NOTHING SEPARATE

The flower cannot be by herself alone.  The flower has to inter-be with the sunshine, the cloud and everything in the cosmos.  If we understand being in terms of inter-being, then we are much closer to the truth.  Inter-being is not being and it is not non-being. Inter-being means at the same time being empty of a separate identity; empty of a separate self.
                              
                                                                                                         ~Thich Nhat Hanh~

WHO SEARCHES?

"The search for Truth is the hardest thing I have ever done.
There is nothing I can do", you say.
Actually...no.  There is nothing 'you' can do...
You are a ghost!
An apparition appearing inside your own SELF.
          ~Mooji~

ALL THAT REMAINS

Kill me, my faithful friends...
for in my being killed is my life.
Love is that you remain standing
in front of your Beloved,
when you are stripped of all your attributes;
Then His attributes become your qualities.
Between me and You, there is only me.
Take away the me, so only You remain
          ~Mansoor Al Hallaj~

IDENTIFICATION

"If the ' I ' is identified with the body and person then it becomes the person's
responsibility to take care of the bodily life.  But if the ' I '' becomes identified
as consciousness then it is the universe's responsibility to take care of the
body and the body's life and it will do a better job than your mind can do.
Then you'll see this world is not your enemy.  It will provide for you."
          Mooji

"WE DON'T DESERVE RESOLUTION"

"As human beings, not only do we seek resolution
but we also feel that we deserve resolution.
However, not only do we not deserve resolution,
we suffer from resolution.
We don't deserve resolution; we deserve something better than that.
We deserve our birthright, which is the middle way;
an open state of mind that can relax with paradox and ambiguity.
To the degree that we've been avoiding uncertainty,
we're naturally going to have withdrawal symptoms--
withdrawal from always thinking that there's a problem
and that someone, somewhere needs to fix it".
                                                                   Pema Chodron

NOTHING TO REALIZE - (and WHO gives up?)

"There is no such thing as realizing the self.  How is one to realize or make real what is real?  People all realize, or regard as real what is unreal, and all they have to do is give that up."

                    Ramana Maharshi

BLOW IT ALL UP!

"Do you really want to erase all your deluded beliefs, memories, stories, tendencies and identities one by one, or would you prefer to find the factory where they are produced, and blow the whole thing up?

I say this because right now, I don't have time for all this tiny pruning.  You hold on to your little nail clipper, but I am giving you a great chainsaw to bring down this old tree of suffering.

The chainsaw is self-inquiry.
This is your good fortune.

Mooji

SILENCE

"Silence is the most powerful form of teaching transmitted from Master to adept.  The soundless voice is pure intuition. It is the voice of spiritual sound speaking in our innermost being..."
 
              Ramana Maharshi

VISION OF THE DIVINE

Mud existed before plates and pots were made out of it; pots and plates are mud, and mud will remain when plates and pots are no more. The plate and the pot must be aware of their being always mud; that in other words, is Self-Realisation. When that is achieved, wherever your eyes are cast, you will find yourself; and wherever your attention is directed, you will see your reflection. Begin to feel it now, from this very moment! Seek to identify yourself as part of the grand and glorious Entity, for all Grandeur and all Glory is His, ultimately! 
                      Sri Sathya Sai Baba

ONE WITH THE STARS...

Often you are aware that there is something behind and beyond all the fleeting fantasy; something that persists through all the successes and defeats, the tears and smiles, the mirth and moan - but you are unable to grasp it and realize that it is the same Entity that underlies the entire Universe. You are indeed one with the most distant star and the least little blade of grass – you shine as dew on the petal of the rose, you are part and parcel of all this manifestation! The scriptures teach you this truth through many a parable, and even directly through the experience of saints and mystics. Through meditation and practice of spiritual discipline, you can be aware of yourselves as all this. Hanuman may have the form of a monkey, but do not get carried away by the outer casement (Upadhi). The Lord was His very breath; every hair-end of Hanuman echoed with Lord Rama's Name.
                                                                          SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

THE COSMIC DANCE

Shiva Nataraj, in his manifestation as Lord of the Dance, dances to the rhythm of his own drum.  Dancing is unlike walking or running in that you don't go anywhere.  At the end you are where you were in the beginning.  Shiva doesn't go anywhere and he doesn't create anything.  He doesn't maintain anything and he doesn't destroy anything.  The destruction of the universe is merely the collapse of illusion.  Shiva's dance is pure movement, a play of consciousness, but from the rhythm of the drum comes the seeds of language beginning with his five-syllable mantra:

om namah shivaya!

Hari Puri  

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Rampuri

You and I

   The bird with you, the wings with Me;

The foot with you, the way with Me;
The eye with you, the form with Me;
The thing with you, the dream with Me;
So are we free, so are we bound;
So we begin and so we end;
You in Me and I in you.

       Sri Sathya Sai Baba 

Meditation

What is meditation?
Meditation is not this body-mind meditating as an individual, but it is this knowledge ‘I am’, this consciousness, meditating on itself.

    Nisargadatta Maharaj

Silence and Self Discovery

Silence is the true upadesa. It is the perfect upadesa. It is suited only for the most advanced. Others are unable to draw full inspiration from it. Therefore they require words to explain the Truth. But Truth is beyond words. It does not admit or explain. It merely indicates the truth through self-discovery.”

                   Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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Welcome All...

This human being is a guest house.

Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness, 

some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

Jalaluddin Rumi

The Basis of All Being

You are the Formless come in the form of man, the infinite, come in the role of the finite, the Formless Infinite appearing as the formful infinitesimal, the Absolute pretending to be the Relative, the Atma behaving as the body, the Metaphysical masquerading as the merely physical.  The Universal Self is the basis of all being.  The sky was there before houses were built under it; it penetrated and pervaded them for some time; then, the houses crumbled and became heaps and mounds; but, the sky was not affected at all.  So too, the Atma pervades the body and subsists even when the body is reduced to dust.

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Ego/mind

It is as much the nature of the ego/mind to resist what is, as it is for the heart to beat.
Just watch and see it at work.  No resistance...no mind.

Peace beneath a single roof

When will you learn, O mind,

to sleep in perfect comfort,

between the captivating lovers,

holiness and defilement?

Only when you can keep

these two consorts peaceful

beneath a single roof

will you truly encounter

the brilliance of the Goddess.

Ramakrishna Paramahansa

From The Great Swan by Lex Hixon

Accident prone

Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us
accident prone.   Suzuki Roshi

From fullness to fullness in fullness...

Yanni wrote: "When Al (Drucker) was staying in the house with Baba in Kodicanal, Baba was repeating this mantra softly, sweetly, endlessly".

AUM
PUR - NA - MA - DA (That is full)
PUR - NA - MI - DAM (This is full)
PUR - NAT (From that full... )
PUR - NA - MU - DAT - CHA - TE (This full was created)
PUR - NAS - YA (And that full)
PUR - NA - MA - DA - YA (Remains ever full)
PUR - NA - ME - VA (And this fullness is no less than that)
VA - SHISH - YA - TE (All is equal ever expanding fullness)


Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti