m not born so I don’t die’.
It’s trying to control fear again... "because I’m
not born, I don’t fear". Who needs to be unborn not to fear?
Osho’s tombstone says ‘Never born, never died’... Ha, ha,
ha.
‘I leave you my dream’... Ha, ha, ha
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
I’m talking to That what was never conditioned by
whatever.
Having a body doesn’t make you a body. The body
experience doesn’t make you a body, the mind experience doesn’t make you a
mind, the absence doesn’t make you the absence.
You are always in spite... And never changed by anything.
-- -- -- -- --
You cannot not be that Absolute you are ... So be it!
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
I can only make you attracted to That where I speak from
and by that attraction alone you burn down.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Trying not to avoid is feeding that avoider.
Whatever you try now from that position doesn’t work.
Even trying not to avoid, is avoiding the avoidance.
So, you have to be in spite of the avoider avoiding what
can be avoided... Which is actually unavoidable. So, I sit here and tell you
that you cannot avoid being What You Are. So, just be it! Be That what you
cannot not be, because that’s unavoidable, because it waits for you anyway.
This phantom that rises, will disappear again. It came and it will be gone -
this avoider.
So why not be That in the presence of it or in the
absence of it?
Why wait for it to be gone?
It will be gone one day and you will be the leftover again
because the leftover cannot avoid itself. You are that Reality which is
unavoidable.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You’re already in the tiger’s mouth, don’t worry. It will
eat you but not when you want to be eaten. It eats you in spite of you wanting
to be eaten. You don’t have to be on a barbecue to be ready for the tiger.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
By whatever awareness that nothing can make you more as
you are, you burn out that idea that something can happen to you.
Now there’s this energy of fear, a fear of dying, a fear
of consequence. But even in the absence there’s no consequence for you, and
nothing has a consequence for What You Are. So, whatever you experience has no
consequence.
You’re in spite of all happenings and non-happenings.
In the total absence of any consequence, where’s the
fear?
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
This is not a practice, this is not a process, this is
not an evolutionary. This is just confronting yourself with death permanently,
twenty four hours a day, three sixty-five days meditating on the absence.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Just be That what is in spite of anything.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You are the absence in the absence and you are the
presence in the presence. But there’s no one in the absence and no one in the
presence.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You have to stay as a mystery for yourself. That’s why
they call it absolute absence of any idea or no-idea of what-you-are and
what-you-are-not.
All the ideas come from the first root thought ‘I’.
Then come all the ideas of what-you-are and
what-you-are-not. Then comes identification and non-identification, doership
and non-doership.
-- -- -- -- -- --
Whatever you try to make it as a circumstance, doesn’t
work!
That what is the Self doesn’t need any special
circumstance at all.
It’s always in spite of any circumstance of readiness or
ripeness.
There’s not even luck involved! If it’s meant to happen,
it will happen. But not because you want it. If it’s meant to happen, it will
happen in spite of your effort, in spite of what you’ve done, in spite of all
the sadhanas, in spite of whatever--
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
This joy of being What You Are, which is in spite of
whatever you can imagine... Is incomparable to all the bloody joy of the
rainbow, spirit or golden awareness! All of that is empty for what you are... Because
it cannot make you more or less as you are. So, enjoy the emptiness of all
experiences.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Be what can never be lost or found in anything.
And that doesn’t need to be called anything. Just be that
what you cannot not be and that is in spite of whatever you imagine or not.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You don’t want to wake up.
It will feel like a rape!
If you could, you’d stay in deep-deep sleep.
No one wants to wake up but when you woke up, it’s too
late.
It’s an accident and it already feels like a rape that
you have to exist!
What to do?
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Just be that which is in spite of whatever and then if
there’s still someone who cares about it, let him care about it.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
It’s just being in spite of wisdom and in spite of love.
Being in spite of whatever, that’s life just flowing.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Don’t give up anything. Just give up giving up.
Surrender the surrendering!
There is nothing for you to surrender to be.
Surrender the surrendering, devote the devotion by being
what you are. Kill all ideas just by being what you are.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
D. Harding
Look at that affliction from the Place of no affliction.
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The best day of my life - my rebirthday, so to speak -
was when I found I had no head. This is not a literary gambit, a witticism
designed to arouse interest at any cost. I mean it in all seriousness: I have
no head.
