no effort

Making an effort is easier for you because

this is what you are accustomed to. You

have been trained in effort, and you want

to continue in that effort because this is

all you know how to do. You come to

the spiritual path and you think you

can succeed here by effort.

I am telling you not to make an effort.

For freedom you don't need to make an

effort, you just need to keep quiet. Forget

everything you have learned so far. Forget

everything that you have heard or read;

forget any advice that people or prophets

have been giving you. Forget everything

and look at your own Self. Forget

everything that has happened up to the

present moment, and then tell me, 'What

do you lack?' If you forget everything,

everything you have read, heard and

done up till this present moment,

what's left?

🌺 Papaji

think

Think about the events that happened to you ten years ago. 

What remains of all that occurred, all the suffering and heartbreak, all the joy and affection? Where has it all gone? 

It has disappeared just as though it had never existed. The same thing is happening to your experience today. This very moment has arrived, bringing with it its particular experience, only to disappear almost instantly. When death comes to the body, what will the whole life have amounted to? What will be the sum total of reality that has been accumulated through these passing experiences? 

The answer is zero. Nothing happens and nothing has ever happened. It was all a dream. Only the unchanging background, against which all these experiences appear and fade, is real. 

🌷 Ranjit Maharaj

The Way of The Bird

God

 Swami Yogananda with four others arrived at 8.45 a.m. He looks big, but gentle and well-groomed. He has dark flowing hair, hanging over his shoulders. The group had lunch in the Asramam.

Mr. C. R. Wright, his secretary, asked: 

How shall I realise God?

Maharshi.: God is an unknown entity. Moreover He is external. Whereas, the Self is always with you and it is you. Why do you leave out what is intimate and go in for what is external?

D.: What is this Self again?

M.: The Self is known to everyone but not clearly. You always exist. The Being is the Self. ‘I am’ is the name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement 

“I AM THAT I AM” in EXODUS (Chap. 3). There are other statements, such as Brahmaivaham, Aham Brahmasmi and 

Soham. But none is so direct as the name JEHOVAH = I AM.

The Absolute Being is what is - It is the Self. It is God. 

Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact God is none other than the Self.

🔱 Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi.  Talk 106.

post 8 osho drop knowledge

 Drop knowledge, forget scriptures, forget religions, theologies, philosophies… be born again. Become innocent and it is in your hands. Clean your minds from what you don’t know for youself, all that is borrowed, all that has come by tradition, convention. Given by others, parents, teachers, universities… drop all that. Once again be simple, a child… and this miracle is possible by meditation. Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from what is not yours. Saves only that which is your authentic being and burns everything else, leaves you standing naked, alone under the sun, in the wind. As if you’re the first man, who knows nothing, who has to discover everything, who has to be a seeker, to go on a pilgrimage.

🤍 OshO

post 6

When you really understand the limitations of your physical level and your mental level, then you become really thirsty to get into the spiritual level. Then, you know that what you have known, what you have learned and what you have understood all these years is just NOTHING. You become, actually, NOTHING, in the words of the Zen philosophy: you have to become nothing. Until this stage, you feel that you are something. Don't we hear people saying, "Oh, he or she is really something"? But that something should become nothing. When we really become NOTHING, then we get into a sphere where we become EVERYTHING. And that nothingness is expressed as devotion, faith, respect and humility. It really takes a lot of courage to let go and to be nothing.

-Sri Swami Satchidananda

🕉️🙏🪷

post 5 mooji faith

"If in your heart you have chosen Truth, then trust your experience because something guides and protects you. When your search is genuine and your heart is humble, life protects you. But if you keep some arrogance, be sure trouble will come." Mooji

post 4 give up body mind ego

Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. Allow things to unfold as they may. Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth. Happiness will come of its own accord. When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.

In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up. We are taught to keep on fighting. But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. Western psychology has never gone beyond this. Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.

But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology. Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again. But this is as far as the world goes. It doesn't know anything else but this. 

What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. Do not hold on. Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise. And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choice-less pure awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. Work on yourself.

Robert Adams

post 3 i am not body

From ~~~ Shankaracharya : Vivekachudamani.

This work by Shankaracharya, together with the

Drik Drisya Viveka, was translated into Tamil prose by Bhagavan

while he was still living in Virupaksha Cave. It is a very free

translation, even the order of the paragraphs being changed

to some extent. (The Collected Works of Sri Ramana Maharshi.)

