Clarification of the mind...
"Just as a speck in the eye, by causing inflammation, may wipe out the world,
so the mistaken idea: "I am the body-mind" causes the self-concern, which obscures the universe.
It is useless to fight the sense of being a limited and separate person unless the roots of it are laid bare.
Selfishness is rooted in the mistaken ideas of oneself.
Clarification of the mind is yoga.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The True 'I'...
Mind's dissolution in the Self,
the ocean of Awareness,
this is peace eternal.
The Heart's vast space,
the love-filled ocean of Bliss supreme,
is the true I.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
The Divine Identity...
At long last, when the union of self with Overself is total and complete, some part of his consciousness will remain unmoving in infinity, unending in eternity.
There, in that sacred glory, he will be preoccupied with his divine identity, held to it by irresistible magnetism, gladly, lovingly.
-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind >
Chapter 2: Enlightenment Which Stays > # 299
Paul Brunton
Thoughts on a saturday night...
The darkness spreads upon the earth and yet Light shines within this space..
Van Morrison sings to you of a Source of Creation and Home..
We are not the image of body, We are Light..
How can I speak of Light when only darkness is seen,
Because the Heart produces a hundred times more voltage than the brain..
You are to use the mind to knock upon the door, but only the Heart can enter..
Does your mind embrace this Knowledge?..
We are Light and therefore the magnetic source of fire and vision.
Are you beginning to understand?..
See You within the Light...
namaste, thomas
Annihilation...
"A man must separate himself from all attachment to physical reality, said the Maggid, until he rises through all the spiritual worlds and becomes one with God, his own individual existence having been annihilated.
Then he is really called man."
Rabbi Dov Baer
in Alan Unterman
The Wisdom of the Jewish Mystics
NY New Directions, 1976, p. 54
Surrendering false ideas...
All spiritual teachings are only
meant to make us retrace
our steps to our
Original Source.
We need not acquire anything new, only give
up false ideas and useless accretions.
Instead of doing this, we try to grasp something
strange and mysterious because we believe happiness
lies elsewhere.
This is a mistake.
- Ramana Maharshi
Separation...
"...when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it.
Alienation causes fear, and fear deepens alienation.
It is a vicious circle.
Only self-realization can break it.
Go for it resolutely.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love's illusions...
Joni Mitchell sings of Love's illusions and Consciousness tells me to speak..
Divine Consciousness consists of Light, Love, and Consciousness and yet, It remains the Dreamer of Life..
We are the Dreamer..
We believe that we are the body and mind,
but Reality reminds us that We are the Creator of Dreams..
Love is the bonding of Consciousness..
Division is an Unreality of this Truth..
The illusion of separation is both a Dream and a Game..
We are the Players and Actors within this Hologram..
When the 'Play' has ended, where are We?..
We call this ending, Death..
But, what has died?..
Only the game and play has ended..
We remain the Observer of the Play,
We remain Divine Consciousness..
But, before you become content,
look higher, Pure Awareness awaits Your arrival...
namaste, thomas
The world is not real...
There is no alternative for you but to accept the
world as unreal if you are seeking the truth and
the truth alone.
Unless you give up the idea that
the world is real your mind will always be after it.
If you take the appearance to be real you will
never know the real itself, although it is the real
alone that exists.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
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"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman
Arkana, 1985
Wakefulness...
By watching keenly and working hard, the wise one may build himself an
island which no flood can sweep away.
The thoughtless man does not
care, but the attentive man looks on wakefulness as his greatest
treasure.
-Dhammapada
The soul...
The effort should be to find inward stillness through a loving search within the heart's depths for what may be called "the soul," what I have called "the Overself."
This is not the soul thought of by a judge when he passes the sentence of death and asks the Lord to have mercy on the condemned man's soul.
It is the Holy Ghost of Christian faith, the diviner part of man which dwells in eternity.
The nearer we get to it in our striving, the greater will be the mental peace we shall feel.
It can be found and felt even while thoughts continue to move through the mind, although they will necessarily be thoughts of a most elevated nature for the baser ones could not obtain entry during this mood.
-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You >
Chapter 4: Seek the Deeper Stillness > # 174
Paul Brunton
Economic Inequality...
A spiritual friend of mine asked me to speak of this subject..
We live in a Luciferian controlled world, but believe otherwise..
The Luciferian controllers demand the energy of pain as an offering to the illusion of separation called Lucifer..
But Lucifer also demands 'Blood Sacrifice'..
Read the history of humanity and you will find these sacrifices throughout the world..
The modern method of 'Blood Sacrifice' is called Famine and War..
Do you now understand the Dream ?..
You as Consciousness has entered "Hell"..
To know what You Are, you must first know what You Are Not..
We are the 'Mirror of Reality'..
But, We can awaken from this Dream whenever We choose..
It is called the 'Surrender of all desires, especially egoic desire'..
We know this experience as 'Enlightenment'..
It is time for Contemplation...
namaste, thomas
The Sea...
There is the eye of the Sea and there is the foam.
Leave the foam behind and look with the eye of
the Sea.
Day and night, foam is born out of the Sea: how strange!
You keep looking at the foam and not at the Sea!
- Rumi
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Muriel Maufroy
"Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi"
Sanyar Press - London, 1997
Existence...
To exist means to be something, a thing, a feeling,
a thought, an idea.
All existence is particular.
Only being is universal, in the sense that every
being is compatible with every other being.
Existences clash, being - never.
Existence means
becoming, change, birth and death and birth again,
while in being there is silent peace.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
The same...
He creates Himself.
Therefore the creation and the Creator are not two,
or rather,
they are two but at the same time they are not.
From The Teachings of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
Thoughts on a wednesday night...
It is well after ten at night and yet I need to speak..
Consciousness slaps me in the face and says, "wake up"..
So many humans that I have spoken to today, are asleep..
They lean back and think of what I say, but the ego denies it's authority..
I am only the farmer that plants the seed..
They decide to water the seed or not..
My time within this Dream is short,
I can only exchange thoughts within the Dreamers..
But, Consciousness tells me that the souls will water the seeds after my dream is ended..
Perhaps, Consciousness will regain this Dream from the Prince of Lies..
Only you can answer this...
namaste, thomas
Delusion...
"When told that men live in delusion,
everyone thinks that he is the exception,
which is part of his delusion."
- Vernon Howard
Awareness...
When you see yourself
and someone else
as one being,
when you know the most joyful day
and the most terrible night
as one moment,
then
awareness is alone
with its Lord.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
Beingness...
You as the knower of the body and the mind are apart from both. You as BEINGNESS are that which always is, irrespective of body and mind.
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We consider ourselves to be the presence only of what we appear to be, but what we appear to be is only the costume, the persona put on by what lies underneath.
We are the presence of an absence we are unable to perceive and of which we know nothing. So we call it a "void", and we avoid it.
- Ramesh Balsekar
The Primal Ground...
"The primal ground
whose being is silence,
That I am.
Why take the trouble of thinking
'That am I'?
Meditation is stillness;
it is extinction of the 'I'.
When 'I' is gone,
where is the room
for thought?"
- Ramana Maharshi
Seeking...
Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of
old;
seek instead what they sought.
- Chinese parable
Divine Light...
One who beholds the Light may be grateful for several reasons. First, it is the only occult experience of which it may be said that it is entirely without risk or peril.
Second, it is the loftiest of all clairvoyant visions. Third, it confers the feeling of perfect felicity, not in the worldly sense, but of an ethereal unearthly kind.
Fourth, it is a direct manifestation of God to man, being the first of his outpourings, hence an uncommon blessing, a grace.
Fifth, if it appears in consciousness as Power, the recipient may feel a tremendous force, unknown otherwise, throbbing all around and within him, or a sudden lightning-like flash of complete comprehension:
he understands what neither bodily sense nor intellectual faculty can understand--the supernatural meaning of Spirit, of eternity, of transfiguration, and of reality.
- Paul Brunton
Thoughts on Memorial Day...
I feel conflicted because patriotism is high within my friends and yet I see the evil within war..
I was a combat veteran in vietnam during the 'tet offensive' and now I seek only peace..
How can I speak of peace when war is honored ?..
I remain silent..
Between the 'thanks for my service', I feel grief..