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Pretending that, as our sole selves, we exercise free
will, is as absurd and dishonest as it is vainglorious and stressful. Only the
Source of all, under the sway of none, has free will; and only deeds which are
seen to proceed from it, which are referred back to it, which are felt to be
its own deeds - only these carry its marvellous smell, the smell of an
originality and rightness which belongs solely to that Origin.
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To live the choiceless life that we have been describing
is not fatalism. It is not giving up the struggle and accepting that one is a
machine within a Machine. It is to identify with the Machine's Inventor, to
take one's stand in Freedom itself. It is to be one's Source, to choose what
flows from it, and to perceive it as very good.
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It's what you see that counts, not what you think of it.
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You bathe in the realization that you're built for loving
and being everyone, and for confronting no one.
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Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it
cannot be true. But simple things are difficult.
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What actually happened was something absurdly simple and
unspectacular: I stopped thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental
chatter died down. For once, words really failed me. Past and future dropped
away. I forgot who and what I was, my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could
be called mine. It was as if I had been born that instant, brand new, mindless,
innocent of all memories. There existed only the Now, that present moment and
what was clearly given in it. To look was enough. And what I found was khaki
trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown shoes, khaki sleeves
terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki shirtfront
terminating upwards in—absolutely nothing whatever! Certainly not in a head.
It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing,
this hole where a head should have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere
nothing. On the contrary, it was very much occupied. It was a vast emptiness
vastly filled, a nothing that found room for everything—room for grass, trees,
shadowy distant hills, and far above them snowpeaks like a row of angular
clouds riding the blue sky. I had lost a head and gained a world.
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety.
Only observing the Observer of the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying
and fussing and scheming. When his interest is diverted inwards he naturally
relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the outer world. Having withdrawn his
capital and paid it into his own Central Bank (where it appreciates to
infinity), he has nothing to lose out there and no reason for interfering. He
knows how to let things be and work out in their own time. He's in no hurry.
Knowing the Self, he can hardly fail to trust its products.
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Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead
of thinking you are just a person, that appearance, you can awake to the power
behind you, the safety within you, the source of inspiration and guidance at
the heart of your human life. This enables you to be yourself even more so.
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Here is just emptiness.
There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that
stuff.
There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and
clarity.
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Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies
dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit remains - once we bother to go into the
matter. "Spirit is the living body seen from within, and the body is the
outer manifestation of the living spirit." Extend this statement by Carl
Jung to all bodies from electrons to galaxies, and you have the ultimate physics
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Rely on the Tao is to rely on the only Power there really
is, on the Dark Horse which (though it makes a show of being a non-starter if
ever there was one) turns out to be the winner. My tip is: back it, put your
shirt on it. It never fails, never lets you down. As the Taoists put it: draw
on this well. It never runs dry. I say to you, as always, don't passively
believe a word of all this. Test this Power. You are it, it's your Nature, your
Nothingness, your First Personhood, not far to seek. Give It a whirl: or
rather, allow yourself to be whirled by It.
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You experience no Awareness-gap between 'falling asleep
at night' and 'waking up in the morning', and no Awareness-gap while your body
is undergoing surgery in the operating theatre.
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It is your essential nature to remain unaffected, as
unstained and uninjured and unstressed as your TV screen is by all the murders
and shootings and burnings that rage on it.
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It's always No-thing at the near.
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From the unstressable into the stressed.
Always your stress-medicine, your rule, the flag you fly,
is ASYMMETRY, NON-CONFRONTATION.
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Your defences are perfect since you have nothing to
defend.
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Personalities who concentrated on winning regardless, on
gaining and never losing face, don't make encouraging reading. In fact, the
trouble with these so-called magical powers isn't that they are too powerful
but that they aren't nearly powerful enough. They are feeble because in the
last resort they are illusory: whereas the real Power, the Power that empowers
all powers, is nothing else than your true Nature,
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There are no gradations between being a stressful
something and being the stress-free Nothing/Everything, no compromises. The
difference is not negotiable.
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BE PERFECT - AND GET BETTER!
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Things can't be trusted. They pose problems, they change,
they perish. Not so this Aware Nothing. It alone can be relied on
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Bow before the evidence.
You have nothing left to lose, and everything to gain, by
bowing before the facts ...
