' Separation '...
Humanity’s awakening is proceeding beautifully, just as divinely planned and intended. Do not be distracted and dismayed by the various unhappy events on which the mainstream media focuses its attention, and which it uses to keep your fear and anxiety exercised and alert. As I have already told you many times, the purpose of the mainstream media is not benign, it is clearly directed, by those who own and control it, to focus on the items of news that deal almost totally with conflict, tragedy, and loss of life, and that are therefore unsettling or even alarming to its audience.
Most of the good and uplifting news is not reported by the mainstream media because they depend on shock and drama to attract watchers, listeners, and readers. There remains within humanity an intense desire for “bad news” because it satisfies the egoic need to see others in worse situations than oneself. When one feels alone or separate as a human individual, the knowledge of the pain of others can act as a palliative, temporarily relieving feelings of personal suffering, and enabling a person to accept that life is unfair to everyone. And in the illusory world of form this certainly does appear to be the case, with a very large proportion of humans living in extreme poverty in areas that are basically lawless, and where the fundamentals for survival are in extremely short supply, while many others reside in areas of conflict.
THIS IS WHAT MUST CHANGE AND IT WILL CHANGE! In fact it is already changing, so focus your attention on being that change yourselves by releasing all judgment, bitterness, and resentment at what you see as the unacceptable behavior of others.
Remember that all are one and that therefore everyone is a mirror to everyone else. The more you choose and intend to be only loving whatever the situation in which you find yourselves may suggest is occurring, the more you will experience meeting love reflected back to you. THAT is how the world is changed, and it IS changing constantly. As you well know the only constant in the world of form is CHANGE! So make the change from fear to LOVE in your own hearts, do NOT engage in conflict, and KNOW, as deep within yourselves you truly do, that doing this works PERFECTLY.
The old ways cannot continue, and they will not continue; they are way past their “sell by date.” They have served their purpose which was to bring you to the moment when you would choose to awaken. That choice, having been made collectively some time ago, is being put into effect daily in ever more locations. You know this, because each one of you has made the choice individually to awaken, and there is only ONE, YOU!
The ongoing confusion in every area of human endeavor is as a direct result of the collective choice to awaken, and humanity is awakening to the insanity of the present way of relating to itself as individuals of unacceptable political, religious, cultural, ethnic, and social groups. Every person and every group has much to offer that is of inestimable value, but until now you have mostly focused on the seemingly unacceptable differences between you instead of focusing on the truth that everyone has gifts to offer, gifts that only they can offer. As that realization rises up into the awareness of more and more of you, and as you choose to honor and respect one another, instead of negatively judging those who appear different, peace and harmony will arise as all that is not in alignment with Love dissolves or dissipates back into the unreality from which it arose when you chose to experience it – it being – SEPARATION from SOURCE!
Separation never occurred, it could not occur because the One is indivisible, the One is All, and without even one seeming individual sentient life form the One would be incomplete, and the One cannot be incomplete. Modern physics has finally proven this to be so in the material world, and has also realized that the material world in which humanity is experiencing life in form – the universe which, in form, you see as vast and impersonal – is but a microscopic component of the All, in fact it is so small that to try and define it as a percentage of the ALL would be totally and utterly meaningless, it just would not show up because it is so small.
When you awaken, as you are going to do, the absolute V A S T N E S S of Reality, the All, will dumbfound you. Reality is All, and your Joy in becoming aware of this, that you and It are One, will blow your little human minds, except that you will have no little minds to blow, being One with the V A S T N E S S that is A L L.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
Separation never occurred, it could not occur because the One is indivisible.
by John Smallman
' The Desire for Truth '...
The desire for truth is the highest of all
desires, yet, it is still a desire.
All desires
must be given up for the 'Real' to be.
Remember
that 'You Are'.
This is your working capital.
Rotate it and there will be much profit.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' The Real Disaster '...
There is a saying in Tibetan,
'Tragedy should be utilized as
a source of strength.'
No matter what sort of difficulties,
how painful experience is,
if we lose our hope,
that's our
real disaster.
- Dalai Lama
' Overself's Grace '...
The Overself's grace meets us just at the point where our need is greatest,
but not necessarily the one we acknowledge as such.
We must learn to let it do what it wants to do,
not necessarily what we want it to do.
-- Notebooks Category 18: The Reverential Life >
Chapter 5: Grace > # 243 Paul Brunton
' Why not the Real ? '...
By itself nothing has existence.
Everything needs
its own absence.
To be, is to be distinguishable,
to be here and not there, to be now and not then,
to be thus and not otherwise.
Like water is shaped
by the container, so is everything determined by
conditions (gunas).
As water remains water
regardless of the vessels, as light remains itself
regardless of the colours it brings out, so does the
real remain real, regardless of conditions in which
it is reflected.
Why keep the reflection only in the
focus of consciousness?
Why not the real itself?
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' Beyond Ambition '...
Beyond ambition,
beyond attainment,
is home.
Contentment,
without content;
peace, uncaused.
~ A. H. Almaas
' Returning to Source '...
Such a goal may be unappealing to many,
held by their attachments as they are;
but it is fascinating and alluring to a few, "old souls,"
much experienced after a long series of earthly lives,
whose values have been altered, whose glamours and illusions have been eliminated.
They feel like wanderers returning home.
-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 5:
Self-Development > # 138 Paul Brunton
' Really Called Man '...
"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
' The True Lover '...
Your earthly lover
can be very charming and coquettish
but never very faithful.
The true lover is the one who on your final day
opens a thousand doors.
- Rumi
Rumi: Hidden Music
Translated by Azima Melita Kolin
and Maryam Mafi
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001
' Not Fundamentally Real '...
When we think we see a single smoothly moving cinema picture of a running man we are really seeing thousands of separate stationary pictures of the man.
The experience of smoothly convincing personality is an illusion which arises in the same manner out of our mental fusion of a series of separate ideas into a single human being.
The term "illusion" here used must not be read as meaning that the human being does not exist.
On the contrary, this sentence would not be written or read if it were not so.
It means that he exists, yes, but that he does not exist as other than a transient appearance.
He is not fundamentally real.
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2:
I-thought > # 30 Paul Brunton
' The Great Way '...
"The Great Way is effortless for those who live in choiceless awareness.
To choose without preference is to be clear.
"Even the slightest personal preference and your whole world becomes divided.
To perceive reality as it is is to live with an open mind.
When the lens you look through reflects your personal bias, your view of reality is clouded.
Truth simply is, the clouded mind cannot know it."
-Sosan (Seng T'san) - 3rd Zen Patriarch
Hsin Hisn Ming
translated by Philip Dunn & Peter Jourdan as
The Book of Nothing: A Song of Enlightenment
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2002, pp. 16, 19
' True Happiness '...
True happiness is uncaused and this cannot
disappear for lack of stimulation.
It is not
the opposite of sorrow,
it includes all sorrow
and suffering.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' The True Enduring "I"...
What we commonly think of as constituting the "I" is an idea which changes from year to year.
This is the personal "I."
But what we feel most intimately as being always present in all these different ideas of the "I," that is, the sense of being, of existence, never changes at all.
It is this which is our true enduring "I."
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2:
I-thought > # 1 Paul Brunton
' One's True Identity '...
"Irrespective of whether a person believes through the medium of ideas or idols, with sincere love and faith in God, he or she can get nearer to Him, Who is already the nearest of all.
The essence of faith lies not in the shape or manner of one's belief, but in the depth and sincerity behind it.
The faith that can move mountains can, and does, move the greatest of them — the mountain of Ignorance that denies an individual a glimpse of one's true Divinity and also conceals one's true Identity."
-Meher Baba
in Bal Natu
Glimpses of the God-Man
Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press, 1994, Vol. 6, p. 75
' The Final Annihilation '...
The ego survives by trying to pretend that it is
the thinker, feeler, speaker and do-er.
These phenomena serve as the handholds for
the ego to, seemingly, survive within the vast
emptiness of Consciousness.
But if you’re ever to live as who you really are,
you must first die completely to who you think you
are.
The final annihilation is not of your self.
The final annihilation is of your story.
- Chuck Hillig
Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
' Seekers '...
If some Power has turned you into a seeker,
don't you think it is the responsibility of that
Power to take you where you are supposed
to be taken?.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
' One Stream of Truth '...
"As water in a fountain flows as one stream,
but falls in many drops divided by time and space,
so are the revelations of the one stream of truth."
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Bowl of Saki, 1-1
' Follow the Breath '...
Take a break from the mind.
