Silent Awareness

...portal!

2009-09-09T12:40:00.003+04:30

All you read here is NOT the truth!

Umi

2008-09-09T10:11:00.003+04:30

In writing these words... I am only indicating, touching, giving a taste, sharing, a glimpse of This, because the Truth cannot be written about. Love cannot be written about. Anything said about the truth, about love is not the Truth, is not Love. Anything said about the Truth puts the Truth in a box. Anything said about Love puts Love in a box. Love and Truth cannot be confined by words. The love that is talked about is not Love. So take in these words without thinking, without understanding. Feel and absorb. Because this is only a menu, and you will never satisfy your hunger by eating the menu. The banquet is here. The banquet is ready for you. Simply be available. Feel and be open to the unknowable. Because Love is all. Love is Who You Are. Love has no conditions.

2008-08-08T08:08:00.002+04:30

Staying consciously connected to the flow of life is both enjoyable and transformative.

Spiritual Growth

2008-06-27T09:40:00.010+04:30

Understanding the message in this book will benefit you tremendously. It can help you avoid most of the traps for your ego. Transcending unconscious, irrational and limiting beliefs opens you to self-enquiry. Understanding that surrender is the only real solution brings a divine gracefulness to your life.
Yet all of this is secondary to meditation: sitting silently doing nothing is the most effective method of spiritual growth. By remaining unoccupied and alert to your inner world, many miracles happen. You become aware of the subtle energies in the depth of your being. You contact, expose and heal the old wounds of early life and past lives. You find freedom from the thought processes that limit your life energy, and eventually you discover what you really are: silent blissful awareness, beyond all trace of subtle thought.

With energetic support of a living buddha, your spiritual growth is significantly intensified and accelerated.
This is the main reason why buddhas will always be needed. Surrender is only to the One, but without the energetic support of a living buddha the journey is more difficult and takes much longer.
Teachers in the first stage of enlightenment are actually bodhisattvas; they do not have the full capacity to absorb your negativity and turn it into nectar. But they can assist you in many ways. Bodhisattvas have soft sweet energy and they are closer to you than buddhas.

The word buddha refers to both second stage and fully enlightened people from all traditions. They often share primarily with silent meditation and love. Awareness and acceptance are usually their main teachings.
There are about seventy buddhas in the second stage of enlightenment who are very helpful to meditators. They are mostly male and have powerful third eyes. They can work effectively using silent awareness.
Osho was fully enlightened but didn't sit silently with his people much. He always said they weren't ready. He talked more about silence than almost anyone and used his energy to share his vision of Zorba the Buddha.

Now the moment of truth is upon us; the time for silent meditation has arrived. Prepare yourself to face the light by any method that suits you. Yoga, martial arts, therapy, rebirthing and many new-age practices are perfect. Dance, sing and celebrate. Meet life with an open heart. Make spiritual growth your priority and allow the flow of life to carry you deeper and deeper inside with as few unverified beliefs as possible. Don't take spiritual growth too seriously.

Beloveds, reading and understanding this book helps tremendously; it puts you on solid ground. Yet for most seekers of truth, only silent surrender in the divine light of consciousness brings freedom.
When you are ready for rapid spiritual growth, find an enlightened friend to meditate with. Buddhas and bodhisattvas are channels for divine light. Sitting silently with them in meditation helps tremendously; they have the capacity to absorb your negativity and transform it into light and love.

An excerpt from Unity - The Dawn of Conscious Civilization by Maitreya Ishwara

Osho

2008-06-23T10:21:00.002+04:30

You are too full of gibberish, you know too much. Because of your borrowed knowledge and too many words moving inside you, you cannot see the wordless beauty that can onlybe experienced in silence.

Tasting Brownies ~Kip

2008-06-20T09:45:00.002+04:30

To say it in a nutshell, you are identified with your thoughts and this separate sense of I.
That is what keeps you from experiencing unconditional peace.
So you must learn to experience yourself beyond this identification with thinking.
Therefore, the more teachings you read, the greater the chance you will be more and more caught up in thought.
That is why I recommend to pick a practice that helps you get out of your identification with thinking and stick to it.
For spirituality is not about acquiring knowledge, it is about going beyond your identification with knowledge and experiencing yourself as you truly are in this moment.
You have to meditate to experience meditation.
You can read all the recipes in the world about how to make brownies but unless you start baking, you will never get to taste one.