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All this choosing one thing in preference to another is
illusory, a great cover-up. Separate individuals, as such, are powerless to
make the slightest difference
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If there's a lesson we should have learned by now, if
there's one crucial discovery we have made again and again in the course of our
study, it is that appearances are misleading and you aren't a bit what you look
like
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To go back to Nature and become centred again, you have
only to come to your senses, and stay with your body instead of running away
from it. You have only to rejoin the Ground - shock-proof and earthquake-proof
- which you never left.
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Nobody can get on a collision course with you, because
there's nothing to collide with.
NISARGADATTA
The truth cannot be seen or perceived, but the truth
can observe the untruth.
The truth does not need the help of words.
-
FOR A REALIZED ONE, THE WHOLE FUNCTIONING IN THE WORLD
IS A BHAJAN (spontaneous expressions of sharing, singing, dancing)
-
Please understand that there is only one thing to be
understood, and that is that you are the formless, timeless unborn.
--
You take your imagination for facts and my facts for
imagination...
--
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another: it comes
unasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.
--
Liberation is the liberation
from the concept of bondage, not from any bondage as such.
___**__
“Only after a year, when your mother called your name,
you realized your separation”.
__**__
Once I have clearly
understood, without the slightest doubt, that I am not the "me" as
the corrlated subject/object of any "you”, where is the question of any
bondage? Bondage for whom, of what?
**__**
Whatever you understand, you are not. In
non-understanding you understand yourself.
--
When you know the false as false, then you do not have
to worship at all. Any idea of doership-that things happen because you do
something-also goes away.
--
The jnani does not give importance to this waking,
sleeping and beingness. Just as you are not afraid of a serpent made out of
rubber, so in a similar way the jnani has no interest in this waking state and
beingness.
--
M: There is no karma in the state of Parabrabman.
Where is the question of karma?
V: But you were talking about conception, body-mind.
M: Who has entered the body-mind form?
V: I...? We...?
M: Now the space has entered in this room, the space
is there. Why and how has the space entered this room?
V: At first there was no space...no time?
M: The space is outside, the space is here also; there
is no distinction between outside and inside space, it is all space only! So
where is the question of coming and going?
--
The one who has solved this (existential) riddle comes to the conclusion that this beingness
and this entire manifest world is unreal. There is no need for knowledge when
this beingness was not. When even great gods like Brahma and Vishnu were
confronted with this puzzle, they closed their eyes and went into samadbi and
just disappeared.
Please understand very clearly
That there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that I - or
anyone else -
Can do for you as an individual in regard to the
liberation that you
Are seeking. Please understand very clearly that you
as an individual
Entity just do not exist; where then is any question
of your being
Bound or being liberated? What then, you may ask, is
to be done?
Holy answer is: nothing. If you accept the fact that
you exist not as
Entity, but only as a phenomenal object which has no
independent
Existence on its own, then who is there to make any
effort or under
Go any discipline?
__**__
Nis. Explain that enlightenment or aaakcning rives not
DO
Anythmg; it does not in sny xay "alter" our
state
**__**
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to say very often rhat he
spoke to
The visitors not as one individual to another but as
Consciousness to consciousness; he thereby
annihilated, as an entity,
Not only the Qsciple but also hmself, the Guru. He saw
the disciple
As his own reflection in the mirror of consciousness
but, again, not
As an entity, but as the expresssion of that unicity
which they both
Are.
--**__
Nisargadatta used to say that the conceptual
"individual" is truly inseparable from his real nature, like sugar and sweetness:
The inlvidual must realize that to know him “self”, there can be no self other
than the self which he himself is.
__**__
Nis. Often says the that problem is the fact that the
indtvidual who thinks he is enlightened is as much in bondage as another who
thinks he is ignorant and in bondage. This is because "that" which
thinks it is in bondage, and "that" which thinks it is enlightened
are both identified conceptually with a phenomenal (mental) object. The
supposed problem, therefore, relates not to any condition of bondage or
freedom, but to the identification with a
Supposed separate entity with supposed autonomy.
**__**
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to
emphasize that this negation
of the negation - the double negation - is the final step in apperception, but that
it must "happen"; no "one" can "achieve" it.
…
Nisargadatta Maharaj always
used to bring out the limitations of Yoga and yogic powers and achevements.
"The Yogi may have mastered all aspects of Yoga", he would say,
"and may avoid death every time he faces it and may remain in Samadhi most
of the time, and live for two thousand years. But then what?" His point
was that Yoga and all its achievements are at the level of conceptualization in
space time and are of no spiritual value in the absence of apperception of
what-we-are.
