Monday, December 31, 2012

We're Dreaming


My heart wants you awake. I see you suffer in your dream and I know that you must wake up to end your woes. When you see your dream as dream, you wake up. But in your dream itself I am not interested. Enough for me to know that you must wake up. You need not bring your dream to a definite conclusion, or make it noble, or happy, or beautiful; all you need is to realize that you are dreaming. Stop imagining, stop believing. See the contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the human state, the need to go beyond. Within the immensity of space floats a tiny atom of consciousness and in it the entire universe is contained.

Nisargadatta

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Only Imagination Suffers

There is only imagination. It has absorbed you so completely that you just cannot grasp how far from reality you have wandered. No doubt imagination is richly creative. Universe upon universe are built on it. Yet they are all in space and time, past and future, which just don't exist. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The Truth


You think you are coming and going, passing through various states and moods. I see things as they are, momentary events, presenting themselves to me in rapid succession, deriving their being from me, yet definitely neither me nor mine. Among phenomena I am not one, nor subject to any. I am independent so simply and totally, that your mind, accustomed to opposition and denial, cannot grasp it. I mean literally what I say; I do not need oppose, or deny, because it is clear to me that I cannot be the opposite or denial of anything. I am just beyond, in a different dimension altogether. Do not look for me in identification with, or opposition to something: I am where desire, and fear are not.
Nisargadatta

Salvation is undoing


Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Resistence


What you resist persists, because by resiting something you give it the energy of your attention.

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Think


There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. You think you know yourself when you know what you are. But you never know who you are. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot. See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and describable. You are not. Refuse to think of yourself in terms of this or that. There is no other way out of misery, which you have created for yourself through blind acceptance without investigation. Suffering is a call for enquiry, all pain needs investigation. Don't be too lazy to think.

Nisargadatta

Saturday, December 1, 2012

I am open to You


Freedom


Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.

Even the sense of 'I am' is composed of the pure light and the sense of being. The 'I' is there even without the 'am'. So is the pure light there whether you say 'I' or not. Become aware of that pure light and you will never lose it. The beingness in being, the awareness in consciousness, the interest in every experience—that is not describable, yet perfectly, for there is nothing else.

Nisargadatta

Friday, November 30, 2012

ACIM Lords Prayer


Forgive us our illusions, Father, and help us to accept our true relationship with You, in which there are no illusions, and where none can ever enter. Our holiness is Yours. What can there be in us that needs forgiveness when Yours is perfect? The sleep of forgetfulness is only the unwillingness to remember Your forgiveness and Your Love. Let us not wander into temptation, for the temptation of the Son of God is not Your Will. And let us receive only what You have given, and accept but this into the minds which You created and which You love. Amen (T-16.VII.12:1-7).

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Silent Awareness


Only silent awareness doesn’t come and go. Only silent awareness is found in all that does come and go. 

Monday, November 26, 2012

Sight


"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." - Anais Nin

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Peace


To bring about peace means to be free from thoughts and to abide as Pure Consciousness. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Reality


All you can do is to grasp the central point, that reality is not an event and does not happen and whatever happens, whatever comes and goes, is not reality. See the event as event only, the transient as transient, experience as mere experience and you have done all you can. Then you are vulnerable to reality, no longer armoured against it, as you were when you gave reality to events and experiences. But as soon as there is some like or dislike, you have drawn a screen.
Nisargadatta

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

clueless


  • If there's an area of your life where you have a chronic problem, try this: tell God that you are clueless, that everything you've tried hasn't worked, and that you throw yourself completely on His power because you're fully convinced now that of yourself you're helpless in this area.
    What happens next will amaze you...
 
Marianne Williamson

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Take the i out


Just remove the "I" out of existence and see what happens.

Friday, November 16, 2012

flow


Dipping a bucket in a river it does not capture the flow, and concepts and words cannot capture life. We must not mistake them for what is.

john greer publis

The world


Where are problems when there is no world for them to appear in? Where is the world when not thought of? Who wants to hear or read this?

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Christ


"{Christ} has need of your most holy mind to save the world. Is not this purpose worthy to be yours?" -A Course in Miracles

No-thing

"Self" is nothing appearing as everything.

"Everything" is a story, included "ego".

So, the "Source" of every thought is "No-thing".

How can you understand "No-thing"?

You can only understand "something", which again, is an appearance in "Nothingness".

"Pure Awareness" is another concept for "Nothing" or "Self".

Saturday, November 10, 2012

Castles In The Air


Momentary relief from pain we call pleasure-and we build castles in the air hoping for endless pleasure which we call happiness.

Friday, November 9, 2012

The Miracle


Walking


If you knew Who walks beside you on this way, which you have chosen, fear would be impossible. A Course in Miracles

Differences


As a matter of fact, all realization is only sharing. You enter a wider consciousness and share in it. Unwillingness to enter and to share is the only hindrance. I never talk of differences, for to me there are none. You do, so it is up to you to show them to me. By all means, show me the differences. For this you will have to understand me, but then you will no longer talk of differences. Understand one thing well, and you have arrived. What prevents you from knowing is not the lack of opportunity, but the lack of ability to focus in your mind what you want to understand. If you could but keep in mind what you do not know, it would reveal to you its secrets. But if you are shallow and impatient, not earnest enough to look and wait, you are like a child crying for the moon.

Nisargadatta

Responsibility