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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:30:49 GMT
Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘That is your true nature’
"It seems strange to me, again, that people think they are the doer, and they are always looking for something to do. They think if they don't find something to do people will call them lazy, and a do nothing. If your real nature is nothing what can nothing possibly do? Nothing. (laughter) Why do you believe you've got to do something? To do something you have to be somebody but to do nothing you have to be nobody. So what would you rather be, somebody or nobody?
If you're somebody you get involved in the world, in the play, in the maya, and you go through all these experiences as some- body. You may be somebody important or somebody of little value. You may be the President of the United States or a homeless person. But you're still somebody. But if you realize that you're nobody then you can sit in peace and have no desires. You do not have to wonder if you're going to go to work tomorrow, or of you're going to feel good tomorrow, or if you're going to find a job, or get married, or not get married. A nobody never thinks of these things, a somebody does.
When you are a nobody all these things will take care of themselves. They will actually take care of themselves. If you're supposed to be married and have 25 children you will. If you're supposed to have 25 wives and have no children, you will, or husbands, or whatever you want. But it's so beautiful to realize that you are nobody and be able to sit in a chair and the whole universe is under your command. You are no longer a puppet being manipulated by the strings of life. You have realized the phoniness, the nonsense of everything. Everything has become nonsensical and you just rest in peace.
Usually the term "rest in peace" means you're dead. You are dead. You are dead to the body. It's funny how you give the right terms to the wrong situations. You actually do rest in peace and you are dead to the body.
You have no desire to go anywhere, or to do anything, to live any one place. Yet remember also it does not mean that you're going to stay, necessarily, in one place. Whatever has to happen will happen. You may find yourself going to Japan or to Timbuktu, or anywhere, but it has nothing to do with you. You are at peace. You have a quiet mind. It doesn't function. The mind has become the Self. You are free.
But yet to others it appears as if you're acting because you appear normal and go through experiences like everybody else. But you realize the truth. You're doing absolutely nothing. The observer may see you working, chopping wood, drinking wine, building houses, yet you're doing nothing. This sounds strange. It sounds like a contradiction, but it's not really.
When you discover you are the Self, remember the Self is all-pervading. Absolute reality is omnipresence. Therefore everything is taking place within you. All the so-called actions of the universe are taking place within you because you are self-contained consciousness. That's why there's nothing you can really do, as self-contained consciousness, for you occupy every space, every atom, every universe, and you permeate what appears to be creation. There's nowhere for you to go because there's no room. There's nothing else. There's no space. Space is only for the body, the mind. But when you discover that you're pure awareness there is no space. You encompass all in all. This is the reason why there's nowhere to go and there's nothing to do.
It's like you're a gigantic screen that takes up the entire universe, it is the universe, that takes up all of space. Yet forms appear on the screen. The forms appear on the screen and there's a lot of space between them. The forms appear to be going places, doing things, working, being born and dying, but you are that eternal screen, unflinching, immovable, sat- chit-ananda, parabrahman, and the whole play of consciousness is taking place on the screen, all within yourself. There's no place for the screen to go because it already takes up all the space there is.
The only movement there is, is in the images on the screen. But the screen itself has no room where to go, what to do. It just is as it is. That's the way it is. Your true nature is absolute reality, the screen. There's nothing you have to do when you understand that you are omnipresence. There's no room for karma, or for sins, or for anything else.
The game is being played by the beings who are projected on the screen. They're going through karma because they have a lot of space. They can go through all kinds of things if there's space. They're going through different experiences of birth and death, of happy and sad, of healthy and sick, of poverty and riches. The images are going through these things. Then they die and they appear to be born again in different lives, and the game continues for ever. But you are conscious- ness, you are the screen, and you remain the same, always. There never was a time when you were different. There never will be a time when you change. Consciousness is consciousness. The Self is the Self. It has no manifestations, no attributes. It just is. That is your true nature."