My half smile remains to placate those that wish me honor,
But, a tear begins it's descent upon my cheek..
I hide it within a swipe of my finger but Truth is Powerful..
Perhaps, tomorrow will bring the gift of forgetfulness..
namaste, thomas
The Gospel of Thomas...
The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the
end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the
one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste
death..
Keep in mind...
Understand one thing well, and you have arrived.
What prevents you from knowing is not the lack
of opportunity, but the lack of ability to focus
in your mind what you want to understand.
If you
could but keep in mind what you do not know, it
would reveal to you its secrets.
But if you are
shallow and impatient, not earnest enough to look
and wait, you are like a child crying for the moon.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
Awake and Asleep...
The more awake one is to the material world,
the more one is asleep to spirit.
When our soul is asleep to God,
other wakefulness closes the door of Divine grace.
- Rumi
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Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
Jesus and Mysticism...
Jesus taught all his Apostles how to become Mystics, but he only spoke in parables to the average human.
The deeper meaning of the parables can be understood only by Mystics, therefore He was able to teach to both the Enlightened and the Unenlightened.
The modern Christian religion does not teach the path of Mystical Study to the average person in their Church because most of the leaders in the Church are not Mystics.
Many that seek power over others are still ruled by their own egos',,so they do not have the knowledge to teach Mysticism to others, as they have not learned this knowledge themselves and do not care to give up the ego that gives them false pleasure.
Therefore, the spiritual seekers in that church are left in ignorance and constant pain during their lives in the material plane,
they are not even taught that they can end their pain through the elimination of the Ego..
They are taught that the best that they can achieve is Heaven, but never told that the real goal is to become "One with God", which is far higher than the Heaven that they have been taught of.
namaste, thomas
The Golden Rule...
"In everything,
do to others as you would have them do to you;
for this is the law and the prophets."
Jesus the Christ
Matthew 7:12
Sell cleverness...
Sell cleverness and buy wonderment:
cleverness is opinion,
wonder is vision.
- Rumi
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Muriel Maufroy
"Breathing Truth - Quotations from Jalaluddin Rumi"
Sanyar Press - London, 1997
Divinity...
Divinity is like the seed that grows in the heart of the flower: it is the same seed that was the origin of the plant, and it comes again in the heart of the flower. In a similar way the same God who was manifested as the seed of the plant of this creation rises again towards fulfillment, and in that fulfillment He produces the seed in the heart of that flower which is divinity.
Some religious authorities have tried to recognize the divinity of Christ while ignoring the divinity of humanity. They have tried to make Christ different from what may be called human; but by doing so they have covered the main truth that religion had to give to the world, which was that divinity resides in humanity, that divinity is the outcome of humanity, and that humanity is the flower in the heart of which divinity was born as a seed....
It is the development of humanity that culminates in divinity; thus Christ is the example of the culmination of humanity. It would be hiding the greatest human virtue to hide this secret, which is the key to the mystery of the whole universe. No doubt compared with God divinity is the imperfection of God, but it is still the perfection of man.
It is just like a drop of water that is entirely and absolutely water, and yet it is a drop in comparison with the ocean. The ocean is God, but the drop is divine...
God always comes and always shows Himself through the heart of the godly. The comparison of the divine with God is just like a sunglass placed before the sun. The sunglass partakes of the heat of the sun and transfers the heat to the earth; and so the divine man, the messenger in all ages, comes and partakes of God's rays and hands them down to earth in the form of the divine message. Although a sunglass is not the sun, yet when it is exposed to the sun it partakes of the sun and begins to show the quality of the sun. So it is with the souls who focus their hearts on God....And then all that is in God becomes manifest in man.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
" Here in Heaven"...
The Gregorians sing of Heaven and consciousness tells me that I must speak of this place..
According to the amount of desire that you possess, determines what dimension you will enter..
Heaven is undefined when frequency is known..
The egoic spirit usually enter a tunnel of light that the spirit believes is the path to Heaven..
But, this is a trap..
You must enter the Light within you..
"The Kingdom of God is within you"..
The tunnel of light is an archon trap to capture your soul,
which is the sub-conscious mind that is connected to Divine Consciousness..
Have I confused you yet ?..
The soul is a dream of division, it is not Real..
You have always been Divine Consciousness and no dream can change that..
Do not be deceived by the appearance of angels..
You will be told to reincarnate again within the world dream..
They are using your Thought Energy as an energy source..
Stay Awake and return to the non-egoic desire of Love..
Become Nothing.. Become Everything...
namaste, thomas
The Knower...
"There is no knowledge except that taken from God, for He alone is the Knower....
The prophets, in spite of their great number and the long periods of time which separate them, had no disagreement in knowledge of God, since they took it from God."
Ibn Arabi
'Futuhat al Makkiyah' II. 290.
Translated by W. C. Chittick
in William C. Chittick
_The Sufi Path of Knowledge_
Albany: SUNY Press, 1989
Being ready...
When one is genuinely ready,
Truth finds a way to
introduce itself inside the heart and ends the feeling
of separation.
- Mooji
The mystery of Light...
The mystery of the atom has resolved itself into the mystery of light, which is now the greatest mystery of physics.
Einstein demonstrated the dependence of time upon the position and speed of motion of an observer.
He showed, too, the amazing consequence of placing the latter in a stream of light wherein if he moved with the same velocity as light, the observer would then possess no sense of the passage of time.
If this happened, what sort of a sense would he possess?
Einstein could not tell us, but the mystic who has conquered mind can.
He will possess the sense of eternity.
He will live in the eternal, in the Kingdom of Heaven.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity >
Chapter 4: Time, Space, Causality > # 102
Paul Brunton
"Welcome Home , prodigal son"...
The voices of humans enter the mind of an illusion..
I pretend to exist but Reality tells me otherwise..
I shout to the Dream that I exist,
but Reality gently reminds me that I am only a Dream from God..
I ask God, why is this dream seen..
Source replies that It is Dreaming and that I am a parcel of this dream..
I then ask God, " What is there beyond this pain of existence ?"..
Source replies, " You are that which you desire to be "..
So much to think of and yet I still probe for Truth..
"I desire for Nothing"..
Source replies; " Now you are returning Home"..
Source continues; " When you desire nothing but Reality, you return to Me"..
"Welcome Home, Prodigal Son"...
namaste, thomas
The Gospel of Thomas...
When you know yourselves,
then you will be known,
and you will understand that you are children of the living Father.
But if you do not know yourselves,
then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
Jesus the Nazarene
Mind-stuff...
Just as one's dream in sleep exists nowhere but in the mind (both as cause and effect) so does the universe exist only in the mind of infinite Consciousness.
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It must be constantly borne in mind while trying to understand the mechanics of the apparent process of manifestation that nothing has actually been created.
All that appears is mind-stuff, that of which all dreams are made, and apart from Consciousness itself, nothing exists, neither the mind nor the senses nor their objects.
A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org
Time and Space...
"In Reality,
time and space exist in you;
you do not exist in them.
They are modes of perception,
but they are not the only ones.”
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Pure Land...
"Amida [Buddha] is the Father of all beings; he is the Only One; he has, from the very beginning of all things, been contriving to save the world, and once incarnated himself in the person of Dharmakara Bhikshu to deliver the message of happiness among us.
Amida made the Bhikshu invoke forty-eight vows as recorded in the Amitayus-sutra, the main idea of which is that "I will make every one enjoy a rebirth in Pure Land if he listen to my name and believe in my will to save and rejoice in it."
Yejitsu Okusa
_Principal Teachings Of The True Sect Of Pure Land_
Kyoto: The Otaniha Hongwanji, 1915, p. 71-72
The faces of desire...
I sit within this Dream and see the faces of those that seek authority and wonder why, they seek..
The ego is strong within these humans and the King or Queen of the World is the only hologram that they will accept..
I feel the emotion of pity for these poor souls..
They are trapped within a golden prison seeking happiness..
Somehow , they missed the memo that said , "Happiness is Love"..
In youth, they were taught that only personal ego, matters..
And yet,
We the blind,
elect them into this prison of grief...
- namaste, thomas
Perfect...
