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Post by Admin on Jul 21, 2021 2:05:42 GMT
When the mind unceasingly investigates its own nature, it transpires that there is no such thing as mind.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2021 13:18:35 GMT
Because we cannot see others’ minds we do not know who is actually a realized being and who is not. Someone may not have a high position in society, but if in his heart he maintains loving kindness toward all living beings, in reality he is a realized being.
- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2021 18:16:59 GMT
He whose mind is not attached to any desires, does no action in reality, though his body may act. He is like one who is hearing a story with his mind elsewhere. Similarly, the man whose mind is full of desires is really acting though his body may be actionless.
A man may be sleeping here with his body
inert, and yet he may be climbing hills and falling from them in dream at the same time.
It is all the same to one who is fast asleep in a cart, whether the cart moves or stops, with the bulls left yoked or unyoked. Similarly for the Jnani who has gone to sleep in the cart of His physical body, it does not matter whether He works or is in deep meditation (samadhi), or is asleep.
- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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Post by Admin on Jul 23, 2021 18:53:38 GMT
September 18, 2015 Beyond Mind: Living in Pure Awareness Brian Thompson www.zenthinking.net/blog/beyond-mind-to-no-mind-living-in-pure-awareness-onlyFrom the waking state to the dream state, from matter to mind, from space to time, from the form to the formless, the only thing that’s ever known by mind is the process of knowing. The world, the universe, infinity... is all made of mind. There is nothing outside of this, for it is the one essential fabric for which our entire experience of reality is placed within. Underneath this fleshy incarnation of body, bones and mind, this is who you truly are — a droplet of pure awareness from the universal source — intangible, yet so real it is the only thing that can ever be proven to be true. You are this Awareness, manifest — this is your spark of life. Behind your eyes, it sits. Beyond your mind, it remains always aware. Shut off all your sense perceptions, and it’s still there — your awareness — for it is the entirety of your universe. It is the very source of everything you perceive, as all things can only exist within consciousness itself — nothing is ever outside of it. It is the root of your entire being. Your sense of being the “self” you believe yourself to be, is a misguided perception. It is only an avatar of your own cultural conceptual creation. It is a projection of mind. It is the false, egoic self. The real You is Awareness itself, it is who we all are — it is something we share. Together, we are like waves in an ocean that rise and fall, but the water is undivided and will forever remain. The truth of your nature is this field of empty awareness. All things exist within it. It is bound only by the limits of a discerning and opinionated mind, but once all barriers of rational thought are dissolved — infinity appears. Who you truly are is the witness of your consciousness, pure Awareness — this is your true Self. Drop your knowledge. Lose your intellect. Ditch your sense of self. To know the truth, you must not know anything at all. You must move beyond thought, beyond space, beyond time — the truth of our reality lies beyond any such theories, words, or ideas. All proof exists within your direct experience of this one Awareness, you only need to look within to realize it and see. Ask yourself, “Who am I?” — what do you find? Awareness itself, the empty perfection of your true Self. You are not this or that, you are not any label you attach to your sense of identity. You simply just... are. Nothing more needs to be added on top of this one true and verifiable statement. You are... Aware. Become unbound by body and mind, shift the centre of your heartfelt attention into the ongoing experience of pure awareness, untouched by any conceptual perceptions of thought. This is the natural state of flow that embodies the entirety of the cosmos. Awaken to this ever-present Awareness, live in this effortless embodiment of your true Self, the bliss of your infinite Being, free from the manufactured crisis of a personal identity.
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 1:00:14 GMT
If you surrender yourself to the Higher Power all is well. That Power sees your affairs through. Only so long as you think that you are the worker you are obliged to reap the fruits of your actions. If on the other hand, you surrender yourself and recognise your individual self as only a tool of the Higher Power, that Power will take over your affairs along with the fruits of actions. You are no longer affected by them and the work goes on unhampered. Whether you recognise the Power or not the scheme of things does not alter. Only there is a change of outlook.
Sri Ramana Maharshi: Talk 503
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Post by Admin on Jul 24, 2021 20:51:09 GMT
You are perfect and complete, so abandon the idea of incompleteness. There is nothing to be destroyed. Ahankara, the individual "I", is not a real thing. It is the mind that makes the effort and the mind is not real. Just as it is not necessary to kill a rope that one imagines to be a snake, so also there is no need to kill the mind. Knowing the form of the mind makes the mind disappear. That which is forever non-existent is already removed.
🕉 Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jul 25, 2021 18:55:00 GMT
“Do not fix your attention on all these changing things of life, death and phenomena. Do not think of even the actual act of seeing or perceiving them, but only of that which sees all these things — that which is responsible for it all. This will seem nearly impossible at first, but by degrees the result will be felt. It takes years of steady, daily practice, and that is how a Master is made. Give a quarter of an hour a day for this practice. Try to keep the mind unshakenly fixed on That which sees. It is inside yourself. Do not expect to find that ‘That’ is something definite on which the mind can be fixed easily; it will not be so. Though it takes years to find that ‘That’, the result of this concentration will be seen in four or five months’ time — in all sorts of unconscious clairvoyance, in peace of mind, in power to deal with troubles, in power all round, yet always unconscious power.”
FH Humphreys Sri Ramana Maharshi and The Path of Self-Knowledge
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2021 10:25:14 GMT
Just remember what you are. Use every incident of the day to remind you that without you as the witness there would be neither animal nor God. You are both, the essence and the surface of all there is.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2021 10:37:53 GMT
This is the surest way to handicap oneself, this burdening of one’s mind with the fear of failure and thought of one’s failings. That fear is not true. The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature.