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:33:48 GMT
Adyashanti Transcribed from: A talk in Pacific Grove, CA ‘Just a thought’
"Inexplicably it comes. When you least expect it. For a reason you can never know. One moment you are striving, figuring, imagining, and then, in the blink of an eye, it all disappears. The struggle disappears. The striving disappears. The person disappears. The world disappears. Everything disappears, and the person is like a pinpoint of light, just receding until it disappears. And there’s nobody there to witness it. The person is gone. Only, only awareness remains. Nothing else. No one to be aware. Nothing to be aware of. Only that remains itself. Then it’s understood, finally and simply.
Then everything—all the struggle, all the striving, all the thinking, all the figuring, all the surrendering, all the letting go, all the grabbing hold of, all the praying, all the begging, all the cursing, too—was just a distraction. And only then is it seen that the person was, is, and ever will be no more than a thought. With a single thought, the person seems to reemerge. With more thoughts, the world seems to reemerge right out of nothing. But now you know.
The incarnation is nothing more than a thought. A thousand incarnations are but a thousand thoughts. And this amazing miracle of a mirage we call the world reappears as it was before, but now you know. That’s why you usually have a good laugh, because you realize that all your struggles were made up. You conjured them up out of nothing—with a thought that was linked to another thought, that was then believed, that linked to another thought that was then believed. But never could it have been true, not for a second could it have actually existed. Not ever could you have actually suffered for a reason that was true—only through an imagination, good, bad, indifferent. The intricacies of spiritual philosophy and theologies are just a thought within Emptiness.
And so at times we talk, and I pretend to take your struggles seriously, just as I pretended to take my own seriously. You may pretend to take your own struggles seriously from time to time, and although we pretend, we really shouldn’t forget that we are pretending, that we are making up the content of our experience; we are making up the little dramas of our lives. We are making up whether we need to hold on or surrender or figure it out or pray to God or be purified or have karma cleansed—it’s all a thought. We just collude in this ridiculous charade of an illusion pretending that it’s real, only to reveal that it’s not. There is no karma. There is nothing really to purify. There’s no problem. There is only what you create and believe to be so. And if you like it that way, have at it!
But we cannot continue this absolute farce indefinitely. We cannot continue to pretend this game we play, indefinitely. It’s impossible. Everything comes back to nothing. And then it’s a bit harder to hold a straight face consistently for the rest of your life."
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:35:10 GMT
Eckhart Tolle ‘Paradoxical or even contradictory’
"This "I am realization," this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind. So when you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in. As you listen to the thought, you feel a conscious presence - your deeper self - behind or underneath the thought, as it were.
The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. As you go more deeply into this realm of no-mind, as it is sometimes called in the East, you realize the state of pure consciousness.
In that state, you feel your own presence with such intensity and such joy that all thinking, all emotions, your physical body, as well as the whole external world become relatively insignificant in comparison to it. And yet this is not a selfish but a selfless state. It takes you beyond what you previously thought of as "your self."
That presence is essentially you and at the same time inconceivably greater than you. What I am trying to convey here may sound paradoxical or even contradictory, but there is no other way that I can express it."
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:36:00 GMT
Jiddu Krishnamurti Excerpt from: From: The Book of Life ‘You and nothingness are one’
"You are nothing. You may have your name and title, your property and bank account, you may have power and be famous; but in spite of all these safeguards, you are as nothing. You may be totally unaware of this emptiness, this nothingness, or you may simply not want to be aware of it; but it is there, do what you will to avoid it.
You may try to escape from it in devious ways, through personal or collective violence, through individual or collective worship, through knowledge or amusement; but whether you are asleep or awake, it is always there. You can come upon your relationship to this nothingness and its fear only by being choicelessly aware of the escapes. You are not related to it as a separate, individual entity; you are not the observer watching it; without you, the thinker, the observer, it is not. You and nothingness are one; you and nothingness are a joint phenomenon, not two separate processes.
If you, the thinker, are afraid of it and approach it as something contrary and opposed to you, then any action you may take towards it must inevitably lead to illusion and so to further conflict and misery. When there is the discovery, the experiencing of that nothingness as you, then fear -which exists only when the thinker is separate from his thoughts and so tries to establish a relationship with them- completely drops away."
