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Chronic777
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering",
"A life lived for others is a life worth while"
Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe -- a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein.
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
Edited by Chronic777 (03/16/08 06:07 AM)
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Chronic777
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"He who seeks god, finds himself, He who seeks himself, finds god"
"If you are one, you wont experience one, you experience two, a knife can cut many vegetables, yet can not cut itself, as it is one thing, a scale can weigh many things, yet it can not weigh itself"
Mooji
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
Edited by Chronic777 (03/03/08 03:38 PM)
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Chronic777
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"What you are searching for is where you are already searching from"
St Francis
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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When we look with the 'I' We dream. When we look for the 'I' We awaken.
I am not a speaker nor a preacher. I have no mission to change the world. I have no original words or teaching to give anyone. I reflect only what I've seen and heard - most ordinary, very common. I have no fascination for fresh ideas and activity. All enthusiasm for worldly endeavours and strivings have all but gone. For me, thoughts, words and deeds- the activities of life, are merely the utensils for serving out the 'prasad' of the Being-ness.
Every thought and every breath is a breath and a thought occurring in awareness; And we are that awareness, That thought-less and breath-less awareness.
All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything.
While you are so busy you are kissed by grace, but you are not thankful for it because it strips you bare, and all your intentions fall away, leaving you as this indescribable 'here now' quality-less presence. This is the state of the Unborn.
When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self.
Being here really is just the invitation to rest as Being. There is nothing you have to do. It is not an invitation to become. You will not be scrutinized, your actions compared with those of others. That's just unicorn food. Let your river flow as it pleases. Simply observe and recognise that all is unfolding spontaneously when that inner journalist- the ego, is exposed as a myth.
First sort yourself out by understanding what you truly are, through recognising what you are not and your world, a projection of your psyche, will become increasingly beautiful and peaceful, for the world is nothing but the reflection of your inner state.
Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the True and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being.
A thought may arise: 'It's okay now, but it's going to be different when I step out the door'. Already you are anticipating your downfall. Recognise these as just thoughts. You can just watch them, feel their pull yet observe them as a movement in consciousness. Stay put as formless awareness.
Bondage and liberation are conceptual traps which, through the illusory power of mahamaya (cosmic mind), deludes the already free beingness, thus converting it into the illusory 'seeker' entity. We are conscious presence only, eternally free, formless, happy and whole. The good news of satsang is this: YOU ARE THAT ! effortlessly witnessing the consciousness expressing. Yet we remain untouched as timeless existence, awareness-joy absolute.
The operation of consciousness has created the 'apparition' called 'me'.
The mind in the form of the 'I' concept has hidden your original peace, Joy and Love and is now promising to show you how to find them.
That principle that manifest as the master, is ever Here Now. The true master never dies. It is the mister that dies. The true master, that Sat-Guru within, alone is the Real.
(Mooji speaking of the passsing away of his master, Papaji)
My love, leave behind all this fruitless thinking And come lay down here in the silence of Being.
Water has no shape, its nature is to flow. If you put it into a vase it will take the shape of the vase. In this cup, it has assumed the shape of the cup. If poured into my cupped hands it will take the shape of the hands. But water has no shape. It is the same with the consciousness, which is subtler than water. It similarly has no form, but it assumes the form of whatever concept it is poured into or identifies with, but it will never be the form. It remains ever its formless nature.
Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Nor does he beg. Remember, you are the Inner reality~pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don't bother with all that. Rest only as the awareness. This is the secret.
Be still and cool in your own Mind and spirit.
I am the great waters. Upon my face, the primordial pen of Mahamaya writes incessantly the lives and destinies of all living beings. Every wave, each ripple, the subtlest movement, is my dancing. Yet I, the pure Reality, remain ever untouched, unaffected. Glorious and beyond all concepts, I, the unimaginable, the formless Absolute, Alone AM.
Ripeness is an idea. If you cling to it as an idea it will choke you. It will keep you seeking for more ripeness. You are beyond ripe and beyond ready. What I am really pointing to is what you already are, not what you should become.