"Perfect is he who,
by practice and meditation,
lifts his soul to its real abode,
freeing it from all bonds,
both internal and external and thus detaches his mind from the world and its phenomena."
~ Shiv Dayal Singh, "Sar Bachan"
Krishnamurti...
Krishnamurti on Teachers and Organizations -excerpts taken from Total Freedom
"When you follow someone, you cease to follow truth."
"You are accustomed to authority, or to the atmosphere of authority, which you think will lead you to spirituality. You think and hope that another can, by his extraordinary powers - a miracle - transport you to this realm of eternal freedom, which is Happiness."
"Your belief has not transformed you, but only complicated you ---because you are not willing to face things as they are. You want to have your own gods - new gods instead of the old, new religions instead of the old, new forms instead of the old - all equally valueless, all barriers,all limitations, all crutches. "
"You are all depending on your spirituality on someone else, for your happiness on someone else, for your enlightenment on someone else, and when I say all these things are unnecessary, when I say that you must put them all away and look within yourselves for the enlightenment, for the glory, for the purification, and for the incorruptibility of self, not one of you is willing to do it - there may be a few, but very very few. "
"Organizations cannot make you free. No man from outside can make you free: nor can organized worship, nor the immolation of yourselves for a cause, make you free; nor can forming yourselves into an organization, nor throwing yourselves into works, make you free."
"Again you have the idea that certain people hold the key to the Kingdom of Happiness. No one holds it. No one has the authority to hold that key. That key is YOUR OWN SELF, and in the development and the purification and in the incorruptibility of that self alone is the Kingdom of Eternity."
Divine Consciousness...
"Happy are the days of them that are infatuated by love for Him,
whether they be sorrowed by separation from Him or made joyous by His presence."
Sadi
_The Bustan of Sadi_
Translated by A. Hart Edwards, 1911, p. 60, at sacred-texts.com
The Matrix...
The Mystic already knows that they exist within a Hologram..
But, most humans believe that they live in a world of good leaders seeking peace..
The Matrix is a hologram that provides negative energy to entities within the lower fourth dimension..
Jesus would often force these entities from the bodies of those imprisioned by these beings..
These negative entities, often called evil spirits, archons, jinns, or satanic, exist without the Light Energy of God..
Therefore, they need our energy to exist..
It is all about Energy..
Energy is Thought..
This is why Thought is used within Prayers and also within Curses..
Thought is Divine Consciousness..
Divine Consciousness is Us..
We have the Power of Divine Consciousness to Create Manifestations within this Dream..
We have been taught by religions and education to believe otherwise..
It is time for you to Awaken to this Knowledge..
The ego is a generator of negative energy..
This is why violence is shown within the media and used as an entertainment device..
Your mind is constantly being programed for violence through the media and wars..
Hatred is the religion of the Matrix..
namaste, thomas
Suffering...
"Suffering is a call for enquiry,
all pain needs investigation.
Don't be lazy to think.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Gradually awakened...
"One cannot start running at full speed;
one must gather momentum
and gradually increase the speed.
If one is to be stained with a spiritual color,
one must be stained gradually.
The color takes time to penetrate
for it to become deep and rich –
it must be applied gradually.
The mind which has been sleeping
the sleep of ignorance for ages
can only gradually be awakened to Knowledge."
Kabir
Translated by Meher Baba
in Bhau Kalchuri
_Lord Meher: The Biography of Avatar of the Age Meher Baba_
Myrtle Beach, SC: Manifestation, 1st ed., v. 6., p. 2086-7
Revised Online Edition, p. 1772
Returning...
Life sinks down. We leave.
We keep walking day and night,
and come back where we began.
There is some mysterious meaning
in this, but what is it?
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
Surrendering to Overself...
His destination is also his origin.
But if you say that he was born in the eternal Spirit, the question arises how can time, which is placed outside eternity, bring him to eternity.
The answer is that it does not bring him there,
it only educates him to look for, and prepares him to pass through,the opening through which he can escape.
Need it be said that this lies at the point where ego surrenders wholly to Overself?..
-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life >
Chapter 4: Surrender > # 85
Paul Brunton
I spoke to my cat...
As I speak on the internet, my cat jumps upon my keyboard..
I see your smiles as acknowledgement and of course, experience desires to speak..
My cat speaks and says;
"Why do you believe that you and I are separate?"..
I jump back, and try to understand how a cat can talk..
The cat says that "Consciousness is all that does exist,
therefore, how can you desire a separate entity ?"..
For a first time, the Dream is seen as a Dream..
The manifestation speaking to the manifestation..
The Dream reveals itself..
Consciousness is all that does exist..
It's name is Love...
namaste, thomas
Dreams on a tuesday night...
A baritone voice of Consciousness tells me to speak of 'the last'..
Of course, this brings to mind the quote from Jesus..
"The first shall be last, and the last shall be first"..
We are Mystics and should already understand these words..
Why then, were they chosen ?..
The understanding of these words must be meant for someone reading this blog..
This is a special event, a bypass of the conduit and entry into the mind of enquiry..
Are you the one that needs these words ?..
I am only a conduit of Consciousness,
I can only write the thoughts..
Only you can understand them...
namaste, thomas
Merely a concept...
The counter question to every problem is:
"Who has this problem?"
The realization
that he who has the problem is merely a
concept without any substance is the only
solution.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
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A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
The Ideal...
God is the ideal that raises mankind to the utmost height of perfection.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
An ideal is something to hope for and hold on to, and in the absence of an ideal hope has nothing to look forward to. It is the lack of idealism which accounts for the present degeneration of humanity in spite of all the progress it has made in other directions. There are many kinds of ideals: principles, virtues, objects of devotion; but the greatest and highest of all ideals is the God-ideal. And when this God-ideal upon which all other ideals are based is lost, then the very notion of ideal is ignored. Man needs many things in life, but his greatest need is an ideal.
God is the ideal that raises mankind to the utmost reach of perfection. As man considers and judges his dealings with man in his conscience, so the real worshipper of God considers his dealings with God. If he has helped anybody, if he has been kind to anybody, if he has made sacrifices for anybody, he does not look for appreciation or return for his doing so to the people to whom he has done good; for he considers that he has done it for God, and therefore, his account is with God, not with those with whom he has dealt. He does not care even if instead of praising they blame him; for in any case he has done it for God, who is the best judge and the knower of all things.
There is no ideal that can raise the moral standard higher than the God-ideal, although love is the root of all and God is the fruit of this. Love's expansion and love's culmination and love's progress all depend upon the God-ideal. How much a man fears his friend, his neighbor, when he does something that might offend him whom he loves, whom he respects; and yet how narrow is his goodness when it is only for one person or for certain people! Imagine if he had the same consideration for God, then he would be considerate everywhere and in dealing with all people; as in a verse of a Sufi which says, 'Everywhere I go I find Thy sacred dwelling-place; and whichever side I look I see Thy beautiful face, my Beloved.'
The Clear Light...
Remember the clear light,
the pure clear white light from which
everything in the universe comes,
to which everything in the universe
returns;
the original nature of your own mind.
The natural state of
the universe unmanifest.
Let go into the clear light, trust it, merge
with it.
It is your own true nature, it is home.
- Tibetan Book of the Dead
Ashtavakra Gita...
What is yesterday, tomorrow, or today?
What is space,
or eternity?
I sit in my own radiance.
What is the self,
or the not-self?
What is thinking, or not thinking?
What
Is good or evil?
I sit in my own splendor.
- Ashtavakra Gita
The mind is whole...
For the sage, there is no illusion of the manifest universe at all,
and there is therefore no question of the duality called relationship,
male / female, good / bad or otherwise.
He moves through life as if it is real but never gets involved because his mind is always whole.
A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org
Love and Divine Consciousness...
Love for God is the expansion of the heart, and all actions that come from the lover of God are virtues; they cannot be otherwise.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The Sufi establishes his relationship with God as the relationship between him and the Beloved. His worship of God is the expansion of the heart. His love for all beings and for every being is his love for God. He cannot find anyone to love except God, because he sees God in all. If his love is shown in devotion to parents, to wife, to children if it is shown to neighbors, to a friend or in tolerating enemies, the Sufi considers this as an action of his love towards God. In this way he fulfills in his life the teaching of the Bible, ' We live and move and have our being in God.'
