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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 an end the wandering of the
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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, without being this or that or
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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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