Mind

Mind lives in self created deceptions, deluded by maya. Mind is too easily satisfied with knowledge with its words and counter words. Mind create problems and wordy knowledge puzzle us. And we are caught in those wordy explanations because we think that unless we have the explanations, how can we live? Thus the mind keep running like a frightened ghost.

But so long as we deceive ourselves in any form- wordily or imagined, there can be no total freedom. So long as the mind is capable of creating and imposing upon itself delusion, it obviously separates itself from collective or integrated understanding and so stays imprisoned in self- centeredness.

Self knowledge

For thousand of years man has had the illusion that one can attain freedom through knowledge, but he could not. Because no man can ever attain the state of total freedom by accumulating a knowledge which is not that about himself, the self- knowledge.

Total freedom can be realized only through self- knowledge. And self-knowledge is, seeing ourselves exactly as we actually are, undistorted by any interpretation or judgement. It is only when we attain it, our mind becomes quiet, still. And once this happens, we attain that state of miracle, known as total freedom.
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Self

There is only Consciousness - ever remaining luminous, or from time to time dimming Itself in the endless changing ‘states’. Liberation is not a total obliteration of the individuality and its universe, but it is a state of abiding in the Reality, the Self, or pure Consciousness... the state, once reached, from which nobody ever returns.
Swami Chinmayananda

Self

There is only #Consciousness - ever remaining luminous, or from time to time dimming Itself in the endless changing ‘states’. #Liberation is not a total obliteration of the #individuality and its universe, but it is a state of abiding in the Reality, the #Self, or pure Consciousness... the state, once reached, from which nobody ever returns.
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Sri Ramana Maharshi

“The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything. If one has realized, he is that which alone is, and which alone has always been. He cannot describe that state. He can only be That.” Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Hridayam

To penetrate the buddha way is to penetrate yourself. To penetrate yourself is to forget yourself. To forget yourself is to be actualized by myriad things.To beactualized by myriad things is the dropping away of your body and mind as well as the bodies and minds of others.No trace of realization remains, and this no-trace-realization continues endlessly.

To learn what the path to Buddhahood is, is to learn what the True Self is. To learn what the True Self is, is to forget about the self. To forget about the self is to become one with the whole universe. To become one with the whole universe is to be shed of ‘my body and mind’ and ‘their bodies and minds’.

- Dogen

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The one which soon will betray itself as a great deposit of obstacles is the so-called mind, with its main qualities, restlessness and dullness. Don’t try to attain something! Sadhana is meant to remove only. Deny reality to everything, including yourself. It is not you who realises the Self; the Self reveals only itself. To whom? To Itself only. Don’t fight against your ‘I’! Every resistance is strengthening the ‘I’ because the motive-power behind resistance is ‘Will’! Don’t suppress either! Because a suppressed thought, feeling or intention is bound to rebound! The mark by which this pitfall is recognised is ‘I’ have realised.... This ‘I’ can only be a ‘wrong I’, because it is not the ‘I’ that realises.

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Spiritual Quotes

"Let your inner spiritual revelation become deep enough to include the whole world of time and space. If your spiritual revelation is only big enough to go beyond the relative world but not include it, then you will continue to experience a duality and therefore a struggle with the relative world.
Do not become attached to the realm of the absolute. See the absolute and the relative as an undivided whole, as two expressions of the same supreme reality that you are. Go beyond all dualities to the source of duality, to that which is neither this nor that but expresses itself as this and that."
~ Adyashanti
The Impact of Awakening
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Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing.
If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself.
When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion.
Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.
- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (seen with his daughter)

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“Mind is what creates both samsara and nirvana. Yet there is nothing much to it – it is just thoughts.
Once we recognize that thoughts are empty, the mind will no longer have the power to deceive us. But as long as we take our deluded thoughts as real, they will continue to torment us mercilessly, as they have been doing throughout countless past lives.
To gain control over the mind, we need to be aware of what to do and what to avoid, and we also need to be alert and vigilant, constantly examining all our thoughts, words and actions.”
~ H.H. Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Have you not seen what life in this world is? The One to be loved is God. In Him [Her] is everything. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma
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The body cannot exist without the Self whereas the Self exists without the body. ~ Sri Ramana.
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An educated visitor asked Bhagavan about dvaita and advaita.
M.: Identification with the body is dvaita. Non-identification is advaita.
('Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi' 35)
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