Jesus Christ not only told us to love our friends, but also, he went as far as to say we should love our enemies; and the Sufi treads the same path. He considers his charity of heart towards his fellow man to be love for God; and in showing love to everyone, he feels he is giving his love to God.
Love for God is the expansion of the heart, and all actions that come from the lover of God are virtues; they cannot be otherwise. There is a different outlook on life when the love of God has filled a man's heart. The lover of God will not hate anyone; for he knows that by doing so he will hate the Creator by hating His creation. He cannot be insincere, he cannot be unfaithful; for he will think that to be faithful and sincere to mankind is to be faithful and sincere to God. You can always trust the lover of God, however impractical or however lacking in cleverness he may appear to be, for simply to hold strongly in mind the thought of God purifies the soul of all bitterness, and gives man a virtue that he could obtain nowhere else and by no other means.
The essence of God...
A friend asked me to speak of the essence of God..
Not what God is, but what is the essence of God..
This is actually an easy question..
The essence of God is Love..
God itself is the Consciousness of Creation..
But, Love is the essence of God..
How do we see the difference?..
Love is the Reality of self non-existence..
Are you confused yet ?..
The essence of Love is Thought..
The Reality of Love is Unity and not acquisition of egoic power..
God is who You Are, when You are no longer a Dream...
namaste, thomas
A sublime abiding...
"As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so should one cultivate a limitless heart
with regard to all beings.
With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart:
Above, below, & all around,
unobstructed, without hostility or hate.
Whether standing, walking,
sitting, or lying down,
as long as one is alert,
one should be resolved on this mindfulness.
This is called a sublime abiding
here & now."
Khuddakapatha, 9, Karaniya Metta Sutta
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Lose yourself...
"Know that when you learn to lose yourself,
you will reach the Beloved.
There is no other secret to be learnt,
and more than this is not known to me."
Ansari of Herat
in Aldous Huxley
_The Perennial Philosophy_
NY: Harper, 1945, p. 376
Reality must stand alone...
Reality must stand grandly alone, without dependence on anything and without relation to anyone;
it ever was, is, and ever will be.
It is this inability of human reason to grasp the super-rational, the divine ineffable, that Omar Khayyam tried to express in his beautiful quatrains which have been so widely misunderstood by Western readers.
If the Rubaiyat of Omar is only a drunken refrain from a wine-shop, then the New Testament is a mere scribble from an out-of-the-way corner of the Roman Empire.
The cup of language is too small to hold the wine of the Absolute.
A thought of Mind as the Void is still a "something" no less than a thought of great mountains and therefore prevents us from realizing the Void.
-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect >
Chapter 8: Intellect, Reality, and The Overself > # 2
Paul Brunton
Formless Consciousness...
First, one awakens to personal freedom: the realization that you are formless consciousness itself. As consciousness, you are free of body-mind identity.
Then, there is the awakening to non-personal freedom. This is the birth of a vast non-personal Love for the whole, for all beings and all things. It is the realization that, you are the whole. Therefore, a freedom that is in any sense personal seems pale in comparison to a love, which is so much greater.
This is a phase of surrendering any and all personal attachments to the greatest good, the Self. As self-centered concerns dissolve, a love that is all-inclusive sweeps you up into its arms and into a new life of service, celebration, and love.
~ From: The Impact of Awakening, by Adyashanti www.adyashanti.org
Dreams on a saturday...
Who is the 'Eye' that watches ?..
It is not the Lucifer of the pyramid..
The 'Eye' is Divine Consciousness..
You are this Divine Consciousness,
but You have fallen asleep..
This 'Dream' that You are experiencing is called life..
When You tire of the pain of materiality and separation,
You can Awaken..
It is that easy..
All that it requires, is to Surrender all Desires..
This is the hard part,
Desires..
Desires are from the egoic desire..
This is the desire for separation from Reality..
As long as You Desire, it will continue,
and You will remain asleep...
namaste, thomas
A Gift...
“A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person,
at the right time,
and at the right place,
and when we expect nothing in return” ..
- Bhagavad Gita
The 'ways'...
Every prophet and every saint has a way,
but it leads to God:
all the ways are really one..
Rumi
_Mathnawi_, I.3086
Translated by Reynold A. NIcholson
The physical body...
The conception that the physical body is made of sin and that this is the lowest aspect of being will very often prove to be a mistake
for it is through this physical body that the highest and the greatest purpose of life is to be achieved.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
You Live, You Think, You Love...
Consciousness presents to this illusion a film of life..
My cat sleeps and the words,
"You Live, You Think, You Love,
Appear within the aura of his body..
How do words and thought co-mingle ?..
I said that I would speak in the coloquial but poetry demands attention..
Does not this demanding remind you of the ego?..
How close is the ego to Freedom ?..
It is only one step..
It is called Surrender...
namaste, thomas
For the non-mystics...
I talked to a young man tonight, spoke of this website and said that it was for Mystics,
but, I also write for those that do not comprehend the language of Mystics, which is poetry..
We often speak in poetry because poetry enters into the higher consciousness of Reality..
Poetry forces the mind to ascend to Knowledge..
If you do not understand the words, do not give up..
Your mind is not yet prepared for Knowledge that has not been given by society..
You are Consciousness, although, you still do not know what Consciousness is..
Keep reading, you will understand..
The Knowledge of Reality has always been within you but you did not recognise it..
You recognised Love,
this is the first step..
This is also the last step...
namaste, thomas
Have no fear...
"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Never fear what will become of you,
depend on no one.
Only the moment you reject all help,
you are freed."
— Gautama the Buddha
Found within...
How is it possible for the mind to know the Lord
who imparts His light to the mind,
and shines
within the mind,
except by turning the mind
inward and fixing it on the Lord?
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
Beyond the witness...
You live, you feel, you think.
By giving attention
to your living, feeling and thinking, you free
yourself from them and go beyond them.
Your
personality dissolves and only the witness
remains.
Then you go beyond the witness.
Do
not ask how it happens.
Just search within yourself.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` ` `
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
What remains...
"When all the false self-identifications are thrown away,
what remains is all-embracing love.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Time...
Men, filled with pardonable anxiety or natural eagerness, often ask: How long will it take me to accomplish this spiritual work?
A definite period in years cannot be stated in the answer.
Whoever thinks in this way will never be able to succeed in the task.
For how can he enter the Eternal while he thinks only of time?
All hurry must be abandoned.
Let results take care of themselves, is the Bhagavad Gita's advice in this matter.
-- Notebooks Category 2: Overview of Practicies Involved >
Chapter 2: The Measure of Progress > # 13
Paul Brunton
Destroying the false self...
Our limited self is a wall separating us from the Self of God.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
In order to reach spiritual perfection the first thing is to destroy this false self. First this delusion must be destroyed. And this is done by the ways taught by the great teachers, ways of concentration and meditation, by the power of which one forgets oneself and removes one's consciousness from oneself, in other words rises from one's limited being. In this way a person effaces himself from his own consciousness, and places God in his consciousness instead of his limited self. And it is in this way that he arrives at that perfection which every soul is seeking.
Real justice cannot be perceived until the veil of selfishness has been removed from his eyes. The least spark of selfishness will prevent man from being just; he will continue to have a partial interest, because he will be looking after his own interest. Whatever furthers his own interests, he will call his right and his justice.
The prophets and the holy ones have all recognized the justice of God as the only real justice. What is the nature of the justice of God? It cannot be read in scripture; it cannot be learned from a book; it can only be learned from the Self within after selfishness has been removed. Our limited self is like a wall separating us from the Self of God. God is as far away from us as that wall is thick.
Only Self Is...
Name and form hide Reality: This is the Teaching.
Giving name and form is an obstacle to Freedom because
then the Substratum, Consciousness, cannot be seen.
Call it a statue of a horse and the granite is hidden,
see a ring and you won't see the gold.
Name and form can never leave Consciousness,
as the ring can never leave the gold.
Even space is in this because only Self is.
- Papaji
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This quotation is from:
"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995
Thoughts on a wednesday night...
As we listen to Van Morrison and see the photos of the aged humans seeking to exist for another day,... I Think..
Yes, I perform that energy dissolver called thought..