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:36:46 GMT
Robert Adams ‘Who are you?’
“Who are you? If you have to say, ‘I am absolute reality’, then you are not that at all. For when I ask the question, ‘Who are you?’ there should be total silence in your mind. You are that silence, the silence beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond being, beyond desire, that perfect silence, the stillness, beyond the void, beyond no mind. You are That. You have always been that.”
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:37:33 GMT
Eckhart Tolle Extract from: The Power of Now ‘Satori’
"Zen masters use the word satori to describe a flash of insight, a moment of no-mind and total presence. Although satori is not a lasting transformation, be grateful when it comes, for it gives you a taste of enlightenment. You may, indeed, have experienced it many times without knowing what it is and realizing its importance. Presence is needed to become aware of the beauty, the majesty, the sacredness of nature. Have you ever gazed up into the infinity of space on a clear night, Yes, but only as seen from the limited perspective of the manifested universe. In the Bible, God declares: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, and I am the living One." In the timeless realm where God dwells, which is also your home, the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega, are one, and the essence of everything that ever has been and ever will be is eternally present in an unmanifested state of oneness and perfection - totally beyond anything the human mind can ever imagine or comprehend. In our world of seemingly separate forms, however, timeless perfection is an inconceivable concept. Here even consciousness, which is the light emanating from the eternal Source, seems to be subject to a process of development, but this is due to our limited perception. It is not so in absolute terms. Nevertheless, let me continue to speak for a moment about the evolution of consciousness in this world.
Everything that exists has Being, has God-essence, has some degree of consciousness. Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse.
Everything is alive. The sun, the earth, plants, animals, humans - all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees, consciousness manifesting as form. The world arises when consciousness takes on shapes and forms, thought forms and material forms. Look at the millions of life forms on this planet alone. In the sea, on land, in the air - and then each life form is replicated millions of times. To what end? Is someone or something playing a game, a game with form? This is what the ancient seers of India asked themselves. They saw the world as lila, a kind of divine game that God is playing. The individual life forms are obviously not very important in this game. In the sea, most life forms don't survive for more than a few minutes after being born. The human form turns to dust pretty quickly too, and when it is gone it is as if it had never been. Is that tragic or cruel? Only if you create a separate identity for each form, if you forget that its consciousness is God-essence expressing itself in form. But you don't truly know that until you realize your own God-essence as pure consciousness.
Awestruck by the absolute stillness and inconceivable vastness of it? Have you listened, truly listened, to the sound of a mountain stream in the forest? Or to the song of a blackbird at dusk on a quiet summer evening? To become aware of such things, the mind needs to be still. You have to put down for a moment your personal baggage of problems, of past and future, as well as all your knowledge; otherwise, you will see but not see, hear but not hear. Your total presence is required.
Beyond the beauty of the external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are one and the same? Would it be there without your presence? Go deeply into it. Find out for yourself.
When you experienced those moments of presence, you likely didn't realize that you were briefly in a state of no-mind. This is because the gap between that state and the influx of thought was too narrow. Your satori may only have lasted for a few seconds before the mind came in, but it was there; otherwise, you would not have experienced the beauty. Mind can neither recognize nor create beauty. Only for a few seconds, while you were completely present, was that beauty or that sacredness there. Because of the narrowness of that gap and a lack of vigilance and alertness on your part, you were probably unable to see the fundamental difference between the perception, the thought-less awareness of beauty, and the naming and interpreting of it as thought: The time gap was so small that it seemed to be a single process.
The truth is, however, that the moment thought came in, all you had was a memory of it. The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are. Many people are so imprisoned in their minds that the beauty of nature does not really exist for them. They might say, "What a pretty flower," but that's just a mechanical mental labeling. Because they are not still, not present, they don't truly see the flower, don't feel its essence, its holiness - just as they don't know themselves, don't feel their own essence, their own holiness.
Because we live in such a mind-dominated culture, most modern art, architecture, music, and literature are devoid of beauty, of inner essence, with very few exceptions. The reason is that the people who create those things cannot - even for a moment - free themselves from their mind. So they are never in touch with that place within where true creativity and beauty arise. The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness."
