the Truth - Mooji

The Truth that you ARE is the only consistent thing about you. Everything else is like a cloud passing. And you are the witness of the clouds passing. But if you are attached to your person, it will not be seen clearly. As soon as you begin to feel the Power of Awakening within you, the Expansiveness the Joy, a contrary power begins to come like a force that arises up to sabotage the probability of Freedom...This force has come to help you because you have to be tested. This force has come, not to make you fail but for you to experience transcendending it. You must transcend because, there is not one single power in the world that is naturally against you, what you ARE. It can only be against the idea you have of what you are. If the idea of who you are survived, you would not wake up to the Truth of who you ARE.

-Sri Mooji-
Rishikesh, 27th February, 2019

on presence is spira

Rupert Spira
Only Presence is

When there is no mind such as in deep sleep or what is normally referred to as ‘loss of consciousness,’ there is indeed no time.

It is only the mind that, on reappearing after deep sleep, imagines deep sleep in its own terms of time and space and, as such, believes it to have lasted in time. But in the experience of deep sleep itself there is no time. Time is made out of the thought that thinks it. No thought, no time. It is also true to say that without time there is no thought. In other words, time and thought both rely on the presence of their non-existent counterpart, thought and time, in order to exist.

Therefore truly, time and thought are not. On your second point, if Consciousness could end, it would have to have a beginning and would itself be limited. However, no one has ever experienced a beginning, end or limit to Consciousness. If Consciousness could disappear it would have to disappear into ‘something.’ What would that something be? It would have, at least, to be present and conscious for this ‘temporary consciousness’ to be made out of it. In other words it would have to be Consciousness.

Normally we think that an object is existent and that it disappears into non-existence. In fact, an object, as such, is non-existent and the apparent ‘non-existence’ into which we imagine the apparent object disappears, is in fact Conscious Presence itself. Both ‘something,’ ‘nothing’ and, therefore, ‘everything’ are illusions. Only Presence is.

Knower - Spira

spira - something, nothing, everything

I Am Something, Nothing, Everything

We go from thinking and feeling ‘I am something’ (that is, ‘I am a body, mind’) and when we explore what we are, we realize ‘No, I am the Awareness or the Aware Presence which Knows the body and the mind’.

In other words, I am not a ‘thing’ (a body and a mind). I am that which Knows that thing. But I myself am not made out of a thing, not made out of a body or a mind. In other words, I am not a thing. I am no-thing (nothing). Yes? So, we go from thinking and feeling ‘I am something’ to realizing ‘I am not a thing; I am nothing. I am just this open, aware Presence’.

Then, when we explore, this nothing, this no-thing-ness that I am, and find out what we, this Presence, really know about our Self, we discover that we don’t have limits, and that we are ever-present.

So, the discovery is that we are unlimited (or infinite, not-finite) …, not made out of something perceivable that has a limit: the infinite, not-finite, unlimited nature of Awareness. We discover that ‘I am ever-present; I am not in time, I am eternally now’. So, Awareness realizes its infinite and eternal nature.

From the point of view of a mind, which believes in the reality of things, it is said to be nothing: I am not a thing.

In fact, Awareness is not nothing. It is Presence and Awareness: that’s quite a lot.

But from the point of view of a mind that only knows things, it is said that what I am is no-thing. So, as a concession to the mind that believes in the reality of things, let’s say that, provisionally, what I am is nothing…, not a thing.

Now, the next stage. When we re-visit our experience of apparent-things (that is, of the mind, the body and the world) from this new perspective in which we have discovered that we are not a thing, and ask ourselves: ‘What is Awareness’ relationship with these apparent things now? (the apparent objects of the mind, the body and the world)’

As we look into them, we find that Awareness is not just the witnessing Presence in the background knowing these apparent objects from a distance, but it is in fact the very substance of these apparent things.

All we know of the world is the perceiving of it.
We don’t actually know a world, we just know perception.
And how close is perception to the one who knows it?

