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Awareness
cleaned my mind
to a polished mirroring.
The presence came near, and I knew
that That was everything,
and I nothing.
Lalla
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- A
Course in Miracles
- Eckhart
Tolle
- Jiddu
Krishnamurti
- Nisargadatta
Maharaj
- Others
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A COURSE IN
MIRACLES
Vigilance was required of me as much as of you, and those who choose to
teach the same thing must be in agreement about what they believe. A
Course in Miracles T-6.V.C.9:9
Light cannot penetrate through the walls you make to block it, and it
is forever unwilling to destroy what you have made. 4 No one can see
through a wall, but I can step around it. 5 Watch your mind for the
scraps of fear, or you will be unable to ask me to do so. T-4.III.7.
Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived
by it. 2 It offers you nothing. 3 When you have given up this voluntary
dis-spiriting, you will see how your mind can focus and rise above
fatigue and heal. 4 Yet you are not sufficiently vigilant against the
demands of the ego to disengage yourself. T-4.IV.6.
As you survey your inner world, merely let whatever thoughts cross your
mind come into your awareness, each to be considered for a moment, and
then replaced by the next. 2 Try not to establish any kind of hierarchy
among them. 3 Watch them (thoughts) come and go as dispassionately as
possible. 4 Do not dwell on any one in particular, but try to let the
stream move on evenly and calmly, without any special investment on
your part. W-pi.31.3.
For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are
closed, the senseless world you think is real. 6 Review the thoughts as
well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are
true. 7 Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where
they can enter not. 8 There is a door beneath them in your mind, which
you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond. L131 |
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ECKHART TOLLE
Start listening to the voice in your head as often as you
can. Pay particular attention to any repetitive thought patterns, those
old gramophone records that have been playing in your head perhaps for
many years - be there as the witnessing presence. When you listen to
that voice, listen to it impartially. That is to say do not judge ....
for doing so would mean that the same voice has come in again through
the back door. Youíll soon realize: there is the voice, and here
I am listening to it, watching it. This I am realisation, this sense of
your own presence, is not a thought. It arises from beyond the mind.
All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in
external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.
In that state, even my desire to become free or enlightened is just
another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future.
So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment.
Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Awareness is from moment to moment, it is not the cumulative effect of
self-protective memories. Awareness is not determination nor is it the
action of will. Awareness is the complete and unconditional surrender
to what is, without rationalization, without the division of the
observer and the observed. As awareness is non-accumulative,
non-residual, it does not build up the self, positively or negatively.
Awareness is ever in the present and so, non-identifying and
non-repetitive; nor does it create habit.
Just be aware; that is all what you have to do, without condemning,
without forcing, without trying to change what you are aware of. Then
you will see that it is like a tide that is coming in. You cannot
prevent the tide from coming in, build a wall, or do what you will, it
will come with tremendous energy. In the same if you are aware
choicelessly the whole field of consciousness begins to unfold. And as
it unfolds, you have to follow and the following becomes
extraordinarily difficult - following in the sense to follow the
movement of every thought, of every, feeling, of every secret desire.
It becomes difficult the moment you resist, the moment you say, "that
is ugly" "this is good", "this is bad", "this I will keep", "that I
will not keep".
So you begin with the outer and move inwardly. Then you will find, when
you move inwardly that the inward and the outward are not two different
things, and the outward awareness is not different from the inward
awareness, and that they are both the same.
Self awareness is arduous; to think-out, feel-out every thought-feeling
is strenuous; but this awareness of every thought-feeling will bring to
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Nisargadatta Maharaj
All you need is to keep quietly alert,
enquiring into the real nature of yourself.
This is the only way to peace.
The real exists and is of the nature of witness-consciousness.
Of course it is beyond the witness, but to enter it one must first
realise the state of pure witnessing....The witness is the reflection
of the real in all its purity....The state of witnessing is full of
power.
There are no conditions to fulfil. There is nothing to be done, nothing
to be given up. Just look and remember, whatever you perceive is not
you, nor yours. It is there in the field of consciousness, but you are
not the field and its contents, nor even the knower of the field. It is
your idea that you have to do things that entangle you in results of
your efforts-the motive, the desire, the failure to achieve, the sense
of frustration-all this holds you back. Simply look at whatever happens
and know that you are beyond it.
You need not get at it (Enlightenment), for you are it. It will get at
you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and
the real will swiftly and smoothly slip into its own. Stop imagining
yourself being or doing this or that and the realisation that you are
the source and heart of all will dawn upon you. With this will come
great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a
power which makes all things love - worthy and lovable.
Discover all you are not. Body, feelings, thoughts, ideas, time, space,
being and not being, this or that - nothing concrete or abstract you
can point out to is you. You must watch yourself continuously -
particularly your mind - moment by moment, missing nothing. This
witnessing is essential for the separation of the self from the
not-self ........be aware of that state which is only, simply being,
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Step back from your experience. Observe yourself, your
reactions,
and everything that happens through the eyes of a
compassionate witness. This is what it means to pay attention.
No amount of effort is needed.
No amount of effort will be successful.
And yet, through mindful attention to the
Background of Awareness inherent
within the Present Moment,
Awakening will inevitably dawn upon you.
In that Instant you will delight in the Reality
of who and what you have been all along.
Metta Zetty
Watching is the key, nothing else matters, slowly slowly an
understanding start growing, a witness arises and this witness is the
bud of our being, the miracle that transforms, the miracle that heals,
the miracle that gives birth to your authentic self.
Deeshan
Reading the lives of saints and mystics may have its place in
our livesñthough it would be better if we had never read
themñbut a million times more important is our awareness of
every interior movement and change, even the most subtle, because this
is where it is at, this is where the Spirit is continually moving us,
transforming and informing us in its own particular way. This is where
we will learn everything we ever need to know, and to do this, we must
clear our minds of everything else.
Bernadette Roberts - The Path to No-Self
"When will I be Enlightened?"
"When you see," the Master said.
"See what?"
"Trees and flowers and moon and stars."
"But I see these every day."
"No. What you see is paper trees, paper flowers, paper moons and paper
stars.
For you live not in reality but in your words and thoughts."
And for good measure, he added gently,
"You live a paper life, alas, and will die a paper death."
"Is salvation obtained through action or through meditation?"
"Through neither. Salvation comes from seeing."
"Seeing what?"
"That the gold necklace you wish to acquire is hanging round your neck.
That the snake you are so frightened of is only a rope on the ground."
Anthony de Mello - One Minute Wisdoms
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