' The Unknown Region '...
Who within this 'Big Brother' manifestation knows an unknown region ?..
And yet, an unknown region within this Dream appears..
So many readers from the unknown region..
Can Soul be stopped ?..
Consciousness is called by many names..
So many readers from the Unknown Region are reading these words..
Welcome, to the Unknown Region of Knowing..
Philosophy and Religion scream their division..
I will leave a paragraph,
the rest of thinking is left to you...
- thomas
' Ayin '...
"Think of yourself as Ayin [Nothing] and forget yourself totally.
Then you can transcend time, rising to the world of thought where all is equal:
life and death, ocean and dry land.
Such is not the case if you are attached to the material nature of this world.
If you think of yourself as something,
God cannot clothe Himself in you, for God is infinite.
No vessel can contain God, unless you think of yourself as Ayin."
Rabbi Dov Baer, the Maggid of Mezritch
in Daniel C. Matt
The Essential Kabbalah: The Heart of Jewish Mysticism
NY: Quality, 1995, p. 71
' The Golden Mean '...
Spiritual life is not an extreme of avoiding or
getting.
It is a balance that you have to maintain
between two things.
Neither you should cling to
the body, nor should you torture it.
That is the
mean that you have to maintain,
- the golden
mean.
- Swami Krishnananda
Your Questions Answered
Swami Krishnananda
The Divine Life Trust Society, 1995
' The Divinity of Deeper- Self '...
"How am I to start upon this process of true self-knowledge?"
The answer begins with this: first adopt the right attitude.
Believe in the divinity of your deeper self.
Stop looking elsewhere for light, stop wandering hither and thither for power.
Your intelligence has become falsified through excessive attention to external living, hence you are not even aware in which direction to look when you seek for the real Truth.
You are not even aware that all you need can be obtained by the power within, by the omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient Self.
You have to change, first of all, the line of thought and faith which pleads helplessly: "I am a weak man; I am unlikely to rise any higher than my present level; I live in darkness and move amid opposing environments that overwhelm me."
Rather should you engrave on your heart the high phrases: "I possess illimitable power within me; I can create a diviner life and truer vision than I now possess."
Do this and then surrender your body, your heart and mind to the Infinite Power which sustains all.
Strive to obey Its inward promptings and then declare your readiness to accept whatsoever lot it assigns you.
This is your challenge to the gods and they will surely answer you.
Your soul will be slowly or suddenly liberated; your body will be granted a freer pathway through conditions.
You may have to be prepared for a few changes before the feet find rest, but always you shall find that the Power in which you have placed an abiding trust does not go into default.
-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest >
Chapter 5: Self-Development > # 1 Paul Brunton
' Spiritual Knowing '...
I am not the body which is a mere cluster of elements,
nor even the senses.
I am something quite different from the one
as well as the other.
Things come out of ignorance,
but die away on the rise of Spiritual Knowing.
-Aparokshanubhuti
' True Happiness '...
True happiness cannot arise until the identification
with the body-mind apparatus is demolished.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' Our Truest Identity '...
This identification with the best Self in us is the ideal set for all men, to be realized through long experience and much suffering or through accepting instruction, following revelation, unfolding intuition, practising meditation, and living wisely.
And this best Self is not the most virtuous part of our character--though it may be one of the sources of that virtue--but the deepest part of our being, underneath the thoughts which buzz like bees and the emotions which express our egotism.
A sublime stillness reigns in it.
There in that stillness, is our truest identity.
-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest >
Chapter 5: Self-Development > # 18
Paul Brunton
' Fishing '...
Many men go fishing all their lives
without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
- Henry David Thoreau
' Hidden in the Way '...
“If anyone imagines he will get more by inner thoughts and sweet yearnings and a special grace of God than he could get beside the fire or with his flocks or in the stable, he is doing no more than trying to take God and wrap His head in a cloak and shove Him under the bench.
For whoever seeks God in some special Way, will gain the Way and lose God who is hidden in the Way.
But whoever seeks God without any special Way, finds Him as He really is...
and He is life itself..”
-Meister Eckhart
' A Nobler Standpoint '...
The Overself is neither a cold metaphysical concept nor a passing wave of emotion.
It is a Presence--sublime, sacred, and beneficent--which grips your heart,
thought, and body by its own mysterious power,
making you regard life from a nobler standpoint.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 3:
The Overself's Presence > # 95 Paul Brunton
' The ego and the Overself '...
The ego is the mind of the vehicle..
A series of thoughts that stink of egoic desires..
You are the Observer and the tamer of these egoic thoughts..
The secret is to remain the Observer, the Overself..
Watch the thoughts of mind and do nothing..
They will dissolve before your eyes..
They are the seeds of destruction and cannot grow without the soil of desire..
So simple to be Free...
-thomas
' Examine the nature of unborn awareness'...
"Examine the nature of unborn awareness." Who is this "I"? Where did it
some from? Who is the one who realizes anything? Who is it that's aware?
The slogan points to the transparency of everything, including our beloved
identity, this precious M-E. Who is this ME?
The armor we erect around our hearts causes a lot of misery. But don't be
deceived, it's very transparent. The more vivid it gets, the more clearly you
see it, the more you realize that this shield - this cocoon - is just made up of
thoughts that we churn out and regard as solid. It's not made of iron. The
armor is not made out of metal. In fact, it's made out of passing memory.
...If you think this big burden of ego, this big monster cocoon, is something, it
isn't. It's just passing memory. Yet it's so vivid. The more you practice, the
more vivid it gets. It's a paradox - it can't be found, and yet it couldn't be
more vivid.
When we awaken our hearts, we're changing the whole pattern, but not by
creating an new pattern. We are moving further and further away form
concretizing and making things so solid and always trying to get some ground
underneath our feet. This moving away from comfort and security, this
stepping out into the unknown, uncharted, and shaky - that's called
enlightenment, liberation.
- Pema Chodron
' What is not-knowing? '...