Ask yourself now:
All you know of this room is the seeing of it, yes?
All you know is the experience of seeing.
(Hearing, tasting, smelling, sensing and thinking makes up all experiencing)

In fact, you don’t know a room as it is normally conceived. When I say ‘as it is normally conceived’ I mean ‘as it is normally conceived as a separate, independent object made out of matter’. We don’t experience such a room; we just experience the experience of seeing.

Now, how close is seeing to yourself?

And when I say ‘yourself’ I mean the one that knows it; the one that is aware of it.

How close are these two?
The experience of seeing, and the one that knows it?

Q: They’re inseparable.

R: They’re not even inseparable, they’re closer than inseparable. There aren’t two things there in the first place, yes? It’s the same experience. But you’re right, they’re inseparable. They are not two things: Advaita; there are not two things there.

So, this we express by saying ‘I, this no-thing-ness, am the substance of all seeming-things’.

So, here we’ve moved from the position ‘I am not a thing; I am just this empty Awareness’
to realizing ‘I am the substance; not just the knower of all seeming-things, not just the witnessing consciousness in the background, but the actual substance of all seeming-things’.

So, we’ve gone from a position of ‘I am something’ to ‘I am nothing’
and from ‘I am nothing’ to ‘I am everything’. Yes?

So now, in each of these positions, we’re presuming the existence of things. Each statement makes reference to a ‘thing’. In the first position ‘I am something’. In the next position ‘I am not a thing’. In the third position ‘I am all things’.

But now, where are these ‘things’ that we are referring to? We’ve already seen that we never experience ‘a thing’ as such. Yes? And yet, we’re making a statement about ourself based on the presumption that ‘things are real’. (Presuming):
First of all ‘I am one of those things’.
Then ‘I am none of those things’.
And then ‘I am all of those things’.

But where are these ‘things’ that we are referring to?

So, even ‘I am everything’ is not true. It’s truer than ‘I am nothing’ and in turn, ‘I am nothing’ is truer than ‘I am something’. So, each statement is truer than the previous one. It gets closer, each statement comes closer, to the truth of our experience; and as such, is valid. But even the statement ‘I am everything’ is not true. So then, we drop the ‘all things’ because we don’t experience ‘things’.

Awareness doesn’t experience ‘things’. It just experiences Knowing.
(not the knowing OF things, but just Knowing.)

Awareness just experiences Awareness.

I Am.
Hence, the ‘every-thing’ falls off, and we’re left with ‘I Am’.

And then this ‘I Am’…, The statement ‘I Am’ is a statement: ‘I am present’.

But even here, there is a subtle suggestion in the statement ‘I am present’
that there is something called ‘not present’, ‘not Being’.
I’m making reference to myself as ‘I am Presence’ in contrast to something else that is ‘not’.

But there is no such thing as ‘not being’.
There is nothing that is ‘not present’.

Even the idea of Presence or Being is made in subtle reference to a belief that we have that there is something that disappears, something that was real and has now vanished. But it’s not true. That is never experienced. So then, the ‘am’ vanishes. And we’re just left with ‘I’.

But even ‘I’… what does ‘I’ mean without a reference to something that might not be ‘I’?
It doesn’t mean anything. It’s an abstract sound. It means nothing.

Even the ‘I’ refers to ‘something’ which is different from the ‘not-I’.

So then, here, the mind falls silent.
It cannot describe the nature of reality.
It just doesn’t have the language. It’s not the right tool.
~ ~ ~
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such wisdom

watts flawless pointing

Alan Watts
Excerpt from: The Way Of Meditation
Hide and Seek

“So then, here’s the drama. My metaphysics, let me be perfectly frank with you, is that there is the central Self, you can call it God, you can call it anything you like, and it’s All of Us. It’s playing all the parts of All Beings whatsoever everywhere and anywhere. 

And it’s playing the game of hide and seek with itself. It gets lost, it gets involved in the farthest-out adventures, but in the end it always wakes up and comes back to itself. And when you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re not ready you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a ‘poor little me.’