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Post by Admin on Jan 12, 2020 7:39:11 GMT
OSHO Excerpt from: Dynamic Meditation ‘Satori’
Some religions such as Zen have mistaken this satori, this glimpse, for the ultimate experience, for samadhi. It is not samadhi because there is still a possibility of coming back. The ego did not die, you only jumped away from it temporarily. For a moment you were out of its grip, but now you are back again. Satori is just a jump. Don’t become attached to it.
You can become attached to the outward jump very easily because it is so blissful there. Each time you move into the experience it gives you a certain freshness, it thrills you. But then you go on repeating the experience of going into meditation, feeling its bliss, and coming back. By and by it becomes a routine, and when you come back you think that you have achieved the ultimate experience possible because the experience was so blissful. But you have not yet known something beyond bliss, so each experience of meditation becomes part of the same repetitive, mechanical, routine groove. Now even the gap, even meditation, becomes part of your mechanical functioning.
There are religions that have stopped at this point; hence they say that there is a soul, an individual soul; they cannot conceive of brahman. Brahman only comes after you have gone beyond the fourth stage - when you can go out and come back in and do not become attached to the bliss of the gap. And once you begin to witness this going out and coming in, the meditative state of mind and non-meditative state of mind, you have reached the most delicate point. Then you know that this too is a habit which you can prolong for many lives. It is not samadhi, it is not ultimate awareness; it is satori.
When you start observing this, a silent awareness begins to descend in you. Silent awareness, choiceless awareness, is possible only at this point, never before.
Osho, Do you mean after satori?
Yes. Only after satori, never before that. When you become silently aware of the going out and the coming in of the ego, the ultimate explosion can happen. You go beyond out and in; you dissolve in the explosion.
This is the point of nirvana, brahma-upalabdhi, moksha, or whatever you want to call it. It has never been recorded by the mind; it can never be recorded because the mechanism itself has dissolved.
Osho, After this does one continue to live in the body?
Certainly, because the working of the body is another process. It has a process of its own; one can live in it or one can go out of it. To others it seems as though one is still living in the house, but for the resident the house is no longer there. The whole universe becomes the body.
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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2020 11:45:54 GMT
Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘Grab the bull by the horns’
The question therefore is, "What have you been thinking about yourself? What do you believe you are?" And you can tell by the way you look at yourself, how you address yourself, what you imagine you are. Most people get up in the morning believing they're a body, and right away their mind is filled with their personal problems. They go through the day trying to solve problems and thinking of ways they can enjoy themselves. There's no end to it. But for the self-realized being there's no one who sleeps, there's no one who wakes, there's no one who does anything and there's no one who does not do anything. There is absolutely nothing going on.
Now can you see the truth about yourself? The more you fear, the more you worry, the more you fret, the more you desire, the more you think you've got to make the world turn the way you want it to turn, the greater the delusion and you're pulled deeper and deeper and deeper into the mire of delusion. It becomes difficult to awaken. You somehow have to grab the bull by the horns. That's another cliches that I can't stand, grab the bull by the horns. Who'd want to grab a bull by the horns?
You have to see what you've been doing all these years, how you've been thinking of yourself, what you've been thinking about yourself, what you are. This is why it is written in all the great spiritual manuals - like auto manuals, they've got spiritual manuals - where it tells you that unless you are mature spiritually you can never really understand this. It looks like a bunch of ludicrous sayings. "I am the Self. I am consciousness. I am pure awareness. I am not the body. I am not the mind." It sounds totally ludicrous to the average person, for the collective unconscious is so strong. The collective unconscious is another name for maya. It appears to be strong and it pulls you in very deeply. The more you identify with it, the greater the pull. And you identify with it when you feel sorry for yourself, when you believe something is wrong with you, when you have wants and needs, when you're human.
You do not want to be human. Simply because a human being goes through all the nonsense of the world. A human being has to experience all of the worldly conditions that all the other human beings experience. Therefore you do not want to be human. You want to be inhuman. You want people to tell you you're not human. When you can see that you're not human that's when you'll begin to bloom and you'll realize happiness you never knew before.