Follow the breath.
The
constant awareness of the breath will detach you from
your mind.
The energy that usually moves into thinking
will move into witnessing.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"Let Life Flow"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Yogi Impressions, 2005
' Within Eternity '...
When in deep sleep we have absolutely no sense of Time's existence at all.
We are then in eternity!
When we become thoroughly convinced of the illusoriness of time, and make this conviction a settled attitude, eternity reveals itself even during the waking state.
This is life in the Overself.
This is not the same as totalizing the past present and future; all those belong to illusion.
This realization gives perfect peace..
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 4:
Time, Space, Causality > # 84 Paul Brunton
' Universal Cooperation '...
The law of the universe is cooperation and not competition.
It is not warfare.
That is the law of the universe, the total
solidarity for which the prayers of the ancient sages were
directed in such scriptures as the Vedas.
The Rigveda
concludes with a prayer for universal cooperation,
collaboration not merely in a social manner, but even in
the field of thinking, in collective aspiration and all activity.
- Swami Krishnananda
Facets of Spirituality
Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986
' Life without Boundaries '...
“This body is not me.
I am not limited by this body.
I am life without boundaries.
I have never been born,
and I have never died.
Look at the ocean and the sky filled with stars,
manifestations from my wondrous true mind.
Since before time, I have been free…
Birth and death are only doors through which we pass,
sacred thresholds on our journey.
Birth and death are a game of hide- and seek.
So laugh with me,
hold my hand,
let us say good-bye,
say good-bye, to meet again soon.
We meet today.
We will meet again tomorrow.
We will meet at the source every moment.
We meet each other in all forms of life.”
-Thich Nhat Hanh
' Return to Source '...
The realization of human insignificance as against the cosmic background impresses deeply.
However, there is another aspect to this realization.
It is an excellent preparation for the thought of the Void wherein the individual human entity is not merely insignificant
but is actually non-existent, merged or rather returned to that which gave it birth.
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 4:
Detaching from The Ego > # 399 Paul Brunton
' Realization of Reality '...
"Teach us to consider no other duty to be more important than our sacred duty to realize Thee."
-Paramahansa Yogananda
Whispers From Eternity
Self-Realization Fellowship, 1949, p. 33
' The egoic mind '...
People often ask how the mind is controlled.
I say to them, 'Show me the mind and then
you will know what to do.'
The fact is that
the mind is only a bundle of thoughts.
How can
you extinguish it by the thought of doing so
or by a desire?
Your thoughts and desires are
part and parcel of the mind.
The mind is simply
fattened by new thoughts rising up.
Therefore
it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by
means of the mind.
The only way of doing it is
to find its source and hold on to it.
The mind
will then fade away of its own accord.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
edited by David Godman
Arkana, 1985
' Different Egos'...
Inside ourselves there is not one ego but several.
We live in a condition of recurring feelings that successively contradict one another, deny each other, or shame each other.
The "I" is really torn into pieces, each claiming ascendency but none holding it permanently.
The animal, the human, and the angel jostle elbows in our hearts.
We are degraded today, elevated tomorrow.
The quest seeks to integrate all these different egos.
-- Notebooks Category 8: The Ego >
Chapter 3: Psyche > # 18
Paul Brunton
' Not Within or Without '...
“Because your outlook is externally directed, you speak of a ‘without’.
In that state you are advised to look within.
In fact, the Self is neither within nor without.”
-Sri Ramana Maharshi
Sri Maharshi’s Way: A Translation and Commentary on Upadesa Saram
D.M. Sastri
Tiruvannamalai: Sri Ramanasramam, 1999, p. 33
' This Talking Rag '...
It
Was all
So clear this morning.
My mind and heart had never felt
More convinced:
There is only God,
A Great Wild
God.
But somehow I got yanked from
That annihilating
Realization
And can now appear again
As this wine-stained
Talking
Rag.
- Hafiz
"The Gift"
Translations by Daniel Ladinsky
Penguin/Arkana, 1999
' The Fullest Meaning '...
Many complain that they are unable in meditation successfully to bring their active thoughts to an end.
In the ancient Indian art of yoga, this cessation--called nirvikalpa samadhi in Sanskrit--is placed as the highest stage to be reached by the practitioner.
This situation must be viewed from two separate and distinct standpoints: from that of yoga and from that of philosophy.
Would-be philosophers seek to become established in that insight into Reality which is called Truth.
Intuitive feeling is a higher manifestation of man's faculties.
So long as the feeling itself remains unobstructed by illusions, and--after incessant reflection, inquiry, study, remembrance, reverence, aspiration, training of thought, and purification--a man finds the insight dawning in his mind, he may not need to practise meditation.
He may do so and he will feel the satisfaction and tranquillity which comes from it.
Those who become sufficiently proficient in yoga, even if they achieve the complete cessation of thoughts, should still take up the pursuit of understanding and insight.
If they are content with their attainment, they can remain for years enjoying the bliss, the tranquillity, the peace of a meditational state; but this does not mean knowledge in its fullest meaning.
-- Notebooks Category 20: What Is Philosophy? > Chapter 4:
Its Realization Beyond Ecstasy > # 138 Paul Brunton
' The Religion of Love '...
O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames.
My heart has become capable of every form:
it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,
and a temple for idols and the pilgrim's Kaa'ba,
and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran.
I follow the religion of Love:
whatever way Love's camels take,
that is my religion and my faith.
-Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi
'Tarjuman al-Ashwaq'.
Theosophical Publishing House, 1911. Poem XI
' Only the Real Exists '...
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
"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman
Arkana, 1985
' Surrendering to Source '...
If he keeps on fixing his attention upon fighting the wandering characteristic of his thoughts, he may find after many attempts that the task seems impossible.
Why is this?
It is because at the same time he is limiting himself to attention upon the ego.
Let him move in the opposite direction and turn to the Short Path, let the thoughts fix themselves on the Overself, upon Its great stillness,
Its serene impersonality.
The ego will not and cannot remove itself by itself but by going outside to THAT which is its origin.
The thoughts in the end are led into surrender to the power which transcends it and will master it.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 4:
The Changeover To the Short Path > # 72 Paul Brunton
' Something from Nothing '...
"The creatures of the world are born from something,
and something from nothing."
-Lao-Tzu
_Tao Te Ching_, 4
Translation of Ma Wang Tui Manuscripts
by D. C. Lau
NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994, p. 6
' Reality '...
Reality is simply the loss of ego.
Destroy the
ego by seeking its identity.
Because the ego is
no entity,
it will automatically vanish and reality
will shine forth by itself.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
edited by David Godman
Arkana, 1985
' Deep Dreamless Sleep '...
Deep dreamless sleep removes anxieties from the mind because it removes the ego which suffers them.
It removes exhaustion from the physical body because the complete relaxation of tension
consequent upon the ego's absence allows the universal life-force to permeate every cell.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3:
The States of Consciousness > # 98 Paul Brunton
' A Collector of Religions '...
"I am sort of a collector of religions,
and the curious thing is I find I can believe in them all."
-George Bernard Shaw
in Rosalie Maggio
_The Journey Inward: Quotations for the Soul_
NY: Barnes & Noble, 1997, p. 180
' 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
' Stillness '...
Stillness is your essential nature.
What is stillness?
The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts.
Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.
You are that awareness, disguised as a person.
~ Eckhart Tolle
' The Whole Flame '...
"What is this awesome mystery
that is taking place within me?
I can find no words to express it;
my poor hand is unable to capture it
in describing the praise and glory that belong
to the One who is above all praise,
and who transcends every word...
My intellect sees what has happened,
but it cannot explain it.
It can see, and wishes to explain,
but can find no word that will suffice;
for what it sees is invisible and entirely formless,
simple, completely uncompounded,
unbounded in its awesome greatness.
What I have seen is the totality recapitulated as one,
received not in essence but by participation.
Just as if you lit a flame from a flame,
it is the whole flame you receive."
-Symeon the New Theologian
in _The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul's Ascent from the Desert Fathers and Other Early Christian Contemplatives_
Translated by John Anthony McGuckin
Boston: Shambhala, 2003
' Crucifixion '...
Crucifixion perfectly symbolizes the ongoing
dilemma of the ego.
One hand of your ego is, seemingly, nailed to
your memories about the past while your other
hand is, seemingly, nailed to your imaginings
about the future.
Although your body feels pain in the present
moment, your ego only adds to its own suffering
by blindly worshiping at the altars of memory
and imagination..
Until you fully surrender to the present moment,
you’ll always feel that you’re being crucified.
