It is impossible to talk about the sea to the frog that lives in a well ; he's limited by the space he lives in.
It is impossible to talk about ice to an insect that lives only in summer; he's limited by the space he lives in.
It is impossible to talk about the Tao to a man of letters who lives in one place lost in the bush, it is limited by narrowness of the teaching received
#ChuangTzu
Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.
My happiness is your happiness; my suffering is your suffering. We heal and transform together.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Both suffering and happiness are of an organic nature, which means they are both transitory; they are always changing.
The flower, when it wilts, becomes the compost.
The compost can help grow a flower again.
Happiness is also organic and impermanent by nature.
It can become suffering and suffering can become
happiness again.
#ThichNhatHanh
Such silence.
Nobody is with me,
just my shadow walking along with me.
After seeing this whole beautiful world, when you enter into your home nobody will be with you, not even your shadow.
Your aloneness will be total.
Every meditation is a preparation for enjoying the aloneness which is our nature.
#Osho
Still the mind. You still the mind by not reacting. By watching, by looking, by seeing but not reacting. You sit in the silence observing your mind thinking.
Observing your thoughts. Observing your feelings. And you leave them alone. You no longer try to change anything. You stop following your thought patterns. As we discussed before you "Drop it!" Whatever comes to you, you simply drop it! You no longer go along with your thoughts. You catch yourself every time the thoughts start thinking. You keep remembering to catch yourself. To catch yourself thinking.
#RobertAdams
Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do.
There is no place to go.
There is no thing to become.
You are that, just the way you are.
Awaken to your true Self which is what you are right now.
#RobertAdams
I found myself without desires and without knowledge.
There was nothing left but love, the state of witness was left behind; there was only love, all pervading, all embracing, absolute.
There were no crucial experiences, no soul-shattering visions.
I just ceased imagining myself to be what I never was and there was nothing to replace the unreal with.
There was no need to look for replacements - the nothingness was the fullness of understanding, love and silent peace.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
I do not ask you to trust me.
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Trust my words and remember them, l want your happiness, not mine.
Distrust those who put a distance between you and your true being and offer themselves as a go - between.
I do nothing of the kind.
I do not even make any promises.
I mere say: if you trust my words and put them to test, you will for yourself discover how absolutely true they are .
If you ask for a proof before you venture, I can only say: 1 am the proof.
I did trust my teacher's words and kept them in my mind and I did find that he was right, that I was, am and shall be the Infinite Reality, embracing all, transcending all.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Give your real being a chance, to shape your Life. The sinner and the saint are merely exchanging notes. The saint has a past and the sinner has a future.
Therefore do not judge.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
The eternal ever is, a non-experiential state.
How can there be the experience of the truth?
It is prior to beingness.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking, nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which 'I am' is timelessly present. Soon you will realise that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels, that disturbs. Avoid the disturbance, that is all.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
Help yourself and you will help the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
#SriRamanaMaharshi
God and the Guru are not different.
Just as the prey which has fallen into the jaws of a tiger
has no escape, so those who have come
within the ambit of the Guru's gracious look will be saved by the Guru and will not get lost;
yet, each one should, by his own effort
pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain liberation.
God and Guru will only show the way to liberation; they will not by themselves
take the soul to the state of liberation.
Bhagavan with a smile placed his little finger over his eye and said, "Look. This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents the Brahman from being seen. See how powerful it is!
#SriRamanaMaharshi
D.: What is the purpose of creation?
M.: It is to give rise to this question; investigate the answer to this
question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal source of all, including the Self.
The investigation will resolve itself into one of quest for the Self and cease only after the non-self is sifted away and the Self realised in its purity and glory.
D.: How is the investigation to start?
M.: The Self is plain to all and the starting also equally plain.
D.: What is the starting point for one in my stage of development.
M.: Each one has some method of upasana or japa. If that is pursued in all sincerity with due perseverance, it will automatically lead to
the investigation of the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Effort is necessary
to move oneself deeper and deeper in the practice of Self-enquiry, not philosophising on the subject.
Firm determination is necessary to achieve experience, not trying to find it at one particular point.
This is to be done until the ego is consumed and only the Self remains.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Bhagavan: There is only one consciousness. But we speak of several kinds of consciousness, as body-consciousness, Self-consciousness. They are only relative states of the same Absolute consciousness. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist. They appear in consciousness. It is like a screen on which these are cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show. The Absolute consciousness is our real nature.
D.: From where do these objects arise?
M.: Just from where you rise. Know the subject first and then question about the object.
D.: It is only one aspect of the question.
M.: The subject comprehends the object also. That one aspect is an all-comprehensive aspect. See yourself first and then see the objects. What is not in you cannot appear outside.
D.: I am not satisfied.
M.: Satisfaction can be only when you reach the source. Otherwise restlessness exists.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Be Quiet that is Truth.
Be Still, that is God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Fortunate is the man
who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the Source from which they all
rise.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
Your effort is bondage. #SriRamanaMaharshi