Do not read the newspapers, or listen to the TV too much, or go along with all the news that's going on in the world. That's for human beings. Be yourself. You are self-contained. If you have eternal happiness what in this world can give you something better than that? All you really have to do is to realize that you are eternal happiness. You cannot get eternal happiness from anything in the world, or from anyone. Eternal happiness is your true nature. You are that. You do not have to acquire it, or look for it, or find it, or beg for it or pray for it. Eternal happiness is what you really are. But that only comes when you let go of your morbidity, when you let go of all your nonsense, your fears, your foolishness, preconceived ideas, judgments. You have to empty yourself out. When you empty yourself out you become filled with consciousness.
Consciousness is like air, like the air you breathe. When you dig a hole in the ground it's filled with air, with space. When you fill up the hole where did the air or the space go? The space didn't go anywhere. It always existed the way it is. You can either fill it up with dirt or leave the hole as it is and the same space always remains. So it is with consciousness. You may appear to be a person taking up space. You may appear to be a body, a being that's roaming around the globe. But your true nature is consciousness. If the body falls away that's like an empty hole. If you appear to have the body, that's like you fill up the hole with dirt. The space or consciousness is still there but appears to be occupied by a body or by dirt.
Remember the body is composed of all the elements that are found in the ground. You come from dirt. You're dirty. Take a shower. (laughter) You're nothing but a piece of dirt. That's your true Self, a piece of dirt. As long as you believe you are the body you're a piece of dirt because all the elements of your body can be found in the earth. So you have to wake up. Why don't you do that right now? Wake up!
Leave the body alone. It will take care of itself. After all you never asked to have a body. It just appeared. In the same way it appeared, in that same way it will be taken care of. Do not worry about it. And do not think you are the doer and you have to keep doing things every day. You may appear to do things but remember you are not the doer. You are nothing. Can you imagine yourself as nothing, where there's no God, and no universe, and no world, no people, no body, no mind? Sounds scary, doesn't it? But it's not. The reason it sounds scary to you is because you have identified with your body for such a long time. And when I say a long time, I'm speaking of many lifetimes. You are enmeshed in the belief of a body. You therefore begin to work on yourself. You practice self-inquiry, if you must. You practice various sadhanas, if you must. You do whatever you have to do to get rid of the notion that you are the body. You only do these things if you will not wake up when I tell you to wake up. If you refuse to awaken by still believing you are your pains, and your aches, and your greed, and your thoughts, and everything else that you think you're made out of, that means you refuse to awaken. Something within you wants to keep playing the game.
Therefore you're going in the other direction and practice sadhana, spiritual practices, to weaken the mind, to weaken the thought that I am the body, to weaken the ego by realizing that I - the I you've been calling yourself all these years - is only a thought. It is the I-thought. And the I-thought has to have a source. It cannot appear by itself. You therefore follow the I-thought to it's source by inquiring, "To whom does this come?" or "Who am I?" or "What is the source of this I?" You never answer that question. You simply inquire.
As you continue practicing this method the day will come when you will finally go deep deep within, deeper than you've ever gone before and your body will just disappear. Yet to everyone else in the world they will see you as a body. But you will be totally free and happy. No thoughts, no fears, no preconceived ideas. Everything will be wiped out.
You have to vehemently make up your mind what you're going to do with your life that you've got left in this phase of existence. What are you really going to do with your life for the rest of your days on this earth? Is it worthwhile striving for things, trying to make yourself happy in the material world when you're beginning to realize that the relative world doesn't even exist?
Go after the things that count. That is, go deep, deep within yourself. Dive deeper than you've ever done before. Make up your mind that this is it. Strive after truth. It will come effortlessly. And sooner than you know it you will awaken and become free. Peace.