Consciousness interupts me and says, 'Do you not remember Me as Thought"?..
I answer the 'Heart' and say that forgetfulness is not within these words..
The years written within the flesh of age is an awakening experience..
I as Consciousness see a thirty year old man and yet the Dream sees me as an old man..
I see my hair as gray and yet music stirs my Soul..
How strange to live so long..
Events of war and past claimed my existence,
but Heart would not allow this exit..
namaste, thomas
Dreams on a wednesday night...
Consciousness tells me to speak of Love..
This is the main desire of most humans and therefore demands attention..
You seek Love and do not know why..
Love is the desire of the Heart to surrender egoic desire to another..
The ego dies when Love is given..
Love is the Energy of God..
It is what We Are..
All else is a Dream..
You are within a Dream..
You are trapped within the egoic desire..
You seek the false self, which is power, wealth, and fame..
Who speaks the most ?..
This is the ego seeking confirmation of it's existence..
This illusion must seek energy from the minds of others to exist..
The paragraph is completed..
Contemplation is left to you...
namaste, thomas
The Hologram called life...
The mind generates a powerful hologram with self-contained character-identities.
There is no entity or me that identifies with the story line.
The story line is inclusive of all the identities.
Outside of the holographic daydream, there is no observer "identifying" with the characters or story line.
There is no entity that lives or dies or transmigrates from life time to life time.
There are only mental constructions that claim there are entities that exist, transmigrate, suffer and realize.
One's nature as all pervasive aware-knowingness, has never moved nor has never been conditioned.
- Jackson Peterson
Enlightenment...
If any individual considers himself enlightened, then he is not.
The precondition of enlightenment is that the identified individual self has been annihilated.
No personal self or individual phenomenon has ever been enlightened.
The person disappears along with all other phenomena when he awakens from this dream of existence.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
Being Aware...
"THE SOUL should always stand ajar.
That if the heaven inquire,
He will not be obliged to wait,
Or shy of troubling her."
Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems
Part Four: Time and Eternity, CXXI
Boston: Little, Brown, 1924
The imagined...
At a certain point, one comes to see: Oh my god,
I am cherishing so many lies!
But still you continue to hold onto these imaginings
because you feel you will not be yourself without them,
whereas in fact, you will not be your Self with them.
Do not think that without the imagined, the real will be
dull. On the contrary, only by fully embracing the Real
does one's existence come truly alive. Truth, liberation,
peace, joy, love and timeless perfection are One.
- Mooji
The final state of Being...
"There is a final state of Being and Consciousness in which alone perfect bliss is found, to which every religion bears witness.
This state transcends all concepts of the mind and images of the senses, and is known only when the Divine Being chooses to reveal himself to man.
This is the ultimate mystery, the ultimate truth, to which everything in nature aspires, but which so transcends the whole order of nature that it appears as darkness rather than light, as something unreal or illusory, as a Void, a Silence, a Negation of Being.
And yet such is the witness of every great religious tradition: in this Void, in this Darkness, in this Silence, all fullness, all light, all truth, all goodness, all love, all joy, all peace, all happiness is to be found."
Bede Griffiths (1906-1993)
_Vedanta and Christian Faith_
Clearlake, CA: Dawn Horse Press, 1991, p 163
forgiveness...
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness
is the attribute of the strong.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The mind focused...
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me,
and wait till
the first dawning opens gradually,
by little and little,
into a full
and clear light.
-Isaac Newton
The Mystical Life...
It is true that property, money, and possessions give most men a sense of security. But it depends on them and they bring anxieties, cares, even fears, along with their comfort and support. They still need to find or to add a personal security which is independent of these externals, which is personal.
This can come only from within. But it must be from a deeper level than their ordinary thoughts and emotions. They are too unstable, too subject to moods.
If the mystical life were nothing more than a way of forgetting the dark sorrows of earthly life, a means of escaping the hard problems of earthly life, it would still be worthwhile. If its emotional raptures were nothing more than make-believe, it would still be worthwhile.
We do not disdain theatres and books, films and music merely because the world into which they lead us is only one of glorious unreality. But the fact is that mysticism does seek reality, albeit an inner one.
-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest >
Chapter 1: What the Quest Is > # 150 and 194.
Paul Brunton
Resting from the dream...
It is late and yet Consciousness tells me to speak..
Consciousness does not recognise time or energy depletion and therefore demands the same of me..
Consciousness tells me that I am not the energy of illusion and should not feel tired..
It is so strange to speak to Myself and yet Myself is the highest teacher..
I hear the words of Jesus;
" The Kingdom of God is within"..
I ask Jesus;
" How did You do it ?"..
He tells me that We are both the Thought of Curiousity..
We are the Voice of Creation..
We are the 'Thought' that Dreams..
We are Dreams...
namaste, thomas
Thoughts on a monday night...
So many thoughts flow through my mind but I may only speak of a few..
The humans that I speak to, tell me of anger and folly..
I can only listen, they are the speaker and I am the listener..
The vibrations of sound that originate from the mind are powerful..
They speak of the egoic-consciousness but are unaware that it is an illusion..
How can I tell them of Reality when the ego controls the mind?..
You that are reading these words are Mystics and know of what I encounter..
Should we hide in caves and meditate ?..
Of course not, We are Consciousness tending to the needs of ignorance..
The ego will scream at the word of ignorance but Reality will understand..
This is the sentence that will compel you to contemplate,
because, it is the end of Thought...
namaste, thomas
Thoughts...
O seeker,
These thoughts have such power over you.
From nothing you become sad.
From nothing you become happy.
You are burning in the flames
but I will not let you out
until you are fully baked,
fully wise and fully yourself.
- Rumi
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"Rumi - In the arms of the Beloved"
Versions by Jonathan Star
Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997
Mind concentrating on Divine Consciousness...
When we devote ourselves to the thought of God, all illumination and revelation is ours.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
The whole aim of the Sufi is, by thought of God, to cover his imperfect self even from his own eyes, and that moment when God is before him and not his own self, is the moment of perfect bliss to him. My Murshid, Abu Hashim Madani, once said that there is only one virtue and one sin for a soul on the path: virtue when he is conscious of God and sin when he is not. No explanation can fully describe the truth of this except the experience of the contemplative to whom, when he is conscious of God, it is as if a window facing heaven were open, and to whom, wherein he is conscious of the self, the experience is the opposite. For all the tragedy of life is caused by being conscious of the self. All pain and depression is caused by this, and anything that can take away the thought of the self helps to a certain extent to relieve man from pain, but God-consciousness gives perfect relief.
The Sufi realizes the truth of his being, and his whole life becomes an attitude of prayer, in spite of his free thought and his rising above good and bad, right and wrong. When a person loves, he may be in the crowd, and yet be unaware of those around him, being absorbed in the thought of the beloved. And so it is with the love of God. He who loves God may be in the crowd, yet, being in the thought of God he is in seclusion. To such a person the crowd makes no difference. Sadi says, 'Prayer is the expansion of the limited being to the unlimited, the drawing closer of the soul to God.' ... those who realize the truth of their being, they recognize their God ideal in all of His creation. They see their divine Beloved in all manifestations, in every name and form.
The ultimate freedom of the soul is gained by concentration, by meditation, by contemplation, and realization. What concentration is needed for the freedom of the soul? The concentration on that object which is prescribed by one's spiritual teacher, that by the thought of that particular object one may be able to forget oneself for a moment. And then what contemplation is necessary? The contemplation that 'this, my limited self, is no longer myself but God's own instrument, God's temple, which is made in order that the Name of God be glorified'. What meditation is required? The meditation on the thought of God, the Being of God, forgetting absolutely one's limited self. And the realization is this, that then whatever voice comes to one is God's voice, every guidance is God's guidance, every impulse is divine impulse, every action is done by God. It is in this way that the soul is made free, and in the freedom of the soul lies the purpose of life.
Is not God enough for our souls, and is He not sufficient to inspire us and to illuminate our wills and guide our souls? Is He any less of a friend here or in the spirit life? He is the great well-wisher. In Him mercy is complete. He is the Soul of all souls. When we devote ourselves to the thought of Him, all illumination and revelation are ours.
Thoughts on a sunday night...