The state of not-knowing is a riveting place to be.
And we don’t have to
climb rocks to experience it.
We encounter not-knowing when, for instance,
we meet someone new, or when life offers up a surprise.
These experiences
remind us that change and unpredictability are the pulse of our very
existence.
No one really knows what will happen from one moment to the
next:
Who will we be, what will we face, and how will we respond to what we
encounter?
We don’t know, but there’s a good chance we will encounter some
rough, unwanted experiences, some surprises beyond our imaginings, and some
expected things, too.
And we can decide to stay present for all of it.
- Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
' Aware of the Overself '...
To enter into Heaven is to enter into the fulfilment of our earthly life's unearthly purpose.
And that is, simply, to become aware of the Overself.
This holy awareness brings such joy with it that we then know why the true saints and the real ascetics were able to disdain all other joys.
The contrast is too disproportionate.
Nothing that the world offers to tempt us can be put on the same level.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 4: Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 79
Paul Brunton
' The Formless Witness '...
Don't be so quick to believe in the mind's projections.
You are not the mind.
Don't come under its spell.
The mind is a great magician.
It has hypnotized 7 billion human beings.
In the realm of personhood, it is full of tricks and has the power to make a lot of mischief, confusion, distortion and delusion.
But yours is a greater power.
It is the power of the pure Self.
The power to observe with detachment, to recognize that all phenomena are transient appearances and that oneself is the formless witness, timeless and ever-perfect.
- Mooji
' Observation '...
We are very accustomed to maintain this relationship of subject-object; observer and things observed.
But we must accept the possibility that there can be observation without any observed object,
that there is an alert stillness without any perception.
You may first come to this in meditation.
-Jean Klein
' Who You Really Are '...
You live in consciousness;
your body merely moves about;
but few persons will pause long enough to perceive who they really are,
and what they are really doing.
— Notebooks of Paul Brunton
' Attachment to duality '...
Do not remain in a dualistic state;
avoid such easy habits carefully.
If you attach even to a trace
of this and that, of right and wrong,
the Mind-essence will be lost in confusion.
Although all dualities arise from the One,
do not be attached even to ideas of this One.
- Seng-ts'an, Third Zen Patriarch
Hsin Hsin Ming
Translated by Richard B. Clarke
' Self-Awareness '...
First of all, establish a constant contact with your self, be with yourself all the time.
Into self-awareness all blessings flow.
Begin as a center of observation, deliberate cognizance, and grow into a center of love in action.
"I am" is a tiny seed which will grow into a mighty tree - quite naturally, without a trace of effort.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj from I Am That
' A Glimpse of Overself '...
This momentary glimpse of the Overself provides the real beginning of his quest.
The uninterrupted realization of it provides the final ending.
-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest >
Chapter 5: Self-Development > # 320
Paul Brunton
' Laughing Buddha '...
When I broke open
Buddha broke open,
And neither of us
has been the same since.
In an instant
we fell into each other laughing
and neither one of us survived.
But still the sun shines in the morning
and sets in the evening.
I am like a friendly old dog now
wearing my master's night slippers,
Yet somehow
they fit perfectly.
- Adyashanti from My Secret is Silence
' All along '...
"The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along."
~Rumi
' World-Mind '...
Mind is the Real; matter is the appearance it takes on.
The universe comes by degrees out of the ultimate Being, beyond which nothing is or could possibly be.
It is Mind, measureless, with a Power equally measureless.
World-Mind is this power in operation, creating, maintaining,
and in the end destroying what it has brought forth.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 3:
World-Mind and ``Creation'' > # 68
Paul Brunton
' The Prison Mentality '...
Strange to hear this title concerning manifestation..
But in Truthfulness, it must be advised that You have imprisoned Self..
This Character called self..
Such a lofty position to pull away from Source..
But the souls of grasping do so daily..
The Magnetic Attraction of Nature continues into non-materiality..
You are what you think..
So, what is True ?..
Truth is the Reason that we are here..
Consciousness is the Creator of Dreams..
What You Believe will happen, will..
This Water into Wine, thing, is important..
This is called Intimate Consciousness,
and We are that Consciousness...
-thomas
' Figments of Imagination '...
All such notions as causation, succession, atoms, primary
elements, that make up personality, personal soul,
Supreme Spirit, Sovereign God, Creator, are all figments
of the imagination and manifestations of mind.
- Gautama the Buddha
' Karmic Debts '...
“Where are karmic debts other than in one’s mind? Hold to your mind, and sleep is endless whether you are kind or evil. Eastern fundamentalism is no truer than western fundamentalism, so leap beyond all ideas into the unknown.
Watch carefully what you believe for it will become your reality and thousands of lifetimes will pass in delusion. Push all ideas and imaginings aside and leap into this ~ Here and Now~ free of knowing and believing. Such leaping into unknowing is an act of courage and faith beyond all ideas.
When you awaken from a dream at night do you awaken because you have cleansed all of your karma? More likely you awoke because something interrupted your dream. Consider me your interruption.
Pardon my directness but more is at stake than you can ever imagine.”
~ Adyashanti
' Becoming Self Aware '...
Manifestation implies the necessity of manifesting.
But it might be objected that any sort of necessity existing in the divine equally implies its insufficiency.
The answer is that the number One may become aware of itself as being one only by becoming aware of the presence of Two--itself and another.
But the figure Nought is under no compulsion.
Here we have a mathematical hint towards understanding the riddle of manifestation.
Mind as Void is the supreme inconceivable unmanifesting ultimate whereas the World-Mind is forever throwing forth the universe-series as a second, an "other" wherein it becomes self-aware.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 3: World-Mind and ``Creation'' > # 60
-- Perspectives > Chapter 27: World-Mind > # 26 Paul Brunton
' The Heart '...
The heart is where all experiences meet. In the heart, all things naturally come together to form a whole. Our minds tend to either hold opposing experiences apart or deny the relative existence of opposites.