And since you’re all here and engaged in this sort of enquiry and listening to this sort of lecture, I assume you’re all in the process of waking up. Or else you’re teasing yourselves with some kind of flirtation with waking up which you’re not serious about. But I assume that you are maybe not serious, but sincere, that you are ready to wake up.

So then, when you’re in the way of waking up, and finding out who you are, you meet a character called a guru, as the Hindus say ‘the teacher,’ ‘the awakener.’ And what is the function of a guru? He’s the man that looks you in the eye and says ‘Oh come off it. I know who you are.’

You come to the guru and say ‘Sir, I have a problem. I’m unhappy, and I want to get one up on the universe. I want to become enlightened. I want spiritual wisdom.’ The guru looks at you and says ‘Who are you?’

You know Sri-Ramana-Maharshi, that great Hindu sage of modern times? People used to come to him and say ‘Master, who was I in my last incarnation?’ As if that mattered. And he would say ‘Who is asking the question?’

And he’d look at you and say, get right down to it, ‘You’re looking at me, you’re looking out, and you’re unaware of what’s behind your eyes. Go back in and find out who you are, where the question comes from, why you ask.‘

And if you’ve looked at a photograph of that man–I have a gorgeous photograph of him; I look by it every time I go out the front door. And I look at those eyes, and the humor in them; the lilting laugh that says ‘Oh come off it. Shiva, I recognize you. When you come to my door and say `I’m so-and-so,’ I say `Ha-ha, what a funny way God has come on today.”

So eventually–there are all sorts of tricks of course that gurus play. They say ‘Well, we’re going to put you through the mill.’ And the reason they do that is simply that you won’t wake up until you feel you’ve paid a price for it.

In other words, the sense of guilt that one has. Or the sense of anxiety. It’s simply the way one experiences keeping the game of disguise going on. Do you see that? Supposing you say ‘I feel guilty.’ Christianity makes you feel guilty for existing. That somehow the very fact that you exist is an affront. You are a fallen human being.

I remember as a child when we went to the service of the church on Good Friday. They gave us each a colored postcard with Jesus crucified on it, and it said underneath ‘This I have done for thee. What doest thou for me?’ You felt awful. YOU had nailed that man to the cross.

Because you eat steak, you have crucified Christ. Mythra. It’s the same mystery. And what are you going to do about that? ‘This I have done for thee, what doest thou for me?’ You feel awful that you exist at all.

But that sense of guilt is the veil across the sanctuary. ‘Don’t you DARE come in!’ In all mysteries, when you are going to be initiated, there’s somebody saying ‘Ah-ah-ah, don’t you come in. You’ve got to fulfill this requirement and that requirement, THEN we’ll let you in.’

And so you go through the mill. Why? Because you’re saying to yourself ‘I won’t wake up until I deserve it. I won’t wake up until I’ve made it difficult for me to wake up.

So I invent for myself an elaborate system of delaying my waking up. I put myself through this test and that test, and when I convince myself it’s sufficiently arduous, THEN I at last admit to myself who I really am, and draw aside the veil and realize that after all, when all is said and done, I am that I am, which is the name of God.’

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stillness - tolle

Eckhart Tolle 
Excerpt from: A New Earth 
Unconditioned, Formless, Eternal

It has been said:”Stillness is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” Stillness is really another word for space. Becoming conscious of stillness whenever we encounter it in our lives will connect us with the formless and timeless dimension within ourselves, that which is beyond thought, beyond ego. 

It may be the stillness that pervades the world of nature, or the stillness in your room in the early hours of the morning, or the silent gaps in between sounds. Stillness has no form – that is why through thinking we cannot become aware of it. 

