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