Satsang
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In essence, the only answer to the question of 'how do I live this (one's awakening) in the life' is to find a depth and solidity of Silence within us that is weightier than any movement that could possibly emerge in our experience.
The ultimate Truth can never
be spoken, it can only be lived as a life in constant remembrance with our eternal Reality as it is.
Evolution is the Remembrance of who we really are. True knowledge is the end of experience. Realization is that there has never been two.
True
Non-Duality is the realization of Love as a state of Consciousness. Love is the Infinite
Silence perpetually surrendering itself to itself. This universe is the
reflection and expression of that surrender.
There is a 'Nothing' that is more profound than the 'experience of Nothing'.
Awakening is like the felling of the
tree
of 'me'. Embodiment is the drying and burning of that tree into soft,
warm ash.
This Rest, this Stillness, is never so happy as when it sees itself unveiled from illusion. This is true Love, true Joy.
There is just 'Rest', awake
Wordlessness, that acts as an internal gravitational field within every
speck of existence, calling itself Home.
Initially
the Transcendent Peace may seem to be an experience but eventually it
is revealed to be the end of experience. It's where all activity
returns after it has served its function. Its where the experience of
Peace and its experiencer dissolve into One.
Illusion
and ignorance is anything that believes that it is not 'This'. The
world wakes up to 'This' when we give everything within ourselves that
doesn't believe its Wholeness back to 'This'. This is our highest duty,
our highest service.
This
direct experience of 'Rest' doesn't need anything to uphold its
reality. It doesn't need words. It doesn't need teachings. It doesn't
need you. It is, and because It is, you are.
We
can say things like deepening or embodiment but all that is really
meant by these words is allowing 'This' to absorb everything within
us.
We
can allow everything to be released into this 'Rest'. Every
contraction and constriction, every fear, every insecurity, every
unworthiness. Its all welcomed Home.
Surrender is a word that means giving up. When we give up completely we find ourselves at rest, the Rest that everything is.
At
the end of our seeking, at the end of our search for knowledge, we
discover that there is nothing to seek for, nothing to become. There is
just the non-action of enjoying 'Rest', enjoying everything as it is.
We
can sometimes think that Love is an action, but the deepest essence of
Love is allowing everything to be as it is.
The
entire spiritual evolution can simply be understood as developing the
capacity to stay open and surrendered to whatever wants to arise and
pass away through us in every moment of our lives.
We don't need to be perfect, we just need to be Present.
In this very moment, what is mindful of being mindful?
Some Favorite Quotes
The Truth is One. Sages call it by many names.
~ Rig Veda 1.164.46
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The world is Maya (illusion). Brahman (the Ultimate Reality) alone is. The world is Brahman.
~ Ramana Maharishi
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Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between these two my life flows.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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All
that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of
spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to
turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.
~ Adyashanti
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Spiritual
seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be
a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you
believe, it becomes true for you; you will need time until you realize
that you don't need time to be who you are.
~ Eckhart Tolle
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Real
meditation is not about mastering a technique; it's about letting go of
control. True meditation is letting go of manipulating our
experience.
~ Adyashanti
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Giving up the false self is the true renunciation. Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
~ Ramana Maharishi
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The fact remains, all knowledge is a form of ignorance. The most accurate map is still only paper.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Satsang is really just a gathering of many mountains to discuss their mountain nature.
~ Pamela Wilson
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Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
~ Adyashanti
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What we are looking for is what is looking.
~ St. Francis of Assisi
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I and all beings everywhere have simultaneously realized liberation.
~ The Buddha, said at the moment of his awakening
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There is no greater barrier to enlightenment than a mind that thinks it knows what enlightenment is.
~ Lorne & Lucia Hoff
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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
~ Empedocles
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The tao which can be spoken is not the real Tao.
~ Lao-Tsu
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Freedom isn't measured by the presence or absence of thought, its measured by not giving a damn.
~ Adyashanti
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All
that a guru can tell you is: 'My dear Sir, you are quite mistaken about
yourself. You are not the person you take yourself to be.'
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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To Love is to reach God.
~ Rumi
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Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
~ Carl Jung
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The biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
~ Adyashanti
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Your
happiness is always with you. Your bliss is always there. It cannot
be anywhere else. Bliss and the Self are One and always with you. One
day, perhaps now, you realize that what you are searching for is what is
searching. There is always nowhere to go. You are already Home. You
are always already Home.
~ Ramana Maharishi
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May we be those who shall renew this existence.
~ Zarathustra
