witness

grace

“That which is - is only Grace; there is nothing else.”

(Be As You Are)

quotes

enlightment

I don't want you to be a Buddha tomorrow, there is no need to wait. The Buddha is your nature. All that is needed is to be acquainted with it. You are buddhas - maybe unaware of the fact, maybe fast asleep, but that makes no difference. A buddha asleep is still a buddha. A buddha unaware of his own buddhahood is still a buddha. The difference between one who is enlightened and one who is ignorant is not in being, but only in knowing. It is just as if somebody is asleep and you are awake; being is the same. The purpose of all the meditations is to wake you up, to pull you out of your desires and dreams of worldly things so that you can see who you are. Once you have seen you cannot go back into your dreaming state again. Just as the fallen flower from the tree cannot jump back to the branch again.

🪔 OshO 

19th Jan, today is celebrated as Osho's महानिर्वाण day (he left his physical body on 19th Jan, 1990) We bow in reverence to the great master.

 🕉🙏🌺

keep quite

If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events.

It is your restlessness that causes chaos.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

intellectual understanding

Q.: Is an intellectual understanding of the Truth necessary?

Sri Ramana : Yes.

Otherwise why does not the person

realise God or the Self at once, i.e.,

as soon as he is told that God is all or the Self is all?

That shows some wavering on his part.

He must argue with himself and

gradually convince himself of the Truth

before his faith becomes firm.

~ Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi : 596

life

In life pleasant and unpleasant situations come but one who had an iota of witness consciousness will not be disturbed.

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar.

death

Only my people celebrate death; otherwise everywhere it is a mourning.

“Everywhere it has to be a mourning, because a life unfulfilled, unlived, a wastage…. What is there to celebrate?“But if your life has been of love, of creativity, of sharing, of joy, if you have not left any part of your being unlived, your death needs to be a ceremony, a festival.

“As yet, men have not learned to consecrate the fairest festivals.I shall show you the consummating death, which shall be a spur and a promise to the living.

The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly.“Death should be a triumph, a victory, a coming home. But for that you have to transform your whole life. You have to live differently – not like a Christian or a Hindu or a Mohammedan – but like a natural human being, without any fear and without any greed….

“It is a well-known fact in the East that most great sages announce their death beforehand, and people have misunderstood it: people think that they are predicting, but it is not prediction. They know that they have come to fulfilment and there is no more in life and there is no more to be discovered – their journey is complete….

“Zarathustra is incomparable in many of his insights. This can be one of the greatest lessons: that if you want a glorious death, not an ugly and contemptible one, you should start living from this very moment. Totality should be your concern: living totally, burning your torch of life from both ends together. By the time you feel fulfilled, you will be able to die totally. You will not cling to life.

“I have seen many people die. They die like beggars, clinging; they don’t want to die because they have not lived yet, and death has come. But when there was life, they wasted it. Now that death has knocked on their doors they have become aware of the wastage of life.

“But a man who has lived totally will open the doors, will welcome death, because death is not your enemy. It is simply a change of house: from one body into another, from one form into another or, ultimately, from form to the formless life that surrounds the earth. A religious man not only lives religiously, he dies religiously. A man of art lives artfully, and lives not only artfully, but dies too with great art.

🪁Never born never died| January 19 MAHAPARINIRVANA DAY

no desire

The non-dual experience will only be attained by those who have completely given up desires. For those with desires, it is far, far away. Hence it is proper for those with desires to direct their desires towards God, who is desireless, so that through desire for God the desires that arise through the delusion that objects exist and are different from oneself will become extinct.

- SriRamana Maharshi 

(Guru Vachaka Kovai, verse 149)

no doer

A passenger in a train keeps his load on the head by his own folly. Let him put it down: he will find the load reaches the destination all the same.

Similarly, let us not pose as the doers, but resign ourselves to the guiding Power.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

(Talk 198)

enlightment

“When you wake up from your story, guess what you realize about everybody else? They are not their story. They are spirit, too. And that spirit is totally independent of their story and your story about them. So you not only lose your center, you lose their center, that box you would put them in. You see they are the same. This is why it is said that enlightenment is never a personal matter. You can’t realize you are enlightened and still believe that others aren’t. You can’t see your true nature without seeing the true nature of everything. It is literally impossible. This is a tremendous act of compassion, an act of love.”

~ Adyashanti

Emptiness Dancing

Absolute presence

Absolute Presence is the ubiquitous eye, that measures the universe.

It is the center of infinity, that sees everything and yet does not see, because it is seeing itself.

 

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It is not the present, which is fleeting past us with sickening speed.

The present moment is indeed eternal.

It is our imperfect perception that creates the horizontal succession in time.

Sequential duration is a consequence of the single-track verbalization of our split-mind, which does not grasp the outer world instantaneously, but interprets it perversely, by extracting bits and pieces and calling them things and events.

 

Ramesh Balsekar

19th January