Maharaj used to say repeatedly:
"understanding is all." And by understanding he did not mean merely
an intellectual comprehension. What he meant was apperception as such, a clear
brilliant light of apprehension in which there was not the slightest touch of
objectivity, not even a lurking doubt of a "who" or "what",
in whch logical intellectual analysis had no look-in at all.
Some seekers might end up in
frustration when they find that long years of such practice had brought them
nothing, whereas some others might go along the pathless path and reach the
destination (which is no destination) almost effortlessly. Some others
mightfall by the wayside having mistaken some puerile spiritual "powers”
as the ultimate goal.
…
Nisargadatta Maharaj was very
peculiar. Quite a few visitors used to feel enormously confused about Maharaj's
ways.
He was supposed to be a Jnani
and yet he had ritual prayers held in his abode three times a day. He smoked
his bidis (country-made cigarettes), ate whatever was placed before him,
vegetarian or nonvegetarian, and generally seemed to live like any ordinary
person. What is more, when some visitors asked him what he should do to
Put Maharaj's teaching into
practice in his daily life, Maharaj would ask him to establish hlmself firmly
in the identity of his true nature and then do whatever he wished to do.
…
Nisargadatta often said that
whatever appears phenomenally - whatever is sensorially perceived - is like the
Wrapper of the real thing, a
sample, a description, an advertisement, a mask: like a polic constable in
uniform representing the Inspector General of Police, a civil servant
representing the Government, the tip of an iceberg indicating the mass
underneath. In other words, whetevcr is sensorially perceivable - the positive - and seems to be
real, is only an outward appearance of what lies underneath - the negative.
…
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to
say repeatedly that the
apperception of the silent presence or beingness is the only apperception
necessary to disidentify ourselves from the individual entity that
we-think-we-are. Apperception has to be
immediate because otherwise it
would only be an intellectual understanding in conceptual, temporal
duration, duration, with a pseudosubject who is
supposed to understand a profound, mysterious, complicated, elusive knowledge.
…
The
dalectic reasoning of our mind – the split-mind of duality – can take us to a stage where our split-mind
can take us no further than sterile conceptuality. In that sense, Nisargadatta used to say quite often: "You must
reverse".
Exhorted the visitor to
"go back", to "reverse", to consider: “What were you a minute ago, before
conceptualization?".
…
Jnaneshwar
Day and night are both unknown to the Sun; similarly,
a clear
Understanding of the essential unity between Shiva dn
Shakti
Dispels all sense of duality.
Would it not be ridiculous that "THAT" which
is knowledge itself, its very essence and embodiment, should depend on any
other knowledge to establish itself?
If by the knowledge "I am That", an
individual considers himself
Liberated, it clearly shows that he has stiu notapperceived
his
True nature which is the fullness of knowledge itself.
If a lamp
Should expect
light from another lamp, surely it means that it
Has forgotten
that light is its own nature.
Is it possible
to find oneself by going from place to place (undertaking all kinds of physical and mental
disciplines)?
After such a wandering over a long period, if one does
find that one was seeking only oneself when there was
no need for any seeking, would there be any joy on finding oneself?
The search is undertaken by what is a mere appearance
with which the self has identified itself, and it is only when
this very fact is realized that the seeking stops.
Knowledge, based on words
(thought), which is the inter-related opposite of conceptual ignorance, mayappear
to be highly valuable but because it is conceptual it is also ephemeral; real
enlightenment occurs only when this knowledge loses itself into noumenal
beingness.
So long as knowledge is in
relation to ignorance, it is not the ultimate knowledge. Ultimate knowledge
comes about only by transcending both knowledge and ignorance which exist only
at the conceptual level.
The state of pure knowledge is such that it is not affected by the
duality of knowledge and ignorance; it does not increase because of one nor does it decrease
because of the other.
Can the sky enter into itself?
Will the fire burn itself? Can one get up on one's own head?
Can the sight see itself - or
taste taste itself? Has sound ever heard itself?
Has the sun ever risen for
itself? Has any fruit fructified for itself?
Has the smell ever smelt
itself?
Similarly, pure
knowledge (pure subjectivity) cannot be an object to be experienced.
Would
anyone have even heard the word "ignorance" if knowledge
(consciousness) had not appeared?