By holding whatever experiences we are having in the heart, we are consciously including them in our presence. Presence is the wonderful and subtle energetic expression of being.
So by consciously holding (lightly and easily) whatever arises in the presence of the heart, we are bringing presence to all of our experience. Presence is also intimacy and closeness and warmth. To be in presence is to be both vulnerable and invulnerable simultaneously.
Residing in presence can also evoke the heart’s latent capacity as an organ of perception of unity.
So the heart both perceives unity and naturally brings what seems like opposing experiences into unity, while also respecting their differences.
This is the paradox of being, where everything is always and already a unified whole from one perspective; and from another perspective, opposing experiences, and even opposing perceptions, are brought into a unified whole by the alchemy of the heart.
We do not do the alchemy, the presence of the heart does it. What we can do is to hold experience and perception in the heart.
-Adyashanti
' Consciousness Is God '...
Every form of existence can be reduced to a form of consciousness.
The final essence of all these consciousnesses is God.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 3:
World-Mind and ``Creation'' > # 16
Paul Brunton
' Ground Hog Day '...
This is the Reality of the situation..
If you want to be free of pain,
you must react..
Nothing happens without You thinking of it first..
The Hologram of human, soon enters the stage of boredom..
Your Consciousness is beyond manifestations of desires and pains..
The Dreamer wakes up..
'Ground Hog Day', is the ultimate boredom..
You already know this, even if this is called a 'safe space'..
The only 'Safe Space' within this Dream is Divine Thought..
They who choose power, wealth, and fame,
choose the egoic desire..
It has always been about your desires..
Your desires have always kept you locked into 'ground hog day'...
-thomas
' Nothing pouring into Nothing '...
With passionate practices
I held the reins secure on my mind
and made the breath one column.
Then the new moon's clear
nectar descended into me,
nothing pouring into Nothing.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
' Planting Words '...
"I don’t think you really understand the purpose of my dialogues here. I don’t say things simply to convince people that they are true. I am not speaking about these matters so that people can build up a philosophy that can be rationally defended, and which is free of all contradictions.
When I speak my words, I am not speaking to your mind at all. I am directing my words directly at consciousness. I am planting my words in your consciousness. If you disturb the planting process by arguing about the meaning of the words, they won’t take root there. Once my words have been planted in consciousness, they will sprout, they will grow, and at the appropriate moment they will bear fruit. It’s nothing to do with you.
All this will happen by itself. However, if you think about the words too much or dispute their meaning, you will postpone the moment of their fruition. Enough talking. Be quiet and let the words do their work!"
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
' The All-Conscious '...
It is more correct to speak of Mind as the All-Conscious than as the unconscious.
What we may rightly say is that, viewed from the side which alone is known to us, a certain phase of it appears to be unconscious.
The higher teachings state that all the phases of Mind are conscious ones.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 1:
What Is God? > # 35 Paul Brunton
' Karma '...
God manipulates the fruits of karma:
He does not add
or take away from it.
The subconscious of man is a
warehouse of good and bad karma.
Isvara chooses from
this warehouse what He sees will best suit the spiritual
evolution at the time of each man whether pleasant or
painful.
Thus there is nothing arbitrary.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
' Amaya Aum to Adyashanti - Enlightenment and The End of Your World '...
Your body has been going through this thing called "life," but your head has been going through this thing called "my fantasy about life" or "my big story about life." You have been caught in an interpretation about life, so you have never really been here.
Here is the Promised Land. The eternal is here. Have you ever noticed that you have never left here, except in your mind? When you remember the past, you are not actually in the past. Your remembering is happening here. When you think about the future, that future projection is completely here. And when you get to the future, it’s here. It’s no longer the future.
To be here, all you have to do is let go of who you think you are. That’s all! And then you realize, "I’m here." Here is where thoughts aren’t believed. Every time you come here, you are nothing. Radiantly nothing. Absolutely and eternally zero. Emptiness that is awake. Emptiness that is full. Emptiness that is everything.
~ Adyashanti
' The World-Mind '...
The World-Mind knows and experiences everything and everyone.
It also knows the Supreme non-thing, the Real,
while knowing the illusoriness of the cosmos.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 2:
Nature of World-Mind > # 17 Paul Brunton
' Dreams '...
Dreams can manifest anything that is thought..
This is not our world,
this is a group of thoughts and desires..
The same plague that pursues us all..
To be in the world but not of it,
has been presented before,
but not fully understood by the reader..
To find Happiness is the agenda of all life..
Death is the darkness of entering Light..
Happiness is never found by the seeker,
It has to be unwrapped by Consciousness...
-thomas
' Seeing Reality '...
“To be pure of heart means to love God above all things
and at the same time to see him everywhere in all things.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hymn of the Universe
NY: Harper & Row Perennial Library, 1965 (1961), p. 127
' A piece of dirt '...
Sunlight fell upon the wall;
the wall received a borrowed splendor.
Why set your heart on a piece of earth,
O simple one?
Seek out the source
which shines forever.
- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
' Absolute and Infinite '...
The Real, as the ultimate source of all knowing and feeling beings, cannot itself be unknowing and unfeeling.
We could not deny consciousness to It without denying consciousness to man.
But being absolute and infinite it does not know and feel in the same limited way which confines the knowledge and feelings of finite humans.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 1:
What Is God? > # 34 Paul Brunton
' The psychological mind '...
Before true knowledge reveals itself, ignorance needs
to be fully swept aside.
Wisdom will not reveal itself
while there is investment in the unreal,
for that portion
of energy will continue creating divisions and distractions
in order to avoid or delay seeing what truly Is.
Such is
the nature of the psychological mind.
- Mooji
' Which Shines Forever '...
Sunlight fell upon the wall;
the wall received a borrowed splendor.
Why set your heart on a piece of earth,
O simple one?
Seek out the source
which shines forever.
- Rumi
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Daylight"
Threshold Books, 1994
' The Spirit Itself '...
Not to find the Energy of the Spirit but the Spirit itself is the ultimate goal.
