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The yogi who remains in the detached tranquil state of Brahman, unaware of his own consciousness, is said to be the best of sages and saints.

Oṃ Śri Gurubhyo Namaḥ Hariḥ Oṃ

Maharṣi Vasiṣṭha in Yoga Vasistha Maharamayana

श्री गणेशाय नम: ।

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If you really desire liberation, you should give up attachment to sense objects as one would shun prison. You should carefully cultivate virtues, such as contentment, forgiveness, straight forwardness, calmness and self control in the same way as you would collect nectar. Only then can you traverse this path for ultimate liberation.- Sri Sri Bharati Tirtha Mahaswamigal

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"RELAX, YOU ARE NOT THE DOER"

What is stress?

Stress is the tension between this moment and your mental image of how this moment 'should be'. 

Stress is your narrow focus on a mental list of 'things to do', the imaginary burden of 'all the things that haven't been done yet'. 

Stress always involves future-thinking, a forgetting of your true Ground - this moment, here, now.

When your focus shifts from what is NOT present, to what IS present, from 'lack' to what is abundantly here, and instead of trying to complete a list of a thousand things, you simply do the next thing, the one thing that presents itself now, with your full attention and passion and presence, lists get completed effortlessly - and even if they don't, creative solutions are found, without stress.

Relax. You are not the doer.

- Jeff Foster

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There is trouble only when you cling to something. When you hold on to nothing, no trouble arises. The relinquishing of the lesser is the gaining of the greater. Give up all and you gain all.

🌺 Nisargadatta Maharaj

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HSIN HSIN MING part 6

Consider the movement in stillness and the stationary in motion,

both movement and rest disappear.

When such dualities cease to exist

even Oneness itself cannot exist.

This ultimate state

is not bound by rules and descriptions.

For the Realized mind, at one with the Way,

all doing ceases.

Doubts and irresolutions vanish

and the Truth is confirmed in you.

With a single stroke you are freed from bondage;

nothing clings to you and you hold onto nothing.

All is void, clear, and self-illuminating,

with no need to exert the mind.

Here thinking, feeling, knowledge, and imagination

are of no value.

In this world of “as it really is”

there is neither self nor other.

To swiftly accord with that,

only express nonduality.

- The Hsin Hsin Ming (Shinjinmei in Japanese) is a verse attributed to the Third Chinese Chan (Zen) Patriarch Seng’tsan (known as Sosan in Japan). Written in the 6th century, it is considered the first clear and comprehensive statement of Zen. (Eric Putkonen)