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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:17:19 GMT
Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘Pure awareness is your real nature.’
Everyone is in their right place. Everything is right with the universe and with your life. Whatever happens to you, whatever you go through good or bad appears to be the karma that you have accumulated through past incarnations, that is your experience today. If you want to free yourself again you do not react to it. You do not react to anything in this world. You act spontaneously. You observe things without reacting. You watch, you look and you always go within. Within is a haven and a refuge from maya, from ignorance. It's beautiful when you can dive within yourself and touch the emptiness, the truth, the reality.
Then the reality that you touch becomes the external world for you. For what you see in the world today is simply your reality. Whatever you observe, whatever you see is your reality, your personal reality. You therefore do not try to change the condition you rather know the truth. The truth is; All is well, everything is unfolding as it should. As you dwell in this, the external world changes for you.
Everything in this world, in this universe is in a state of flux. The entire appearance of the universe is not a solid. It is energy, pure energy. Energy appears like people, like animals, like trees, like mountains, like birds, energy appears as the universe. But this energy takes shape in accordance with your thinking. You are the one who moulds this energy into the shape that you desire. You are always in control. The mind appears very strong. The mind controls most people on this earth. The mind accepts the thought, the thought becomes a reality eventually. Thoughts are things. The mind is like the earth, it grows things.
A farmer has two seeds, one seed is nightshade and one seed is corn. The nightshade is a deadly poison. Compare the seeds to your thoughts. Compare the earth to the mind. The farmer plants both seeds, is the earth going to say to the nightshade, "I do not wish to grow you because you're poison?" It will grow the nightshade in the same abundance as it grows the corn. And if you do not dig up the nightshade the roots will become deeper, they will spread out. The plants will become stronger and grow in abundance.
If you inadvertently planted nightshade as a farmer and you've realized what you've done and you wish to grow more corn then you can immediately get a shovel and dig it up. But if you wait for months or years the roots would have spread all over. And you'll need a bulldozer to dig up the poison, the plant.
And so it is with our thoughts and our lives. We allow ourselves to think certain thoughts about person, place and thing. And these thoughts are like seeds. They are planted in sort of our subconscious mind. Eventually our world becomes a product of this mind.
So, the world that you are experiencing and each one of us is experiencing the world differently, is a creation of the mind that you have allowed to do want it wants to. You have not stopped the mind you have allowed it to do what it wants. Consequently it has controlled you completely and it's brought into your life, into your personal world, the world that exists for you today.
How do you get out of this? Again you inquire to yourself, "To whom does this mind come? To whom does this experience come? To whom does this life come?" Realizing that this experience is not you. You are not the person with problems. You are not the person with disease. You are not the person with lack or limitation of any kind. You are not the person who suffers. You are not the person who is experiencing anything. You are not a person.
You begin to see this. You begin to surrender your entire existence, all of your beliefs, your entire life everything. Surrender everything that you are, that you have been. Let go of it. Do not allow the mind to rule you any longer. In reality the mind does not exist, karma does not exist, reincarnation does not exist, none of these things actually exist. But again I have to remind you over and over again if you believe you are the body, if you believe you are the mind, then they do exist, they appear to exist. Awaken from the entire dream. Do not allow this dream of maya to rule you any longer. You are beyond this. You are above this. Pure awareness is your real nature.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:19:01 GMT
Mooji ‘Contemplations at Heathrow Airport’
Mooji shared these words just after landing at Heathrow Airport in London, on 11 July 2016:
I was 16 years old when I first travelled by aeroplane to England, in 1969. I landed here at Heathrow Airport. However, I didn’t have an entry permit and was held in detention. After many hours waiting alone in a room, I was finally taken to what was for me a prison block, where I stayed till the next morning. I was then taken back to Heathrow Airport and later that morning sent back to Jamaica. This single experience has contributed so much to my growth as a human being. I am deeply grateful for it and all that followed.
Since then, I never assume that I am entitled to anything, such as to have any advantage over another or that I am entitled to enter a country because I have a current passport, or to get anything for free.