Not its powers or effects or qualities or attributes but the actuality of pure being.
The aspirant is not to stop short with any of these but to push on.
— Notebooks of Paul Brunton
' Thoughts on a Stormy Night '...
The Thunder roars it's disapproval of Stars..
Clouds and Mist covers my eyes..
That which supplies Life is also that which drowns life..
Life is as fragile as a bag of blood..
Of course, I am speaking of the Dream..
To Awake from this Dream is both feared and loved..
Perhaps, this points to the 'God-fearing man'..
In Reality, God (Source) cannot be feared..
Do you fear Love ?..
What you do fear is not finding Love..
Real Love is only found when you have given all away..
Not the wealth that comes quickly to mind..
Everything is Every-thing that has a grip upon your mind..
Every Desire that keeps you from Freedom..
So easy to read but so difficult to understand...
-thomas
' On the "Witness" '...
At this point, higher reason has almost finished all the work it can do. The gross world, the subtle world, that body and mind are no longer seen as though they exist outside of awareness. Nothing is experienced as self-sustaining, independent thing, but rather as made of spontaneous arisings in the witnessing awareness.
Having realized the witness, you discover that you've always been home. You no longer feel that you were born or that you will die.. If the universe itself perishes, you as awareness will be there.
You don't take any of this personally, because the structures that allowed this are seen never to have existed. You no longer feel lonely, separate or alienated in any way at all. You no longer compare your own spiritual attainments to those of another. You no longer wish to have another's experience, since it no longer seems that experience is in any way personal. Experience has become another term for this same global awareness.
Your experience is utterly sweet and open. The earlier descriptions of awareness as love now fully agree with your direct experience at every moment. It's not that sweetness is experienced as arisings which are pleasant. The sweetness is much deeper than that. It is not an arising object. Rather sweetness is globally felt as the very source and nature of the arisings. Even arisings that would normally be called "pain" are lovingly held as sweetness by this very same sweetness. Nothing is felt to be an exception to this perfect openness, clarity, love and sweetness. This is radical and revolutionary. And it is your natural state.
Greg Goode, Standing as Awareness, Non-Duality Press
' The Real Work '...
It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
- Wendell Berry (Collected Poems)
' The Supreme non-thing '...
The World-Mind knows and experiences everything and everyone.
It also knows the Supreme non-thing,
the Real, while knowing the illusoriness of the cosmos.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 2:
Nature of World-Mind > # 17 Paul Brunton
' The Nameless '...
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and earth.
The named is the mother of ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.
- Lao-tzu
Tao Te Ching
Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
Vintage Books Edition, September 1972
' Ishvara '...
There has been so much friction and clash between the different religions because of this idea: whether God is personal or impersonal--so much persecution, even hatred, so unnecessarily.
I say unnecessarily because the difference between the two conceptions is only an apparent one.
Mind is the source of all; this is Mind inactive.
Mind as World-Mind-in-manifestation is the personal God.
Between essence and manifestation the only difference is that essence is hidden and manifestation is known.
World-Mind is personal (in the sense of being what the Hindus call "Ishvara"); Mind is totally impersonal.
Basically, the two are one.
-- Notebooks Category 27: World-Mind > Chapter 3: World-Mind and ``Creation'' > # 56
-- Perspectives > Chapter 27: World-Mind > # 9 Paul Brunton
' An Inner Revolution '...
The enlightenment I speak of is not simply a realization, not simply the discovery of one's true nature. This discovery is just the beginning - the point of entry into an inner revolution. Realization does not guarantee this revolution; it simply makes it possible.
What is this inner revolution? To begin with, revolution is not static; it is alive, ongoing, and continuous. It cannot be grasped or made to fit into any conceptual model. Nor is there any path to this inner revolution, for it is neither predictable nor controllable and has a life all its own. This revolution is a breaking away from the old, repetitive, dead structures of thought and perception that humanity finds itself trapped in. Realization of the ultimate reality is a direct and sudden existential awakening to one's true nature that opens the door to the possibility of an inner revolution. Such a revolution requires an ongoing emptying out of the old structures of consciousness and the birth of a livng and fluid intelligence. This intelligence restructures your entire being - body, mind, and perception. This intelligence cuts the mind free of its old structures that are rooted within the totality of human consciousness. If one cannot become free of the old conditioned structures of human consciousness, then one is still in a prison.
Having an awakening to one's true nature does not necessarily mean that there will be an ongoing revolution in the way one perceives, acts, and responds to life. The moment of awakening shows us what is ultimately true and real as well as revealing a deeper possibility in the way that life can be lived from an undivided and unconditioned state of being. But the moment of awakening does not guarantee this deeper possibility, as many who have experienced spiritual awakening can attest to. Awakening opens a door inside to a deep inner revolution, but in no way guarantees that it will take place. Whether it takes place or not depends on many factors, but none more importnt and vital than an earnest and unambiguous intention for truth above and beyond all else. This earnest intention toward truth is what all spiritual growth ultimately depends upon, especially when it transcends all personal preferences, agendas, and goals.
This inner revolution is the awakening of an intelligence not born of the mind but of an inner silence of mind, which alone has the ability to uproot all of the old structures of one's consciousness. Unless these structures are uprooted, there will be no creative thought, action, or response. Unless there is an inner revolution, nothing new and fresh can flower. Only the old, the repetitious, the conditioned will flower in the absence of this revolution. But our potential lies beyond the known, beyond the structures of the past, beyond anything that humanity has established. Our potential is something that can flower only when we are no longer caught within the influence and limitations of the known. Beyond the realm of the mind, beyond the limitaions of humanity's conditioned consciousness, lies that which can be called the sacred. And it is from the sacred that a new and fluid consciousness is born that wipes away the old and brings to life the flowering of a living and undivided expression of being. Such an expression is neither personal nor impersonal, neither spiritual nor worldly, but rather the flow and flowering of existence beyond all notions of self.
