witness

The sense of doership is false.

You are a witness, so remain like that.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

happiness Robert

There’s always happiness. There’s always peace. There’s always love. It’s not something you have to acquire. It is 

your real nature. 

Until you experience your real nature, you practice things like self-inquiry. 

I said something on Sunday that apparently has clicked with some of you. I received three calls about it. 

What I said was simply this 

“When you follow the I to its source, then all of your troubles, your problems, your life, your world, become dissolved in the source. Until that happens, realize that you are not the I that has problems." 

That's the point I made. And it clicked with some of you. It is the I that sometimes feels depressed, or worried, or hurried, or upset, 

or fearful. It is the personal I that feels that way, yet that's not you. You are not the personal I. Even though you are following the I, you are following a mirage, an optical illusion, for you are not the I. You are absolute reality, nirvana, sat-chit-ananda. You are not the I. 

If you are not the I then who has the problems? 

Who has the sickness? 

Who has the doubt? 

Who has the suspicions? 

Who has all these worldly problems that most human beings have? 

I do, but I am not the I. 

Yet I has the problem. 

Do you see what I mean? 

I has the problem. Not me, but I. 

In this case me is absolute reality, pure awareness, consciousness. 

Therefore this is the best psycho-therapy that's ever been invented, for you can step back and watch the I having the problems. You can understand, realize, intelligently, that the real me, the real self, can never have a problem. It's impossible. 

Yet I feel the problem. 

You immediately catch yourself and realize “Yes, I feels the problem." You see, not me, but I, feels the problem. 

Then you forget for a while and you say “I feel depressed." And you catch yourself 

and you laugh. You say “I feels depressed. I feels out of sort. Not me, but I." Then after a little while you forget again, and you say “I feel sick.” Then you remember. You say “I feels sick. Not me, but I." 

You do this all day long. Finally what will happen is that you will separate your self from I. You will no longer look at your body as I. You will no longer look at your mind as I. When you realize that I is everything in the universe, I must also be the body and the mind. 

You then realize that you are not the body and you are not the mind, but I is. I is 

the body and I is the mind. I is all the problems. You separate yourself. You watch. You observe I having all these 

problems, and pretty soon you're having a good laugh at yourself. 

You will feel freedom. 

If you practice this, I can assure you that you will feel a freedom that you never felt before. 

You will feel omnipresent. 

You will feel an indwelling bliss. 

You will come to see that the body does not exist, as a body. You will look at yourself and see the body, but you will laugh. You will know it's not your body. There is no body. It is like the water in the mirage. There is no water. It only appears so. That's the way the body is. You appear to have a body, but you don't really. I has the body. And I doesn't really exist. 

Do you see this revelation now? 

There’s no I, there's no body. Then what gets old and dies? What gets sick? What 

has mental anguish? What becomes depressed? And the answer is “Nothing." There’s no one to get depressed. 

There’s no one to die. There’s no one to have mental anguish. There’s no one left to do anything. You're home free. 

When you feel this way, there’s nowhere to go, because everywhere you go, you are the self. No thing makes you happier than another thing. It's all the same. You no longer differentiate between objects. All the objects become like a piece of clay that you’ve taken to make objects out of, but you realize it all comes from the same piece of clay. 

That's how it is with your life. There’s no one doing anything. There’s absolutely nothing to do. When I say there's absolutely nothing to do, I do not necessarily mean you're going to sit still and sit in one chair all day long. This appears paradoxical. Your body will appear to be doing things, and yet you will know beyond a shadow of a doubt 

that there’s no one doing anything. 

Think about that. That’s a very important point. You will appear to go to the movies, if you have a job to go to work, to come home, to get married, to get divorced, to go swimming, to do whatever you do. Yet you will know, no one is doing anything. 

How can that be? 

How can you appear to be doing something, yet nothing is being done. 

The sky appears blue, and yet upon investigation there's no sky and there’s no blue. So you appear to be doing something, but there’s no doer. There is really no one who needs to do anything, or does anything. Space and time have been eliminated. You are in an entirely different dimension, where you appear as if you are moving, working, 

experiencing, and there’s nothing being done. 

I admit that state is difficult to think of, yet it is the truth. No one has ever done anything. There’s only one, and that one is all-pervading and omnipresent. There’s only one. If that one is all-pervading and omnipresent, where is there room to do anything? 

Think of it this way. Look at it this way. If you were the only one in the universe, and you were the size of the universe, all of the planets, the stars, the moon, the earth, people, places and things would be within you. You would have no space to do anything. Yet everything is being done within yourself. It's the same thing. This is really the truth about you. 