- Chuck Hillig
Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
' The Ground of Reality '...
“In zazen, our practice is to let go of our fabricated mental map, to open the hand of thought, and thereby sit down on the ground of reality.
Thinking can only produce a distorted mental copy of the world, and this copy is based on karmic experiences.
But when we let go of thought, we understand that the copy in our minds is not reality itself.
Then we no longer have to blindly trust our thoughts and we can instead inquire further into the nature of reality.
Our zazen is not a method of correcting the distortion of our “conceptual maps.”
Instead we just let go of the map and sit down on the earth of reality.”
Zen Roshi —Shohaku Okumura
' The Law of Balance '...
Brahma the Creator is the sum total of all
desires.
The world is the instrument for
their fulfillment.
Souls take whatever
pleasures they desire and pay for them in
tears.
Time squares all accounts.
The law
of balance reigns supreme.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' The Mind '...
The mind which is aware is a distinct and separate thing from the things which appear in the field of awareness.
That mind is the true self, but those things--which we know only as thoughts--are not.
The emotions and thoughts that we commonly experience are outside the ring of the real "I," yet are always taken--or rather mistaken--for it.
-- Notebooks Category 21: Mentalism > Chapter 5:
The Key To the Spiritual World > # 112
Paul Brunton
' Thoughts '...
Thoughts appear as a necessary function in the human organism.
The organism does not decide to create them any more than it decides to breathe.
They are sourced from that which sustains and supports the organism.
To believe that you can stop your thoughts presupposes that you initiate them.
~ Wu Hsin
' Duality is Not There '...
"Totality is all, Brahm[an] is all that there is.
And then there is no duality, and then whatever appears to be, is just an appearance.
It is Vivartvad—that it appears to be, but it is not there, like the snake and the string.
It appears to be snake, but the snake is not there; it appears to be duality, but duality is not there.
Duality is not there.
What is there is only unity, and unity without duality—purely unity."
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Global Conference on Unified Field-Based Administration-June 26 2007
' The Pure Space of Being '...
We slay a thousand dragons by catching this one
dragon called 'I'.
You have the power to bring the
attention inwardly again and again, then you'll see
that all appearances are only coming and going,
nothing is fixed.
Keep on confirming this and the
inner noise of identity and conditioning will get
washed out.
What remains is that pure space
of “Being."
- Mooji
' Sleeping Dreamers '...
A comparison of the waking with the dream state yields two striking similarities.
Firstly, neither in one state nor the other do we make our planetary environment, or the other persons who figure in it, or cause all its happenings.
We are born into our waking world--it is there ready-made.
We find ourselves abruptly in our dream world.
The other persons just happen to be in both worlds with us.
We do not deliberately prefabricate most of the everyday happenings in the waking world and we do not do this with the dream happenings either.
Secondly, in neither world can we predict exactly how we shall behave, react, or feel in all their situations.
This is all intended to say that our waking life is really a kind of sleep, from which we need to wake up; that just as the dreamer only awakens when his fatigue exhausts itself or when someone else arouses him, so we, too, only awaken from life's illusions when we are exhausted with all the many different kinds of experience we get from many different incarnations or when a teacher appears to reveal the truth to us.
Further, what we have done or desired in former incarnations predetermines a large part of the picture of our present one.
Yet, the connection between this cause and this effect is unseen by us until someone else, a master of insight, shows it to us.
Until then we are like sleeping dreamers.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 3: The States of Consciousness > # 40
-- Perspectives > Chapter 19: The Reign of Relativity > # 14 Paul Brunton
' Buddha's Wisdom '...
"The Buddha's wisdom and radiance is like the sun,
because they shine on the entire earth,
lighting up even the remotest dark corners."
-Master Hsuan Hua
Spring Sun, Lotus Flower: Quotes from the Teachings of the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
Burlingame, CA: Buddhist Text Translation Society, 2004, p. 23
' Action has Consequences '...
Until the nexus between thoughts is severed, everything
we think, say, or do leaves a residue of conditioning in
the mind.
The slightest thought has consequences, as
does the slightest act.
Over the years it is the sum of all
these consequences, large and small, that shapes our lives.
- Eknath Easwaran
Dialogue with Death
Eknath Easwaran
Nilgiri Press, 1992
' The Infinite '...
I am the divine expression exactly as I am, right here, right now.
You are the divine expression exactly as you are, right here, right now.
It is the divine expression, exactly as it is, right here, right now.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, needs to be added or taken away.
Nothing is more valid or sacred than anything else.
No conditions need to be fulfilled.
The infinite is not somewhere else waiting for us to become worthy.
~ Tony Parsons
' Space and Time '...
As you integrate you become one,
and your needs become one accordingly.
Unified needs lead to unified action,
because this produces a lack of conflict.
You cannot behave effectively
while you function on different levels.
However, while you do,
correction must be introduced vertically from the bottom up.
This is because you think you live in space,
where concepts such as "up" and "down" are meaningful. Ultimately, space is as meaningless as time.
Both are merely beliefs.
-The above quotes are from the book
A Course in Miracles.
' The Ideal Person '...
"The ideal person has the strength of the male and the compassion of the female."
-Zohar
in Timothy Freke
The Illustrated Book of Sacred Scripture
Wheaton, IL: Quest, 1998, p. 163
' You think it's Real '...
I remind you again, the only difference between the sage and yourself
is you see the world and you identify with it.
You think it's real.
A sage sees the world and he knows it's a superimposition upon Consciousness.
So he identifies with Consciousness.
~ Robert Adams
' Beloved '...
"Beloved, I sought you
here and there,
asked for news of you
from all I met;
then saw you through myself
and found we were identical.
Now I blush to think I ever
searched for signs of you."
-Fakhruddin Iraqi (? - 1289)
from William Chittick / Nasr Seyyed Hossein
_Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (Classics of Western Spirituality)_
' Grace '...
Grace is everything.
Grace is another name for what we are.
Grace is indefinable, ever perfect and timeless.
It is that in which time and breath play as names and forms
in their brief dance called life.
We are the experiencing and simultaneously the witness of all this.
Grace is that which calls you away from the chaos,
away from the noise of the world.
Grace is the same as peace,
but here there is no peacekeeper
nor anyone being a doer.
Grace is the breath of the Self.
- Mooji
' Be Free of the Past '...
The personal history which has gone before--let it really go and be free of the past,
which can become a mental prison for unwary persons;
learn to abide in the timeless,
coming out of it as duties call but holding on to it as the background.
-- Notebooks Category 24: The Peace within You > Chapter 3:
Practise Detachment > # 227 Paul Brunton
' Rig Veda '...
"The stranger asks the way of him who knows it:
taught by the skilful guide he travels onward.
This is, in truth, the blessing of instruction:
he finds the path that leads directly forward."
-Rig Veda 10.32.7
The Hymns of the Rig Veda
Translated by Ralph T.H. Griffith
London, 1889
' Matter Is Spirit '...
All that is constructed is subject to destruction; all that is composed must be decomposed;
all that is formed must be destroyed; that which has birth has death.
But all this belongs to matter:
the spirit that is absorbed by this formation of matter or by its mechanism lives, for spirit cannot die.
What we call life is an absorption of spirit by matter.
As long as the matter is strong and energetic enough to absorb life or spirit from space, it continues to live and move and be in good condition, but when it has lost its grip on the spirit, when it cannot absorb the spirit as it ought to, then it cannot live, for the substance of matter is spirit.
From The Teachings Of
HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN
Selected & Arranged By
HAZRAT PIR VILAYAT INAYAT KHAN
' Now '...
There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now;
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
~ Walt Whitman
' Becoming God '...
"From the beginning of all beginnings I have been saying,
I say it now,
and to the end of ends I will say it,
that HE WHO LOVES GOD BECOMES GOD."
-Meher Baba
Listen, Humanity
Edited by D. E. Stevens
NY: Crossroads, 1998 (originally published 1967), p. 240
' Demand Nothing '...
When you demand nothing of the world,
nor of God, when you want nothing, seek
nothing, expect nothing then the Supreme
State will come to you uninvited and
unexpected.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' World Enquiry '...
There are three stages on the path of world enquiry.
The first yields as its fruit that the world is but an idea, and this stage has been reached from the metaphysical end by thinkers such as Bishop Berkeley, and nearly reached from the scientific end by such a man as Eddington.
The second stage involves the study of the three states, waking, dreaming, and deep sleep, and yields as its fruit the truth that ideas are transitory emanations out of their permanent cause, consciousness.