2008-06-06T09:26:00.000+04:30

The beauty of truth is that truth never insists.

Anadi

2008-06-03T08:08:00.000+04:30

The way you experience yourself is your only reality. It is precisely this experience of yourself we are deepening. If you are in a state of forgetfulness, completely identified with the mind, you don't really exist. The way you experience yourself is just a mess. There is nothing stable inside, nothing you can rely upon. There is just the fluctuation of thoughts, emotions and energy. This type of existing is called suffering. You are not suffering because of your desires or attachments. The primal reason you are suffering is because of the way you experience yourself, your own isness.

Rumi

2008-05-29T09:24:00.001+04:30

Pay attention to the subtileness
that are not in words
comprehend what can not be
captured by understanding

Maitreya Ishwara

2008-05-23T08:32:00.001+04:30

You are addicted to dreams of the future and memories of the past. The primary illusion is identification with your mind as 'me'.
Immersion in the fire of Now burns away your obsession with these illusions of the mind.

UG

2008-05-21T12:40:00.000+04:30

You eat not food but ideas. What you wear are not clothes, but labels and names.

Remember...

2008-05-19T08:04:00.000+04:30

Be aware in each moment to be with what is.

2008-05-18T06:22:00.000+04:30

People who are involuntarily exposed to information that increases dissonance are likely to discount that information, either by ignoring it, misinterpreting it, or denying it.

2008-05-16T06:19:00.002+04:30

Consciously or unconsciously we refuse to see... because we do not really want to let go of our problems; for what would we be without them?

Wei Wu Wei

2008-05-15T03:23:00.004+04:30

Whatever you may be, you are being 'lived.' You are not travelling, as you think: you are being 'travelled.'
Remember: you are in a train. Stop trying to carry your baggage yourself! It will come along with you anyhow.

2008-05-11T11:55:00.001+04:30

Are you ready to lose your world?

Because true awakening will not fit into the world as you imagine it or the self you imagine yourself to be. Reality is not something that you integrate into your personal view of things. Reality is life without your distorting stories, ideas and beliefs. It is perfect unity free of all reference points, with nowhere to stand and nothing to grab hold of. It has never been spoken, never been written, never been imagined. It is not hidden, but in plain view. Cease to cherish opinions and it stands before your very eyes. —Adyashanti

Now

2008-05-05T07:23:00.001+04:30

In the softness of 'now', there is a vast presence, a place where sound caresses and colors and forms touch. To sink into this presence is to expand into truth. —Umi

2008-05-04T07:46:00.004+04:30

The task of any useful spiritual practice is therefore to dismantle cherishing the thoughts, opinions and ideas that make up the false self, theself that is seeking. This is the true task of both meditation and inquiry. Through meditation, we can come to see that the only thing that makes ussuffer is our own mind. Sitting quietly reveals the mind to be nothing but conditioned thinking spontaneously arising within awareness. —Adyashanti

2008-05-01T10:35:00.000+04:30

A spoon cannot taste of the food it carries.
Likewise, a foolish man
cannot understand the wise man's wisdom
even if he associates
with a sage. –Gautama

Maitreya Ishwara

2008-04-28T06:20:00.002+04:30

Every soul is an expression of divine consciousness. The soul's individuality provides the distinctions required for the drama of life to unfold; the appearance of separation is a prerequisite for all interaction in the dance of life.

We are multidimensional beings with separate bodies, minds and souls. At the level of consciousness, however, we are all part of the eternal One, God-the-beyond.
This underlying oneness is revealed more and more as we grow slowly but inexorably in awareness and love. With the flowering of enlightenment, oneness becomes your everyday experience of divine life - in the ecstasy of freedom from yourself.
The purpose of life after enlightenment is to enjoy the wonder of oneness, love and bliss - and to be helpful to friends who are still suffering.

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

2008-04-19T09:55:00.002+04:30

A reminder to make sure you read this book -- at least once.
He says it all, very clearly and in a very simple and practical way.
Especially in the last chapter.