You are the microcosm and the macrocosm. When you are working in duality, in ignorance, you appear to be a 

small human being, and you look around you, and you see billions of human beings just like you. You argue with them. You fight with them. You love them. You do all kinds of activities with fellow human beings. But as you work on yourself, and as you begin to rise in consciousness, something tells you that there’s only one. There is not you and I. There's only the I, and the I doesn't exist. 

Therefore there is no thing that you can comprehend that exists. 

There’s no such thing as existence. 

There is no God that creates the universe. There is no being that causes anything 

to happen. 

The highest truth is, nothing is happening.

~ The Collected Works of Robert Adams 

✅ You Are Not I

trust life mooji

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it. ~Mooji

Yogi

A yogi has no particular path;

he simply renounces imagining things.

His mind then ceases of its own accord,

and the perfect state just naturally occurs.

 Avadhuta Gita

nothing

When you are absolutely nothing, 

you find galaxies of love, 

oceans of joy, worlds of peace.

It is a paradox that you have to give 

everything up to find everything.

That is what Christ means when he says: 

‘He who loses everything, finds everything.’

The one who gives up his life for Truth, 

finds everlasting Life.

Now you have to solve some of these 

ancient paradoxes.

🌺 Mooji

witness thought

You have been told for thousands of years that the journey to God is very long.

The journey is not long. God is not far away. God is in your breath, God is in your heartbeat, God is in your blood, in your bones, in your marrow -- just a single step of closing your eyes and entering within yourself.

It may take a little time, because old habits die hard. Even if you close your eyes, thoughts will go on crowding you. Those thoughts are from the outside and the simple method, which has been followed by all the great seers of the world, is just to watch your thoughts -- just be a witness to them. Don't condemn them, don't justify them, don't rationalize them.

Remain aloof, remain indifferent, let them pass -- they will be gone.

And the day your mind is absolutely silent, with no disturbance, you have taken the first step that takes you to the temple of God.

The temple of God is made of your consciousness. You cannot go there with your friends, with your children, with your wife, with your parents.

Everybody has to go there alone.

🌷 OSHO

soul

mind life

Live life as it comes, but don't be involved in it.

Let it come, don't reject it.

If nothing comes keep contented and sit quiet

This is a true Teaching.

Still some doubts and notions and unworthiness seem to arise.

Doubts and notions belong to the past. Now no more doubts or notions will touch you. Just laugh at them when they arise! Grace knows nothing about unworthiness or worthiness. Throw a flower or spit into the ocean and it responds the same. Unworthiness is just mind baggage. Unworthiness is only your ego postponing its own destruction.

The Self doesn't mind that the mind goes to Europe because Europe is in the Self. Go anywhere and you will be taken care of. The problems arise when the ego takes the burden of controlling itself. Identify with the Self and the mind will go nowhere.

🌹 Papaji

life

#Quotes

When you have life , you have to do something with it. When you are life what do you have to do ? It is  simply unfolding.

#Mooji

thought

Where the first thought has left and the other is not arisen, that is Consciousness, that is Freedom, that is your own place, your own abode. You are always there, you see.

Shift attention, change the gestalt. Don't look at the figure, look at the background! If I put a big blackboard the size of a wall here and mark it with a white point and ask you, "What do you see?" Ninety-nine percent of you will not see the blackboard! (Laughs) You will say, "I see a little white spot." Such a big blackboard and its not seen, and only a little white spot, which is almost invisible is seen! Why? Because this is the fixed pattern of the mind. To look at the figure , not the blackboard, to look at the cloud , not at the sky; to look at the thought and not Consciousness.

That's all the teaching is. Always look to Consciousness. Always look to Consciousness and know this is what you are! This is your own place, your own abode, Stay Here. No one can touch you. Who can enter Here where you are? Even your mind cannot enter.

🌸 Papaji

knowledge self

When the eye of knowledge is opened,  

a person realizes that he remains 

ever in his own Self....

Ramana Maharshi....

Work

THE WORK WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF 

While sleeping and meditation, the mind becomes silent. When we are awake, the mind will come out and thoughts will start emanating. It is not enough to silence the mind, but it shall be destroyed. We shall understand that mind is a stranger to us. The mind does not have a permanent status. Only the Soul is permanent. Mind is an illusion built over the Soul. We are not the working mind. If we understand this truth, then we need not worry about our work. It will happen automatically.

Note: Once we understand that we are not the mind and we are the Soul, then we can understand the great planning for the various activities of this world. Then we can understand that we, all of us, will be used as tools to carry out the various tasks. The planner and executer are the Soul and we are mere tools in their hand. Once we understand this, then we need not worry about, what is happening and what is not happening too.

(The Testament of Sri Ramana Maharishi)