The third stage is the most difficult, for it requires analysis of the nature of time, space, and causation, plus successful practice of yoga. It yields as its fruit the sense of Reality as something eternally abiding with one.
— Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 0:
Introductory Paras > # 1 Paul Brunton
' A Surrender '...
Enlightenment is merely an understanding in
which there is no comprehender.
It is a surrender
in which there is no one to surrender anything.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' Life Is Spontaneity '...
You ask:
"How to live my life?"
But with the question you are suffocating life itself for life is spontaneity.
~ Mooji
' The Real Spiritual Awakening '...
That is the real spiritual awakening,
when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were.
So, the person is still there,
but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.
~ Eckhart Tolle
' Passing On Transmission '...
"If we are to discuss this matter, the simple fact is that there is nothing whatsoever to point out to people.
If there were anything at all to indicate to people, Buddhism would not have reached the present day.
For this reason the successions of Buddhas extending a hand and the successions of Zen masters passing on transmission have done so for lack of practical choice; there has never been an actual doctrine."
-Fu-an
in Thomas Cleary
Teachings of Zen Buddhism
NY: Barnes & Noble, revised and expanded edition, 2000 (1998), p. 103
' Tripping Over Joy '...
What is the difference
Between your experience of Existence
And that of a saint?
The saint knows
That the spiritual path
Is a sublime chess game with God
And that the Beloved
Has just made such a Fantastic Move
That the saint is now continually
Tripping over Joy
And bursting out in Laughter
And saying, “I Surrender!”
Whereas, my dear,
I am afraid you still think
You have a thousand serious moves.
- Hafiz
I Heard God Laughing
Renderings of Hafiz
by Daniel Ladinsky
Dhama Publishing Company, 1996
' Surrender the ego '...
Give the ego back to the Overself and then the Overself will use it as it should be used--in harmony with the cosmic laws of being.
This means that the welfare of all others in contact with the ego will be considered as well as the ego's own.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself >
Chapter 2: Inspiration > # 49 Paul Brunton
' Therlogia Germanica '...
"The more mine and I,
that is to say I-attachment and selfishness,
recede, the more God's I,
that is God Himself, increases in me."
Theologia Germanica
Bengt Hoffman, Tr.
NY: Paulist Press, 1980, p. 79
' The Inner Guru '...
You don't see the inner Guru because you look
somewhere else.
Stop looking and It will reveal
itself without your effort.
Just stop the mind from
chasing all its loves and enjoyments.
- Papaji
"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995
' How Long Will It Take? '...
There is a wonderful story about a young man who checks into the monastery, full of juice and ready to be enlightened yesterday. He asks the abbot, "How long will it take me to be enlightened?" To which the abbot answers, "About ten years." The young man says, "Ten years! Why ten years?" The abbot replies, "Oh, twenty years in your case." The man asks, "Why do you say twenty years?" The abbot says, "Oh, I’m sorry. I was mistaken…thirty years."
If you really get it, you realize that to even ask the question gets you ten years. As soon as the thought, "When will I really be free?" comes up, time has just birthed itself into existence. And with this birth of time you have to think, "Probably at least ten years, maybe forever." Where can you go in order to get here? Any step takes you somewhere else.
This is surprising to the mind because the mind always thinks of freedom, or enlightenment, as some sort of accumulation, and of course there is nothing to accumulate. It’s about realizing what you are, what you have always been. This realization is outside of time because it’s now or never.
As soon as your idea of enlightenment becomes time-bound, it’s always about the next moment. You may have a deep spiritual experience and then ask, "How long will I sustain this experience?" As long as you insist on the question, you remain time-bound. If you are still interested in time and the spiritual accumulations you can have in time, you will get a time-bound experience. The mind is acting as if what you are looking for isn’t already present right now. Now is outside of time. There is no time, and the paradox is that the only thing that keeps you from seeing the eternal is that your mind is stuck in time. So you miss what’s actually here..
Have you ever felt that you really didn’t like being here very much and that you wanted some wonderful eternal experience? That’s what is often thought but not said when the teacher says, "Be here right now." Inside you are feeling, "I am here, and I don’t like being here. I want to be there, where enlightenment is." If you have a really true teacher, you will be told that you are mistaken, that you have never been here. You’ve always been in time, therefore, you have never actually shown up here. Your body was here, but the rest of you went somewhere else.
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
' A Bakalama '...
"There is no Path safer and smoother than that of bakalama.
Bakalama means resigning the self to the will of the Almighty,
to have no consciousness that anything is 'mine.'"
-Sri Ramakrishna
in F. Max Mueller Ramakrishna: His Life and Saying, 343
London: Longmans, Green, 1898, p. 178
' Moves Without Trace '...
As you can walk through a busy marketplace and not
touch or speak to a single person,
in the same way
you can move through this mind field and yet not get
entangled with any thought activity.
Such a one moves
without trace and is called a Buddha.
- Mooji
' Reality '...
The world is a reflection of your mind. The universe is an emanation of yourself. If you didn't exist there would be no universe. The universe exists because you exist. You are the universe and that's true of every so-called fact in your life. It's a fact that someone is dying and if someone dies, that's a fact but it's not the truth.
The truth is: we are all unborn. No one was ever born. If no one was ever born how can you die? No one was born and no one dies. Again I'm expressing my confession. That's how it appears to me. That's what I mean when I say, "This teaching is useless to most people", because you can't do anything with it, yet things happen, lives improve, spirituality grows, happiness ensues, bliss comes.
It all happens spontaneously. Just by being present and this Is what satsang is all about. By being present without taking thought without manipulation, without playing mind games, without trying to improve yourself, without thinking of yourself without thinking of others, everything good happens, all by its self. Why?
Because emptiness is goodness, nirvana is absolute reality.. The unborn is the Self and you are that - what else can I say. So what do you think about this? I'm open to questions.
- Robert Adams
' In this way, you will not suffer '...
These forms are transient and to be attached to them
is to be confused.
Anything that rises, be it thought,
desire, emotion, feeling or object will give you suffering
and no one in the world can avoid this.
Both the
enjoyer and the enjoyed are washed away.
But the wise discriminate between the Real and the
unreal.
They know what is Real and so allow their
feelings and thoughts to arise because they know all
is One and the same!
In this way you will not suffer.
- Papaji
"The Truth Is"
Sri H.W.L. Poonja
Yudhishtara, 1995
' Appearing to Exist '...
Just because something exists, however, it
doesn't necessarily mean that it's real.
Reality is that which persists in all states;
waking life, dream life and in dreamless sleep.
If this is true, then, anything that fundament-
ally changes can't actually be considered as
"real."
That doesn't mean, of course, that it doesn't appear
to exist!
- Chuck Hillig
Seeds for the Soul
Chuck Hillig
Black Dot Publications, 2003
' It Is Your Birthright '...
When I allow it, it is, when I avoid it, it is.
It requires no effort, demands no standards and holds no preferences.
Being timeless it sees no path to tread, no debt to pay.
Because it acknowledges no right or wrong, neither does it recognize judgement or guilt.
Its love is absolutely unconditional.
It simply watches with clarity, compassion and delight as I move out for my return.
It is my birthright.
It is my home.
It is already that which I am.
- Tony Parsons
' To Original Source '...
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
' You begin to Awaken '...
The beginning of freedom is the realization
that you are not the possessing entity - the
thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe
the entity.
The moment you start watching the
thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes
activated.
You then being to realize that there is a vast realm
of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only
a tiny aspect of that intelligence.
You also realize
that all the things that truly matter - beauty, love,
creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the
mind.
You begin to awaken.
- Eckhart Tolle
' The Spirit of Meditation '...
He will understand the real spirit of meditation when he
understands that he has to do nothing at all, just to sit still
physically, mentally, and emotionally.
For the moment he attempts to
do anything, he intrudes his ego.
By sitting inwardly and outwardly
still, he surrenders egoistic action and thereby implies that he is
willing to surrender his little self to his Overself.
He shows that he
is willing to step aside and let himself be worked upon, acted
through, and guided by a higher power.
— Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 7:
Contemplative Stillness > # 238 Paul Brunton
' Fullness '...
"All things in the world are born from Fullness.
Fullness is born from Emptiness."
-Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching, 40
Thomas H. Miles, Tr.
NY: Avery, 1992, p. 77
' Creations of the Mind '...
How can the mind which has itself created the world
accept it as unreal?
That is the significance of the
comparison made between the world of the waking
state and the dream world.