THE THREE MODALITIES OF AWAKENED DOING:
Acceptance; Enjoyment; Enthusiasm.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny. And how you do what you do is determined by your state of consciousness.

2008-04-12T12:51:00.003+04:30

Meditation is there, meditator is not.
It can happen to everybody.
But nobody can do it.

2008-04-04T10:11:00.000+04:30

There's a great space in which this moment takes place.
There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts

2008-04-01T11:49:00.003+04:30

When people talk about being in the here and now, it is a more profound experience than simply being aware of the content of the experience of the moment. It begins with that awareness because the content of the moment is what is arising now. So, we are aware of the content of the moment—the physical attributes, the feelings, and the thoughts that are arising in the moment. But the more we are attuned to what is arising in the moment, the more time slows down as we become more present to the moment. And when we become more present to the moment, we begin to recognize the now-ness itself, which turns out to be the presence that is present to the moment.

So, my presence is the now-ness of the moment; they are not separate. It is not that my presence is present in the now of the moment; the presence is the now of the moment. That is how we actually know what presence is. In the practice of being where we are, it becomes clear that to be ourselves, to be real, we need to be in the present moment. We need to attend to the moment, we need to embrace and be completely aware, immediately in touch, with the moment. This immediate in-touchness with the moment is the in-touchness with the now-ness of the moment, which is the same thing as the Being of our presence. —A.H. Almaas

2008-03-30T08:33:00.001+04:30

Because a man identifies himself
with the body/mind
he see a world separate from him.
This wrong identification arises
because he has lost his moorings
and has swerved from
his original state.
He is now advised to
give up all these false ideas,
to trace back his source
and remain as the Self.
In that state,
there are no differences.
No questions will arise. —Ramana Maharshi

2008-03-18T08:08:00.001+03:30

Man leans on his frail opinions
and then wonders why
he always feels
about to fall. —Vernon Howard

2008-03-16T06:06:00.004+03:30

A million people can declare
that wrong is right,
but all will suffer
from the wrongness.

2008-03-13T07:17:00.001+03:30

Anger is resistance.
Fear is resistance to what is.
Upsetness is resistance to something seen or heard.
Depression is resistance to the moment as it is and feel hopeless to control it, and so on. Resistace and control make up the ego.
Accepting something that resists, automatically removes the resistance.

2008-03-11T07:07:00.000+03:30

When we wake up we can live fully, without seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, without re-creating ourselves after we fall apart.

2008-03-10T07:40:00.000+03:30

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer. -Ramana Maharshi

2008-03-06T07:27:00.002+03:30

Effort must be made to eradicate the mental tendencies. Knowledge can only remain unshaken after all the mental tendencies are rooted out. —Ramana Maharshi

2008-03-05T09:09:00.000+03:30

Silence is not something
you attain.

Silence is what you are
when you stop being
involved with noise.

2008-02-25T09:19:00.001+03:30

...what the planet and humanity need most is a shift in consciousness, a spiritual awakening. Without it, we perpetuate the insanity of the past (which we can see most clearly in the history of the 20th century) or, at best, we only treat the symptoms of the disease, not the underlying cause. The disease, of course, is the collective dysfunction of the egoic mind.

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Don't be trapped for the rest of your life within the narrow confines of your personal history and your conditioned personality and allow your life to be transformed from within, through the power of consciousness itself.

—Eckhart Tolle

2008-02-23T09:00:00.004+03:30

In other words, all of my (writings) are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies across the dead page, suffocated signs full of muffled sound and faded glory, signifying absolutely nothing. And it is the nothing, the Mystery, the Emptiness alone that needs to be realized: not known but felt, not thought but breathed, not an object but an atmosphere, not a lesson but a life. —Ken Wilber

Rumi

2008-02-22T09:09:00.000+03:30

Many have waited for years around that door, but tomorrow never comes. The Sufi is the Child of the Present Moment.

2008-02-20T07:37:00.000+03:30

Awareness is the silent and choiceless observation of what is.

