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Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2020 12:36:51 GMT
We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a world of make-belief, in a world of brutality, violence, despair, anxiety. To live humanly, sanely, one has to change. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2020 13:40:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 10, 2020 23:44:34 GMT
‘There is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, apart from the Supreme Self... Know this, and be happy.’
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2020 10:54:00 GMT
"The Silence that I speak about is neither meditating nor sitting quiet. The Silence that I speak about has nothing to do with meditation or talking or not talking because then the mind is still running about here and there and everywhere.
What I mean by Silence is that should be no thought rising from the mind. No thought rising from your mind is Silence."
~ PAPAJI
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2020 2:58:41 GMT
One fine day, we met an Anonymous Saint who lived three doors down from our house in Tiruvannamalai. We had never seen him because he hadn't left his apartment in 30 years. His eyes shone like the sun. He told us:
"No need to walk. No need to talk. No need to go anywhere. God is everywhere. No need to go to temples. No need to pray to statues. Your body is the temple. God is inside you. God is outside you. I was never born. I will never die. I am happy. All is One. No two or three, only One.
~ from Ganga and Tara's upcoming book "Wisdom of the Mystic Masters - Siddhas, Saints and Sages Throughout the Ages."
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2020 3:02:01 GMT
OSHO
‘Witness’
I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process. It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
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Post by Admin on Mar 25, 2020 11:19:43 GMT
"Identification with your mind creates an opaque screen of concepts, labels, images, words, judgments, and definitions that blocks all true relationship. It comes between you and yourself, between you and your fellow man and woman, between you and nature.. It is this screen of thought that creates the illusion of separateness, the illusion that there is you and a totally separate "other." You then forget the essential fact that, underneath the level of physical appearances and separate forms, you are one with all that is. By "forget," I mean that you can no longer feel this oneness as self-evident reality. You may believe it to be true, but you no longer know it to be true. A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating. Thinking has become a disease. Disease happens when things get out of balance. For example, there is nothing wrong with cells dividing and multiplying in the body, but when this process continues in disregard of the total organism, cells proliferate and we have disease. The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly - you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. This is the disease. You believe that you are your mind. This is the delusion. The instrument has taken you over."
~Eckhart Tolle
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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2020 8:18:02 GMT
“The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.”
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2020 20:19:42 GMT
[A sannyasin asked about watching ’a lot of shit going through his head.]
It is natural, so don’t feel in any way depressed by it. If you do, it is impossible to get rid of it because you lose all energy in it.
People who become interested in meditation, sooner or later start feeling hopeless, because the chatter of the mind seems non-ending; it goes on and on, and the more you try to finish with it, the more it bubbles up. Don’t be in a hurry, and don’t take any negative attitude about it.
Even shit can be used it can become good manure. So don’t be negative about it. We are going to use it. There is no better fertiliser than it, and when you see a rose flower coming, it is out of a fertiliser.
Meditation arises out of the mind. It is no-mind but it is based in the mind. It is just like a lotus born out of mud, just ordinary mud.
And the second thing: don’t try to stop it. Be loose. Tell the mind to just go on and to finish its trip.
Remain unconcerned, as if it is none of your business, as if it is just a traffic noise and it is. It is an engine that goes on continuously from the time of your birth to your death. It goes on making noises, chattering, rehearsing, projecting, remembering the past, desiring the future. Accept it in aloofness.
By and by you will see that there arises a distance and the distance between you and the noise of the mind goes on becoming bigger and bigger and wider and wider. One day suddenly you realise that it is not there. There is a tremendous silence.
For moments you will realise that everything stops, and then starts again, but you remain aloof.
Remain aloof even to the slopping, because if you rejoice too much in it you are immediately distracted. The mind will come in again and the whole functioning will start. If it stops that is okay. If it starts again, that too is okay.
But this is how the distance is created and this distance is meditation. As I see it, nothing is needed. Simply be unconcerned and watch.
That word ’watch’ is a little too positive watchfulness plus aloofness. Then the danger of that positive watching is avoided a passive watchfulness.
Much is going to happen. Change to orange and forget the old identity.
Be loving as much as you can. Just go on remembering that you have to be loving to the trees, to the rocks. Even if you are sitting in an empty room, be loving to the empty room. But whatsoever you do and wherever you move, carry a climate of love around you, and by and by you will start feeling it working.
It is everybody’s capacity. Nothing is to be learned about it. Everybody is born with it, just as we are born with the capacity to breathe.
But somehow society has destroyed the capacity to love, because love is very dangerous for the society. It is the greatest rebellion there is. Society cannot exist, or this society cannot exist, if people are really loving.
Wars and exploitation and all nonsense will be impossible if people are loving, so society does not want anybody to be loving. But unless you love, God remains unavailable, and unless you move deep in love, you cannot move in God.
So let this be your constant remembrance. Even when you touch things, even a chair, touch them as if they are your beloved.
In the beginning it will look crazy, but by and by you will get the knack of it, and everything else will become crazy.
Osho
Nothing to Lose But Your Head #12
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Post by Admin on May 12, 2020 13:55:04 GMT
For those who have this urge inside them to fully awaken to what I am pointing to I give you some clues, some tips:
Give up the concept that you have any rights in life or don’t even touch the idea of future - because all these things make you weak. When you don’t have rights you see everything as a gift. When you drop the notion of future you are in real time with the universe again.
Give up the need to belong and to be accepted and you will be a friend to the whole world.
Give up self-definition and you´ll fit in everywhere. Give up the idea that you can know someone: you cannot know anyone.
Give up the idea that you can know anything and you will find the universal consciousness.
Give up the idea that you are your body and you will be the inperishable Self. But don´t tell anybody about it.
Fall in love with emptiness. Fall in love with love but don’t be a love-story. Then the experience of your existence will be like feeling that you are space moving about in space.
Tremendous love will be with you and unshakable peace, unfading happiness.
🌺 Mooji
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2020 16:25:42 GMT
Make no mistake about it – enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
– Adyashanti
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2020 16:26:21 GMT
“If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge. No, I have something else in mind. Today I hold a flame in my left hand and a sword in my right. There will be no damage control today. For God is in a mood to plunder your riches and fling you nakedly into such breathtaking poverty that all that will be left of you will be a tendency to shine. So don't just sit around this flame choking on your mind. For this is no campfire song to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with. Jump now into the space between thoughts and exit this dream before I burn the damn place down.” ― Adyashanti
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2020 16:26:52 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2020 20:11:17 GMT
Science and Buddhism agree: There is no "you" there As neuroscience has begun studying the mind, they have looked to those who have mastered the mind. University of British Columbia researchers have verified the Buddhist belief of anatta, or not-self. LORI CHANDLER 22 September, 2015 bigthink.com/ideafeed/good-news-science-buddha-agree-theres-no-you
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2020 20:15:36 GMT
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