Both are creations of the
mind and, so long as the mind is engrossed in either,
it finds itself unable to deny their reality.
It cannot deny
the reality of the dream world while it is dreaming and
it cannot deny the reality of the waking world while it
is awake.
If, on the contrary, you withdraw your mind
completely from the world and turn it within and abide
there, that is, if you keep awake always to the Self
which is the substratum of all experiences,
you will
find the world of which you are now aware is just as
unreal as the world in which you lived your dream.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
"Be As You Are"
The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi
Edited by David Godman
Arkana, 1985
' The separate-self '...
"The realization of the Nondual traditions is uncompromising: there is only Spirit, there is only God, there is only Emptiness in all its radiant wonder. All the good and all the evil, the very best and the very worst, the upright and the degenerate—each and all are radically perfect manifestations of Spirit precisely as they are. There is nothing but God…in all directions, and not a grain of sand, not a speck of dust, is more or less Spirit than any other.
“This realization undoes the Great Search that is the heart of the separate-self sense. The separate-self is, at bottom, simply a sensation of seeking. When you feel yourself right now, you will basically feel a tiny interior tension or contraction—a sensation of grasping, desiring, wishing, wanting, avoiding, resisting—it is a sensation of effort, a sensation of seeking.
“In its highest form, this sensation of seeking takes on the form of the Great Search for Spirit. We wish to get from our unenlightened state (of sin or delusion or duality) to an enlightened or more spiritual state. We wish to get from where Spirit is not, to where Spirit is.
“But there is no place where Spirit is not. Every single location in the entire Kosmos is equally and fully Spirit…The Great Search simply reinforces the mistaken assumption that there is some place that Spirit is not…There is only Spirit.
“The Great Search for Spirit is simply that impulse, the final impulse, which prevents the present realization of Spirit, and it does so for a simple reason: the Great Search presumes the loss of God. The Great Search reinforces the mistaken belief that God is not present, and thus totally obscures the reality of God’s ever-present Presence. The Great Search, which pretends to love God, is in fact the very mechanism of pushing God away; the mechanism of promising to find tomorrow that which exists only in the timeless now."
--Ken Wilber, from “Always Already: The Brilliant Clarity of Ever-Present Awareness,” the final chapter from Wilber’s book The Eye of Spirit
' The Suffering of Desire '..
All suffering is born of desire.
True love
is never frustrated.
How can the sense of
unity be frustrated?
What can be frustrated
is the desire for expression.
Such desire is
of the mind.
As with all things mental,
frustration is inevitable.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973
' Nobody Exists '...
You don't even exist! You're all an optical illusion. Nobody exists.
I'll tell you this much. We've all been totally brainwashed since birth.
Everything we believe is false, everything. You are false.
I am false. There is no reality. If there were a reality, you'd not be able
to express it, for it would be beyond human conception. If there were a
truth, we would not be able to understand it, for it would be beyond the
finite mind. The finite mind cannot understand anything, cannot know
anything. Yet there's no finite mind, so there's no one to know anything.
This is a dream world you're in now. You are dreaming the mortal dream,
that you are a man, you are a woman, you are a child, you have a job,
you go through certain experiences, things happen to you in your life.
Yet this is not true. This is a lie. In reality, you've never been born,
you do not prevail, and you do not die. There's no one who ever dies,
for there's no one who was ever born.
How can you see yourself this way? By remaining silent.
By not reading so much. By not remembering anything.
You should understand yourself, that you are the one. You are the only
one. There are no others. There is only that which has always been,
and that is you. When you realize you do not have to practice sadhana,
or meditate, or go through spiritual practices with yoga, life becomes
easy, wonderful. There's no striving for anything. There's no trying to
become somebody or something. You are your self. You have always
been your self, the self which is bright and shining, the self which is.
You are that self.
-Robert Adams - The collected works.
' Transmission of Rigpa in Dzogchen '...
Namkhai Norbu said to me in 1986: “rigpa is that changeless awareness, present right now, in which thoughts appear and disappear. Whether thoughts are present or not makes no difference to your awareness in which they are appearing”..
A huge insight and shift occurred which freed the mind from trying to manage, reduce, transform, modify or eliminate all thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions, as though the awareness needed to be free of unwanted thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions. That clear and perfect space of rigpa cognizance suddenly “knew” itself freshly.
How could one “practice” being that in which all thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions appeared, since that was already, always happening? There is an infinitely empty, unchanging, aware space for all thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions and experiences to freely appear and disappear.
It was seen that rigpa awareness was always free and pure, as nothing ever altered it. I zealously spent the next two days trying to share this insight with everybody at the retreat. It was a huge shift in seeing.
An even deeper experience of rigpa occurred when engaging in Douglas Harding’s “Headless Way”.
The whole point is that it’s not whether thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions or negative mind states were present or not; rather its about being “that changeless, stationary emptiness” which is hosting thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions or minds states whether occurring or not. It’s like being a stable movie screen in a theater which never changes no matter what movies appear upon it, yet without the movie screen, movies have nowhere to appear.
However, the identity-making aspect of subconscious mental activity will generate a new delusion of egoic identity such like “oh, I see... ‘I am’ this unchanging empty space of awareness”. But that whole conceptual construct of believing oneself to be this “empty space of awareness”, is itself arising in the authentic identity-less hosting space of empty cognizance.
“If thoughts (emotions, sensations and perceptions) arise, or if no thoughts (emotions, sensations and perceptions) arise, that which remains equally present in either condition, is the pure presence of rigpa.”
- Garab Dorje
' Who does not Trust '...
The very highest is barely known.
Then comes that which people know and love,
Then that which is feared,
Then that which is despised.
Who does not trust enough will not be trusted.
When actions are performed
Without unnecessary speech,
People say, "We did it!"
- Lao-tzu
Tao Te Ching
Translation by Gia-fu Feng and Jane English
Vintage Books Edition, September 1989
' Stillness '...
Realization is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already
there.
All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought 'I
have not realized'.
Stillness or peace is realization.
There is no moment
when the Self is not.
So long as there is doubt or the feeling
of non-realization, the attempt should be made to rid oneself
of these thoughts.
They are due to the identification of the
Self with the not-Self.
When the not-Self disappears, the
Self alone remains.
To make room, it is enough that objects
be removed.
Room is not brought in from elsewhere.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi
' This Miracle '...
The beginning and end
of spiritual practice
is to rest in the heart.
How a dogwood blossom opens
simply can't be comprehended.
How the moon floats
in the womb of the pond
is beyond the mind.
Empty your head of thoughts,
fill your chest with love.
There is no other way
to get through this miracle.
-Fred LaMotte
' Between '...
Lost in the wilderness between
true awareness and the senses,
I suddenly woke inside myself
like a lotus opening
in waterweeds.
- Lalla
14th Century North Indian mystic
From "Naked Song"
Versions by Coleman Barks
Maypop 1992
' Pulling You Home '...
"At a certain point it is unnatural to believe your thoughts,
to feel the weight,
the gravity of concepts,
it gets more heavy,
it gets more dense,
because the Silence,
the Grace,
is pulling you home."
-Jac O'Keeffe
' Glimpses of Reality '...
Those who have followed the Quest in previous lives will generally receive a glimpse at least twice during the present one.
They will receive it in early life during their teens or around the threshold of adult life.
This will inspire them to seek anew.
They will receive it again in late life during the closing years of the reincarnation.
This will be bestowed as a Grace of the Overself.
Those aspirants who bemoan the loss of their early glimpse should remind themselves, in hours of depression, that it will recur before they leave the body.
In addition to those glimpses which attend the opening and closing years of a lifetime, a number of others may be had during the intervening period as a direct consequence and reward of the efforts, disciplines, aspirations, and self-denials practised in that time.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 4: Introduction To Mystical Glimpses > # 48
-- Perspectives > Chapter 22: Inspiration and the Overself > # 59 Paul Brunton
' The Original Whim '...
"Everything in the universe is, and from the beginning has been, a materialization of the divine Original Whim working out irrevocably without default, deflection or defeat.
It is the unfolding upon the screen of consciousness of the film of creation, sequence after sequence, according to the pattern that issued from the Original Whim.
However, when God as God-Man plays the role of Audience He can alter or erase at His avataric whim any thing or happening which was destined from the Original Whim.
But the very arising of the avataric whim was inherent in the Original Whim."
-Meher Baba
"The Working of the Avatar"
The Everything and the Nothing. 63
Beacon Hill, Australia: Meher House Publications, 1963. p. 106
' Transcendental Understanding '...