2008-02-17T07:10:00.003+03:30

The forms of life are like a reflecting surface. Reality always IS, and in it consciousness manifests as an infinite number of forms.
The entire universe is a manifestation of that conscious intelligence.
When you look around and see the trees, the birds, the animals, and all the other forms of nature, you are consciousness seeing yourself. Enjoy your manifestation as long as it lasts!

2008-02-14T14:12:00.000+03:30

True love is an acceptance of all that is, that has been, that will or even will not be.

Rumi

2008-01-23T06:00:00.000+03:30

Why are you so afraid of silence,
silence is the root of everything.
If you spiral into its void
a hundred voices will thunder messages
you long to hear.

2008-01-19T19:31:00.002+03:30

What you always know experientially is the energy of the moment. This moment of life is who you are right now.
Become more sensitive to this miraculous moment of life happening in you.

Allow the energy of Now to take you where it wants to go.
—Maitreya Ishwara

2008-01-14T09:02:00.000+03:30

Q: "I am engaged in the study of philosophy, sociology and education. I think more mental development is needed before I can dream of self-realization. Am I on the right track?"

Nisargadatta: "To earn a livelihood some specialized knowledge is needed. General knowledge develops the mind, no doubt. But if you are going to spend your life amassing knowledge, you build a wall around yourself. To go beyond the mind, a well-furnished mind is not needed."

Q: "Then what is needed?"

Nisargadatta: "Distrust your mind, and go beyond."

Q: "What shall I find beyond the mind?"

Nisargadatta: "The direct experience of being, knowing and loving."

Nyogen Sensaki

2008-01-13T08:49:00.000+03:30

Some old papers were recently excavated
from the ruins of an ancient city
in Eastern Turkestan.

The scholars say that they contain
the thought of Bodhidharma,
and they have been busy turning out commentaries,
both in the horizontal writing of the West
and the vertical lines of the Orient.

Who knows exactly the thought of the blue-eyed monk?
Some imitate his zazen and gaze at the wall
until the sun goes down.

Hey – you are all wrong.

Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen

2008-01-12T09:57:00.001+03:30

One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it. —Osho

Slipping into Sanity…

2008-01-08T10:36:00.001+03:30

I have given all that I am
as have you.
Whether wearied or exalted
let’s all fall on the floor laughing.

What a colossal blunder
we have all fallen prey to,
slipping into sanity like this.

Our minds are surely gone
when we see everything as God.
Prepare yourself Mother Earth
the inmates are loose
the fools have
broken free of their chains.

—Adyashanti

2008-01-05T09:53:00.000+03:30

The birds have vanished from the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me,
Until only the Mountain remains

~ Li Po

`I do not know'

2008-01-01T11:40:00.000+03:30

Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing.
But I feel that I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all knowledge is ignorance, that `I do not know' is the only true statement the mind can make. ~Nisargadatta

I-I

2007-12-30T07:22:00.000+03:30

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the "I" thought rises. ~Ramana Maharshi

From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes.

Osho

2007-12-12T17:28:00.000+03:30

You are lost in your dreams. Your subjectivity is completely engulfed by the dreams. It is just like when you go to see a movie. You know well that there is nothing on the screen. Still, you get deceived. When the movie starts, the screen is full of pictures. Just a play of light and darkness, just very subtle dream-stuff, and you are lost. You forget yourself. You forget the spectator, you become part of it. Sometimes you cry and weep when some tragedy happens on the screen. You follow all that is happening on the screen. There is nothing happening, but for two hours, you are completely lost. Buddha is one who becomes awakened in a movie house and suddenly shakes himself and understands that there is nothing -- only a wide screen covered with white and black shades; just covered with false, dreamlike stuff. He laughs -- not at what he is seeing; he laughs at himself -- and comes back home.

2007-10-24T11:20:00.000+03:30

The virgin birth of Jesus symbolizes that there is something born within you that does not come about through the union of opposites—something that is not of the dualistic world. When we’ve returned our consciousness to its source, what wakes up is that which is not the body, not the mind, not the personality. Your true nature is before and beyond all pairs of opposites. ~Adyashanti

2007-10-06T11:11:00.000+03:30

There is a secret in the Universe!
There are no problems!

