“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.”
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“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Seeing into darkness is clarity.
Knowing how to yield is strength.
Use your own light and return to the source of light.”
Lao Tzu
“Happiness is never your own; it is where the ‘I’ is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.”
Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Be very careful about wanting enlightenment. This is a bad zen sickness. When you keep a clear mind, the whole universe is you, you are the universe. So you have already attained enlightenment. Wanting enlightenment is only thinking. It is something extra, like painting legs on the picture of a snake. Already the snake is complete as it is. Already the truth is before your eyes.”
— Zen Master Seung Sahn
““If you have this category called helping people you can’t help anyone. It’s like if you’re a parent of a baby or a toddler and you hear them crying in the middle of the night you don’t sit there and say ‘how can I help this person?’ You just get up and pick them up and you try to figure out whether they need a diaper change or they need to be fed or whatever it is and you do it. So there’s no idea of helping people. If you have an idea of helping people then you have a problem because it comes between you and the situation. Any idea — whether it’s happiness or compassion or helping people or sadness or grief or whatever — any idea comes between us and experience. If you have the idea of happiness then you have something to cling to and then immediately you have a problem. Just: every moment, every moment — what is this, what is this, what is this. What is the situation, what is your relationship to the situation, what is your function in that situation. Then happiness comes, no problem, happiness goes away, no problem. Helping people, no problem, not helping people, no problem…””
— Zen Master Bon Hae (Judy Roitman)
“Many seekers, when they begin to understand, on an intellectual level, that all of this is as a dream, quickly come up with the question, "Well then, how do I get out of the dream?", as if that is the next logical step…. as if the mind thinking is the one realizing that this is a dream, is not itself illusory, part of the dream. Anything that can arise here in the dream, including thoughts like these and characters like the one you call ‘yourself’ are necessarily themselves dream thoughts and dream characters.
Nisargadatta Maharaj stated:
"The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of the dream and not another. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs to be done." But just because ‘these minds,' here in the dream, are conditioned to think in terms of dualism does not mean they are not capable of thinking otherwise. Just that it is a very unusual and sometimes awkward transition requiring much stretching of boundaries.
It is interesting that most Advaitic teachers do not talk of 'the one’. The word Advaita means 'not two’ and that is the phrase that is used. To say 'God' and creation, or un-manifested source and the manifestation, or what-Is and the dream, are 'not two' seems at first a little awkward, but it is used this way to address a certain maddening confusion that can arise, in which 'oneness' can be taken to represent the dualistic opposite of separation. In phenomenon, the manifestation, one half of a dualistic pair cannot exist without the other; so in that sense, one can think there has to be separation in order for there to be oneness. But beyond dualism, in unitive consciousness, unity and separation are 'not two’ consciousness and the manifestation are 'not two’ there is only unity; *separation has never existed.”*
David Carse
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
-Rabindranath Tagore
The ocean doesn’t complain about the dance of ten million waves; so don’t be concerned with the rise and fall of thoughts.
— Papaji
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Spiritual awakening is about discovering what’s true. Anything that’s not about getting to the truth must be discarded. Truth isn’t about knowing things; you already know too much. It’s about unknowing. It’s not about becoming true; it’s about unbecoming false so that all that’s left is truth.
— Jed McKenna
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.
-Eckhart Tolle
Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind has built around you.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Outwardly, I am one apple among many. Inwardly, I am the Tree.
— AlanWatts
There’s nobody to teach anything. Consciousness speaks.
Eckhart Tolle
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