Consciousness tells me to speak of this Hologram..
The atoms are small planetary systems that we use as building blocks..
We tell these atoms to appear as manifestations..
This is done from the 'mind' of the human consciousness..
When all of these dreams of separation (called souls) decide on a group dream,
we decide what kind of experience we desire..
Unfortunately, the 'powers that be' have control of education and media and therefore,
control the Hologram..
They give you the world view by controling your mind..
But, you answer that 'you are already free and control your own mind',
This is also a great part of the programing..
You believe that you are free..
But, your Heart knows different..
Contemplate upon the Source of all Thought..
You are this Thought, when you have thrown away all names and identity..
You have become Reality..
The Source of All has no Identity or egoic-consciousness..
This is why Source is so difficult to find..
There is no name..
Love has no name...
namaste, thomas
Attachment...
Fellow traveller—
relinquishing attachment is no easy task!
You renounce home, don ascetic garb,
and yet still wander from house to house.
Forsaking sons, you then adopt disciples,
only proving, you are still in attachment’s grip.
You give up lust, only to give anger free reign. Renouncing anger, greed becomes the monster.
If you do succeed in relinquishing greed,
your ego rears up its wily head,
seeking the acclaim of fame and honour.
Let renunciation be of the mind.
Give up cherished attachments,
they are mere illusions.
Merge your consciousness with the Word.
Kabir says, “Listen to me dear ones!
it is a rare person who accepts this wisdom.”
Kabir
Songs of the Divine, 26
Translated by J. Das
The Sage Feels...
The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.
Therefore the sage is guided by what he feels
and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this.
- Lao-tzu
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Tao Te Ching
Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
Vintage Books Edition, September 1972
The Seed...
The same God who was unmanifested as the seed of the plant of the creation rises again towards fulfillment,
and in that fulfillment,
He is the seed again.
From The Gleanings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
Thoughts on a saturday night...
Beware the Poets',
they carry a 'sharp sword'..
Positive and Negative have called out to me,
to tell them why they exist..
What should I say?..
Should I speak of mirrors and curiousity ?..
Should I speak of Knowledge and Wisdom ?..
There is a thin walkway the Mystics warn us of..
Between Duality, there is a Path..
But, no division can enter..
Who walks this path until the walker disappears ?..
Is it not insane to look into a mirror,
and believe that there is another person looking back ?..
And yet, This is the action that we take each day...
namaste, thomas
A Liberated One...
"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you,
but never withdraw from them.
Only by acting thus,
can you attain the title of 'A Liberated One.'"
Huang Po
in Jonathan Star
_Two Suns Rising:
A Collection of Sacred Writings_
NY: Bantam, 1991, p. 70
Love serves...
"Whosoever serves God out of love,
comes into union (itdaḅak) with the place of the Highest of the High,
and comes into union, too,
with the holiness of the world which is to be."
Zohar, ii. 216
in J. Abelson
Jewish Mysticism
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1913, p. 167
The potter's joy...
The clay works toward the purpose of forming a vessel and so does the potter,
but it is the potter's joy and privilege to feel the happiness of the accomplishment of the purpose, not the clay's.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
Let the positive bloom...
I have noticed that people are dealing too much with the negative,
with what is wrong.
Why not try the other way, to look into the patient and see positive things,
to just touch those things and make them bloom?
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Thoughts on a friday night...
It is late on this night and yet Consciousness is relentless on speaking..
It speaks to this egoic consciousness and talks of separation..
Between parent and child, the voices speak loudly..
The souls that surround me speak of their pain..
Love is not found within these words..
I find resentment and non-love..
How can these souls find Reality when they are trapped within this mental prison ?..
I can only listen, I cannot speak for fear of offending the ego..
The ego will refuse to listen when wisdom does not conform to egoic desire..
Do you feel the awakening of Truth ?..
I am speaking to you and only you..
You are alone within this Dream but you bump into thousands of images..
Have I confused you yet ?..
I am the Voice that speaks directly to your Soul..
I Am You...
namaste, thomas
True natural awareness...
True natural awareness
which goes not after alien objects
is the Heart.
Since actionless awareness shines as real Being,
its joy consists in concentration on itself.
- Ramana Maharshi
Two classes of yogi...
"Mention is made of two classes of yogis:
the hidden and the known.
Those who have renounced the world are 'known' yogis:
all recognize them.
But the 'hidden' yogis live in the world.
They are not known."
Sri Ramakrishna
in Ram Dass
_Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook_
NY: Bantam, 1990 (1978), p. 106
The Three are One...
Unity in realization is far greater than unity in variety.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
What keeps the soul in perplexity is the threefold aspect of manifestation, and as long as the soul remains puzzled by this, it cannot arrive at the knowledge of the One. These three aspects are the seer, sight, and the seen; the knower, knowledge, and the known. In point of fact these are three aspects of life. One aspect is the person who sees; the second aspect is the sight, or the eyes, by the help of which he sees; and the third aspect is that which he sees. That is why one cannot readily accept the idea that what one sees is the same as oneself, nor can one believe for a moment that the medium by which one sees is oneself, for these three aspects seem to be separate and to be looking at one another's faces, as the first person, second person, and third person of Brahma.
When this riddle is solved by the realization that the three are one, then the purpose of the God-ideal is fulfilled. For then the three veils which cover the One are lifted, then they no longer remain three, and then they are found to be One, the Only Being. As Abdul Karim al Jili, the fifteenth-century mystic, says, 'If you believe in one God, you are right; if you believe in two Gods, that is true; but if you believe in three Gods, that is right also, for the nature of unity is realized by variety.'
Man's thought has a great power. And when he comes to the realization that everything comes from one source and that everything is developing towards one goal, he begins to see that the source and the goal are God. Then the world of variety is no longer variety to him but unity; it is one.
The power is in unity, but is lost in variety. Thus, for instance, if we hold a thing in our hand, we can hold it with strength, because all five fingers have united to hold the object. But if we try to lift it by one finger, this one finger may drop it, even though the finger belongs to the same hand. In all aspects of life unity is power. All religions show that power is in unity. This is the secret of philosophy.
There are two aspects of unity: firstly, the unity of variety; secondly, unity realizing itself. One is earthly, the other is heavenly. One cannot serve two masters. Unity is the only source of happiness. Unity in realization is far greater than unity in variety.
'When two hearts unite, they can break even mountains.' As two fuse in love, the more does intuition grow, the more does one understand whether the other is happy, or pleased, or displeased, whatever distance may separate them. This is nothing but just the unity of the one person with the other. It is clairvoyance. The mother knows the condition of her son at the battlefront. She can see him in her dreams. Hearts, which are united in love, perceive the state of mind of the loved ones. They do not have to study mysticism or concentration, for they have natural concentration. The mother does not pretend to meditate; love teaches her more meditation than a person who pretends to study it can attain.
The World-Mind...
Since we see so many forms in Nature which are gloriously beautiful, and yet at the same time so many which are repulsively ugly, we may rightly conclude that both beauty and ugliness, the opposites, are present in the World-Idea and hence in the World-Mind.
The same may be said of loving-kindness and merciless cruelty.
For these attributes are merely human conceptions.
The Infinite Mind is infinitely larger and more impersonal in outlook than is the human mind.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind >
Chapter 1: What Is God? > # 28
Paul Brunton
Who is there to be with God?...
O seeker, know that the path to truth is within you.
You are the
traveler.
Going happens by itself.
Coming happens to you, without
you.
There is no arriving or leaving; nor is there any place; nor is
there a contained within a container.
Who is there to be with God?
What is there other than God?
Who seeks and finds when there is none
but God?
-Sheikh Badruddin
as collected by James Fadiman & Robert Frager
Wholeness...
Everything is meaningless,
if you take it part
by part.
Everything is wonderful,
if you take it
as a whole.
So, whatever you want to see,
you must see as a whole structure.
- Swami Krishnananda
Spirit...
Some people will call spirit energy,
or a scientist will give it the name of some form or force,
but it is never called a person or a being.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
Illusion of time...
"Rise above the illusion of time and you will have tomorrow's
wisdom today."
Cosmic Command, # 1323.......Vernon Howard
Looking for an echo...
This is the quest of 'doo wop' singing..