This whole concept of entitlement became dead for me. To this day, I don’t assume that I am entitled to a single thing in life. This attitude brought tremendous happiness and freedom to my life. Through grace all things unfold by themselves in good timing. I feel highly blessed living without expectations and yet, I experience living as true abundance.
I say this from the phase of my earthly being. There have been a few things that have stopped me dead in my tracks. Such experiences have produced in me a humility, a gratitude and an attentive sense of awareness and intuitiveness to the unpredictability in life.
This life has truly been blessed and enriched through personal difficulties. I am not unique. Often, what at the time may have seemed to be unbearable, unjust or even desperate turned out to be blessings in disguises. If I had to recall the best or most important or significant moments of my life, I would include these events and experiences at the top of any listing.
They each shaped who I would be and the role to be played in this life. Each encounter, each Satsang is shaped out of these experiences also. Meeting others as forms of the Infinite Self, empathy flows out naturally to those who experience hardships routinely in life. All abilities arose from these insights and experiences, including the wisdom, strength and clarity to know when not to feel overly sorry for people.
I say: No, no, no, you must use these very experiences to grow healthily, to mature, to expand your awareness of life to the full. It is so rewarding to take the best and highest overview because you are not going to become wise on ‘Nutella experiences’.
At times, you are going to get shaken up, smashed or melted down to your toenails on your journey, but you are going to come out brighter, kinder, more loving and wise if you remember what I am sharing with you today.
Become more grateful, open, attentive by not identifying personally with the fleeting expressions of life. That’s the secret. Many people wonder: ‘How can people who go through so much hardship believe in God or love God? What has God done for them? He has only given you hardship.’ I say: No, no, no.
Through hardship he gives me tolerance and wisdom. Through poverty he gives patience, gratitude, insights and kindness. Through sickness he gives acceptance, humility and appreciation. Through uncertainties he compelled me to contemplate, inquire, trust and meditate upon Being. These are tremendous gifts—priceless virtues.
If God gave me only money, I would just go and spend it and do stupid things. But hardship, sickness and even rejection help me to seek Him more determinedly and to find Him, and to value His unbroken presence and unfading love. Many human beings think God exists mainly to give them what they want.
But God gives us not so much what we want, but more what we need in order to evolve, through wisdom, knowledge and direct experience of the living Truth. Trust this. Like this, we come to discover, know and love Him, the Supreme Self, as our very own Self. These human lessons help us refine our consciousness and to wake up to the Ultimate, Absolute Awareness we are.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:19:29 GMT
OSHO Excerpt from: The Language of the Golden Future ‘Silence of the heart’
Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced in the name of silence is noiselessness. But silence is a totally different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it is not empty. It is overflowing with a music that you have never heard before, with a fragrance that is unfamiliar to you, with a light that can only be seen by the inner eyes.
It is not something fictitious; it is a reality, and a reality which is already present in everyone - just we never look in. All our senses are extrovert. Our eyes open outside, our ears open outside, our hands move outside, our legs, all our senses are meant to explore the outside world.
But there is a sixth sense also, which is asleep because we have never used it. And no society, no culture, no educational system helps people to make the sixth sense active. That sixth sense, in the East, is called “the third eye.” It looks inwards. And just as there is a way of looking in, so there is a way of hearing in, so there is a way of smelling in. Just as there are five senses moving outward, there are five counter-senses moving inward. In all, man has ten senses, but the first sense that starts the inner journey is the third eye, and then other senses start opening up.
Your inner world has its own taste, has its own fragrance, has its own light. And it is utterly silent, immensely silent, eternally silent. There has never been any noise, and there will never be any noise. No word can reach there, but you can reach. The mind cannot reach there, but you can reach because you are not the mind. The function of the mind is again to be a bridge between you and the objective world, and the function of the heart is to be a bridge between you and yourself.
The silence that I have been talking about is the silence of the heart. It is a song in itself, without words and without sounds. It is only out of this silence that the flowers of love grow. It is this silence that becomes the garden of Eden. Meditation, and only meditation, is the key to open the doors of your own being.
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:20:02 GMT
Eckhart Tolle Excerpt from: The Power of Now ‘Inner Silence’
The Unmanifested is not separate from the manifested. It pervades this world, but it is so well disguised that almost everybody misses it completely. If you know where to look, you'll find it everywhere. A portal opens up every moment.