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Post by Admin on Jan 13, 2020 19:08:44 GMT
Nisargadatta Maharaj ‘I am this or that’
Now, you are trying to understand all this but you cannot, because you have on the swaddling clothes of 'I am this or that'. Remove them. The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand. So, trying to understand is just indulging in mental acrobatics. Whatever you have understood you are not. Spit it all out. Whatever you understand is not the truth. Throw it overboard. Do not try to catch hold of any concepts and cling to them. Don't employ any words, but look at yourself as you are.
Throw away every thought, every experience, everything that happens after the consciousness, the beingness comes. Other than throwing it away as useless, there is nothing to be done beyond this firm understanding in which you become more and more absorbed. Before the beingness was there, look at that, be in that state.
Do not get lost in words and thoughts and ideas. Do not crave for mind knowledge and concepts in the name of spirituality. Anything that is seen and interpreted by the mind is only an appearance in consciousness, and, therefore, cannot be true. The knowledgeable one just witnesses whatever experiences are obtainable through the mind, viewing them as without substance. The mind may be sprouting, expressing itself with various concepts. But, don't identify with that, let it go. Don't be a customer to your mind concepts. The knower of the mind is just a witness. He does not interfere in anything.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 14:24:51 GMT
Eckhart Tolle ‘Observer’
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.
Focus attention on the feeling inside you. Know that it is the pain-body. Accept that it is there. Don't think about it - don't let the feeling turn into thinking. Don't judge or analyze. Don't make an identity for yourself out of it. Stay present, and continue to be the observer of what is happening inside you. Become aware not only of the emotional pain but also of "the one who observes," the silent watcher. This is the power of the Now, the power of your own conscious presence.
Through self-observation, more presence comes into your life automatically. The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 14:29:30 GMT
Neale Donald Walsch ‘Beingness’
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.
If you think your life is about DOINGNESS, you do not understand what you are about. Your soul doesn't care what you do for a living-and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you're BEING while you're doing whatever you're doing. It is a state of BEINGNESS the soul is after, not a state of doingness.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 19:49:35 GMT
Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘Don't fight the world’
How many of you are really happy, really happy? About three people, four people. How many of you are not happy? Two honest people. The rest of you are somewhere in the middle.
Now the truth is, what difference does it make whether you're happy or unhappy? What difference does it make what's going on in the world or in your life? Your situation, whether you're healthy or sick, rich or poor, happy or sad, has absolutely nothing to do with spiritual life.
Where did we learn that if we become spiritual people we're supposed to live a good human life and be rich, and healthy, and happy, and have all the things we want? These things have absolutely nothing to do with spiritual life. It is the churches that propagated these things, that told you, "If you believe our way your life will change and you'll be prosperous, you'll walk on cloud nine, all your troubles will be over, you'll never have a bad day in your life again."
You see the world, your body, the universe - being maya, an illusion - all kinds of things happen to people. The idea is to transcend that situation, that condition. Allowing your body to do what it wants. Allowing the world to be the way it is, not fighting, not reacting, not trying to change anything, leaving everything alone. When you can do this something will happen and you will see that your real nature is total happiness. But not the kind of human happiness you're thinking about. It is the peace which passeth all understanding. It is a divine happiness that comes to the person who has surrendered their body, their affairs, their life, to God, to consciousness, to the Self, and they have become the Self - absolute reality.
Now these people, to others, may appear to be living just like all of us, going through various experiences, but I can assure you that these people are totally free. They are not experiencing anything. Yet to you it looks as though they are experiencing things. But they are totally, absolutely free.
The world and spirituality are two different things. The world does not exist as it appears. Your body does not exist the way it appears. The universe is not what you think it is. All is well. There is absolutely nothing wrong with anything. Do not look at situations. Do not accept facts. All facts are subject to change. Do not stick up for your rights. You have no rights. Be compassionate. Have humility. Have mercy on yourself. Never condemn yourself. Never believe you are inferior or superior. Identify with the higher Self and one day you will automatically let go of everything and become that Self.
At that time there will not be a world and reality. There will be just reality by itself and the world will become images to you - superimposed on reality. Images that do not exist. Then you will find happiness that can never vanish, happiness that can never disappear.
