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Post by dwbh1953 on Jan 20, 2009 12:43:04 GMT -5
Not sure how this will work but I would like to keep this topic going with quotes or pointers of the day. I hope that everyone will share a quote of theirs here. I will start the ball rolling with this one.
Peace
Randji
"Recognise the naturalness that you are--pure, all pervasive, space like, ever expressing, spontaneous presence-awareness, with no reference point (self nature) having any substance or independent existence. Failing to recognise naturalness (the unity of appearance and emptiness, space and its content), delusion happens and there is a grasping of or fixation on appearance--me and the other--a seeming duality. Without that fixation there is freedom as naturalness, delusion dissolves and evenness (non-duality) remains--the natural state--simply this, nothing else. Naturally remaining as naturalness (equanimity) is the natural (effortless) meditation of no one to meditate and nothing to meditate on--no trying to get or trying to avoid, just effortless being which is always already so. Recognise this again and again".
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Morrie
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"Nothing is me" is the first step. "Everything is me" is the next.
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Post by Morrie on Jan 20, 2009 20:39:24 GMT -5
Here is a Nisargadatta quote I like:
The desire to find the self will be surely fulfilled, provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest with yourself and really want nothing else. If in the meantime you want many other things and are engaged in their pursuit, your main purpose may be delayed until you grow wiser and cease being torn between contradictory urges. Go within, without swerving, without ever looking outward.
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Post by dwbh1953 on Jan 20, 2009 21:36:55 GMT -5
Here is a Nisargadatta quote I like: The desire to find the self will be surely fulfilled, provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest with yourself and really want nothing else. If in the meantime you want many other things and are engaged in their pursuit, your main purpose may be delayed until you grow wiser and cease being torn between contradictory urges. Go within, without swerving, without ever looking outward. Nice one Morrie here is another one that is short and to the point by Ramana Maharshi Realization is our true nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need to be doubting whether we would gain or lose the self. |
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Post by fear on Jan 21, 2009 2:59:13 GMT -5
"Instead of God, FUCK has become the most important word in our language." Osho
"The whole thing was upside down, you are told to love your neighbour, but you have never loved yourself". Osho
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Post by dwbh1953 on Jan 22, 2009 9:12:05 GMT -5
"All that a guru can tell you is:
'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken aboutyourself.
You are not the person you take yourself to be.'"
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Post by lightmystic on Jan 22, 2009 10:55:21 GMT -5
"We are trapped and need to be free.
Until I realized that I never was."
and also:
"Aaaah! What is this limitation!? I didn't sign up for this! What the f***!?"
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Morrie
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Post by Morrie on Jan 22, 2009 15:30:36 GMT -5
"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
-Tolstoy
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Post by BuddhaIncarnate on Jan 22, 2009 21:43:36 GMT -5
I am that I am.
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Post by dwbh1953 on Jan 22, 2009 21:59:09 GMT -5
I am that I am before the I Am ..I am..someone say green eggs and ham.. just playing with you I always lked that quote which actually comes from the old testment when Moses ask God who are you.. Nice to met you Buddha Randyji |
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Post by onehandclapping on May 2, 2011 0:57:38 GMT -5
My favorite pointer is "the sound of one hand clapping" of course. hahaha.
Another gem for me:
"You are that awareness, disguised as a person"
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Post by souley on May 2, 2011 14:41:51 GMT -5
Hey, dwbh1953 is also Michael? Awesome. And yeah I know these posts are super old:)
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Post by kate on May 5, 2011 8:00:00 GMT -5
This quote is not necessarily inspirational or a pointer, but I came across it in the course of my work lately and it struck me and I felt compelled to share it. It's from Virginia Woolf:
"If life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills and fills. It is of lying half asleep, half awake, in bed in the nursery at St Ives. It is of hearing the waves breaking, one, two, one, two, and sending a splash of water over the beach; and then breaking, one, two, one, two, behind a yellow blind. It is of hearing the blind draw its little acorn across the floor as the wind blew the blind out. It is of lying and hearing this splash and seeing this light, and feeling, it is almost impossible that I should be here."
This immediately brought to mind an experience that I have had regularly since I was a very small child. I will catch my reflection in a mirror or a window unexpectedly and be almost shocked, quite surprised to see the person staring back at me. And the feeling/thought behind the shock/surprise is always: How completely odd that this is what I am. Off all things. How strange that I should be this, let alone anything at all.
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Post by souley on May 5, 2011 8:06:08 GMT -5
Yes I always had a bit of a strange feeling for that character in the mirror. It didn't quite feel right. It's like I am forced to think thats me but somewhere I never really accepted it. A while back when I did some Douglas Harding experiments, I played around with the mirror. Trying to see that the guy in the mirror is actually pretty far away, and stuff like that. It can be pretty effective! Then I suddenly had a flashback from when I was about 4-5 years old, and had exactly the same experience of looking in the mirror, and thinking "Is that really me? How strange..". It must have been around the time when I started to learn that from parents etc. I didn't know memories from so long ago could surface just like that, but it was pretty cool.
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Post by kate on May 5, 2011 8:11:26 GMT -5
Yes, kids are onto the whole thing. My parents talk about my younger brother going through a phase when he was about four years old where he would get quite frustrated when they couldn't answer the question "Why am I not you?"
I've also talked to a number of people recently about my mirror experiences, just out of curiosity asking them if they ever had that experience, and almost everyone responded with immediate recognition. And these are not peoplel who consider themselves "spiritual".
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