So let us understand that reality transcends all of our notions about reality. Reality is neither Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Advaita Vedanta, nor Buddhist. It is neither dualistic nor nondualistic, neither spiritual nor nonspiritual. We should come to know that there is more reality and sacredness in a blade of grass than in all of our thoughts and ideas about reality. When we perceive from an undivided consciousness, we will find the sacred in every expression of life. We will find it in our teacup, in the fall breeze, in the brushing of our teeth, in each and every moment of living anddying. Therefore we must leave the entire collection of conditioned thought behind and let ourselves be led by the inner thread of silence into the unknown, beyond where all paths end, to that place where we go innocently or not at all - not once but continually.
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to the known or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility. One must stand in that dark light, in that groundless embrace, unwavering and true to the reality beyond all self - not just for a moment, but forever without end. For then that which is sacred, undivided, and whole is born within consciousness and begins to express itself.
- Adyashanti
' Know Thy Self '...
In the center of the circle
is seen the perfect formula of creation
a perfect equation
between Light and phenomena.
Get to the Source first
and open your eyes;
the whole phenomena is Light-full.
You'll see then
there never was darkness.
Stream, know thy Source
ray, know thy Center
man, know thy Self;
that will be
the real solution.
- Swami Amar Jyoti
"In Light of Wisdom"
Swami Amar Jyoti
Truth Consciousness, Boulder, Colorado, 1983
' The Light of the World '...
There is a mystery within all beings bursting to reveal itself,
in the ones who become quiet enough to discover it.
In this discovery a benevolent force shines spontaneously from your presence towards all beings,
and this light cannot help but illuminate the world.
~ Mooji
' True Nature '...
So when we are established in the understanding and the certainty that we are not in control of our process,
that Being or true nature is actually in charge,
then our unfoldment becomes a runaway unfoldment,
which means that everything happens on its own.
When we recognize that everything happens on its own,
reality begins to unfold consciously on its own,
- A. H. Almaas
' Take one step '...
Spiritual people can be some of the most violent people you will ever meet. Mostly, they are violent to themselves.
They violently try to control their minds, their emotions, and their bodies.
They become upset with themselves and beat themselves up for not rising up to the conditioned mind's idea of what it believes enlightenment to be.
No one ever became free through such violence.
Why is it that so few people are truly free?
Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
They try to concentrate their way to heaven.
But freedom is about the natural state, the spontaneous and un-self-conscious expression of beingness.
If you want to find it, see that the very idea of "a someone who is in control" is a concept created by the mind.
Take one step backward into the unknown.
~ Adyashanti
' A Genuine Person '...
"If you do stay present with what you see when you look at
yourself again and again, you begin to develop a deeper
friendship with yourself..
It's a complete friendship, because you are not leaving out
the parts that are painful to be with. It's the same way you
would develop a complete friendship with another person.
You include all that they are. When you develop this complete
friendship with yourself, the parts you're embarrassed
about, as well as the parts you're proud of, manifest
as genuineness.
A genuine person is a person who is not hiding anything, who
is not conning themselves. A genuine person doesn't put
up masks and shields."
~ Pema Chodron
' Who You Are '...
You’ve probably heard before that there’s nothing to get. To the seeker it is very confusing and frustrating
to listen to all this talk about “There is no enlightenment”, “There is nothing to get”, “There is
nothing you can do”.
Essentially this is true, but for the apparent seeker, such phrases seem contradictory to what the seeker
believes. There actually is no way to say it that conforms to the preconceived dualistic notions of the
mind. The mind believes in some sort of enlightenment, which when obtained will end all the
troubles, and there will be eternal bliss. Rubbish!
All you are is all you will ever be, and there need be no “enlightenment”, only the seeing of the fact of
Who You Are, and not being deluded into believing in what you are not.
- J.D. Hazelwood
' Our Original Unity '...
"And the deepest level of communication is not
communication, but communion.
It is wordless.
It is beyond
words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.
Not
that we discover a new unity.
We discover an older unity.
My
dear brothers, we are already one.
But we imagine that we are
not.
And what we have to recover is our original unity.
What we
have to be is what we are."
~ The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton
' The Walking Poet '...
This bearded young man that would read the Torah in the villages..
This was a young time, before religious rules were set by the rulers..
Five centuries after Gautama, the message is the same..
One spoke of selflessness and the other spoke of humility..
They both spoke of the dissolving of the self,
reaching this strange place called Love..
How many Frequencies above this, must we enter ?..
The Saints speak of seven Heavens,
but, they are also aspects of separation..
If you have not walked beyond your Teacher,
then you have failed Them..
"Come, follow Me",
said, the Nazarene...
-thomas
' The Nothingness of the no-mind '...
No personal, individual effort can possibly lead to enlightenment.
On the contrary, what is necessary is to rest helpless in beingness, knowing that we are nothing - to be in the nothingness of the no-mind state in which all conceptualizing has subsided into passive witnessing.
In this state whatever happens will be not our doing but the pure universal functioning to which we have relinquished all control.
Ramesh S Balsekar
' Timelessness '...
His work is to keep still even though time is rushing by;
the more it hurries the more firmly he is to remain outside the rushing current,
implacably set in timelessness.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity >
Chapter 4: Time, Space, Causality > # 160
Paul Brunton
' Many disguises '...
"Meeting every human being is an auspicious event because you are
meeting God in one of his many disguises"
~ Douglas Harding
' The Equation '...
You are not "in the now"; you are the now..
That is your essential identity--the
only thing that never changes.
Life is always now.
Now is consciousness.
And
consciousness is who you are.
That's the equation.
~Eckhart Tolle
' Identity with Pure Being '...
There seem to be two kinds of searchers:
those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those
who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to
disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.
- Wei Wu Wei,
from Fingers Pointing Towards The Moon
' Accepting Divine Consciousness '...
Regardless of the fears and dreads, the hesitancies and timidities of the lower ego, he must carry out whatever his newly found commander bids him do.
