mind

"When you do not stir any thought from the mind ground, 

without moving, 

without moving the mind, 

without starting a single thought - 

in an instant of time you are free."

~ Papaji

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People are scared to empty their minds

fearing that they will be engulfed by the void.

What they don't realize is that

their own mind is the void.

~ Huang Po

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Question : I see you doing things. How can you say that you never perform actions?

Sri Ramana Maharshi : The radio sings and speaks, but if you open it you will find no one inside. Similarly, my existence is like the space; though this body speaks like the radio, there is no one inside as a doer.

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I am nobody.

I know nothing and am nothing.

Such complete joy.

~Sri Mooji

nothingness

While everyone in this world strives to get somewhere and become someone, only to leave it all behind after death, you aim for the supreme stage of nothingness.

Live this life as light and empty as the number zero.

We are no different from a pot.

It is not the decorations outside but the emptiness inside that holds us straight. Just like that, it is not what we aspire to achieve but the consciousness of nothingness that keeps us going.

- Shams_el_Tebrizi

self

Questioner: “If that ego were not there how could the body continue to function from day to day?”

Bhagavan: “Yes. That is it. 

The body is a house for us.

This house will be properly maintained only if you are in it.

Hence we must realise that we are keeping the house habitable only so long as we are in it and must never give up the knowledge that the house is separate from the Self. The moment that is forgotten the feeling of ego comes in and troubles begin. 

Everything in the world thus appears real

and the destruction of that feeling is the destruction of the ego. When that ego is destroyed nothing (of this world) is

real. 

What is to happen will happen; and what is not to happen will not happen.”

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi 

- Letters from Sri Ramanasramam.