Sri Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2021 16:59:07 GMT
‘The Self is the Absolute and the Absolute is the Self. The Self is the Absolute alone. That which is covered with husk is paddy, and when de-husked becomes rice. So also, when under bondage of action one is the individual self, and when the veil is removed one shines as the Absolute’. Thus proclaim the scriptures, which further declare: ‘The mind should be drawn within and restrained in the Heart until the ego-sense, which sprouts as the ignorant mind, is therein destroyed. This is wisdom and meditation as well; all else is mere lecturing and pedantry’, and, in consonance with this final word, one should fix the mind on Him, be aware of Him and realize Him by every possible endeavour.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi. Words of Grace.
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Post by Admin on Jul 26, 2021 19:13:17 GMT
REALITY IS NOT THE RESULT OF THE PROCESS. Questioner: How can I bring it about? Nisargadatta Maharaj: You can do nothing to bring it about, but you can avoid creating obstacles. Watch your mind, how it comes into being, how it operates. As you watch your mind, you discover your self as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover your self as the light behind the watcher. The source of light is dark, unknown is the source of knowledge. That source alone is. Go back to that source and abide there. It is not in the sky nor in the all-pervading ether. God is all that is great and wonderful; I am nothing, have nothing, can do nothing. Yet all comes out of me -- the source is me; the root, the origin is me. When reality explodes in you, you may call it experience of God. Or, rather, it is God experiencing you. God knows you when you know yourself. Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion. It is definitely beyond the mind, but all you can do is to know your mind well. Not that the mind will help you, but by knowing your mind you may avoid your mind disabling you. You have to be very alert, or else your mind will play false with you. It is like watching a thief -- not that you expect anything from a thief, but you do not want to be robbed. In the same way you give a lot of attention to the mind without expecting anything from it.
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2021 11:12:09 GMT
"Self-awakening is speeded up by clearly observing the human scene in all its chaos and heartache. George MacDonald describes the pathetic picture, 'There they go — little sparrows of the human world, chattering eagerly, darting on every crumb and seed of supposed advantage!' To see how bad it really is does not indicate a negative personality, but reveals an honest mind. And it can arouse the declaration, 'I refuse to live like that!'"
Esoteric Mind Power, p. 36
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Post by Admin on Jul 27, 2021 15:47:32 GMT
DANGER OF PHILOSOPHY 10th April 1937
A highly learned visitor whose chief interest was man and his constitution, wanted Sri Bhagavan to explain from experience man’s various bodies, his koshas and their functions, his atma-buddhi-manas, etc. Bhagavan: (after a brief explanation added) The intricate maze of philosophy of different schools claims to clarify matters and reveal the Truth, but in fact they create confusion where no confusion need exist. To understand anything there needs to be the understanding Being. Why worry about his bodies, his ahankar, his buddhi, creation, God, Mahatmas, world – the not-Self – at all? Why not remain yourself and be in peace? Take Vedanta, for instance: it speaks of the fifteen pranas, the names, and functions of which the student is asked to commit to memory. Will it not be sufficient if he is taught that only one prana does the whole work of maintaining life in the body? Again, the antahkarana is said to think, to desire, to will, to reason, etc. Why all these details? Has anyone seen the antahkarana, or all these pranas? Do they really exist? They are all conceptual divisions invented by teachers of philosophy by their excessive analysis. Where do all these concepts end? Why should confusion be created and then explained away? Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the Source from which they all rise.
🌺 Ramana Maharshi
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Post by Admin on Jul 28, 2021 19:16:48 GMT
Q: You said that before I was born I was one with the pure being of reality; if so, who decided that I should be born?
Nisargadatta Maharaj: In reality you were never born and shall never die. But now you imagine that you are, or have a body and you ask what has brought about this state. Within the limits of illusion the answer is desire born from memory attracts you to a body and makes you think as one with it. But this is true only from the relative point of view. In fact there is no body, nor a world to contain it; there is only a mental condition, a dream-like state, easy to dispel by questioning its reality.
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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2021 16:54:15 GMT
When you sit in the silence it will come to you. You will see how the body came to be, and how the body goes, and a new body comes to be, and a new body goes. But you are alive. The real you persists. Nothing can ever destroy it. Water cannot drown it. Fire cannot burn it. Whatever happens to the body in this world cannot eliminate the I am. It has nothing to do with your age, or whether your well or sick, or rich or poor. It is the Self. It has always been and it will always be. It is you.
You never were a human being. You just have forgotten your real nature and you're living the mortal dream. I ask you to awaken. I ask you to awaken now. Feel yourself awakening. Feel your body melting, dissolving. Yet no real change is taking place, for there's nothing to change. You see, there's no real body that has to be transformed. We're not speaking of transformation. You're not transforming your body into a body of light, or into consciousness, or into absolute reality. What appears to be your body is the Self, pure awareness....
Your body, like the world, the universe, what we call God, has no real existence by itself. It is the Self which permeates the universe. Everything is the Self. That is why everything is sacred. That's what Moses meant when he said, "The ground upon which I stand is holy ground." There is no thing that has any life by itself.
Now can you see why, in your illusory state, you should be kind to animals, to the vegetable kingdom, to the mineral kingdom, to the human kingdom, why you must reconcile yourself with those kingdoms? Because they're all God, and what you do to the world of appearances you're doing to yourself.
Wake up!
🙏 Robert Adams
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