But this will not be so hard and unpleasant a task as it might seem to others.
For he will now feel at least the same satisfaction in yielding to the higher self's bidding that he formerly felt in yielding to the lower one's desires.
And with the bidding will come the needed strength, courage, and wisdom to obey it.
The world's opposition and danger may be recognized but will not deter him.
It is not by his own will that he engages himself in such work, but by a will that supports and guides him better than ever he could support or guide himself.
This he clearly comprehends and gladly accepts.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 2: Inspiration > # 89 Paul Brunton
' Let Everything End '...
There is a great momentum of suffering and confusion that every spiritual seeker encounters. It is the momentum of ignorance which manifests as the experience of conflict and confusion and which causes suffering. In order to discover the perspective of liberation, which alone transcends this entire movement of ignorance and suffering, one needs to let everything end. "Letting everything end" means to stand in the moment completely naked of attachment to any and all ideas, concepts, hopes, preferences, and experiences. Simply put, it means to stop strategizing, controlling, manipulating, and running away from yourself--and to simply be. Finally you must let everything end and be still.
In letting everything end, all seeking and striving stops. All effort to be someone or to find some extraordinary state of being ceases. This ceasing is essential. It is true spiritual maturity. By ceasing to follow the mind's tendency to always want more, different, or better, one encountrs the opportunity to be still. In being still, a perspective is revealed which is free from all ignorance and bondage to suffering. From that perspective, eternal Self is realized. The eternal Self, the Seer, is recognized to be one's true nature, one's very own Self.
This is an invitation to let all seeking end, all striving end, all efforting end, all past identity end, all hopes end, and to discover That which has no beginning or end. This is an invitation to discover the eternal, unborn, undying Truth of being. The Truth of your being, your own Self. Let the entire movement of becoming end, and discover That which has always been present at the core of your being.
- Adyashanti
' Nirvikalpa Samadhi '...
Why be afraid of this declaration: that the final goal is to merge in the Absolute?
Is it because it promises the same as death--annihilation?
Yet whenever deep sleep is entered this merger happens.
The ego with its thoughts, desires, and agitations, is gone; the world, with its relativities, is no more.
Time, space, form, memory are lost.
Yet all reappears next morning.
So it is not a real death.
It is pure Being.
Meditation tries to reproduce this condition, to achieve a return to deep sleep but with the added factor of awareness.
In the final phase--Nirvikalpa Samadhi--it succeeds.
Man dissolves but his divine Source remains as the residue, as what he always and basically was.
This is why philosophy includes meditation.
-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation >
Chapter 1: Preparatory > # 199 Paul Brunton
' You do not see the moon '...
A Zen poem says, "After the wind stops I see a flower falling.
Because of the singing bird I find the mountain calmness."
Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.
There is a Japanese saying, "For the moon; there is the cloud..
For the flower there is the wind."
When we see a part of the moon covered by a cloud, or a tree, or a weed, we feel how round the moon is.
But when we see the clear moon without anything covering it, we do not feel that roundness the same way we do when we see it through something else.
When you are doing zazen, you are within the complete calmness of your mind; you do not feel anything.
You just sit.
But the calmness of your sitting will encourage you in your everyday life....
Even though you do not feel anything when you sit, if you do not have this zazen experience, you cannot find anything; you just find weeds, or trees, or clouds in your daily life; you do not see the moon.
--Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginners Mind
' You decide '...
'You', decide whether to re-enter the vehicles of manifestation according to 'Your' Desires..
Once, 'You' decide to rest from the pains of separation,
'You', return Home to Reality and Source...
-thomas
' The quiet in chaos '...
Anyone can hear the noise in their mind
that’s hiding within the silence..
But can you also hear the silence in your
heart that’s hiding within the noise?
Only in stillness will you discover the quiet
in the middle of the chaos.
Only in stillness will we discover the hush
in the middle of the rush.
- Chuck Hillig
Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
' An empty thought '...
To any conceptual problem there cannot be any valid
answer except to see the problem in perspective as an
empty thought.
There is no such thing as a "problem"
which is other than merely conceptual.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' Free from mind '...
If the mind can reach a state where it is free from its own ideas,
projections, and wishes,
it can reach true happiness.
-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You >
Chapter 1: The Search for Happiness > # 77
Paul Brunton
' A Painter and a Poet '...
I feel sympathy for the Painter and His Creation..
The Poet only needs to Think..
The Painter has to draw perfect circles..
The Poet has only to win over your mind..
Both of these souls walk a path of Wisdom..
The end result of seeking is to return to the beginning..
Reincarnation continues,
unless You wake up...
-thomas
' In which all is '...
Ego and mind and all creations arise out of Self as Self.
Even the ugliest of doubts and the most separate of
differences rise from the beautiful source as Isness.
In
Self there are no do's and don'ts.
If there is unhappiness
you are not unhappy, you are the untouched awareness
of this unhappiness.
As waves are not separate from ocean,
nor rays from sun, you are not separate from existence.
You are the moment in which all is.
- Papaji
"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995
' Sutras '...
Every day priests minutely examine the Dharma and endlessly chant complicated sutras.
Before doing that, though, they should learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, The snow and moon.
- Ikkyu, from the book, Wild Ways:
Zen Poem of Ikkyu, edited by John Stevens,
published by White Pine Press
' The Only Price '...
Life without a reason, a purpose, a position... the mind is frightened of this because then "my life" is over with, and life lives itself and moves from itself in a totally different dimension. This way of living is just life moving. That's all.
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide who's right and who's wrong. Life doesn't need to know the "right" way to go because it's going there anyway. Then you start to get a hint of why the mind, in a deep sense of liberation, tends to get very quiet. It doesn't have its job anymore. It has its usefulness, but it doesn't have its full-time occupation of sustaining an intricately fabricated house of cards.