2007-09-21T08:44:00.000+03:30

The only quality that buddha has
is pure awareness
consciousness
witnessing.

Witnessing is a key word for all meditators.
Witness that you are not the body...
Witness that you are not the mind...
Witness that you are only a witness.

Anadi

2007-08-11T19:00:00.000+03:30

Most human beings agreed to live in ignorance with their consciousness lost in the mind. They accepted to live in forgetfulness. But with this agreement, they have died.
A person who is not free from the mind is a ghost and not a being. Freedom from the mind is your dignity as the divine being, which you are. A being has to be born. It is not born from another, it is born from within. When your are born in the body, it means that the body becomes pregnant with the Soul. The Soul is not released until you give birth to her. One day she will be born.

Becoming Human

2007-08-08T11:00:00.000+03:30

Once a man came to me and spoke for hours about
“His great visions of God” he felt he was having.

He asked me for confirmation, saying,
“Are these wondrous dreams true?”

I replied, “How many goats do you have?”

He looked surprised and said,
“I am speaking of sublime visions
And you ask
About goats!”

And I spoke again saying,
“Yes brother, how many do you have?”

“Well, Hafiz, I have sixty-two.”

“And how many wives?”
Again he looked surprised, then said,
“Four.”

“How many rosebushes in your garden,

How many children,
Are you parents still alive,
Do you feed the birds in winter?”

And to all he answered.

Then I said,
“You asked me if your visions were true,
I would say that they were if they make you become
More human,

More kind to every creature and plant
That you know.”

~ Hafiz

2007-07-07T07:07:00.000+03:30

things are like this now!

2007-06-16T05:55:00.000+03:30

Anyone who says they know anything is really saying they don’t know the only thing. The greatest religious and philosophical thoughts and ideas in the history of man contain no more truth than the bleating of sheep. The greatest books are no more authoritative than the greatest luncheon meats.

2007-06-06T06:07:00.000+03:30

Clouds come and go - the sky remains.

2007-04-30T08:54:00.001+03:30

The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the "I" thought rises. ~Ramana Maharshi

2007-04-26T07:32:00.000+03:30

Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. ~Ken Wilber

2007-04-21T17:42:00.000+03:30

The best doctor of all the doctors, the best medicine of medicines, and the best technology of technologies cannot save you from your life. The best consultants, the best bank loans, and the best insurance policies cannot save you. Eventually you must realize that you have to do something, rather than depending on technology, financial help, your smartness or good thinking of any kind -- none of which will save you. That may seem like the dark truth, but it is the real truth. In the Buddhist tradition, this is called the vajra truth, the diamond truth, the truth you cannot avoid or destroy.
We cannot avoid our lives at all. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all. We have to face the eventual truth -- not even the eventual truth but the real truth of our lives. We are here; therefore, we have to learn how to go forward with our lives. This truth is what we call the wisdom of Shambhala. ~Chogyam Trungpa

2007-04-17T16:43:00.000+03:30

All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be -- don't try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance. ~Osho

2007-04-16T09:55:00.000+03:30

Let's take off our clothes
Water is one step off.

2007-04-13T09:26:00.000+03:30

Intelligence is the capacity to be silent, to be awake, to be able to see the truth.

2007-04-12T09:22:00.000+03:30

If you go searching for the Great Creator, you will come back empty-handed. The source of the universe is ultimately unknowable, a great invisible river flowing forever through a vast and fertile valley. Silent and uncreated, it creates all things. ~Lao Tzu

2007-04-11T09:36:00.001+03:30

Your life situation exists in time.
Your life is now.
Your life situation is mind-stuff
Your life is real.
Find the 'narrow gate that leads to life'.
It is called the Now. ~Eckhart Tolle

2007-04-10T05:55:00.000+03:30

What a wonderful day! No one in the village doing anything. ~Shiki

2007-04-09T06:44:00.000+03:30

There is no other task but to know your own original face. ~Yen-T' ou

2007-04-07T07:16:00.001+03:30

Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

2007-04-05T09:20:00.000+03:30

Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.

It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor — it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.