…
While it cannot be denied that
the image of the face is indeed seen in the mirror, the true face is not in the
mirror and exists irrespective of the existence of the mirror. Similarly, while
the phenomenal appearance is certainly perceptible to the senses, the subject
as the unmanifest noumenon exists independently of the phenomenal
manifestation.
The mirror may show the image
of a face but it is the face that sees the image; and the face in any case
exists independently of
The mirror whether it shows
the image or not.
..
Now (after self-realization),
the smell has become that which smells; the hearing has become that which
hears.. Thus, the one who enjoys and that which is enjoyed, the one who
perceives and that which is perceived is the "seeing"
__**__
Jnaneshwar has realized that
what-he-is is the absence of "himself' as an entity; total absence of
the notion (or Cognition) of the absence of himself. In other words, it is only
in the total absence of himself that there can be total presence of what-he-is.
…
What Jnaneshwar wants us to
realize is that objects are void and that their subject is just as devoid of
autonomy as they are. If the subject and its objects are thus void - because
none would be perceivable in the absence of the conceptual mechanism of space
and time - then it follows that all thoughts and all actions (which necessarily
involve a spatial extension and temporal measurement) must also be illusory.
..
From the beginning not a thing is.
Hui Neng
--
To see truth, contemplate all phenomena as a
lie.
Taganapa
--
YOU, why do you ask information of that which never happened at all?
Yet I shall tell you something so that there is no
room for doubt.
Dasbodh
--
My dreamlike form
Appeared to dreamlike beings
To show them the dreamlike path
That leads to dreamlike enlightenment.
(The Buddha, from the Bhadrakalpa Sutra)
--
Nothing is more real than nothing.
S. Beckett
--
Phenomena only 'exist' in the mind that perceives
them.
(Tibetan Book Of The Dead, 66)
--
If you are not interested in finding your own perfect
death then there is no point in seeking enlightenment.
A.
Cohen
--
How can you find joy in a joyless place except by
realizing you’re not there?
(Acim)
--
If the air in your room doesn’t bother you, there is
no reason why your thoughts should.
F. Yang
--
Awareness no
longer needed to construct meaning for itself from the mind, from form.
Awareness no
longer has to negotiate with thoughts, feelings, appearances.
– Steve Ford
--
Everything is found
within the natural state, so do not seek elsewhere.
—PADAMPA SANGYE
--
“Do not mistake
understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.”
― Sogyal Rinpoche
--
If there were no difference
between appearance and essence (reality), then there would be no need for
science.
- K. Marks
--
The Buddha taught for
forty-nine years, but no word was spoken”
(Huang-bo)
"All effort ends, the agent of meditation ends,
the need to be mindful to maintain the view ends, remaining vigilant to not get
distracted ends, the designation 'meditating' ends, and the practitioner stays
in the expanse of the dharmadhatu without inherently [ ever] moving."
- Shar rdza Rinpoche
-
- girlfriend - friend - boyfriend - bestfriend
... Everything
has an end
--
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? I
would like to have a word with him.
CHUANG TZU
--
Most of our tensions and frustrations stem from the
compulsive need to act the role of someone we are not. - Dr Hans Selye, The Stress of Life
--
What would happen if you recognized that this world is
a hallucination?
(H. Schucman)
--
“i’ve told you all that constitutes the very core of
Truth: there is no you, no me, no Superior Being, no disciple, and no guru.”
(Dattatreya)
--
“With the belief in the individual entity/doer,
problems never cease. When the illusory nature of the individual is seen,
problems never arise.”
(Ramesh B.)
--
Q: What is it that takes birth then?
Papaji: Unfulfilled samskaras [tendency, desire] take
birth.
--
Pick up what is real and adhere to it, or reject the
unreal
Or falsehood.
Papaji
--
Mind is thoughts. Mind is ego. Same thing. Wherever
there is name and form, this is ego. And some falsehood. Some fraud. Wherever
there is name and form, there is some fraud. They are not permanent.
Papaji
-
Meditation must be permanent. Not a few hours. You must
be centered in the reality of the true Self.. All else is falsehood.
Papaji
--
The true spiritual path is not about becoming. It is
about not becoming.
When we let go of this futile effort to be or become
somebody, freedom and enlightenment take care of themselves.
(Anam Thubten Rinpoche)
'Owing to worldly beliefs, which he
is free to accept or reject, man wanders in the Sansara.' (Padma Sambhava.)
--
There’s a hole right through the middle of you, but
here’s the thing; the hole is what you are.