This stillness of awareness is all there is. It's all one. This awareness and life are one thing, one movement, one happening, in this moment -- unfolding without reason, without goal, without direction. The ultimate state is ever present and always now. The only thing that makes it difficult to find that state and remain in that state is people wanting to retain their position in space and time. "I want to know where I'm going. I want to know if I've arrived. I want to know who to love and hate. I want to know. I don't really want to be; I want to know. Isn't enlightenment the ultimate state of knowing?" No. It's the ultimate state of being. The price is knowing.
This is the beautiful thing about the truth: ever-present, always here, totally free, given freely. It's already there. That which is ever-presently awake is free, free for the "being." But the only way that there's total and final absolute homecoming is when the humanness presents itself with the same unconditionality. Every time a human being touches into that unconditionality, it's such peace and fulfillment.
In your humanity, there's the natural expression of joy and love and compassion and caring and total unattachment. Those qualities instantly transmute into humanness when you touch into emptiness. Emptiness becomes love. That's the human experience of emptiness, that source, that ever-present awakeness. For the humanness to lay itself down -- your mind, your body, your hopes, your dreams, everything -- to lay itself down in the same unconditional manner in which awareness is ever present, only then is there the direct experience of unity, that you and the highest truth are really one thing. It expresses itself through your humanity, through openness, through love. The divine becomes human and the human becomes divine -- not in any "high and mighty" sense, but just in the sense of reality. That's the way it is.
The only price is all of our positions. The only price is that you stop paying a price.
- Adyashanti
' Love has no form '...
When you are present in this moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future.
Then true intelligence arises, and also love.
The only way love can come into your life is not through form, but through that inner spaciousness that is Presence.
Love has no form.
- Excerpt from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Amidst the World
' The Truth of Nonduality '...
Everything comes in pairs as death with life and
darkness with light.
Whatever seems to be
necessary to existence is so only because its
opposite is equally necessary.
Duality is a governing
factor of the world and everything within it
including ourselves.
That alone is outside the world,
is nondual, which is the untouchable Reality.
This is
the Chinese idea of yin and yang, and the Bhagavad
Gita's expression "the pairs of opposites" conveys
the same idea.
Duality is a fact. It is here.
But it is
also an illusion and the opposite truth which
completes it is the nondual.
We may deplore the
illusory nature of our existence, but we need not
get lost in it for it is fulfilled, completed, and
finalized in its complement the Real.
--Paul Brunton, Notebooks
' Understanding who you are '...
Our true nature is that simple and undeniable presence
of awareness that illumines all thinking, feeling and
perceiving.
Always present and radiantly clear, it is never
obscured by time, circumstances or thoughts.
The
body, mind and world rise and set in awareness and
have no independent existence apart from awareness.
Awareness, your real being, is all there is..
You are not
the limited person you have taken yourself to be.
Look
for the separate self and you find it entirely absent.
Seeing this, suffering, doubt and confusion effortlessly
drop away, revealing your natural state of innate happiness
and freedom.
Understanding who you are is
immediately and always available - here and now.
- John Wheeler Shining in Plan View
Non-duality Press,
' Your '...
Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny
- Mahatma Gandhi
' The Wisdom of Now '...
We seem not to see that, as we march towards
the next anticipated "spiritual" high, the treasure
that we seek is to be discovered not in where we
are going, but within the simple nature of the very
footsteps that we take.
In our rush to find a better
situation in time, we trample over the flower of
beingness that presents itself in every moment.
- Tony Parsons, As It Is - The Open Secret of Spiritual Awakening
' When we awake '...
To write something
and leave it behind us,
It is but a dream.
When we awake we know
There is not even anyone to read it.
- Ikkyu
' Reincarnation '...
The memory of the past unfulfilled desires traps energy, which manifests itself as a person.
When its charge gets exhausted, the person dies.
Unfulfilled desires are carried over into the next birth.
I do not say that the same person is reborn.
It dies and dies for good.
But its memories remain and their desires and fears.
They supply the energy for a new person.
The real takes no part in it, but makes it possible by giving it the light.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Equal expressions of the Infinite '...
All things - all beings and all activities, no matter how ordinary - are equal expressions of the Infinite.
There is no more or less Infinite, no higher or lower Infinite.
Therefore, all attempts to either find or hold onto the Infinite are based in illusion.
And illusion itself is none other than the Infinite.
The Infinite uses all measures in order to awaken in all the various forms in existence.
It uses birth, life, death, happiness, sorrow, clarity, and delusion in order to awaken.
All of your seeking is in reality the activity of the Infinite as well.
No matter how far astray or deluded you become, you can never get a single step away from the Infinite's embrace.
If you could all at once stop believing your dreaming mind and be completely still right in the midst of your present state, the Infinite would effortlessly present itself.
- Adyashanti
' No discriminations '...
If the mind makes no discriminations,
the ten thousand things are as they are,
of single essence.
- Seng-tsan, from Verses on the Faith Mind
' Duality '...
Leaving Home is the mental attachment to egoic attachment or what we call human..
The fact that you are attempting to return to Reality says a lot about thought..
The word 'Blessing' enters this consciousness..
The 'Blessing' that you speak of is the acknowledgement of Source..
You are a Dream from Source,
lost, and seeking Knowledge..
I use the word 'God' because this word is widely accepted as Source..
Who does not 'Believe', that Love is the reward for non-selfishness..
So much to think about..
-thomas
' Conscious Purity '...
What is Purity but a loss of egoic attraction ?..
To be Pure is to be without desires..
The 'character', we play will always be separate from knowledge,
because the 'character' is egoic consciousness..
Knowledge is instantaneous once the ego is surrendered to Source..
"Of Course" is the mantra of Awakening..
"Ah Ha" is also felt within this Light..
We sit and write, looking for answers..
The answers were always in a file within your consciousness..
Click on this file and fall head first into IT...
-thomas
' Thoughts will vanish '...
Apart from the futility of effort itself, any attempt
to prevent thoughts from arising divides the mind
artificially into that which does the prevention against
that which is being prevented, creating only neurosis
and conflict.