The transcendental understanding of which the sages speak
cannot be transferred or transmitted.
It must happen in the
effortless silence of the phenomenal void,
and there is no way
to get it through exertion or effort.
- Ramesh S. Balsekar
A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' How To Be A Buddha '...
Let there be a silent understanding and no more.
Away with all thinking and explaining.
Then we may say that the Way of Words has been cut off and movements of the mind eliminated.
This Mind is the pure Buddha-Source inherent in all men.
All wriggling beings possessed of sentient life and all the Buddhas and Boddhisattvas are of this one substance and do not differ.
Differences arise from wrong-thinking only and lead to the creation of all kinds of karma.
All the visible universe is the Buddha; so are all sounds; hold fast to one principle and all the others are Identical.
On seeing one thing, you see ALL.
On perceiving any individual's mind, you are perceiving ALL Mind.
Obtain a glimpse of one way and ALL ways are embraced in your vision, for there is nowhere at all which is devoid of the Way.
When your glance falls upon a grain of dust, what you see is identical with all the vast world systems with their great rivers and mighty hills.
To gaze upon a drop of water is to behold the nature of all the waters of the universe.
Only come to know the nature of your own Mind, in which there is no self and no other, and you will in fact be a Buddha."
-Huang Po
' No-one Awakens '...
There is no person that becomes enlightened.
No-one awakens.
Awakening
is the absence of the illusion of individuality.
-Tony Parsons
' Direct Perception '...
Awareness alone is whatever it turns it's attention to, seems to exist at the time: only that.
If to Void then there is nothing else.
If to world, then world assumes reality..
What is it that is aware?
The thought of a point of awareness creates, gives reality at the lowest level to ego, and at the highest to Higher Self but when the thought itself is dropped there is only the One Existence, Being, in the divine Emptiness.
It is therefore the Source of all life, intelligence, form.
The idea held becomes direct experience for the personality, the awareness becomes direct perception.
-- Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2: Our Relation To the Absolute > # 129
-- Perspectives > Chapter 28: The Alone > # 35 Paul Brunton
' Authentic Self-illumination '...
Fortunately,
Truth is already shining in Its own light
right within.
Its silent speech proclaims unceasingly,
I am.
This is the clue.
Those who have already experienced authentic Self-illumination
know directly that they are neither the body nor the mind.
They know that they are transcendental Consciousness
and Peace Absolute.
This experience is open to all.
The Light of Pure Consciousness is eternally shining in us.
The greatest obstruction is clinging to the ego position
and ego purposes.
In transcending the ego
there is first the recognition of the need to do so.
Egolessness equals Enlightenment-Emancipation-Truth-I AM.
-The above quotes by Srimati Margaret Coble
are from the book Self Abidance, Second Abridged Edition
' Perfect Longing for Source '...
"A monk once said to Abba Philemon:
"I am very conscious of now my mind constantly wanders all over the place,
drifting after things that are not good for it.
What can I do, father, to be delivered?"
And he hesitated a little while and then replied:
"This is a remnant of the obsessions your external life inflicts on you.
It still troubles you because you have not yet reached the heights of perfect longing for God.
The longing for the experience of God has not fallen on you like fire."
-Abba Philemon
in John Anthony McGuckin, Tr.
The Book of Mystical Chapters: Meditations on the Soul's Ascent
Boston: Shambhala, 2002, pp. 16-17
' Enlightenment '...
Repose in this condition of vast emptiness is accompanied by intense and vivid happiness.
He knows that he is with the living God.
He understands that he has come as close to God as it is possible for a human being on earth to do and yet remain human and alive.
But he knows and understands all this not by the movement of ideas--for there are none here--but by a feeling which captures his whole being.
But it is during this final experience of the Void, when he passes beyond all relativity, that he experiences Mind to be the only reality, the only enduring existence, and that all else is but a shadow.
Entry into this stage is therefore a critical point for every aspirant.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 8:
The Void As Contemplative Experience > # 32 Paul Brunton
' The Dreamer '...
It is more than 'Dreaming',
Love is Awakening As Love..
It is that simple and still not understood..
The 'Dreamer' is the 'Ego'..
It has always been a Dream..
You are Consciousness..
You are the 'Creator of Dreams ..
You Are The Dreamer..
Stop Dreaming and return to Reality..
This is called 'Awakening' or 'Enlightenment'..
You, as separate self, surrender All..
This is upon a mental altar of surrender..
Meditation is the First Step..
Leaving the body is next..
The more that you give away is the most freedom, you will possess..
This is called Love...
-thomas
' Beyond Ideas '...
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there lies a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense.
- Rumi
' Tao '...
"In carrying water and chopping wood--there is the wonderful Tao."
This ancient Chinese sentence is a subtle, clever way of saying that not only in meditation is the glimpse to be sought, but also in the world's work and life it is to be found and kept.
Such is the ultimate state, this emptiness of mind amid activity of body.
It is possible only by knowledge, the unforgettable recognition and understanding that within this emptiness lies Tao.
-- Notebooks Category 22: Inspiration and the Overself > Chapter 8:
Glimpses and Permanent Illumination > # 84 Paul Brunton
' Falling into Grace '...
"There was a great Zen master named Dogen who lived hundreds of years ago, and one of his definitions of enlightenment was 'intimacy with the ten thousand things.' Of course, in the context of his teaching, the 'ten thousand things' refers to everything.
So when we open to this space of unknowing, we start to feel a literal intimacy with every part of our experience. The sense of distance starts to drop away, and arising within that field of unknowing is a sense of presence.
It's very subtle thing. We begin to touch upon something without boundaries, without walls, without definitions, without borders. We're touching upon something that's immensely vast.
...
By allowing yourself to viscerally and emotionally connect with this open expanse of being, it's possible that you will see that this open space of unknowing, this pure field of awareness, is actually what you are at the most essential level.
It's the part of you that has always existed and that never changes.
Everything that occurs comes to be within this field of awareness and pure being.
If you allow yourself to feel it, to sense it, you'll see that this deep field of unknowing has been with you all along, that there's literally not any moment, ever in your life, where it was absent."
- Adyashanti
' Look into your Heart '...
Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.
- Carl Jung,
' The Unchanging Self '...
All appearances are impermanent and can therefore
be stripped away, whereas your true Self as pure
awareness is timelessly present and unchanging.
You can keep removing, sweeping aside, discarding
appearances until nothing is left to remove and even
the very concept of removing itself disappears.
Finally even the concept of a 'remover' gets dissolved
and one comes to see That which is beyond all notions
remains timelessly present.
That, the unchanging
awareness, is your Self.
This is the Truth.
- Mooji
' The Nondualist World '...
While the dualistic division of subject/object (self and non-self) is practised, there is ordinary physical sense-experience.
But when consciousness is detached from this division, the real nondualist world as it is, and not as it is received by ordinary minds, reveals itself.
(This can be done by entering the gap between two thoughts.)
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 8:
The Void As Contemplative Experience > # 164 Paul Brunton
' You Are Divine '...
You are Divine. It’s time to start being that; quit pretending your not. . . .
You are required right now. There is an amazing shift in consciousness and you are needed. Consciousness has been silently inviting you into your bigness.
Throw off all your smallness and all your veils.
Look at someone like Adyashanti - it’s clear he’s thrown off all his smallness, and look at Eckhart - you are the same Being.
And Ramana, and Buddha and Mohammed and Moses. You continue to pretend and go on with the suffering because of that, and you fail yourself.
Enough already! Have you had enough of smallness yet? It’s time now. I know you’re gods and you have all the freedom that gods have, but Enough Already.
Stillness is saying Enough Already. Can you feel it? Let’s all just unveil ourselves.
The gifts you’ve been given are not to be squandered, but to be shared.
-Pamela Wilson
' Life's Meaning '...
It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere
that it begins to have meaning.
- P.D. Ouspensky
' The Awake Silence '...
"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."
"All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are."
-Adyashanti
' The Ashtavakra Samhita '...
He must not let the Ashtavakra Samhita be misunderstood.
It does not preach mystic idleness and indifference.
The world is there for both sage and student, and both must work and serve--the difference being mental only.
Illusionism is not the doctrine except as an intermediate stage towards truth, which is higher.
One must participate in God's work by assisting evolution and redeeming the world, not squat idly in peace alone.
-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity >
Chapter 1: The Cosmos of Change > # 57 Paul Brunton
' The Test of Compassion '...
Adopting an attitude of universal responsibility is essentially a personal matter.
The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
' An Unfinished Painting '...
