Mind feeling

Q: How does one eliminate feelings, thoughts, grief, fear, cravings, and addictions while meditating? Are positive affirmations useful for this?

Adyashanti: Stop trying to eliminate anything. It is the belief that a thing needs to be eliminated that maintains its existence. Be an open space for whatever arises. When everything is allowed to arise, you have the opportunity to perceive that which does not arise or subside. You are That. Positive affirmations are fine for the mind only. Leave the mind to the mind. You are not this mind. Stop trying to rearrange your mind and discover what lies before it. You are the consciousness that contains the mind. Ask yourself this question, before the mind, body, and emotions: Who am I? Meditate on that. Seek the seeker.

...from "The Impact of Awakening"

Depressed

A lady was depressed and troubled because she could not meditate. Bhagavan pointed out that the Self is more immediate than any state and that she was creating unnecessary worries:

"Each question of yours is prompted by a thought.
Your nature is Peace and Happiness. Thoughts are the obstacles to realization.

One’s meditation or concentration is meant to get rid of obstacles and not to gain the Self. Does anyone remain apart from the Self? No!

The true nature of the Self is declared to be Peace. If the same peace is not found, the non-finding is only a thought which is alien to the Self. One practices meditation only to get rid of these alien fancies.

So, then, a thought must be quelled as soon as it rises. Whenever a thought arises, do not be carried away by it. You become aware of the body when you forget the Self. But can you forget the Self? "

Talks no 462

World

You will have to decide for your own good.
You can't please the world.
Who has ever pleased the world?

~ Papaji

Mind feeling

Q: How does one eliminate feelings, thoughts, grief, fear, cravings, and addictions while meditating? Are positive affirmations useful for this?

Adyashanti: Stop trying to eliminate anything. It is the belief that a thing needs to be eliminated that maintains its existence. Be an open space for whatever arises. When everything is allowed to arise, you have the opportunity to perceive that which does not arise or subside. You are That. Positive affirmations are fine for the mind only. Leave the mind to the mind. You are not this mind. Stop trying to rearrange your mind and discover what lies before it. You are the consciousness that contains the mind. Ask yourself this question, before the mind, body, and emotions: Who am I? Meditate on that. Seek the seeker.

...from "The Impact of Awakening"

Suffering

"Who is it that loves and who that suffers?
He alone stages a play with Himself;
who exists save Him?
The individual suffers because he perceives duality.
It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief.
Find the One everywhere
and in everything
and there will be an end to pain and suffering."

~ Anandmayee Maa.

Liberation

In Liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists; that there is nothing to support; that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and You are That.

– Adyashanti

Emptiness

Interviewer: Why is it we all so desperately want to be loved?

KRISHNAMURTI: Because we are so desperately empty, lonely.

Interviewer: But you say that loving is more important than being loved.

KRISHNAMURTI: Yes, of course—which means one must understand this emptiness, this loneliness in oneself. A mind that is self-concerned with its own ambitions, greeds, fears, guilt, suffering has no capacity to love. Love can only come into being when there is a total self-abandonment. And total abandonment can only happen with the understanding of oneself. Self-knowledge is the beginning of wisdom and therefore wisdom and love go together. This means there is love only when I have really understood myself and therefore know in myself there is no fragmentation at all—no sense of anger, ambition, greed or separative activity.