Thought is form. Being aware of stillness means to be still. To be still is to be conscious without thought. You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself, than when you are still. When you are still, you are who you were before you temporarily assumed this physical and mental form called a person. You are also who you will be when the form dissolves. When you are still, you are who you are beyond your temporal existence: consciousness – unconditioned, formless, eternal.

there is no

work on myself

Robert Adams
Excerpt from: Satsang
Transcendence

So this is why I always suggest, work on yourself. Don't worry about the words. Transcend the words. Have the experience for yourself, and then there will be nothing to say. But as long as you are a book reader, you never stop reading. There is a time to read, but there is a time to stop also. There’s a time to put the books aside and to intensely practice, and give your life up to the practice.

What you put first in your life, that's what you get. So think about it. What is first in your life, a book, a house, a job, a body? Whatever you give your attention to most of all, gives its attention back to you.

So if you're always thinking of God, or the self, or consciousness, by chanting to yourself "I am," with your breath, - with your respiration, inhale, you say I, exhale, you say "am," - this will eventually transcend everything else, and you'll begin by feeling a peace that you never felt before, a profound peace.

Then all of a sudden you'll have a feeling of immortality. There will be no words to explain it. You will just realize that you are all-pervading. You have always been all-pervading. There never was a time when you were not. There never was a time when you were born. And there will never be a time when you vanish.

You are omnipresent, absolute reality, ultimate oneness. Your true nature is nirvana, emptiness, I am that I am. You have to discover this for yourself.

nothing - Adams

Robert Adams
1.2.3.

1, you have to develop humility. You have to open your heart to loving kindness.

2, you have to forget about yourself and your problems, as if they never existed, and help others, give of yourself to others, because there is only one self, and I am is that.

3, you have to stop quoting teachers and telling yourself that I am Brahman, I am no-mind, I am consciousness, for that really inflates your ego.

You have to stop comparing yourself with anybody or anything. In other words, you have to become nothing, and that hurts some of you, because you say, "After all I've gone to school for fifty years, I've got a profession, I'm doing this and I'm doing that. And now you tell me I have to become nothing?" Well, consciousness is nothing, it is no thing. What you call God is nothing. So if nothing is good enough for God, it should be good enough for you too.

Can't you see now that when you say to yourself, "Well, I'll never be nothing, I'm somebody. I've studied for years, I'm somebody important," can't you see now that this is what holds you back? Every sage has come to the point where they have thrown away the scriptures, thrown away the books, thrown away their body, thrown away their knowledge, and thrown away themselves with a small s. When you get rid of all that stuff, then you become your self.

Awareness interested in the mind itself

a cosmic joke - adams

Robert Adams Excerpt from: Satsang ‘Follow the I thread to the source and become liberated.’Look at the world. The world is a cosmic joke. It appears to be real, the good things, the beautiful things, the horrible things. They are all imposters. This world is a world of duality. For every good there has to be a bad. It has to balance. For every bad there has to be a good. For every up there’s a down. For every forwards there’s a backward.We can never understand this world. It's too complex. Get out of it, not by committing suicide, but by transcending the mind and body, and awakening to your real self. That's how you get out of it. Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Stop paying so much attention to your thoughts, to the world, to your body. Let come what may. Surrender totally to yourself. Yourself is God, consciousness. Begin to identify with the I am, not with conditions. Leave conditions alone.
As I told you before, you are not responsible for anything. Get rid of your guilt feelings. Turn within. See the truth. Become the truth. Do not look to others for advice, what to do, how to live. Be a lamp unto yourself, as the Buddha said. All the answers are within you.
There is no thing that wants to hurt you. It is all in your imagination. It is your imagination that causes your problems. Now do not let what I tell you make you cynical or sarcastic. While you are on the path of self discovery, you help others. You do what has to be done. It will happen by itself. If you're supposed to feed the homeless, then feed the homeless. It will happen by itself. If you're supposed to go live on top of a mountain, and never see civilization again, it will happen by itself.
Today, think, "What is this thing I am attached to? What is so meaningful for me in this world?" and realize it’s that which is keeping you back. Let go of it mentally, by turning within, and realizing that, "I feel this. I feel I need this." Where does the I come from? Follow the I thread to the source and become liberated.

