That bliss of the Self is always with you, and you will find it for yourself, if you would seek it earnestly. The cause of your misery is not in the life outside you, it is in you as the ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them.
Be as You Are: The Teachings of #SriRamanaMaharshi
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss.
Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment,
the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on.
That Guru comes only to tell him.
'The God is within yourself.
Dive within and realise.'
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
The inner silence is self-surrender.
And that is living without the sense of ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Keep quiet. #Papaji
Sit quietly and do not move your mind or intellect. Then observe the observer.
This is your true nature, from where everything else comes. It is your own nature, don't forget.
If you make any effort or use any method of trying to achieve something at some distant future, this will bring you into time. And time is mind. So this will be the play of mind only. But your original nature is empty.
If you follow any thought that arises in the mind, you will find it arises from emptyness, from its source. And when you are aware, when you see "I am that source itself," then there is no need to practice anything. No need to go anywhere. And you will see that you have always been that. This is called freedom, and you are not to achieve or attain it in some distant future. It is already there.
#Papaji
I advise you to surrender to Master, and listen to him from inside.
Then let the body become like a machine.
You don't control him, he just works.
Find the wagon seated in your Heart, and you will always be at Peace.
#Papaji
The Lord is always in you, near you.
If you are standing next to a person, you don't need to chant his name to make him come to you.
Repeatedly calling out God's name gives you the mistaken idea that He is far away from you.
He is not. He is standing right next to you, softly calling out your own real Name.
If you were not so busy calling out His name, you would hear Him.
#Papaji
Every day and every moment a thought comes like an honored guest into your heart.
My soul, regard each thought as a person, for every person's true value is in the quality of thought they hold.
#Rumi
If you want to win hearts,
sow the seeds of love.
If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
#Rumi
I am Your lover come to my side
I will open the gate to Your Love.
Come settle with me Let us be neighbors to the stars.
#Rumi
When I am silent, I fall into a place where everything is music.
Everything is made of Love.
#Rumi
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
#Rumi
#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao
Sound
Wind in the cave:
Movement in stillness.
Power in silence.
In a cave, all outer sounds are smothered by rock and earth, but this makes the sounds of one's own heartbeat and breath audible. In the same way, contemplative stillness turns us away from everyday clamor but allows us to hear the subtle in our own lives.
When listening not with the ear but with the spirit, one can perceive the subtle sound. By entering into that sound, we enter into supreme purity. That is why so many religious traditions pray, sing, or chant as a prelude to silence. They understand that the repetition and absorption of sound leads to sacredness itself.
The deepest sound is silence.
This may seem paradoxical only if we regard silence as an absence of life and vibration. But for a medita-tor, silence is sound unified with all of its opposites. It is both sound and soundlessness, and it is in this confluence that the power of meditation emerges.
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Reflection
Moon above water.
Sit in solitude.
If waters are placid, the moon will be mirrored perfectly. If we still our-selves, we can mirror the divine per-fectly. But if we engage solely in the frenetic activities of our daily involvements, if we seek to impose our own schemes on the natural order, and if we allow ourselves to become absorbed in self-centered views, the surface of our waters becomes turbulent. Then we cannot be receptive to Tao.
There is no effort that we can make to still ourselves. True stillness comes naturally from moments of solitude where we allow our minds to settle. Just as water seeks its own level, the mind will gravitate toward the holy.
Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.
Neither the water nor the moon make any effort to achieve a reflec-tion. In the same way, meditation will be natural and immediate.
#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao
Devotion
Make the crooked straight, Make the straight to flow.
Gather water, fire, and light.
Bring the world to a single point.
If we have devotion-total faith and commitment to our spiritual path— our determination will naturally build momentum. Fewer and fewer obstructions will come before us.
Our path becomes like a crooked one made straight. No matter what tries to keep us from our purpose, we will not be deterred.
Proper devotion lies not simply in a headlong course. It also requires fortitude. Our bodies, our hearts, and our spirits must be totally concentrated upon what we want. Only by uniting all our inner elements can we have full devotion.
If we see our path clearly and our personalities are completely unified, then there is no distinction between the outer world and the inner one. Nothing is faraway any-more, nothing is not open to us.
That is why it is said that the world is like a single point: So strong is devotion that there is nothing that is not a part of it.
#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao
Ablution
Washing at dawn:
Rinse away dreams.
Protect the gods within, And clarify the inner spirit.
Purification starts all practice. First comes cleansing of the body-not to deny the body, but so that it is refined. Once cleansed, it can help us sense the divine.
Rinsing away dreams is a way of saying that we must not only dispel the illusions and anxieties of our sleeping moments but those of our waking ones as well. All life is a dream, not because it isn't there, but because we all project different meanings upon it. We must cleanse away this habit.
While cleansing, we naturally look within. It is believed that there are 36,000 gods and goddesses in the body. If we continually eat bad foods, intoxicate ourselves, allow filth to accumulate anywhere outside or inside of ourselves, then these gods abandon us in disgust.
Yet our concerns must ultimately go beyond these deities in the temples of our bodies to the universal One. After we clear away the obscuring layers of dirt, bodily problems, and delusions, we must be prepared even to clear away the gods themselves so that we can reach the inner One.