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Post by laughter on Oct 18, 2014 14:50:48 GMT -5
Niz: The present "I am" is as false as the "I was" and "I shall be". It is merely an idea in the mind, an impression left by memory, and the separate identity it creates is false. This habit of referring to a false center must be done away with; the notion "I see", I feel", "I think", "I do", must disappear from the field of consciousness; what remains when the false is no more is real. (2nd paragraph of Chapter 62 of "I AM THAT", "In the Supreme, the Witness Appears") bump |
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Post by andrew on Oct 18, 2014 15:47:18 GMT -5
''You must analyze ‘death’, the meaning of this common parlance. At the time that death occurs, the vital breath quits the body, gradually leaves the body. At the same time as the vital breath, the mind and the language also go out. Simultaneously, this quality of ‘I am’, this ‘sattva-guna’, the quality of beingness, also departs or goes into oblivion. Only I, the Absolute, remains. Stay put there only, nothing happens to I, the Absolute.''
From 'Experience of Nothingness'
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Post by andrew on Oct 19, 2014 5:25:22 GMT -5
''First you have what is called ‘atma-bhava’ – that is the ‘I am’ sense. Later, this sense identifies with the form of a body, when it is called ‘aham-akar’, the ‘I am’ form, this is ego. Ego is never a title or name, but just a sense of ‘I am’ prior to words. The waking state, the sleep state and the knowingness ‘I am’ constitute an ego. In the absence of these three states what do you think you are? What would be the evidence of your existence?''
From 'Nector of Immortality'
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Post by justlikeyou on Oct 20, 2014 8:10:07 GMT -5
Niz: "The seeker is he who is in search of himself.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 16:41:02 GMT -5
Niz: "Whatever you witness will not remain with you. It is imperfect. The One who recognises the imperfect is perfect. It is total. It has not to do anything for Itself because it is perfect and complete in Itself."
September 28th, 1980.
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 3, 2015 15:12:56 GMT -5
As long as you are a beginner certain formalised meditations, or prayers may be good for you. But for a seeker for reality there is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbour thoughts. To be free from thoughts is itself meditation....You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it....Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognise it."
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Post by laughter on Dec 15, 2015 19:57:07 GMT -5
(From Chapter 1 of "I AM THAT", "The Sense of 'I am'")
Niz: Even to say that you are not the body is not quite true. In a way you are all the bodies, hearts and minds and much more. Go deep into the sense of ‘I am’ and you will find. How do you find a thing you have mislaid or forgotten? You keep it in your mind until you recall it. The sense of being, of 'I am' is the first to emerge. Ask yourself whence it comes, or just watch it quietly. When the mind stays in the 'I am' without moving, you enter a state which cannot be verbalized but can be experienced. All you need to do is try and try again. After all the sense ‘I am’ is always with you, only you have attached all kinds of things to it -- body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, possessions etc. All these self-identifications are misleading. Because of them you take yourself to be what you are not. bump |
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Post by laughter on Dec 15, 2015 19:57:39 GMT -5
(From Chapter 69 of "I AM THAT", "Transiency is Proof of Unreality")Niz: You are the infinite focused in a body. Now you see the body only. Try earnestly and you will come to see the infinite only. bump |
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Post by laughter on Dec 15, 2015 19:58:00 GMT -5
Q: ... here and now, as I talk to you, I am in the body -- obviously. The body may not be me, but it is mine. Niz: The entire universe contributes incessantly to your existence. Hence the entire universe is your body. In that sense, I agree. ... Niz: ... now divest yourself of the idea that you are the body with the help of the contrary idea that you are not the body. It is also an idea, no doubt; treat it like something to be abandoned when its work is done. ... (This and the last from Chapter 54 of "I AM THAT", "Body and Mind are Symptoms of Ignorance") bump |
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Post by Theodore on Dec 20, 2015 0:49:13 GMT -5
"No Color, No Design" (verbatim)
"You are the Only Being"
"Some people talk of Rebirth. How is that possible? Birth happens unknowingly."
"Knowledge of death and life is correct for [one's] understanding at this moment. Whatsoever [one] understands in a particular situation is correct."
"We are all a carved part of this universe. Whatever you understand at this stage is only per your capacity of understanding."
"Drop the idea that you are making choices. Only then you will be free"
"Urinating is a spontaneous process and you can't even control that. You don't have the capacity to discard anything. Sometimes you feel like urinating, and you can't do it. You run to a doctor, he gives you an injection and then you urinate. And we still think we are the doers."
-Nisargadatta Maharaj, The Lost Satsang
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Post by maxdprophet on Jan 12, 2016 9:43:41 GMT -5
Q: Does it mean that I must give up all idea of an active life?
M: Not at all. There will be marriage, there will be children, there will be earning money to maintain a family; all this will happen in the natural course of events, for destiny must fulfil itself; you will go through it without resistance, facing tasks as they come, attentive and thorough, both in small things and big. But the general attitude will be of affectionate detachment, enormous goodwill, without expectation of return, constant giving without asking. In marriage you are neither the husband nor the wife; you are the love between the two. You are the clarity and kindness that makes everything orderly and happy. It may seem vague to you, but if you think a little, you will find that the mystical is most practical, for it makes your life creatively happy. Your consciousness is raised to a higher dimension, from which you see everything much clearer and with greater intensity. You realise that the person you became at birth and will cease to be at death is temporary and false. You are not the sensual, emotional and intellectual person, gripped by desires and fears. Find out your real being. What am l? is the fundamental question of all philosophy and psychology. Go into it deeply.
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Post by maxdprophet on Jan 12, 2016 11:27:22 GMT -5
M: It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by the mind itself, for its own protection, continuation and expansion. It is the blank refusal to consider the convolutions and convulsions of the mind that can take you beyond it.
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Post by maxdprophet on Feb 26, 2016 8:27:25 GMT -5
Q: But is there such a thing as perceiving without naming?
M: Of course. Naming cannot go beyond the mind, while perceiving is consciousness itself.
Q: When somebody dies what exactly happens?
M: Nothing happens. Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 11:08:37 GMT -5
"What do you know about yourself? You can only be what you are in reality; you can only appear to be what you are not. You have never moved away from perfection. All idea of self-improvement is conventional and verbal. As the Sun knows not darkness, so does the self know not the non-self. It is the mind, which by knowing the other, becomes the other. Yet the mind is nothing else but the self. It is the self that becomes the other, the not-self and yet remains the self. All else is an assumption."
I Am That ~ Page 196.
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Post by laughter on Apr 25, 2016 15:27:08 GMT -5
Niz: You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right. You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.
seeker: How am I to think myself out when my thoughts come and go as they like. Their endless chatter distracts and exhausts me.
Niz: Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all. It is only when you have a vested interest in any particular level, that your attention gets caught in it and you black out on other levels. Even then the work on the blacked out levels goes on, outside the field of consciousness. Do not struggle with your memories and thoughts; try only to include in your field of attention the other, more important questions, like 'Who am l?' 'How did I happen to be born?' 'Whence this universe around me?'. 'What is real and what is momentary?' No memory will persist, if you lose interest in it, it is the emotional link that perpetuates the bondage. You are always seeking pleasure, avoiding pain, always after happiness and peace. Don't you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable? Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking, nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which 'I am' is timelessly present. Soon you will realise that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels, that disturbs. Avoid the disturbance, that is all. To seek there is no need; you would not seek what you already have.
(para's 34-36 of dialog #51 "I AM THAT", "Be Indifferent to Pain and Pleasure")
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