Remember
Yourself
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Keep
breathing, allow your body and stick to the truth.
What is true now?
Deep inside refuse to run.
Longing and loss and fear of the future
will give way to reality and the self.
Compassion and honesty with yourself will
show you your deepest truths. And in the light
of your uncensored breathing, movement and awareness those truths
will dissolve. There will be nothing left.
Nothing to hold, nothing to keep, nothing
to resist, nothing to avoid, nothing to fear.
When all is allowed to be taken away, reality
remains. This is the desireless, the no longer
wanting, the recognition of the absolute.
At first it feels like infinite emptiness.
But infinite emptiness reveals the infinite,
the timeless, the choiceless, the immutable.
~Andy
"Gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi
svaha."
Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely gone beyond, praise to awakening.
Your true security is discovered when your clinging and resisting is exhausted,
and the reality of the living void, the infinite essence of your being is recognised.
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"I entered my heart, and I remembered what I once knew. I remembered light coming from everywhere. I remembered peace coming from everywhere." (Lilly)
"It occured to me that I will now stop running - from the void. And I stopped. Overtaken and engulfed, I recognised myself as the silence, the living void. I was always that, I am that."
"The
boundary between my physical self and my
surroundings seemed to dissolve and my feeling
of separation vanished. . . . I felt as
if I had suddenly come alive for the first
time--as if I were awakening from a long
deep sleep into the real world."
(Wendy Rose-Neill)
"I saw that the universe is not composed
of dead matter, but is, on the contrary,
a living Presence." (Richard Maurice
Bucke)
"I seemed to comprehend the nature
of things. Neither time nor space existed
on this plane." (Claire Myers Owen)
"The chain of fear and desire has fallen away. The void is no longer resisted. Inner silence revealed the absolute."
"Then all schools are given up, all
effort ceases; in solitude and darkness
the vast step is made which ends ignorance
and fear forever."
(Nisargadatta Maharaj)
"Facing all fears and the loss of all,
the illusory difference between life and
death, between being and non-being dissolved,
and I have emerged into the silent bliss
of reality."
What
you desire the most
and resist the most is the same...
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The
Advaita Teaching of
Nisargadatta
Maharaj
Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about
it.
Just
be aware of your being here and now.
Reality
will find you.
Tirelessly
I draw your attention to the one incontrovertible
factor – that of being. Being needs
no proofs – it proves itself. If only
you go deep into the fact of being and discover
the vastness and the glory, to which the
‘I am’ is the door, and cross
the door and go beyond, your life will be
full of happiness and light. Believe me;
the effort needed is as nothing when compared
with the discoveries arrived at.
Just live your life as it comes. Keep quietly
alert, inquiring into the real nature of
yourself. Perception is based on memory
and is only imagination. The world can be
said to appear but not to be. Only that
which makes perception possible is real.
You agree to be guided from within and life
becomes a journey into the unknown. Give
up all names and forms, and the Real is
with you. Know yourself as you are. Distrust
your mind and go beyond. Do not think of
the Real in terms of consciousness and unconsciousness.
It is utterly beyond both. It gives birth
to consciousness. All else is in consciousness.
Nothing you can see, feel or think is so.
Go beyond the personal and see. Stop imagining
that you were born. You are utterly beyond
all existence and non-existence, utterly
beyond all that the mind conceives. Question
yourself: Who am I? What is behind and beyond
all this? Soon you will see that thinking
yourself to be a person is mere habit built
on memory. Inquire ceaselessly.
How can Reality depend on experience when
it is the very ground, the very basis of
experience, the very fact of experience?
Just be aware of your being here and now.
There is nothing more to it. In reality
you are not a thing nor separate.
You are the infinite potentiality, the inexhaustible
possibility. Because you are, all can be.
The universe is but a partial manifestation
of your limitless capacity to become. You
are neither consciousness nor its content.
You are the timeless Source. Find
a foothold beyond mind and consciousness and all will be clear
and easy.
Your difficulty stems from the idea that
Reality is a state of consciousness.
When you want nothing, seek nothing, expect
nothing, then the Supreme State will come
to you uninvited and unexpected.
You are beyond space and time, uncaused,
the very matrix of existence, the Supreme
Absolute.
You are the all-pervading, all-transcending
Reality. Behave accordingly.
The actual
experience will dawn upon you in no time.
No effort is needed. Have faith and act
on it. All will happen by itself: You are
the subtle cause of the entire universe.
All is because you are. Grasp this point
firmly and deeply and dwell on it repeatedly.
To realize this as absolutely true is liberation.
What you need will come to you.
Behave as what I say is true
and judge by what actually happens. I know
the Source of all experience. From moment
to moment the little I need to know to live
my life I somehow happen to know. The Supreme
Absolute, the Self, is at the root of and
utterly beyond all. You are That.
There is no effort in witnessing. You understand
that you are the witness only, and understanding
acts. If in the state of witnessing you
ask “Who am I?” the answer comes
at once, wordless and silent. You find yourself
utterly beyond the subject and the object.
Both exist in you, but you are neither.
You, the Supreme Absolute, are the very
source of reality. Collect your energies
in one great longing. My words are true
and they will do their work. Enlightenment
is a certainty. It is your destiny.
Know life as pure radiation from the inexhaustible
Source. There is nothing to practice. To
know yourself, be yourself. Stop imagining
yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let
your true nature emerge. Don’t disturb
your mind with seeking. The very absence
of obstacles will cause Reality to rush
in. You will know the Light of Absolute
Awareness in all its clarity and the world
will fade out of your vision.
Investigate what you know to its very end
and you reach the unknown layers of your
being. Go further and the unexpected will
explode in you and shatter all. The crucial
question is: “Who am I?” Don’t be half-hearted. Believe me, you are the Supreme
Reality.
Adapted from ‘I Am That: Talks
with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’
Nisargadatta
I am quotes
Excerpts
from - I AM THAT
onewithlife.com
prior
to consciousness
I
am unborn
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The
Dharma is free and without charge to all who seek
it.
"Maharaj:
Of course, there can be no causal connection between
practice and wisdom.
But the obstacles to wisdom are deeply affected
by practice."
Zen story of the would-be disciple having his head held
under water
by the Master
until he nearly dies. The Master then says:
“When you want awakening in the way you just wanted air - come and see me again.”
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