Impersonal witnessing

A LIVING GEM FROM RAMESH

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances that is absolutely unique and individual, and yet connects us to everything in the universe. A deep realization of this oneness in the entire universe, being in consonance with the universal pulse, can transform our personal lives into a beautiful experience, a noumenal, natural, spontaneous living. Once you start seeing the material world in terms of universal rhythmic waves, your ideas of what is “real” and “true” will undoubtedly receive a transformation inasmuch as your perspective will have radically changed from personal involvement to an impersonal witnessing of events as they happen.

- NEW! Advaita Fellowship Newsletter JULY 2016 -
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Psychological Dependence on object

Strengthening Families by Increasing Spirituality
SwamiTejomayananda
(Part 13)

Psychological Dependence on Objects

Spirituality is freedom from slavery and dependence on the world of material objects. Yes, objects are there, they are valuable, they are necessary, they fulfill our needs; therefore, we must take care of them. But, unfortunately, instead of us possessing them, they possess and control us. A householder is one who holds a house; but in our case the house, holds us!

There are two types of dependence – physical and psychological. For example, when I am hungry, I will eat food; this is a natural physical dependence on food. But if there is no food and my worry over it becomes an obsession, it is psychological dependence. One day a young boy came to me and asked, “Swamiji, is it true that those devotees who went in search of God, somehow managed to get food all the time? Someone came and gave them food. Is it true?”

“Yes. It is true.”

“If I go in search of God, will I get food?”

“No”.

“Why not?”

“Because you are going in search of food, not God! You are already worrying about food. But those who went in search of God, the thought of food never entered their mind. The Lord took care of them. If they got food, they enjoyed it. If not, they were still satisfied.”

There was no psychological dependence. To free our mind from this kind of dependence is called spirituality.

Suffering

“Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.”

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

Since the beginning of time, people have been trying to change the world so that they can be happy.

This hasn’t ever worked, because it approaches the problem backward. What The Work gives us is a way to change the projector — mind — rather than the projected.

It’s like when there’s a piece of lint on a projector’s lens. We think there’s a flaw on the screen, and we try to change this person and that person, whomever the flaw appears to be on next. But it’s futile to try to change the projected images. Once we realize where the lint is, we can clear the lens itself.

This is the end of suffering, and the beginning of a little joy in paradise.

- Byron Katie

The Search Begins With Yourself

What do you do with your life everyday? Do you allow your thoughts, your emotions to overwhelm you? To control you, to lead you? To make you think something is wrong someplace? Nothing can ever happen to you, no thing can ever hurt you. If you're trying to protect yourself, or to feel safe by putting burglar alarms on your house, these things cannot help you at all. Karmically whatever is supposed to happen to you will happen to you. Your job is to overcome everything. To transcend everything. To realize that, "I am that I am." To leave the world alone. There is nothing to fight and nothing to fear in this world. But most of you do not believe this. You think you have to change things. You believe you have to make things happen. If you do not make things happen things will break down; nothing will be right.
Who told you this? The only thing that will break down is your ego. Yet some of you will not allow this to happen. You will fight for your ego, you will protect your ego at all cost for you are afraid to let go. You do not know what is on the other side. You think if you let go you will be a wimp or a coward. You think all your good will be taken away from you, and this is impossible. The planets spin in their orbits, the sun shines, the flowers grow. All these things happen without confusion, without chaos, everything is unfolding as it should but you come along and want to change things. You want to make this a better world in which to live. The one who has created this world knows how to take care of it. It does not need your help, thank you. Find yourself first, then see if you want to change the world. Find yourself first, then see if you want to change your life. Find yourself first, then see if anything is missing from your life. It all begins with you. It ALL begins with you. You are the one!

~ Robert Adams

...from T125: 'The Search Begins With Yourself'
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