Do you hear that dog barking in the distance? Or that car passing by? Listen carefully. Can you feel the presence of the Unmanifested in that? You can't? Look for it in the silence out of which the sounds come and into which they return. Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.
Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound tobe. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word. The Unmanifested is present in this world as silence. This is why it has been said that nothing in this world is so like God as silence. All you have to do is pay attention to it. Even during a conversation, become conscious of the gaps between words, the brief silent intervals between sentences.
As you do that, the dimension of stillness grows within you. You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within. You have entered the Unmanifested.
So what happens if you withdraw attention from the objects in space and become aware of space itself? What is the essence of this room? The furniture, pictures, and so on are in the room, but they are not the room. The floor, walls, and ceiling define the boundary of the room, but they are not the room either. So what is the essence of the room? Space, of course, empty space. There would be no "room' without it.
Since space is "nothing," we can say that what is not there is more important than what is there. So become aware of the space that is all around you. Don't think about it. Feel it, as it were. Pay attention to "nothing."
As you do that, a shift in consciousness takes place inside you. Here is why. The inner equivalent to objects in space such as furniture, walls, and so on are your mind objects: thoughts, emotions, and the objects of the senses. And the inner equivalent of space is the consciousness that enables your mind objects to be, just as space allows all things to be. So if you withdraw attention from things - objects in space - you automatically withdraw attention from your mind objects as well. In other words: You cannot think and be aware of space - or of silence, for that matter.
By becoming aware of the empty space around you, you simultaneously become aware of the space of no-mind, of pure consciousness: the Unmanifested. This is how the contemplation of space can become a portal for you.
Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing, the same nothing. They are an externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.
Most humans are completely unconscious of this dimension. There is no inner space, no stillness. They are out of balance. In other words, they know the world, or think they do, but they don't know God. They identify exclusively with their own physical and psychological form, unconscious of essence. And because every form is highly unstable, they live in fear. This fear causes a deep misperception of themselves and of other humans, a distortion in their vision of the world.
If some cosmic convulsion brought about the end of our world, the Unmanifested would remain totally unaffected by this. A Course in Miracles expresses this truth poignantly: "Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
If you remain in conscious connection with the Unmanifested, you value, love, and deeply respect the manifested and every life form in it as an expression of the One Life beyond form. You also know that every form is destined to dissolve again and that ultimately nothing out here matters all that much. You have "overcome the world," in the words of Jesus, or, as the Buddha put it, you have "crossed over to the other shore."
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:20:33 GMT
Adyashanti ‘Silence’
“The waves of mind demand so much of Silence. But She does not talk back, does not give answers nor arguments. She is the hidden author of every thought every feeling, every moment. Silence. She speaks only one word. And that word is this very existence.“
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Post by Admin on Feb 9, 2020 18:21:24 GMT
Tony Parsons Excerpt from: The Open Secret ‘The Death of the Mind/Body’
The death of the mind/body is only the ending of the illusion of a journey in time.
The awakening to unconditional love is immediate. We are enveloped in our original nature regardless of anything that apparently happened.
When the body/mind is dropped there is no intermediary process of preparation or purification. How can there be? Who was there? All ideas of a personal "after life" or re-incarnation are merely the mind wishing to preserve the illusion of its continuity.
The story is over. The divine novel has been written and, regardless of how the mind might judge, not one jot could have been different.
The scenery evaporates and the characters have left the stage... their apparent existence begins and ends with the dream that has been played out.
For we are the ocean and the waves, the darkness and the light.
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2020 19:36:54 GMT
“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”
― Eckhart Tolle
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Post by Admin on Feb 17, 2020 22:13:15 GMT
Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of it.
It isn't something you learn, a technique, and therefore there is no authority.
Therefore if you will learn about yourself, watch yourself, watch the way you walk, the way you talk, how you eat, what you say, the gossip, the hate, the jealousy.
If you are aware of it without any choice, all that is part of meditation, and as you go, as you journey, as that movement goes, all that movement is meditation.
