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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #4102, Sunday, December 12, 2010, Editor: Mark
You don't see the inner Guru because you look somewhere else.
Stop looking and It will reveal itself without your effort. Just
stop the mind from chasing all its loves and enjoyments.
- Papaji, posted to AlongTheWay
Even when obstacles crowd in,
the path to NibbÄna can be won
by those who establish mindfulness,
and perfect focus & concentration.
Samyutta NikÄy, posted to Distillation
Self-forgetting is inherent in self-knowing. Consciousness and
unconsciousness are two aspects of one life. They co-exist. To
know the world you forget the self - to know the self you forget
the world. What is world after all? A collection of memories.
Cling to one thing that matters, hold on to 'I am' and let go all
else. This is sadhana. In realization there is nothing to hold on
to and nothing to forget. Everything is known, nothing is
remembered.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
Empty and calm and devoid of self Is the nature of all things.
No individual being In reality exists.
There is no end or beginning,
Nor any middle course.
All is an illusion,
As in a vision or a dream.
All beings in the world
Are beyond the realm of words.
Their ultimate nature, pure and true,
Is like the infinity of space.
Prajnaparamita, posted to Distillation
To know itself the self must be faced with its opposite - the
not-self. Desire leads to experience. Experience leads to
discrimination, detachment, self-knowledge - liberation. And what
is liberation after all? To know that you are beyond birth and
death. By forgetting who you are and imagining yourself a mortal
creature, you created so much trouble for yourself that you have
to wake up, like from a bad dream.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
The only reason we do not recognize This
as That which we are seeking
is that we operate with
a set of limiting assumptions
about how Reality will manifest
in the present moment.
When we let go of
these assumptions and expectations,
we will instantly recognize:
That can be nothing other than This.
- Metta Zetty