There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self. ~Eckhart Tolle

2007-03-24T09:51:00.000+03:30

The secret of life is to "die before you die" -- and find that there is no death. ~Eckhart Tolle

2007-03-22T09:26:00.000+03:30

The mind cannot kill itself. So, your business is to find the real nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. Abiding in the Self, one need not worry about the mind. ~Ramana Maharshi

2007-03-21T07:24:00.000+03:30

What is mind? No matter.
What is matter? Never mind.
~ G Berkeley

2007-03-20T09:15:00.000+03:30

Man's evolution is from innocence to innocence. The first innocence is ignorant, the second innocence is luminous. The first innocence is a kind of sleep, the second innocence is an awakening. The first can be lost, the second cannot be lost. The first has to go -- in the very nature of it, it cannot be eternal; but the second, once it comes, remains forever -- it is eternal.
The first innocence in Christian terms is called Adam. And the second innocence is called Christ. And Jesus is just in-between the two. Jesus is the bridge between the first innocence and the second innocence. Hindus call the second innocence 'rebirth': one becomes twice-born, DWIJA. And that's what Jesus also said to one of the famous professors and theologians of his time, Nicodemus: Unless you are born again, you will not attain to the kingdom of God.

Unless you are born AGAIN...

The first birth has happened, the second birth has to happen... ~Osho

Anadi Kristof

2007-03-19T20:49:00.001+03:30

Spiritual expansion aims not at a temporary relief of the mind but at the permanent state beyond the mind.

2007-03-16T10:47:00.000+03:30

Watching yourself is the key to your transformation.
Be in a let go, allow things to happen as they come.
Use your intelligence and learn from what you watch in yourself.
That will do. ~Mi Zu

2007-03-14T07:30:00.000+03:30

Those who don't feel this life pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in the sunset like supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep. ~Rumi

2007-03-12T08:21:00.000+03:30

Whatever did, or did not happen, and whatever scale, and to whom, by whom, if we do not let go of the past we are certainly doomed. Dragging the past, in any way, on any scale, just contaminates any possible major fresh start.

And a major new start comes from us — our hearts.
Are we holding on the the past — in any way?
For most people — yes.

Try this. Take a moment, and let go of the past.
It is not even about forgiveness, it is just letting it all go.
If you really allowed that then you will be feeling much lighter and light-hearted.

Life starts now — this very minute.

2007-03-10T06:49:00.000+03:30

To get from where you are to where you are not
you must go by the way of what you are not,
and what you are not comes from what is,
and is all around,
and it comes to you on the True Road
in the form of waves and blessings
and swings of raw energy that change the level on which you live
so you arrive where you want to go by just letting it happen...

2007-03-08T22:20:00.000+03:30

Unhappiness is the distance between "what is" and "what I want"!

2007-03-04T08:42:00.000+03:30

What we need to get is that there is nothing to get. Of course getting that there is nothing to get is not easy to get.

2007-03-01T09:42:00.001+03:30

If you remain trapped on the surface, you remain trapped in the endless cycle of attraction and aversion.

Relax into What Is

2007-02-25T08:30:00.001+03:30

To let go, is to Be. To Be is to die within the Now. ~ Anadi Kristof

2007-02-24T09:24:00.000+03:30

Realise that whatever is happening is for you not against you.

The Human Mind

2007-02-11T09:28:00.000+03:30

The Mind

There isn't really a way of talking objectively about the mind because first, the words come through the mind, second they are heard through the mind, and third, there is not such thing as objectivity!

It is like trying to tell an official about a conspiracy — without knowing that the official is head of the conspiracy.

In India they have called what we call reality, Maya — illusion, unreal.

Everything we think about, or try not to think about, is based on the information that has been picked up by what the mind thinks it has heard.

Of course there are many studies that show each person has a different interpretation of a similar event, but, of course, so do the researchers.

Mind spins the illusory web of maya that filters and interprets all experience. The human mind is addicted to concepts and dreams and cannot know the true nature of consciousness.
The lower cannot know the higher. *

The human mind is programed to cling tenaciously to dreams, words and concepts. ~* Maitreya

So every concept, every belief, every idea — is just that, an idea. And then we have an idea of what is an idea, or what it is like not to have an idea.

