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Awareness cleaned my mind
to a polished mirroring.
The presence came near, and I knew
that That was everything,
and I nothing.
Lalla
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- A Course in Miracles
- Eckhart Tolle
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
- Others
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A
COURSE IN MIRACLES
Vigilance was required of me as much as of you, and those who choose to teach the
same thing must be in agreement about what they believe. A Course in Miracles T-6.V.C.9:9
Light cannot penetrate through the walls you make to block it, and it is forever
unwilling to destroy what you have made. 4 No one can see through a wall, but I can
step around it. 5 Watch your mind for the scraps of fear, or you will be unable to
ask me to do so. T-4.III.7.
Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it. 2 It
offers you nothing. 3 When you have given up this voluntary dis-spiriting, you will
see how your mind can focus and rise above fatigue and heal. 4 Yet you are not sufficiently
vigilant against the demands of the ego to disengage yourself. T-4.IV.6.
As you survey your inner world, merely let whatever thoughts cross your mind come
into your awareness, each to be considered for a moment, and then replaced by the
next. 2 Try not to establish any kind of hierarchy among them. 3 Watch them (thoughts)
come and go as dispassionately as possible. 4 Do not dwell on any one in particular,
but try to let the stream move on evenly and calmly, without any special investment
on your part. W-pi.31.3.
For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless
world you think is real. 6 Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with
such a world, and which you think are true. 7 Then let them go, and sink below them
to the holy place where they can enter not. 8 There is a door beneath them in your
mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond. L131 |
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ECKHART
TOLLE
Start listening to
the voice in your head as often as you can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive
thought patterns, those old gramophone records that have been playing in your head
perhaps for many years - be there as the witnessing presence. When you listen to
that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say do not judge .... for doing
so would mean that the same voice has come in again through the back door. Youíll
soon realize: there is the voice, and here I am listening to it, watching it. This
I am realisation, this sense of your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from
beyond the mind.
All cravings are
the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as
a substitute for the joy of Being.
In that state, even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving
for fulfillment or completion in the future.
So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become
present. Be there as the observer of the mind.
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Jiddu
Krishnamurti
Awareness is from moment to moment, it is not the cumulative effect of self-protective
memories. Awareness is not determination nor is it the action of will. Awareness
is the complete and unconditional surrender to what is, without rationalization,
without the division of the observer and the observed. As awareness is non-accumulative,
non-residual, it does not build up the self, positively or negatively. Awareness
is ever in the present and so, non-identifying and non-repetitive; nor does it create
habit.
Just be aware; that is all what you have to do, without condemning, without forcing,
without trying to change what you are aware of. Then you will see that it is like
a tide that is coming in. You cannot prevent the tide from coming in, build a wall,
or do what you will, it will come with tremendous energy. In the same if you are
aware choicelessly the whole field of consciousness begins to unfold. And as it unfolds,
you have to follow and the following becomes extraordinarily difficult - following
in the sense to follow the movement of every thought, of every, feeling, of every
secret desire. It becomes difficult the moment you resist, the moment you say, "that
is ugly" "this is good", "this is bad", "this I will
keep", "that I will not keep".
So you begin with the outer and move inwardly. Then you will find, when you move
inwardly that the inward and the outward are not two different things, and the outward
awareness is not different from the inward awareness, and that they are both the
same.
Self awareness is arduous; to think-out, feel-out every thought-feeling is strenuous;
but this awareness of every thought-feeling will bring to an end the wandering of
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Nisargadatta
Maharaj
All you need is to keep quietly alert,
enquiring into the real nature of yourself.
This is the only way to peace.
The real exists and is of the nature of witness-consciousness.
Of course it is beyond the witness, but to enter it one must first realise the state
of pure witnessing....The witness is the reflection of the real in all its purity....The
state of witnessing is full of power.
There are no conditions to fulfil. There is nothing to be done, nothing to be given
up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not you, nor yours. It is there
in the field of consciousness, but you are not the field and its contents, nor even
the knower of the field. It is your idea that you have to do things that entangle
you in results of your efforts-the motive, the desire, the failure to achieve, the
sense of frustration-all this holds you back. Simply look at whatever happens and
know that you are beyond it.
You need not get at it (Enlightenment), for you are it. It will get at you, if you
give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly
and smoothly slip into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that
and the realisation that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you.
With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment,
but a power which makes all things love - worthy and lovable.
Discover all you are not. Body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, time, space, being and
not being, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract you can point out to is you.
You must watch yourself continuously - particularly your mind - moment by moment,
missing nothing. This witnessing is essential for the separation of the self from
the not-self ........be aware of that state which is only, simply being, without
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Step back from your
experience. Observe yourself, your reactions,
and everything that happens through the eyes of a
compassionate witness. This is what it means to pay attention.
No amount of effort is needed.
No amount of effort will be successful.
And yet, through mindful attention to the
Background of Awareness inherent
within the Present Moment,
Awakening will inevitably dawn upon you.
In that Instant you will delight in the Reality
of who and what you have been all along.
Metta Zetty
Watching is the key,
nothing else matters, slowly slowly an understanding start growing, a witness arises
and this witness is the bud of our being, the miracle that transforms, the miracle
that heals, the miracle that gives birth to your authentic self.
Deeshan
Reading the lives
of saints and mystics may have its place in our livesñthough it would be better if
we had never read themñbut a million times more important is our awareness of every
interior movement and change, even the most subtle, because this is where it is at,
this is where the Spirit is continually moving us, transforming and informing us
in its own particular way. This is where we will learn everything we ever need to
know, and to do this, we must clear our minds of everything else.
Bernadette Roberts - The Path to No-Self
"When will I
be Enlightened?"
"When you see," the Master said.
"See what?"
"Trees and flowers and moon and stars."
"But I see these every day."
"No. What you see is paper trees, paper flowers, paper moons and paper stars.
For you live not in reality but in your words and thoughts."
And for good measure, he added gently,
"You live a paper life, alas, and will die a paper death."
"Is salvation
obtained through action or through meditation?"
"Through neither. Salvation comes from seeing."
"Seeing what?"
"That the gold necklace you wish to acquire is hanging round your neck.
That the snake you are so frightened of is only a rope on the ground."
Anthony de Mello
- One Minute Wisdoms
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