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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3737, Sunday, December 6, 2009, Editor: Mark
In accord with all things, one must be willing to allow the last
moment to die in order to make way for this exquisite moment of
Now. No matter what may have been the circumstance; joy or
despair, ecstasy or horror, or all of the possible variations in
between, they must die in the next exhalation to allow the
miracles that are awaiting you to manifest. To live such a life
of immediacy requires both faith and courage. To live otherwise
is not to have fully lived at all.
- Emmanuel
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now
The desire for truth is the longing you feel in your heart. The
mental relationship with that longing is all of the things you
throw at it to try to make it go away because it's bothering you.
But it won't be satisfied with anything less than pure
authenticity, pure being. If you are willing to stop throwing
things at your heart's longing, to stop searching for an escape
from the longing, it will reveal its own consummation.
When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped,
there is a crack in the authority of perception, in the structure
of the mind. I invite you to enter through that crack. Come in
through that opening. When you do, the mind is no longer filled
with its latest self-definition. In that moment, there is only
silence. And in that silence, it is possible to recognize
absolute fulfillment: the truth of who you are.
- Gangaji, from The Diamond in your Pocket
You know that you sleep, you know that you dream, you know that
this is the waking state, so when these states are projected in
front of you, you must be somewhere other then these states,
witnessing these states, you see. If we give thought to this, we
are experiencing, we are seeing this is the waking state. We see
it, we witness the waking state. Dream also. We had a dream last
night: it means we had witnessed the dream. When we are in deep
sleep, we enjoy the bliss of deep sleep. All these three sates we
witness, projected in front of us. We do not question who has
been witnessing all these three states, who must be out of these
three states. Who is it, that was out of these three states and
has projected these three states in front of him? So if he turns
his head to this state he will be in the transcendental position
and he is in the fourth state. So this is to reject the three
states. This fourth state is called the fourth state because
there is no name for it, yet it is connected with the three
states, so it is called the fourth.
So to win complete, perfect freedom is yet beyond it, you see.
That has no name. Witness these states, that I am not these three
states. I am the enjoyer of all these three states, but I am not
the three states. So staying here for a long time, you will find
yourself that you are the absolute substratum. Absolute essence.
And you will see that you have been before the creation of the
creator itself. And that's called peace, quietness, emptiness,
from where everything rises like ripples, like waves, all silence
you see. That is where we all will have to return -- not return,
we are there. But we are otherwise engaged. Therefore we do not
know who we are. Who we are in reality, who we had been -- due to
some reason we forgot. So this is the matter. This satsang is
association -- all of us belonging to the same thought, the same
longing, is only for this, just to remind ourselves that we all
are living in that peaceful, in that blissful, in that conscious,
empty state, which cannot be described by anyone so far. None has
ever reached there. None has ever described it.
- Papaji
Within the prison of your world appears a man who tells you that
the world of painful contradictions, which you have created, is
neither continuous nor permanent and is based on a
misapprehension. He pleads with you to get out of it, by the same
way by which you got into it. You got into it by forgetting what
you are and you will get out of it by knowing yourself as you
are.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
An idea that is developed and put into action is more important
than an idea that exists only as an idea.
- The Buddha