prayer for pure awareness - mooji

Sri MoojiAmen 🙏ॐMay whatever forces working against your seeing, whatever seems to block you or create disharmony within your being, whatever obstructs your flow for Truth by the power of the living God, may it be driven out, cast aside.In this moment, you receive the inviting of the holy spirit of Truth to drive all these things away. Blessings may be upon those who search for the Truth. May your denying mind blow away like the nothing it is, like clouds in the wind.
May your Heart embrace the Truth and the true conviction, so that you may know beyond doubt that you are here, timelessly.
May no force on earth come up against your true intention and desire of your Heart.
May the full light of Truth and the blessing of the Supreme Being enter and protect you from the dark forces of the psychological mind so that you win Freedom.
May your awakening not sway and become a nostalgia for you, but be established in your Heart for all time. Wherever you are, let your Heart be open to embrace the all-possible, the Truth, so that you overcome all the sorrows and suffering and find everlasting peace and joy, for this is your natural state, your natural being.
You did not come here for just fleeting experiences, but to be established and rooted in the Truth so that those things that seem to distract your mind now thin away and become nothing for you.
May your light shine brightly in this world...your Heart is the light of this world, don't let your mind hide it.
Amen.

everything is mind - adams

Everything that your senses show you is an emanation of the mind. Think about that! Everything in this universe, person, place or thing, everything, your body, your thoughts, creation, God, everything you can think about, everything, and I mean everything, is a projection of your mind. When you close your eyes, it goes away. When you sleep you transcend it. But when you are awake, the world exists. The world only exists because your mind exists, and your mind exists because your ego exists. Then who am I? Keep silent for a while. You know it's working when you start to feel a quiet, loving feeling. You start to feel a peace you have not felt before. You start to feel that all is well. You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car, while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are, and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.

- Robert Adams

mooji - flip over to awareness

Sri Mooji
Do you feel the difference?

Contemplate deeply what I am about to say now. Grasp it and you will be out of the mind-trap for good!

You say you are trying very hard to be the Presence. But That which is observing the effort to be the Presence, is that making any effort? The flip-side of the ego is pure Awareness. Flick over into the Awareness position in which the effort to be the Presence is seen in much the same way as you would watch a movie of yourself. The one watching the movie is separate from the image of himself which is unreal.

There is a natural detachment present. That which is observing the effort, can it be other than your Self, the living, unchanging Source? Pay attention to yourself as the serene and formless Seer instead of identifying with the frustrated seeker. Do you feel the difference?

Confirm your Reality here as the formless observing. You are already the 'somewhere' you are trying to get to. Be clear about this in your Heart. That's it - job done

wisdom

formless sky, purity

simple pointings/knowings,,,from Nisargadatta, Tolle

adams - dust in the wind

no intention

i am totally in love with nothing - mooji

new wisdom

happiness is an attribute of Love

All Illusions Have a Reality to Them

the mind is not yours ashtavakra gita

Become Interested in the Experience of Being Aware

The whole universe is a puppet show-Adams

There is no-one on this earth who does anything.
The whole universe is a puppet show.
We're dancing the dance of Shiva.
We think we're something important.
But we're really nothing as we appear.
Your job is to observe to watch,
to see what's going on and not to react to anything that is happening
but to stay separate from the happenings.
To separate yourself from what is happening.
What's happening is happening to the 'I', to the ego, not to you.
Nothing can ever happen to you.
For your true nature is Brahman, absolute reality, pure awareness.
This is what you really are whether you like it or not.
Yes you are God whether you like it or not.
Whether you care or you don't, you are God.
So what are you going to do about it.

All you really have to do is to know who you are, to know yourself.
Not intellectually, not physically, but consciously.
When you see yourself consciously as God
you will see the whole universe as your Self.
Everything in this whole universe will become you.
There will be no separation between you and your fellow man,
the animals and the minerals and the flowers.
It will all be one.
They'll be you. You are that!

~ Robert Adams

Silence is my nature-Papaji

“Your nature is Silence and it is not attainable, It always Is.”
~ Papaji