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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2020 18:04:53 GMT
"It's not that things will change to your liking [when you realize that everything is consciousness / Self)]. It's just that your attitude and reactions to things will be quite different. ... You will be able to see through the things going on in your life, through the negation, through the depression.
Through all these things that have been bothering you perhaps. You'll be able to see through these things. And you'll see bliss. You'll see peace. You'll see joy. You'll be the happiest person that ever lived when you realize and know that consciousness is everything."
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2020 21:42:18 GMT
𝐀𝐝𝐲𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢
There is a very famous poem written by the third patriarch of Zen, Seng-ts’an, called the Hsin-Hsin Ming, which translates as Verses in Faith Mind. In this poem Seng-ts’an writes these lines: “Do not seek the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” This is a reversal of the way most people go about trying to realize absolute truth. Most people seek truth, but Seng-ts’an is saying not to seek truth.
The reason Seng-ts’an is saying not to seek is because truth, or reality, is not something objective. Truth is not something “out there.” It is not something you will find as an object of perception or as a temporal experience. Reality is neither inside of you nor outside of you. Both “outside” and “inside” are not getting to the point. They both miss the mark because outside and inside are conceptual constructs with no inherent reality.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2020 23:17:30 GMT
𝐄𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞
Be present as the watcher of your mind -- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in your reactions as in the situation or person that causes you to react. Notice also how often your attention is in the past or future.
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2020 23:21:25 GMT
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬
Self-realization is itself what it is. It has nothing to do with steps. Self-realization is. It is no thing that you can ever imagine. You do not have to look for it. You do not have to try to find it. It is someone in the ocean deciding to give a course on how to find the ocean and everybody comes running to listen when they're all in the ocean.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2020 0:00:54 GMT
𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐡𝐚
While many seekers have heard of the notion of being willing to have their individuality die and are actually ready to do so, most have no idea how. This is not for any lack of intelligence. It is because there is actually nothing one can do to die to the 'small self'!
What is needed is an understanding of reality from the most all-inclusive viewpoint. Then, one’s apparent individuality becomes enveloped by universality in the same way a seemingly isolated wave merges back into the ocean.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2020 13:37:58 GMT
𝐀𝐝𝐲𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢
To align with the soul takes courage. Ramana defined enlightenment as 'absolute courage at all times and in all situations.' If you want to live an awakened life, it takes courage and grit. It takes someone who loves reality enough that they become a servant of it.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2020 15:17:33 GMT
𝐄𝐜𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐓𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞
The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life’s challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2020 18:18:24 GMT
𝐏𝐚𝐮𝐥 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧
Evolution is only an idea within the mind, hence it has the value of something imagined. The reality is that one has never left the heavenly being, but ignorance prevents him from realizing this.
To get rid of this ignorance, he must sharpen the mind by constant effort, tranquillize it by meditation, and guide it through the help of a teacher.
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2020 21:00:44 GMT
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬
Life has no meaning whatsoever. It doesn’t mean a thing. Those of you who are running around trying to make things happen are making a terrible mistake. Everything has been preordained. Everything is happening according to a divine plan. Everything that is supposed to happen to your body will happen by itself.
Life has no meaning. The real reason it has no meaning is because it doesn’t exist the way it appears to exist. There is no life that really exists. The world does not exist, the universe does not exist. You do not exist as you appear to be. So life is meaningless.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2020 14:04:58 GMT
𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐣𝐢
There is only the one Self. An unchanging, unmoving silence. It is not waiting. And It is not contemplating. It is not reflecting. It is not inquiring. It is not resting. All this could be perceived as modes of the mind itself. What is that which is not in gear? It is not a state. It is not in between states. It is not the gap between thoughts. It is not a gap. It cannot be done or undone.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2020 14:09:09 GMT
𝐍𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐣
As it is difficult to meditate on your own consciousness, worship it as the Guru. You can think of the Guru as standing on your back, with light spreading all over. But you cannot imagine that you, yourself are standing behind you. The early stages of mediation require support of dualism. Your identity has no body-form.
Everything will become clear when you realize that there exists nothing other than you. Chanting the mantra, meditation and bhajans (singing devotional songs) bring worthiness beyond the imagination.
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Post by naominash3 on Jul 10, 2020 14:12:04 GMT
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬 Life has no meaning whatsoever. It doesn’t mean a thing. Those of you who are running around trying to make things happen are making a terrible mistake. Everything has been preordained. Everything is happening according to a divine plan. Everything that is supposed to happen to your body will happen by itself. Life has no meaning. The real reason it has no meaning is because it doesn’t exist the way it appears to exist. There is no life that really exists. The world does not exist, the universe does not exist. You do not exist as you appear to be. So life is meaningless. Even for a concentration camp survivor, life had meaning. Thank you, Elie Weisel.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2020 14:17:49 GMT
𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐬
Sage realizes that the image is a reflection of consciousness and is able to see through that. He sees the images but only as reflections of light. But the space is the reality. The space is not space that you think it is. The confusion lies, for you feel that space is nothing. It's really nothing but it's a nothing that you can never understand. It's a real nothing, an absolute nothing, a total nothing.
Therefore you have to dive back within yourself and cause yourself to disappear. Then you will see space because you will be space. You can only see what you are. If you believe you are a body then you see other bodies. When you know that you're not the body, how can you see a body? Therefore find out who you really are and then you'll see what you'll see.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2020 16:31:17 GMT
𝐀𝐝𝐲𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢
From early childhood, we are given messages such as, "You are pretty," "You are smart," "You got a good grade, so you are good," or "You did not get good grades, so you are not good."
Soon the child starts to believe it, to feel it, to own that emotional essence as "me." In the same way, someone can have a thought, and pretty soon he or she will start feeling that thought. If he thinks about a happy, sunny day, soon his body will start taking on that tone, feeling something that doesn't exist.
So, of course, this makes it rather difficult when someone is told to get rid of ego, because who is going to get rid of ego? What is trying to get rid of ego? That's how it maintains itself, thinking it has to do something with itself.
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2020 17:22:01 GMT
𝐑𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚
Addiction of any sort, be it to inappropriate sexual behaviour, alcohol, drugs, smoking or any milder form of behaviour, always has its origin in the belief and, more importantly, the feeling of being separate, limited and located. The most common form in which this belief and feeling of separation manifests is in the subtle and not-so-subtle rejection of the current situation - that is, “I don’t like what is going on” and “I want something other than what is going on.”
These two attitudes - traditionally referred to as fear and desire - are the two faces of the apparent separate self. They are two of the most common forms of ‘resistance to what is.’ In other words, ‘the apparent separate entity,’ ‘resistance to what is,’ and ‘the search for happiness’ via various objects, substances or experiences, are synonymous.
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