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Post by michaelsees on Oct 31, 2010 2:14:18 GMT -5
60.You have to realize that you are not the body or the knowledge ‘I am’. You as the Absolute are neither, nor do you require them. When the knowledge ‘I am’ arose, you did not know what it was, it was just a feeling ‘you are’- absolutely non-verbal. You did not even know whether it was real or unreal, it was just there. When verbalization was thrust on you, you made the first mistake of believing the ‘I am’ to be real. The second mistake, which was hammered into you, was to believe that you are a person born with a body and living in this world. That you would die one day you inferred by seeing people around you die and these beliefs grew stronger on seeing births
and deaths occurring around you almost everyday. What the Guru now tells you challenges all this, he tells you that you are neither the body nor the knowledge ‘I am’. He tells you that you are the formless Absolute and you do not require either of them, rather you were never them. The Guru can say so as that is his realization and you have to have faith in his words.
Nisargadatta Maharaj (Niz Gita)
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Post by skyblue on Nov 5, 2010 13:46:48 GMT -5
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Post by klaus on Nov 6, 2010 17:32:41 GMT -5
Staring out of a porthole in a ship Teddy muses aloud... Someone just dumped a whole garbage can of orange peels out of the window....They float very nicely....That's interesting....I don't mean it's interesting that they float....It's interesting that I know about them being there. If I hadn't seen them, then I wouldn't know they were there, and if I didn't know they were there, I wouldn't be able to say that they even exist....Some of them are starting to sink now. In a few minutes, the only place they'll be floating will be inside my mind. That's quite interesting, because if you look at it a certain way, that's where they started floating in the first place.
Teddy by J.D. Salinger
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Post by ashtavakra on Nov 7, 2010 5:25:15 GMT -5
Good one Klaus !!!
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Post by klaus on Nov 7, 2010 17:50:32 GMT -5
ashtavakra,
J.D. Salinger can bring zen, vedanta, advaita out of the spiritual texts and into the lives of the Glass family. All of his stories are koans.
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Post by ashtavakra on Nov 7, 2010 22:57:02 GMT -5
Klaus, read Salinger's catcher in the rye..a long time back..guess i need to read that and his other books one of these days... Thanks for the lead.. regards
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Post by mits on Nov 8, 2010 18:04:18 GMT -5
"You can't polish a turd!" ~David DuChemin, "HUMANATARIAN PHOTGRAPHER"
Completly unrelated but it's funny!
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Post by michaelsees on Nov 9, 2010 19:20:59 GMT -5
"what you don't have cannot help you, and what you do have needs no help."
Mooji
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Post by charliegee on Nov 9, 2010 22:56:08 GMT -5
Absolutely Clear by Hafiz
Don't surrender your loneliness So quickly. Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you As few human Or even divine ingredients can.
Something missing in my heart tonight Has made my eyes so soft, My voice So tender,
My need of God Absolutely Clear.
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Post by revdella on Nov 12, 2010 14:35:06 GMT -5
" Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3: 5,6
I love this quote when I am trying to have faith in something that seems almost impossible to accomplish. It helps me realize that God's ways are not the world's ways. When I trust in God, I don't have to be so concerend about the 'how.'
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Post by skyblue on Nov 13, 2010 9:25:39 GMT -5
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aaron
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Post by aaron on Nov 22, 2010 5:49:24 GMT -5
No matter what you think, feel, or do, you can never not be here!
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Post by michaelsees on Nov 22, 2010 18:41:05 GMT -5
Into the sphere of clear light, empty, without edge or center, The nature of the mind, grasping nothing, dissolves as one taste. If only I had the good fortune to practice this day and night, Knowing for myself unspoken untainted bliss.
In the Forest of Faded Wisdom GENDUN CHOPEL
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Post by oneiopen on Dec 7, 2010 20:23:08 GMT -5
"People say that seeing the Self or God everywhere is Self-Realisation, but that is not true. To see the Self everywhere there must be an 'I' who sees and while that 'I' exists, the mind will also exist. The jnani (an enlightened being) does not see anything because the seeing entity in him has died. In the Self there is no seeing, only being. When the mind still exists one can reach a stage where one can see the whole world as a manifestation of the Self, but when the mind dies, there is no one who sees the world and no world to be seen.
If you have a mind, then the earth, the sky, and the stars will exist and you will be able to see them. When the mind dies there will be no earth, no sky, no stars and no world. The world of objects, names and forms is only the mind, and when the mind dies, the world dies with it. Only the Self then remains.
Seeing everything as the Self gives the impression that the Self is equally distributed everywhere. This is also an idea in the mind. When the mind finally dies, you realise that there is no distribution and no everywhere."
Lakshmana Swamy (Self-realised sage and devotee of Ramana Maharshi) from "No Mind--I am the Self", page 103
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Post by michaelsees on Feb 10, 2011 18:18:55 GMT -5
"If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark." ~St. John of the Cross
Michael
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