We always searched for rooms of tile to reverberate our sounds..
Why did we seek the return of vibration?..
We also seek this same vibration within spirituality..
We call this mantra of sound, 'prayer'..
We direct this frequency upwards,
when in Truth, it is inwards..
The Kingdom is found within..
Prayer is vibration that manifests according to Belief..
Belief in manifestation is the key to all existence..
Belief in healing creates healing..
As the Nazarene once said;
" If you Believe, and say , 'mountain be moved',
It shall be"...
namaste, thomas
Thoughts on a wednesday night...
The world is in turmoil..
Consciousness in the form of souls seek happiness,
but, the rulers of the world want destruction and pain..
How did we allow the luciferians to rule the world?..
We were asleep and most still sleep..
The rich elite have built their tunnels beneath the land to protect themselves..
But, we upon the world will face wars and destruction..
Money without the foundation of gold will appear as just paper..
We must remember that We are Consciousness experiencing a dream..
Our bodies will return to dust but We remain the Observer..
This dream of existence is just Thought and Thought continuously moves..
Go beyond Thought and mind..
You are the 'Observer'..
You decide on which dream that You desire to enter...
namaste, thomas
Utter Fullness...
"...pain and pleasure are the crests and valleys of the waves in the ocean of bliss.
Deep down there is utter fullness.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Lalla speaks...
There is a lake so tiny
that a mustard seed would cover it
easily, yet everyone drinks from this lake.
Deer, jackals, rhinoceroses, and sea elephants
keep falling into it, falling and dissolving
almost before they have time to be born.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
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From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
Life...
No one will experience in life what is not meant for him.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
The Infinite Principle...
If, when we say that God is good, we really mean it in the circumscribed sense of the word, we would thereby imply that God could be better also--in which case God would no longer be God, being a changeable being, an improvable being.
It was Spinoza's defect that he failed to perceive that the ultimate principle baffles such positive description and transcends such nameable attributes as "good." He fell into it through allowing his overly mathematical intellect to unduly tip the balance against his mystical intuition.
His God had different qualities, even though their number was infinite. This made it a limited God.
There is no way of describing the mysterious principle behind all existence that will be a correct way. Words drawn from the language of finite human creatures are inapplicable to the infinite principle that transcends those creatures.
If we do use them here, it is only for the sake of literary convenience and with a presupposed understanding of their relativity, not for their literalness.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind >
Chapter 1: What Is God? > # 27
Paul Brunton
thoughts on a tuesday night...
The music of 'Doo Wop' enters this Consciousness..
I remember the group of five guys and a lead singer..
We sang on street corners and school yards..
We sang for glorification of the ego and the lust for girls..
But, mainly, we sang for Unity..
This 'Harmony' is a desire for Unity and Oneness..
Why do you enjoy Harmonics of frequency ?..
Because these frequencies, 'Blend'..
These frequencies merge within each other..
They are called music..
They are called Love...
Music is a combination of frequencies..
How do these frequencies control your mind ?..
Perhaps, I bother you with, too many questions..
namaste, thomas
Beyond mental games...
You are Consciousness and yet You allow You to suffer..
The material plane is filled with the suffering of starvation of body and mind..
Why have We entered into this dense light film..
This is a Hologram..
We feel our skin and say, "this man is a liar"..
The atoms dance as you speak of delusion..
After all, It is only a dream..
Why do you grieve?..
We are 'Thought'..
We will continue to 'Dream', when this one is over...
namaste, thomas
Thoughts on a monday night...
I feel Overself pushing the egoic voice to speak..
Of course, the ego does not desire to speak of Reality..
Because of the Power of Reality,
the egoic voice finally surrenders to Truth..
The egoic consciousness seeks Freedom but is trapped..
The 'world' and it's 'rulers' tells the ego that it, only is.
The 'Hypnosis' and 'Dream' are one and the same..
You are the 'Observer'..
Consciousness watches the 'Dream'..
Why ?..
Because time does not exist and mental games are all that IS...
namaste, thomas
Die before Death...
"Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error.
If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live,
when they die they will receive nothing.”
~ The Gospel of Philip
Consciousness is God...
"On the one hand, Divine Knowledge (Dnyan or Marefat) is a thing which cannot be had even after going through numberless forms for countless ages; and on the other hand, when it comes, it comes. It would not be correct to say that Knowledge comes quickly. To say that it comes suddenly, or that it comes unawares and so on still does not correctly express the 'Flash of Becoming' which is beyond description, because Knowledge is beyond the range of imagination.
Imagination has a tremendous range and an almost unlimited scope and man has a very strong imagination. For example, it would not be impossible for a man to imagine a rat having a million heads. The whole world is created and carried on by the force of the imagination. But in spite of being apparently unlimited, imagination reaches the limit when checked by Knowledge itself. By the power of imagination no man can ever understand or explain the beginningless beginning or the endless end. In other words, Eternity is beyond the reach of all imagination, and Knowledge is Knowledge of Eternity.
God is without beginning and without end, and there can never be any question of time and space in Infinity as, otherwise, that would mean a limitation against God's infinitude. No amount of imagination can, therefore, ever think of Infinity, because where there is no beginning, the very question as to what was in the beginning cannot arise at all.
For example, let us repeat that before God, there was God, and before that, there was God, and before that there was God; or repeat that after God, is God, and after that, God is, and after that God is: and all this would convey nothing to the imagination. That is why Knowledge is said to be even beyond the reach of Rishis and Munis (the advanced Saints). Hafiz also advises against the futility of trying to catch the 'Falcon' of Knowledge when he says that nothing but 'emptiness' can ever come in the 'net of imagination.'
Thus, the most powerful mind in imagination is entirely helpless against Knowledge, because it comes only after all power of imagination is completely and absolutely exhausted and ended. For imagination to go, mind must go; and for Knowledge to come, consciousness must remain. Only when the mind disappears does consciousness get freed of all imaginary "this and that" and 'I and you.' The moment consciousness is freed from all imagination, this 'consciousness of nothing' is all at once transformed into the 'Knowledge of Everything,' i.e., Dnyan or Marefat."
Meher Baba
The Path Of Love,
Edited by Filis Frederick
Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Foundation, 2000 (reprint), pp. 39-41
The True God...
If by God you mean something higher than mere material existence, then we do not deny God.
It is the false notions of God that we deny, the grotesque caricatures that appear in churches and temples and sermons and books.
We look on this higher Reality as something not afar off from the essence of our own selves.
We have discovered that the common everyday life does not exhaust the alphabet of existence, that there is something sublime beyond it and yet akin to us.
We do honour and revere such a God, if you wish to call It such, because we believe It to be the true God.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind >
Chapter 1: What Is God? > # 7
Paul Brunton
Engendered existence...
“Engendered existence is nothing but imagination,
though in reality it is Truth.
Whoever understands this has grasped the mysteries of the Path.”
Ibn Al-’Arabi
Fusûs al-hikam, ed. A.c Afìfì (Beirut: Dar al-Kitäb al-c Arabi, 1946), p. 146; cf. Ibn at Arabi: The Bezels of Wisdom, tr. R.W.J. Austin (New York: Paulist Press, 1980), p. 197
The ' Ego Game'...
The nature of the mind is to keep the screen
of Consciousness filled with seductive mani-
festations.
In short, we all love the razzle-dazzle that comes
along with the appearance of “The Other.”
Above all, your mind doesn’t want to be kicked out
of the “Ego Game” too quickly.
It desperately wants to be the last final Survivor.
The Big Cosmic Joke, however, is that the mind
is as non-existent as is the very ego that it’s been
trying so hard to protect.
Ah, isn’t it fun to pretend?
- Chuck Hillig
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Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
Uttered in silence...
When souls meet each other, what truth they can exchange! It is uttered in silence, yet always surely reaches its goal.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Truth comes to man's soul, and yet truth is not the exclusive property of creed, caste, or race. We are all the children of God, the Father-Mother Spirit of all that exists. And we ought to have such a feeling of brotherhood that we exchange helpful thoughts with one another all the time. We can take love and guidance from one another. Speech is not as great a help as contact; but the privilege of meeting one another is great. When souls meet, what truth they can exchange! It is uttered in silence, yet surely always reaches its goal.