Whatever thoughts arise (being without
substance) will promptly vanish by themselves if they
are not accepted and pursued as effective reality.
To try to erase thoughts consciously and deliberately
is like trying to wash away blood with blood.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' They belong to the Overself '...
Whoever can understand that substance is inseparable from life and that life is inseparable from mind, whoever can intellectually perceive that the whole universe itself is nothing less than Mind in its different phases, has found the theoretical basis for an appreciation of the wonderful possibilites which dwell behind human experience.
The mind's powers can indeed be extended far beyond their present puny evolutionary range.
He who reflects constantly upon the true and immaterial nature of Mind and upon its magically creative powers tends to develop these powers.
When he becomes capable of successful and ego-free concentration, these powers of mind and will come to him spontaneously..
It is natural that when his will becomes self-abnegated, his emotion purified, his thought concentrated, and his knowledge perfected higher mental or so-called occult powers arise of their own accord.
It is equally natural that he should remain silent about them, even if only because they do not really belong to the named personality which others see.
They belong to the Overself.
-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 5: The Key To the Spiritual World > # 53
-- Perspectives > Chapter 21: Mentalism > # 60 Paul Brunton
' The One that Gathers '...
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.
And therefore, if you want to discover nature's nakedness, you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence.
When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there your soul must stay.
- Meister Eckhart
' Inside the Formless '...
Don’t take the behavior of the mind and body
to be a reading of your true Self.
Let everything happen
but know and confirm inwardly,
you are watching everything from a very stable place
which, itself, is not happening.
There is a stillness there.
There is an untouched silence.
You must acknowledge this.
You must be like the Polar Star in the heavens.
Your heart is the Polar Star, the North Star.
Everything is revolving but it is still—unmoving.
You are the stillness,
the silence inside which all is moving.
You only have to recognize and love that,
and nothing will trouble you.
Everything is the flow of time.
Everything is coming and going,
including even this body.
It is like a burning candle.
But there is an invisible flame inside
that never goes out.
Fix your attention inside the formless
and leave the rest to God.
- Mooji
' Troubles cease '...
Once at Cold Mountain, troubles cease -
No more tangled, hung-up mind.
I idly scribble poems on the rock cliff,
Taking whatever comes, like a drifting boat.
- Han Shan
' Being '...
Be fully aware of your own being and you will be in bliss consciously.
Because you take your mind off yourself and make it dwell on what you are not,
you lose your sense of well-being.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
' Why do you search for Love ?'...
To those that have researched this subject, we already know the answer..
Love is the loss of ego..
Why would you want to accept the role of servant ?...
Because the joy of the Energy of Love overcomes all desires for personal gain..
Why do you love a child ?..
Why would you die to save another ?..
These questions of ego and Love are your destiny..
These are the questions of life, itself..
The servant of Love is the servant of Source..
Humility is the Door to Reality ..
I have given you enough questions..
Your answers determine your future...
-thomas
' Many ways to Source '...
"There is no general rule or method applicable to all who aspire to realize God.
Every man must work out his own salvation, and must choose his own method, although his choice is mostly determined by the total effect of the mind impressions (sanskaras) acquired in previous lives.
He should be guided by the creed of his conscience, and follow the method that best suits his spiritual tendency, his physical aptitude and his external circumstances.
Truth is One, but the approach to it is essentially individual.
The Sufis say, 'There are as many ways to God as there are souls of men.'"
-Meher Baba
God Speaks: The Theme of Creation and Its Purpose.
Walnut Creek, CA: Sufism Reoriented, 1973, 2nd Edition, Supl. 2, p. 206
' Don't forget what You are '...
To take appearance for reality is a grievous sin and the
cause of all calamities.
You are the all-pervading, eternal
and infinitely creative awareness - consciousness.
All
else is local and temporary.
Don't forget what you are.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' The eyes do not see themselves '...
Although awareness is the first way in which we can regard the soul or Overself,
the latter is also that which makes awareness possible and hence a sub- or super-conscious thing.
This explains why it is that we do not know our souls, but only our thoughts, our feelings, and our bodies.
It is because we are the soul and hence we are the knower as well as the act of knowing.
The eyes see everything outside yet do not see themselves.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 3: The Overself's Presence > # 186
Paul Brunton
' Do not cling '...
Be vigilant of the present circumstances.
This is quite enough to give you happiness.
Be vigilant only of this moment!
When this happening goes, don't cling to it.
Clinging to past circumstances is the trouble
with everybody.
This is the cause of suffering
and misery.
What has happened cannot be brought back,
so it is reasonable to not cling to it.
Simply do not cling to past circumstances.
Don't cling to the past.
- Papaji
"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995
' Clear perception '...
There is no better authority for a truth on which to rest than its own clear perception directly within oneself.
But this statement is valid only if the ego has been put where it belongs,
at least during the period of perception.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7:
Contemplative Stillness > # 279 Paul Brunton
' The birth of true nonduality '...
Many spiritual seekers get "stuck" in emptiness, in the absolute, in transcendence.
They cling to bliss, or peace, or indifference. When the self-centered motivation for living disappears, many seekers become indifferent.
They see the perfection of all existence and find no reason for doing anything, including caring for themselves or others.
I call this "taking a false refuge."
It is a very subtle egoic trap; it's a fixation in the absolute and all unconscious form of attachment that masquerades as liberation.
It can be very difficult to wake someone up from this deceptive fixation because they literally have no motivation to let go of it.
Stuck in a form of divine indifference, such people believe they have reached the top of the mountain when actually they are hiding out halfway up its slope.
Enlightenment does not mean one should disappear into the realm of transcendence.
To be fixated in the absolute is simply the polar opposite of being fixated in the relative.
With the dawning of true enlightenment, there is a tremendous birthing of impersonal Love and wisdom that never fixates in any realm of experience.
To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true nonduality.
If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true Emptiness.
If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.
I say, Wake up! Then, your heart will be flooded with a Love that you cannot contain.
- Adyashanti
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)