The ‘I am the body’ idea is the seed of all sorrow. Therefore,

just as you do not identify yourself with your shadow body,

image body, dream body, or the body that you have in your

imagination, cease also to associate the Self in any way with

the body of skin, flesh, and bones. Make every effort to root

out this error and holding fast to the knowledge of reality as

the absolute Brahman, destroy the mind and obtain supreme

peace. Then you will have no more births. Even a learned

scholar who perfectly understands the meaning of Vedanta

has no hope of liberation if, owing to delusion, he cannot

give up the idea of the nonexistent body as the Self.

~~~~~~

post 2 i as awareness

Devotee.: Seeking the ‘I’ there is nothing to be seen.

Maharshi.: Because you are accustomed to identify yourself with the body and sight with the eyes, therefore, you say you do not see anything. 

What is there to be seen? 

Who is to see? 

How to see? 

There is only one consciousness which, manifesting as ‘I-thought’, identifies itself with the body, projects itself through the eyes and sees the objects around. 

The individual is limited in the waking state and expects to see something different. 

The evidence of his senses will be the seal of authority. But he will not admit that the seer, the seen and the sight are all manifestations of the same consciousness - namely, ‘I-I’. 

Contemplation helps one to overcome the illusion that the Self must be visual. 

In truth, there is nothing visual. 

How do you feel the ‘I’ now? 

Do you hold a mirror before you to know your own being? 

The awareness is the ‘I’. 

Realise it and that is the truth.

D.: On enquiry into the origin of thoughts there is a perception of ‘I’. 

But it does not satisfy me.

M.: Quite right. The perception of ‘I’ is associated with a form, maybe the body. There should be nothing associated with the pure Self. 

The Self is the unassociated, pure Reality, in whose light, the body, the ego, etc. shine. 

On stilling all thoughts the pure consciousness remains over.

Just on waking from sleep and before becoming aware of the world there is that pure ‘I-I’. Hold to it without sleeping or without allowing thoughts to possess you. If that is held firm it does not matter even though the world is seen. The seer remains unaffected by the phenomena.

- Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 196.

silence

SILENCE, WHICH IS DEVOID OF THE ASSERTIVE EGO, ALONE IS LIBERATION.

The pure state 

of being attached to grace [Self], 

which is devoid of any attachment, 

alone is one's own state of SILENCE, 

which is devoid of any other thing. 

Know that one's ever abiding 

as that SILENCE, 

having experienced it as it is, 

alone is true mental worship [manasika-puja]. 

Know that the performance 

of the unceasing, true and natural worship 

in which the mind is submissively established as the one Self, 

having installed the Lord 

on the Heartthrone, 

is SILENCE, 

the best of all forms of worship. 

Silence, which is devoid of the assertive ego, alone is liberation. . 

- The teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

Be as you are edited by David Godman.

ego

On the other hand, when the jnani's ego rises, he enjoys his transcendental experience with this ego, keeping his focus always on its source. His ego is not dangerous — it is only the ash-skeleton of a burnt rope; although it possesses a form it is ineffective. By constantly keeping our focus on our source, our ego is dissolved.

- CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY

born alone osho

"We are born alone, we die alone"
Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience, two sides of the same coin. If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one’s total aloneness. It is there.
We are born alone, we die alone. Between these two realities we create a thousand and one illusions of being together — all kinds of relationships, friends, and enemies, loves and hates, nations, races, and religions. We create all kinds of hallucinations just to avoid one fact: that we are alone. But whatsoever we do, the truth cannot be changed. It is so, and rather than trying to escape from it the best way is to rejoice in it.
Rejoicing in your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. The meditator is one who dives deep into one’s aloneness, knowing that we are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. So why not experience what this aloneness is? It is our very nature, our very being.
Osho,
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Ch 14
An inside journey is a journey towards absolute aloneness; you cannot take anybody there with you. You cannot share your center with anybody, not even with your beloved. It is not in the nature of things; nothing can be done about it. It is easier to go to the moon because you can have company. Even if you don’t have a company you can have a connection with the earth; you can phone the people here. You can get directions from the outside, from the far away earth, but still, you are connected. The moment you go in, all connections with the outside world are broken; all bridges are broken. In fact, the whole world disappears.
That’s why the mystics have called the world illusory, Maya, not that it does not exist but for the meditator, one who goes in, it is almost as if it does not exist. The silence is so profound; no noise penetrates it. The aloneness is so deep that one needs guts. But out of that aloneness explodes bliss. Out of that aloneness, the experience of god. There is no other way; there has never been any and there is never going to be.
Osho, ❤💞🙏🙏😍❤
Just the Tip of the Iceberg, Ch 18

truth Robert

Never allow anything in this world to ever frighten you. Allow things to unfold as they may. Remember you just watch and observe, hold on to the truth. Happiness will come of its own accord. When you hold on to the truth, when you do not react to life's conditions, person, place or thing, when you leave things alone and you stop fighting life, you're not giving up.

In the Western psychology, we're told that you never give up. We are taught to keep on fighting. But I'm telling you there is nothing to fight, and the only thing you're giving up is your ego. Western psychology has never gone beyond this. Therefore they do not know of life beyond this. Western psychology works in the presumption that you are a body and a mind, so naturally they tell you never give up, fight to the end. Stick up for your rights.

But in the highest teachings of the truth we learn that you have no rights. You're giving up your body, your ego, your mind, and when this happens, you go beyond psychology. Something happens that psychiatry, psychology are not aware of whatsoever. And that is you rise to a higher dimension, where there is happiness, and peace, and compassion, and love, joy, that is naturally yours. You begin to feel these things instead of the things you felt before. Prior to this, when you were fighting life, when you were sticking up for your rights, when you were trying to get even, when you were working as an ego, you were never able to feel happiness or joy or peace. Only sometimes, when you won, when you got your point across, when you won an argument, when you won a fight, when you sued someone and won, you felt happy for a while, but it didn't last long, and you have to go through it again and again. But this is as far as the world goes. It doesn't know anything else but this.

What I'm saying to you, let go of everything. Do not hold on. Stand naked before God, without any crutches, without anything to hold on to. When you can do this, from this moment on you will begin to rise. And you will become aware that you are not the body, or the mind, or the world, or the universe, but you are effortless choice-less pure awareness. You are boundless space, infinite like the sky. You have become everything, and everything has become you. Work on yourself.

Robert Adams