– Tim Cliss
--
Enlightenment is the return to the state prior to the
arising of self-consciousness.
It is the clear discrimination between source and
appearance.
It is the result of every effort one has made. It is
despite every effort one has made.
It is a spontaneous returning to essence.
Wu HSIN
--
All presence, that is,
You,
Me,
It,
Occurs against the background of
Total Absence.
At the end of you,
Me,
It,
Total Absence remains unchanged.
(Wu Hsin)
--
What is pristine knowledge
Other than
The knowledge that
Worldly knowledge isn’t worth
A pile of straw.
Admittedly, worldly knowledge can
Take you through the world, but
It can take you neither
Beyond it nor
Before it.
(Wu Hsin)
--
Something is lost when you stop thinking, and that
something is “you.”
Even if it is only for a single second, the experience
of "no you" has the power to be life altering.
Wu Hsin
-
Strip away everything that is
Not necessary.
Stabilize there, then
Strip away everything that is
Necessary.
(Wu Hsin)
--
What is my true nature?
Ramesh Balsekar: - Your true nature is what you know
in deep sleep.
- But I do not know anything in deep sleep.
- That is correct: you cannot know anything in deep
sleep.
- What does this mean?
- It means that your true nature is the absence of the
“me” who wants to know his true nature.
--
Don’t try! Don’t struggle and strive in practice!
Don’t seek! Don’t seek! Don’t seek intellectual truth!
Don’t meditate! Don’t meditate!
Don’t contrive meditation!
Don’t analyze! Don’t analyze! Don’t analyze in or after an event! Don’t
practice! Don’t practice! Don’t practice the upshot of hope
And fear!
Don’t reject! Don’t reject! Don’t reject emotional karma!
Don’t believe! Don’t believe! Don’t believe in righteous religion! Don’t
trap yourself! Don’t trap yourself! Don’t cage your mind!
- Longchenpa
--
Everything is already released in the spaciousness of
the now,
So any attempt to liberate anything anew is
superfluous.
It is pointless to try to make effort towards release!
- Longchenpa
--
--
“The object of Vedanta is not to help you not to
perceive the appearance but to help you to see the essence, even when
perceiving the appearance through the senses
Atmananda Krishna Menon
Misery is caused and sustained only by the incessant remembrance
of the objects connected with it. When misery is divested of all objects it
gets transformed into Happiness itself
Atmananda Krishna Menon
--
Q: How does one realize?
Sri Atmananda: One realizes neither as a direct result
of renunciation, nor as a direct result of action; but only through the deepest
conviction that one is not a doer even when engaged in incessant activity, and
that one is not a renouncer or non-doer even when one takes the role of a
sannyasin or in deep sleep.
So realization depends on the perspective alone, and
not upon any external manifestation.
--
“This whole planet is
fiction,” he said. “A picture show. Sometimes it can be a rather engrossing
picture show, but that doesn’t make it real. Our heads are programmed to get
puffed up with all kinds of infatuations and obsessions. Some of them use up
years and decades of our lives. Then when the spell breaks on one of ‘em you
shake your head and wonder, ‘What was that, a bubble?’ But you turn right
around and get obsessed by something else. Entire lives pass this way, from one
petty obsession to another. Eventually, if you’re lucky and if one of these
obsessions doesn’t kill you, you come to realize that life is at best a dream,
and at worst, a nightmare.”
Richard Rose
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By imagining a self, one has completely obscured (ones
own existence) and been divorced from the lineage of the Noble Ones.
Manjushrimitra
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Visions are ornaments of the primordial state. - Chogya Namkhai Norbu
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Nothing Arrived – song by Villagers
Savanna scatters and the seabird sings
So why should we fear what travel brings?
What were we hoping to
get out of this?
Some kind of momentary bliss?
I waited for something, and something died
SO I WAITED FOR NOTHING, AND NOTHING ARRIVED
It's our dearest ally, it's our closest friend
It's our darkest blackout, it's our final end
MY DEAR SWEET NOTHING, let's start a new
From here all in is just me and you
I waited for something and something died
So I waited for nothing, and nothing arrived
Well I guess it's over, I guess it's begun
It's a losers' table, but
we've already won
It's a funny battle, it's a constant game
I guess I was busy when nothing came
I guess I was busy (when nothing arrived)
I waited for something and something died
So I waited for nothing, and nothing arrived
I waited for something and something died
So I waited for nothing, and nothing arrived
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