We think, we presume, that there are certain certainties. And there are not any. None. Can you get that? — we cannot be certain of anything at all. Nothing. All is an illusion!

We presume that if we banged our head then that is a reality. There is a head, there was something we banged into, and we know what our physical experience is. But we don't. The whole experience may be just something that does not have a valid explanation.

All these texts, sermons, teachings, including what you are reading now, is not the truth. The few people that have awoken to another level have tried to share with us their experience of their non-experience, but we can only experience the non-experience through experience. Which is not non-experience.

As Lao Tzu is quoted as saying, "The truth cannot be said. If it is said it is not the truth." Perhaps, thats why the very awakened ones go into isolation and seclusion.

"Those who speak do not know, those who know are silent,
I heard this saying from the old gentleman (Lao Tzu).
If the old gentleman was one who knew the Way,
Why did he feel able to write five thousand words?" as Bo Juyi describes...

So don’t take anything too seriously.

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The above does not say it — because it cannot be said!!

- posted to Mahamudra

The Vastness of Truth

2007-01-08T09:58:00.000+03:30

I do not wish to give you more words.

You have enough.

The blank white page is all that needs to be seen.
But you cannot see it, you keep looking for something else.
Involved with so many pictures, words and stories.

Reading issues and books on enlightenment to help free yourself
from your mind is like eating doughnuts to lose weight.

You cannot get it with the mind.

For it is your identification with the mind
that keeps you from being content.

It is in the absence of who you think you are
where there is perfect contentment.

In meditation, you begin to move beyond
the experience of yourself as the body and mind,
separate from everything else.

The contraction of you begins to dissolve,
and there is unconditional, nurturing peace.
No me or you, just the infinite ocean of consciousness.

As an ego, you live as a resistance to this peace.
You fight it in every moment.

In complete surrender in the moment, you live as love itself.

The only way out is In

2006-12-27T09:21:00.000+03:30

You are programmed to desire pleasure and to avoid pain.
Unfortunately, they go together. Everyone has this experience.
The only way out is In. That is why you are a seeker. Really, everyone wants to feel good. Your journey of self-discovery is a search for truth, bliss, love and freedom from suffering.
All unenlightened people suffer from separation. All enlightened people enjoy Wholeness.
The journey is from separation to Wholeness. Your separation has a beginning and an end. In between there are perhaps a hundred lives. When the time of your reunion comes closer, you often feel the Dark Night of the Soul.

Do not despair. It is always darkest before dawn.

Maitreya Ishwara

2006-08-07T06:25:00.000+03:30

All of your experiences are given to you by the grace of God when the time is right, including surrender, enlightenment, suffering, effort and everything that your destiny requires.
Human helplessness and vulnerability apply equally to enlightened ones, but they have adjusted to the reality of surrender; they play their part in the drama of life with gusto, as simultaneously they just let go and watch the show. Hence buddhas enjoy life free from suffering.

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God can knock on your door at any moment. When Source reveals the new energy it will take you by surprise. Live with such presence and totality that you are prepared for the unexpected at every moment.

Mansoor

2006-08-06T07:10:00.000+03:30

Your spirit is mingled with mine
as wine is mixed with water;
whatever touches you touches me.
In all the stations of the soul you are I.

I am the One whom I love, and the One whom I love is myself.

When Enlightenment happened to the Sufi Mystic AlHillaj Mansoor, he declared, 'Ana'l Haq!'--- I am the truth. His Master Junaid said 'Yes, you have attained. But you need to keep quiet, otherwise you will be in great danger. This is a secret between you and me.' But Mansoor was in such deep ecstasy that he could not refrain from declaring, 'Ana'l Haq!' 'I am God!' and even in the market place. Soon the news spread and the authorities said, 'This is sacrilegious and this man has to be executed.' So Manoor was stoned to death and as they were stoning him, he was laughing, he was so full of joy. Someone asked him, 'Why are you laughing?' Mansoor answered, 'Because you believe that you are killing Mansoor, but Mansoor cannot die. Mansoor is not this body. This is such a joke! I am the Truth, Ana'l Haq!'

You glide between the heart and its casing as tears glide from the eyelid.
You dwell in my inwardness, in the depths of my heart, as souls dwell in bodies.
Nothing passes from rest to motion unless you move it in hidden ways,
O new moon.