I am divinity and I am a fucking mess.
I am God and I am a weird, original, flawed, unfinished painting of a “human being”.
I have no limits, and so I limit myself in ingenious ways.
I play with boundaries and edges, multiplicity and Oneness, form and the formless.
I love dancing in the in-between, bridging gaps, holding on and letting go, grabbing and releasing, coming closer and moving away, only to come closer again.
All movements are dear to me.
I have no bias, no prejudice.
I love the opening and the closing too, the space and the darkness.
I am perfection, and I love making the most ridiculous mistakes.
I learn from it all, delight in it all.
I am complete and I love the erotic ache of the unfinished and the unresolved too.
You will never capture me, yet I am always present; I dance peacefully, restlessly, on the edge where the world comes into form.
Will you join me here, my love?
- Jeff Foster
' Ripe for Grace '...
When a man has come to the end of his tether,
dry of all hope for accomplishment of his aim by self-effort,
he is ripe for the Grace-invoking effort of the Short Path.
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 4:
The Changeover To the Short Path > # 166 Paul Brunton
' Join in the Dance '...
When you truly realize that this life and
living is an absurdity, then you join in the
dance.
You take part in this absurdity.
The body-mind organism continues to live
In the world, but without any sense of
personal doership.
`-"A Net of Jewels"
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Advaita Press, 1996
' The ego wants attention '...
"The ego thinks it gains something by getting attention—it wants to validate itself.
It wants to be visible because then it feels real, so it looks for attention to make itself experience visibility.
In this way ego has created a story, and the attention it receives enables the idea that you are that ego, that you are the one seeking attention.
Then mistaken identity happens!
See how this game works?"
-Jac O'Keeffe
' The Long and Short Paths '...
Contradictions between the two Paths:
one is the ego and the other the Overself without ego.
The Short Path is without plane, intuitive, like Sudden Enlightenment.
On the Long Path they are looking step by step to get out of the darkness of their ignorance.
The next important point: on the Long Path many students want experiences--mystical, occult, psychical ones.
It is the ego wanting them and the satisfaction of progressing.
The ego feels important.
In the Short Path there is no desire for inner experiences of any kind.
When you are already in the Real, there is no desire any more.
For experiences come and go, but the Real does not.
Now you see why the popular religions are only attempts to get people to make a beginning to find God, but are not able to go too far and too quickly.
For those who are more developed and less bound to attachments, the teacher gives the Short Path.
In the teachings of Jesus and Buddha we find both Paths.
People have different stages of evolution and can therefore take what suits them.
The teacher gives them what they understand from their level of understanding.
-Paul Brunton
Something to Think About '...
In life, only mad people ask for perfection. The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.
Change your basic philosophy of that of an achiever. Relax into your being. Don’t have any ideals, don’t try to make something out of yourself, don’t try to improve upon God. You are perfect as you are. With all your imperfections you are perfect. If you are imperfect, you are perfectly imperfect — but perfection is there. Once this is understood, where is the hurry? Where is the worry? You have already slowed down. And then it is a morning walk with no destination, going nowhere. You can enjoy each tree and each sunray and each bird and each person that passes by.
Perfectionism is a neurosis. It is an illness. And the more you try to become perfect, the more frustrated you will become. The goal of perfection has led the whole of humanity towards madness; the earth has almost become a madhouse. I don’t teach perfection. What do I teach? I teach wholeness, not perfection. Be whole; be total; but don’t think about perfection.
A person remains incomplete unless he becomes enlightened. You cannot expect perfection from a person before enlightenment, but you can expect perfection in a skill. You cannot expect perfection in the being, but in the doing it can be expected, there is no problem about it. An archer can hit the target without ever missing it — and may not be in it. He has learned the technique, he has become a mechanism, a robot. It is simply done by the head and the hand.
Meditation has nothing to do with perfectionism, but perfection comes as a by-product. As you become silent it follows you, wherever you go it is there — and it is not something dead, hanging around you. It is growing. That is the most miraculous thing about it, because we always think of perfection as the dead end.
Why this obsession with perfection? Then you will be tense, anxious, nervous, always uneasy, troubled, in conflict. The English word ‘agony’ comes from a root which means: to be in conflict. To be constantly wrestling with oneself — that is the meaning of agony. You will be in agony if you are not at ease with yourself. Don’t demand the impossible, be natural, at ease, loving yourself, loving others. And remember, a person who cannot love himself because he goes on condemning, cannot love anybody else either. A perfectionist is not only a perfectionist about himself, he is about others also. A man who is hard on himself is bound to be hard on others. His demands are impossible.
If you love the woman, you love the woman with all her limitations, with all her imperfections; she loves you with all your imperfections and limitations. But this is what — particularly to the Indian mind — is very significant: perfection. And to demand perfection is a kind of neurosis. It will drive the other neurotic, and as far as you are concerned, you are already neurotic. If you ask perfection in any human being you will create trouble for yourself and for the other, and your life will be nothing but misery. The real man of understanding and intelligence accepts the imperfections of the other and still loves. Love is great enough; it can even love people who have no character, people who are not pure according to your ideas, people who sometimes go astray, people who sometimes commit small sins. Love is big enough to accept all this and to transform it too.
A perfectionist is neurotic. And not only is he neurotic, he creates neurotic trends around him. So don’t be a perfectionist, and if somebody is a perfectionist around you escape away from him as fast as you can before he pollutes your mind. All perfectionism is a sort of deep ego trip. Just to think of yourself in terms of ideals and perfection is nothing but to decorate your ego to its uttermost. A humble person accepts that life is not perfect. A humble person, a really religious person, accepts that we are limited, that there are limitations.
wants to be the first, ego wants to put everybody below itself; hence it takes itself seriously. Hence it is perfectionist: it demands perfection, which is impossible. Nobody is perfect; nobody can exist for a single moment if he is perfect. Imperfection is the way of life, because it is possible to grow only if you are imperfect. If you are perfect there is no more growth, no more evolution. If you are perfect you are stuck. Perfection means death; imperfection means flow, growth, movement, dynamism. The ego demands perfection of oneself and of others too.
It asks for the impossible, and because the impossible cannot be achieved it can go on living. It is not happy with the ordinary; it wants the extraordinary, and life consists only of the ordinary. But the ordinary is beautiful, the ordinary is exquisite. There is no need of anything extraordinary. The ordinary life is sacred, but the ego condemns it as mundane. It demands extraordinary life. Hence all the religions go on inventing stories about their founders which are all untrue: Moses separating the sea, Jesus walking on the water… all these stories are inventions, lies, created by the followers just to prove that their master is extraordinary; he is not an ordinary human being.
Buddha says: Meditation is enough to solve your problems, but something is missing in it — compassion. If compassion is also there, then you can help others solve their problems. He says: Meditation is pure gold; it has a perfection of its own. But if there is compassion then the gold has a fragrance too — then a higher perfection, then a new kind of perfection, gold with fragrance. Gold is enough unto itself — very valuable — but with compassion, meditation has a fragrance.
Meditation makes one perfect — not a perfectionist, remember. A perfectionist is a neurotic. Meditation makes you perfect, but not a perfectionist. Perfection comes just like a shadow to meditation: you need not bother about it, you need not care about it. it is simply there, it will follow you. The perfectionist has an idea of a goal ahead of him and the meditator has no idea of perfection; perfection follows him from the beyond like a shadow. That is the difference between a perfectionist and a perfect man. Perfection is behind the perfect man and ahead of the perfectionist. Because it is ahead it drives him nuts. he is trying to become it, he is sacrificing his present for the future and once you become accustomed of sacrificing your present for the future your whole life will be ruined; not only this but your future lives will be ruined.
Meditation is not a static thing. It is a balance. You will have to attain it again and again and again. You will become more and more capable of attaining it, but it is not going to remain forever, like a possession in your hands. It has to be claimed each moment — only then is it yours. You cannot rest, you cannot say, ‘I have meditated and I have realised that now there is no need for me to do anything more. I can rest.’ Life does not believe in rest; it is a constant movement from perfection to more perfection. Listen to me: from perfection to more perfection. It is never imperfect, it is always perfect, but always more perfection is possible.
Perfection is a goal somewhere in the future, totality is an experience herenow. Totality is not a goal, it is a style of life. If you can get into any act with your whole heart, you are total. Totality brings wholeness and totality brings health and totality brings sanity. The perfectionist completely forgets about totality. He has some idea how he should be, and obviously time will be needed to reach that idea. It can’t happen now — tomorrow, day after tomorrow, this life, maybe next life… so life has to be postponed.