Then that movement is endless, timeless.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2020 23:25:32 GMT
"Allow life to flow through you and listen to its cues There is a supreme divine intelligence that is keeping everything in perfect harmony Only our egoic mind sees separation If we transcend it we see the world innocent and pure like a child With wonder and awe Purely blissful and free No attachments can distract us when we are rooted in truth We see that any desire as simply a cloud passing trying to get our attention. The longer we rest in the presence within us the clearer the path will become. Rest easy in your heart"
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Post by Admin on Feb 24, 2020 10:50:58 GMT
When you abide in the Self, the Self is seen, and the world is not seen. When the world is seen, the Self is not seen.
-Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Mar 3, 2020 21:40:24 GMT
"Every negative condition you see in the world is a lie. Every positive condition you see in the world is a lie. Reality is beyond positive and negative. Why do you see these things? Why do you worry and fret about your life or about the life of someone else?
What can possibly happen to you? Where can you go? Who suffers? Only the body-ego-mind suffers. To the extent that you can realize that you are not the body-ego-mind, to that extent do you become totally, absolutely free."
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2020 15:02:20 GMT
Jiddu Krishnamurti
‘That which is nameless’
The craving for experience is the beginning of illusion. As you now realize, your visions were but the projections of your background, of your conditioning, and it is these projections that you have experienced. Surely this is not meditation. The beginning of meditation is the understanding of the background, of the self, and without this understanding, what is called meditation, however pleasurable or painful, is merely a form of self-hypnosis. You have practiced self-control, mastered thought, and concentrated on the furthering of experience. This is a self-centered occupation, it is not meditation; and to perceive that it is not meditation is the beginning of meditation. To see the truth in the false sets the mind free from the false. Freedom from the false does not come about through the desire to achieve it; it comes when the mind is no longer concerned with success with the attainment of an end. There must be the cessation of all search, and only then is there a possibility of the coming into being of that which is nameless.
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Post by Admin on Mar 4, 2020 19:49:22 GMT
"The person is not God, the body is not God, but you are God. The reason you will not accept the fact that you are God is because of your orthodox upbringing. You still believe God to be an anthropomorphic deity up in the sky, and if I tell you you’re God, you think it’s blasphemy. That only shows me that you are identifying with your body. You believe you are a body, and there is a God somewhere up in the sky that you’ve got to pray to, and if he is in a good mood, he’ll give you a boon. If he’s not feeling too good that day, he will throw a lightning bolt at you. People still believe that.
The question is, what do you believe? It’s your life. What you believe, what you accept, becomes your lifestyle. You create it, you cause it. Why not experiment? Why not begin to believe that you are God?
What is God? God is consciousness.
What is consciousness? Something that is conscious of itself as pure awareness. And all of that is not some place outside of yourself. It is you. You are that. The whole universe is yourself. The whole universe is happiness, joy, love, peace. But you will never see that in the world until you see it within yourself. You must consequently practice seeing yourself as a loving person, as a kind person, as a joyous person. And then you will drop the person, and you will see yourself as omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence.
You are the power. There is no other power but you. Many of you, most of your lives, have been dwelling on occult powers, trying to find the golden fleece, so-to-speak, outside of yourself. It has never been outside of yourself.
Everything you’re looking for is within you. Stop searching outside of yourself.
Everything you want is within you. The potential, the possibility for everything you can imagine is within you. The omnipresent Self is your real nature."
~ Robert Adams
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Post by Admin on Mar 7, 2020 21:08:16 GMT
OSHO ‘No Lower, No Higher’
Simplicity simply means living moment to moment spontaneously, not according to some philosophy, not according to Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, not according to any philosophy. Whenever you live according to a philosophy you have betrayed yourself, you are an enemy to yourself. Simplicity means to be in a deep friendship with oneself, to live your life with no idea interfering.
It needs guts, certainly, because you will be living constantly in insecurity. The man who lives with ideals is secure. He is predictable; that is his security. He knows what he is going to do tomorrow. He knows, if a certain situation arises, this is the way he will react to it. He is always certain. The man who is simple knows nothing about tomorrow, knows nothing about the next moment, because he is not going to act out of his past. He will respond out of his present awareness.
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Post by Admin on Mar 8, 2020 12:34:52 GMT
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