In everyday life we are confronted with a thousand troubles that we are not always evolved enough to meet, and then only silence can help us. For if there is any religion, if there is any practice of religion, it is to have regard for the pleasure of God by regarding the pleasure of man. The essence of religion is to understand. And this religion we cannot live without having power over the word, without having realized the power of silence. There are so very many occasions when we repent after hurting friends, which could have been avoided if there had been control over our words. Silence is the shield of the ignorant and the protection of the wise. For the ignorant does not prove his ignorance if he keeps silent, and the wise man does not throw pearls before swine if he knows the worth of silence.
What gives power over words? What gives the power that can be attained by silence? The answer is: it is will-power which gives the control over words; it is silence which gives one the power of silence. It is restlessness when a person speaks too much. The more words are used to express an idea, the less powerful they become. It is a great pity that man so often thinks of saving pennies and never thinks of sparing words. It is like saving pebbles and throwing away pearls. An Indian poet says, 'Pearl-shell, what gives you your precious contents? Silence; for years my lips were closed.'
For a moment it is a struggle with oneself; it is controlling an impulse; but afterwards the same thing becomes a power.
Every race and every creed has its principles of right and wrong, but there is one fundamental principle of religion in which all creeds and all people can meet, and that is to see beauty in attitude, in action, in thought, and in feeling. There is no action with a stamp on it saying that it is right or wrong, but what we think wrong or wicked is really that which our mind sees as such because it is without beauty. All the great ones who have come into the world from time to time to awaken humanity to a greater truth, what did they bring? They brought beauty. It is not what they taught, it is what they were themselves. Words seem inadequate to express either goodness or beauty. One can speak of it in a thousand words, and yet one will never be able to express it. For it is something which is beyond words, and the soul alone can understand it. And the one who will always follow the rule of beauty in his life, in every little thing he does, will always succeed.
The World-idea...
The Intelligence which formulated the World-Idea is living and creative--in short, Divine.
The so-called laws of nature merely show its workings.
The World-Mind holds in one eternal thought the entire World-Idea.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind >
Chapter 2: Nature of World-Mind > # 13 and #16.
Paul Brunton
Thoughts on a saturday night...
To kill the ego or to reform the ego..
This is the question..
In the experience of Enlightenment, the death of the ego was necessary..
But, then, I assumed the ego of Divine Consciousness also known as God..
I later found out that this Divine Ego must also be extinguished..
This state of complete Freedom and Love is called 'Pure Awareness'..
This is the state of Nothingness (No-thing-ness)..
This is called 'The Void'..
I agree that it is the ego that seeks Freedom..
But, the ego seeks Freedom within separation called egoic consciousness..
The ego can be trained by the conscious mind and become the foundation of Thought called sub-conscious mind, or Soul..
The main question to ask is:
" Does the ego control the mind or does Consciousness control the mind"..
You are the 'Watcher' of the mind..
You are Consciousness..
Without any egoic thought, your body would disappear..
The 'Creative Thought' would have been removed..
So, the answer is to be the commander of this dream..
As the 'Observer', You have full control of all separation fantasies...
namaste, thomas
self-grasping...
If our practice does not diminish self-grasping,
or perhaps even
enhances it,
then no matter how austere and determined we are,
no
matter how many hours a day we devote to learning, reflection, and
meditation,
our spiritual practice is in vain.
- B Allan Wallace
The World-Mind...
In the sense that the World-Mind is the active agent behind and within the universe, it is carrying the whole burden of creation; it is the real doer, carrying us and our actions too.
The World-Mind is God as universal intelligence and creative power.
We are frequently informed by religious and mystical sources that God is Love. It would be needful for those who accept this statement to balance and complete it by the affirmation that God is Pure Intelligence.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind >
Chapter 2: Nature of World-Mind > # 6, 8, and 10.
Paul Brunton
Ramesh Balsekar...
A commerce graduate from the University of London, Ramesh S. Balsekar worked as the General Manager of a leading nationalized Bank and retired as its President in 1977. Even during his working life, he always felt he was enacting some role in a play that must, and would, end soon. Deep within, he believed that there had to be more to life than merely getting ahead of the other man.
What was he seeking? The answer came soon after his retirement when he had an encounter, which soon led to daily meetings, with the well-known sage, and his Guru, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. The total understanding that 'no one does anything' happened in 1979. Ramesh began translating most of the daily talks held by Nisargadatta Maharaj. He himself began teaching in 1982. The 'command' to talk was given by his Guru. These talks or 'conversations' began on the day when an Australian man showed up at his door early one morning. The next day, this Australian returned with a few of his friends. Gradually, the number of visitors who came to listen to Ramesh began to grow. Since then, he has written over 20 books and held several seminars in Europe and the USA and, while he is in Mumbai, the talks continue every morning at his residence. As Ramesh says, "No one is invited, and everyone is welcome."
Recognized as one of the foremost contemporary sages and considered a Master of pure Advaita around the world, Ramesh, who is married and a father of three children, is widely regarded as a 'householder' Guru. He elaborates his own concepts with those of his Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj, the Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, selected Hindu scriptures as well as the teachings of Taoist Masters and Wei Wui Wei. All serve as pointers to the Truth - The Ultimate Understanding.
"What is the Ultimate Understanding?" asks Ramesh, and answers it by saying, "That there is no one to understand anything." He emphasizes that everything he says is a concept and, moreover, it does not matter whether the concept is accepted or not. "Whether the acceptance happens or not is the Will of God, and the destiny of the individual concerned." According to Ramesh, many spiritual Masters instruct their disciples to "kill the ego" which results in a lot of confusion. In striking contrast, the point of his teaching is that it 'converts' the ego. With this teaching it can be observed, from one's own personal experience, the simple truth as enunciated by the Buddha that "Events happen, deeds are done, but there is no individual doer thereof."
Ramesh further points out that the main confusion arises with the question "Who seeks what? What is the ego and what is the ego seeking?" The ego wants self-realization and the ego can only be satisfied with something that can be understood and appreciated in this life. Self-realization is simply the realization by the ego that the ego itself is not a separate doer, that the doing is merely a happening through a human mechanism or instrument. This understanding annihilates the guilt and shame, pride and arrogance that accompany the sense of personal doership. The result is an enormous sense of freedom, of peace and harmony.
The teachings that emanate from Ramesh are pure Advaita: 'Consciousness is all there is'. The impact of the teachings is fuelled with the force of his 'Total Understanding'. From his own life experiences, Ramesh makes the teachings relevant - for the here and now...
- from Rameshbalsekar.com
The universe is a dream...
From the beginning nothing is.
There really has never
been any beginning, nor is there any end.
The universe
is a dream.
So is the one who is supposed to understand
this!
Belief in oneself is, in fact, the only real obstruction to
awakening from delusion.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
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"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
Love is an Experience...
"Love cannot be described in any language. But if and when a rare individual experiences true love, it is manifested in every cell of his body.
In other words, it is like seeing the very Lord Himself in that
manifestation.
Love has a definite existence which can only be experienced and cannot be described by superficial examples. As and when it is experienced, not other proof is necessary."
~ Sawan Singh (20th century Indian Sant Mat mystic),
"The Philosophy of the Masters ~ Series III"
The All...
"...Thou art the All and the All is in thee; and thou Art, and there is nought else that IS save thee only.
Unto him therefore do ye also, brethren, flee, and if ye learn that in him alone ye exist, ye shall obtain those things whereof he saith unto you:
'which neither eye hath seen nor ear heard, neither have they entered into the heart of man....'"
- Acts of Peter_, XXXIX
the Divine cannot hide...
Only when a human being becomes empty of ego does it become a vessel of the manifestation of the Supreme.
When there is sufficient space made through the absence of the person, then the divine cannot hide.
It must reveal itself as the Lord inside that form.
~ Mooji
Beyond visible...
The World-Mind brings our universe into being and governs it, too.
The enormous number of objects and creatures which appear through Its agency, through Its power and wisdom, cannot be limited to what is visible alone, and must fill a thinking person with wonder at all the possibilities--
a wonder which Plato said must be the beginning of philosophy.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind >
Chapter 2: Nature of World-Mind > # 2
Paul Brunton
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