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