Begin to see yourself this way. Not as a mortal being. Not as a being struggling through life, and fretting, and worrying, and being upset over conditions, having to make decisions, crying over spilled milk. Here come these cliches again, “crying over spilled milk.” Has anybody ever cried over spilled milk? Maybe a cat.
Don't fight the world. There's nothing to fight and there's absolutely nothing to fear. Be yourself. Be your real Self. Awaken. It's about time you knew who you are. Awaken, and become free.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 20:10:19 GMT
Eckhart Tolle ‘Present moment’
“To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions”.
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Post by Admin on Jan 14, 2020 20:13:08 GMT
OSHO Excerpt from: The Dhammapada The Way of the Buddha ‘Mind’
People come to me and they ask, “How to attain a peaceful mind?” I say to them, “There exists nothing like that: peaceful mind. Never heard of it.”
Mind is never peaceful; no-mind is peace. Mind itself can never be peaceful, silent. The very nature of the mind is to be tense, to be in confusion. Mind can never be clear, it cannot have clarity, because mind is by nature confusion, cloudiness. Clarity is possible without mind, peace is possible without mind; silence is possible without mind, so never try to attain a silent mind. If you do, from the very beginning you are moving in an impossible dimension.
Remember always that whatsoever is happening around you is rooted in the mind. Mind is always the cause. It is the projector, and outside there are only screens – you project yourself. If you feel it is ugly then change the mind. If you feel whatsoever comes from the mind is hellish and nightmarish, then drop the mind. Work with the mind, don’t work with the screen; don’t go on painting it and changing it. Work with the mind.
But there is one problem, because you think you are the mind. So how can you drop it? So you feel you can drop everything, change everything, repaint, redecorate, rearrange, but how can you drop yourself. That is the root of all trouble.
You are not the mind, you are beyond mind. You have become identified, that’s true, but you are not the mind. And this is the purpose of meditation: to give you small glimpses that you are not the mind. If even for a few moments the mind stops, you are still there! On the contrary, you are more, overflowing with being. When the mind stops it is as if a drainage which was continuously draining you has stopped. Suddenly you are overflowing with energy. You feel more!
If even for a single moment you become aware that the mind is not there but “I am,” you have reached a deep core of truth. Then it will be easy to drop the mind. You are not the mind, otherwise how can you drop yourself? The identification has to be dropped first, then the mind can be dropped.
When all identity with the mind is dropped, when you are a watcher on the hills and the mind is left deep down in the darkness of the valleys, when you are on the sunlit peaks, just a pure witness, seeing, watching, but not getting identified with anything – good or bad, sinner or saint, this or that – in that witnessing all questions dissolve. The mind melts, evaporates. You are left as a pure being, just a pure existence – a breathing, a beating of the heart, utterly in the moment, no past, no future, hence no present either.
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Post by Admin on Jan 15, 2020 14:27:59 GMT
That which you are seeking is already within you. You just have to peel the onion: layers and layers of ignorance are there. The diamond is hidden in the mud; the diamond is not to be created. The diamond is already there — -only the layers of mud have to be removed.
This is very basic to understand: the treasure is already there. Maybe you don’t have the key. The key has to be found, but not the treasure. This is basic, very radical, because the whole effort will depend on this understanding. If the treasure has to be created then it is going to be a very long process; and nobody can be certain whether it can be created or not. Only the key has to be found. The treasure is there, just nearby. A few layers of locks have to be removed.
That’s why the search for truth is negative. It is not a positive search. You are not to add something to your being; rather you have to delete something. You have to cut something from you. The search for truth is surgical. It is not medical; it is surgical. Nothing is to be added to you; rather on the contrary, something has to be removed from you, negated.
Hence, the method of the Upanishads: neti, neti. The meaning of neti, neti is: go on negating until you reach to the negator; go on negating until there is not any possibility to negate, only you are left, you in your core, in your consciousness which cannot be negated — because who will negate it? So go on negating, “I am neither this nor that.” Go on. “Neti, neti….” Then a point comes when only you are, the negator; there is nothing else to cut anymore, the surgery is over; you have come to the treasure.
Osho🌹
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