It was not him who claimed
Ana'l-Haq (I am the truth),
It was the Friend in whom he had lost his self.
It was the Beloved.

Rumi

2006-08-05T07:08:00.000+03:30

This is now.
Now is, all there is.

Don't wait for Then.
Strike the spark, light the fire.

Sit at the Beloved's table.
Feast with gusto, drink your fill.

Then dance
The way branches of jasmine and
cypress dance in a spring wind.

The green earth is your cloth.
Tailor your robe with dignity and grace.

Osho

2006-08-04T06:40:00.000+03:30

And let me remind you, it is a pure journey. Life is a pilgrimage to nowhere -- from nowhere to nowhere. And between these two nowheres is the now-here. Nowhere consists of two words: now, here. Between these two nowheres is the now-here.

Meher Baba

2006-08-03T07:23:00.000+03:30

The coming civilization of the New Humanity will not be ensouled by dry intellectual doctrine, but by living spiritual experiences… intellectual explanation can never be a substitute for spiritual experience; at best it can prepare the ground for that experience.

The Teachings of don Juan

2006-08-02T06:52:00.000+03:30

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life.

Nisargadatta

2006-08-01T08:40:00.000+03:30

Use your mind. Remember. Observe.
You are not different from others.
Most of their experiences are valid for you too.
Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions.
Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know.
To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

Maitreya

2006-07-31T06:16:00.000+03:30

Most people spend a lot of time lost in repetitive old thought patterns that are unconscious and unhelpful. The mind has a far greater creative capacity than you know. Stepping outside of your small ego-world helps put your life into context.
Contemplation means creative, positive thinking; it expands horizons and prepares your mind for the jump into non-conceptual consciousness, or no-mind. When you have developed your natural capacity to think consciously and positively, it is easier to persuade the mind to be silent and present during meditation. Give contemplation a try.

Anadi

2006-07-30T06:07:00.000+03:30

Q: What is the difference between me walking in the nature and enlightened person walking?
A: The difference is that you are walking and fully Self-realised being is not walking. An ignorant person is identified with the Here while an Awakened being is One with the Now. If an enlightened being is walking, he or she is walking from the place of not coming, not going and not staying. The difference between you and the Buddha is that you are walking in the forest and Buddha is walking in the Now.

Rumi

2006-07-28T07:35:00.000+03:30

You are searching the world for treasure but the real treasure is yourself.

Ramana Maharshi

2006-07-27T06:03:00.000+03:30

Are there two "I's?" How do you know your existence? Do you see yourself with these eyes? Question yourself. How does this question arise? Do I remain to ask it or not? Can I find myself as I do in a mirror? Because your outlook has been turned outwards, it has lost sight of the Self and your vision is external. The Self is not found in external objects. Turn your gaze around and plunge within. You will be the Self.

Osho

2006-07-26T22:11:00.000+03:30

Know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

Sandôkai

2006-07-22T07:36:00.000+03:30

In the light there is darkness,
but don't take it as darkness;

In the dark there is light,
but don't see it as light.

Light and dark oppose one another
like the front and back foot in walking.

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Hearing the words, understand the meaning;
don't establish standards of your own.

Not understanding the Way before your eyes,
how do you know the path you walk?

Walking forward is not a matter of far or near,
but if you are confused, mountains and rivers block your way!

I respectfully urge you who study the mystery,
don't pass your days and nights in vain.

Maitreya Ishwara

2006-07-21T07:29:00.000+03:30

When you face this moment of life with full consciousness, the miracle happens. The mind stops and suddenly you are aware, silent and at peace. You enter the fire of Now.
Put aside your ideas about the ultimate truth and experience reality directly. Unverified beliefs will not help you to be free - even if they happen to be true.

Nagarjuna

2006-07-20T07:03:00.000+03:30

Life is no different from nirvana,
Nirvana no different than life.
Life’s horizons are nirvana’s:
The two are exactly the same.

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The present is not a fleeting moment: it is the only eternity. In Time “lies” samsara: in the Present “lies” nirvana. ~Wei Wu Wei