The ego remains imperfect and goes on demanding perfection. My whole message is to see the truth, to see the hell that ego creates in the name: of perfection, uniqueness — and to let it drop. Then there is a tremendous beauty — no ego, no self, just a deep emptiness. And out of deep emptiness is creativity, out of that nothingness arises bliss, SATCHITANANDA, truth. Being, bliss, all arise out of that absolute purity. When the ego is not, you are a virgin. Christ was born out of a virgin; your nothingness is that Mother Virgin, Mother Mary.
The moment you desire something you are saying that “I am wiser than the whole.” You are saying that “You don’t know what has to be done and I have come to advise you.” You are telling the whole that “The way things are is not right: they should be according to me.” Prayer is just the opposite of desire. Prayer means, “The way things are is absolutely perfect, they are as they should be. Hence, I have nothing except a deep gratitude.” Real prayer is bowing to existence in tremendous thankfulness because whatsoever is, the way it is, is the most perfect way it can ever be. A prayerful heart knows that the universe is perfect each moment; it is moving from perfection to more perfection. The world is not moving from imperfection to perfection, remember: it is moving from perfection to more perfection. That’s the understanding of the prayerful heart. But we are full of desires.
You are human, in a certain time, in a certain space, with certain limitations. Accept those limitations. Perfectionists are always on the brink of madness. They are obsessed people — whatsoever they do is not good enough. And there is no way to do something perfectly — perfection is not humanly possible. In fact, imperfect is the only way to be. So what do I teach you here? I don’t teach you perfection, I teach you wholeness. That is a totally different thing. Be whole.
Don’t bother about perfection. When I say be whole, I mean be real, be here; whatsoever you do, do it totally. You will be imperfect but your imperfection will be full of beauty, it will be full of your totality. Never try to be perfect otherwise you will create much anxiety. So many troubles are there already; don’t create more troubles for yourself.
I don’t teach perfection. Perfection simply creates neurosis in people.
Perfectionists are neurotics; they drive themselves crazy in trying to be perfect, because they are trying to do the impossible. I teach totality; I teach wholeness, not perfection. Be total in whatsoever you are doing. Be total. If you are angry, then be totally angry. If you are in love, then be totally in love. If you are sad, then be totally sad. Don’t be halfhearted in anything. That is a totally different approach towards life.
The path of Buddha is of total surrender: total surrender to the dhamma, to tao, to the universal law, to God. These are different names for the same phenomenon. We are living in a cosmos, not in a chaos. Everything is as perfect as it can be; nothing can be improved upon. The very idea of trying to improve upon things is sheer stupidity. Those who have known, they have known the absolute perfection of existence. Then what is left? To dissolve in the whole and celebrate!
' Gender '...
Source has no division called Gender..
Consciousness existed before Light was Formed..
And yet, when the ego is surrendered,
We exist as Light..
We never desire to leave this Light and Love..
And yet, We must find the Consciousness that said;
" Let there be Light "..
-thomas
' The Fruit of Silence '...
"The fruit of Silence is Prayer.
The fruit of Prayer is Faith.
The fruit of Faith is Love.
The fruit of Love is Service.
The fruit of Service is Peace."
-Mother Teresa
on her "business card"
in Navin Chawla
Mother Teresa: The Authorized Biography
' A Wrong Idea '...
In this moment - for you, right now, - there is a clear light of awareness in which everything is appearing.
It is what you are.
You are that!
It is free, totally unobscured, full and complete.
Christ said, "I am the light of the world."
You, as that awareness, can say the same thing.
Separation from that is a total illusion.
It never happened, except in imagination.
It is based on a `me' that never existed.
It is just a wrong idea.
- John Wheeler
' The Eternal Birth '...
"We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has
borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity...
But if it takes not place in me,
what avails it? Everything lies in this,
that it should take place in me."
- Meister Eckhart
' Joy and Sorrow '...
Joy and sorrow both are for each other. If it were not for joy, sorrow could not be; and if it were not for sorrow, joy could not be experienced.
Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan
Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:
Life is differentiated by the pairs of opposites.
If there was no pain one would not enjoy the experience of joy. It is pain which helps one to experience joy. Everything is distinguished by its opposite. The one who feels pain deeply is more capable of experiencing joy. And personally, if you were to ask me about pain, I should say that if there was no pain life would be most uninteresting to me. For it is by pain the heart is penetrated, and the sensation of pain is deeper joy. Without pain the great musicians and poets and dreamers and thinkers would not have reached that stage which they reached and from which moved the world. If they always had joy, they would not have touched the depths of life.
There is the sun and there is the moon, there is man and woman, there is night and there is day. The colors are distinguished by their variety and so are the forms. Therefore to distinguish anything there must be its opposite; where there is no opposite we cannot distinguish. There must be health in order to distinguish illness; if there were no health and only illness then it would not have been (distinguished as) illness. ... Life is a puzzle of duality. The pairs of opposites keep us in an illusion and make us think, 'This is this, and that is that'. At the same time by throwing a greater light upon things we shall find in the end that they are quite different from what we had thought.
Seeing the nature and character of life the Sufi says that it is not very important to distinguish between two opposites. What is most important is to recognize that One which is hiding behind it all. Naturally after realizing life the Sufi climbs the ladder which leads him to unity, to the idea of unity which comes through the synthesis of life, by seeing One in all things, in all beings.
' To Be Fully Alive '...
To be fully alive,
fully human,
and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
- Pema Chodron
' If the Balloon Burst '...
If there is an infinite ocean that is everything and nothing,
and somewhere within this ocean there was an apparent balloon,
also full of everything and nothing..
what would be left if one day the balloon burst?
-Jim Newman on Non-Duality
' Saint Francis of Assisi '...
"Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
And where there is sadness, joy.
Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
-Saint Francis of Assisi
' Yoga and self-analysis '...
Psychoanalysis,
which is essential to understand
the structure of the mind,
is part of Yoga itself.
Yoga is the highest kind of self-analysis.
- Swami Krishnananda
Facets of Spirituality
Complied by S. Bhagyalakshmi
Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1986
' Unconditional Openness '...
“The place of our life is always the fullness of the present moment. Awakening isn’t about moving to a different place; it’s about a different sense of the same place….
“The wonderful thing about this process is that it generally moves to love. Not the personal love that most people think of; instead, it’s an unconditional openness to life…
“This is a complete opening to the unformed, the undirected, the uncontrolled, the unexpected, and the unpredictable. This openness is often called love...This love is not some cold, intellectual understanding; it’s an openness of heart...a truly sensitive vulnerability to what is.”
--Darryl Bailey, three quotes from his wonderfully clear books:
' Having Peace '...
"Ask not that events should happen as you will,
but let your will be that events should happen as they do,
and you shall have peace."
-Epictetus
Enchiridion
in Epictetus: The Discourses and Manual [Enchiridion], Together With Fragments of His Writings
Translated by P. E. Matheson
Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1916, p. 470, at sacred-texts.com
' Forget the mind '...
Don’t pay too much attention to the mind.
It may be
throbbing with identity but this is observed as a
phenomenon arising inside the great awareness.
Now it may say, ‘I cannot do this or that thing’ or ‘this
is not for me,’ but these are mere thoughts appearing
in the great vastness.
Know this vastness to be your
own unchanging Self.
- Mooji
' Realization '...
In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others.
In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone.
True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization..
Eckhart Tolle
' Nondual Truth '...
The expression used by some Buddhists,
"the Undivided Mind,"
has the same meaning as "the Oneness with all things"
used by many mystics--that is,
a permanent knowledge got in a single glimpse,
a great nondual truth.
-- Notebooks Category 25: World-Mind in Individual Mind > Chapter 2:
Enlightenment Which Stays > # 118 Paul Brunton
' A Palpitating Aliveness '...
“In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world,
from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe.
Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything,
there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.”
--Toni Packer, from The Light of Discovery
' We Are That '...
We are neither different nor separate from Consciousness, and for that very reason we cannot 'apprehend' it.
Nor can we 'integrate' with it because we have never been other than it.
Consciousness can never be understood in relative terms.
Therefore, there is nothing to be 'done' about it.
All is Consciousness and we are That.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
' The Paradox '...
It comes to this paradox--
that the farther they travel on the path of ego-effort,
the farther they move from their goal,
and the less they try to approach their Source the closer they come to it!
-- Notebooks Category 23: Advanced Contemplation > Chapter 2:
Pitfalls and Limitations > # 102 Paul Brunton
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