Beingness is not an achievement. You need not do, undo or change anything in order to be. The true Being is inscrutable and beyond Knowledge. It cannot be found in the objective or phenomenal sense, for beingness is the formless field within which the very urge to seek arises. YOU ALREADY ARE THAT. There is no particular quality to THIS THAT IS, so don't join anything to it. The full grasping of this ever present fact shines as joy, compassion, peace and contentment.
Your life is unfolding naturally. Leave it be! It does not need any help. Stay as neutral awareness.
Look! I'm not inviting you to learn this, but to actually recognise this in your seeing, here now, directly. Otherwise you may leave here with you may call 'a better understanding' but it will not last. There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.
Just feel that 'stuff', allow it to be expressed, it flows within the human expression of consciousness, let it be. Because when it has been given the room to express itself, then the space behind, which is joyful, steady and tranquil will come to the front, only don't name this enlightenment and then feel that you've gained something; instead recognise and pay full attention to the unchanging silence which is the substratum of all that is appearing in the mind.
Just see, nothing is actually touching you when you just observe, when you don't say 'this should not be'. Pay attention to this wonderful power in you. Just witness without judgement, interference or attachment. Give it a chance.
Thank the great Spirit within for all That life brings. All is a gift; the sweet As well as the bitter. All is for your Growth, freedom and celebration. Be happy. This is blessedness. When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate and communicate with others easily and spontaneously as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, unknowingly inspire others to be themselves. Because you recognize and are confirmed in your real nature, you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them. This is compassion.
You never have to prove your own worth, for you are already complete within as the beloved child of the Divine. Be happy.
As an old pot is not polished without scrubbing, so is the mind not purified without trials; but the pure Self is ever perfect.
Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.
Joy and peace are not found without. They are discovered within, as your own inherent nature.
When the various rivers flow into the great Ocean They lose their individual names and become Ocean only. When the raindrop is falling towards the Ocean, It may experience some fear. But when it touches the Ocean, can it tell the story Of this meeting?
...Focus your mind on 'I am', which is pure and simple being. You are Here and Now only. Contemplate what it is to be fully 'Here' and fully 'Now'. For this you must leave all else; stay only as here-now Conscious presence. This is Heart. This is Self.
Mind is the 'Opium' of the beingness.
The mind is restless with the urge to accomplish or become. You cannot reach or become beingness, for beingness is already what you are. Rest in that as that. Enjoy and be fullfilled in this knowning. This is real knowledge, satisfaction and contentment.
When you move towards the satsang invitation with trust, you will experience the sense of yourself going closer and deeper until, at a certain point you see that 'closer and deeper' are mere ideas arising in your own Self -The Immutable Presence Within.
A starving man is not 'interested' in food, nor is a drowning man 'interested' in air. For one longing for Liberation, Self-knowledge is not an interest, it's vital.
That, within which even silence is heard; before perception arose. Which, itself, perceives perceiving. That concept-less and Immutable Being-ness. That alone Is. -That we are.
We need the mirror to see that the personal is not. Self-enquiry is the mirror.
When you are curious - you learn. When you are desperate - you discover.
We feel we sometimes lose or leave this. But this 'I who leaves' is the mind only - a thought. How can we Leave our Self? Can the wave (the mind) exist apart from the ocean? (the Self) 'Losing and gaining' are simply notions arising in the Unchanging presence we already are.
Only now Is, and you are that. Stay as that. There cannot be any memory in now; for memory is past- not now. There cannot be a history of now- for now is fresh; it has no fragrance, and no 'one' to smell it. Stay as now beyond any concept of now, and any concept of staying.
If you want to make God laugh Just tell Him about your plans!
Beloved, welcome home to your own Self. Rest in Self as Self. Now, whichever way you turn, Behold within, the infinite bliss of Being.
My love, stay here. Going in search of Self (as a goal) is illusion; You are already the One Self. You will purchase the map, Only to find you are already Here.
When life sends you chilies - make chili con carne!
Each contact is an opportunity for your own unique satsang with your Self; not in some strained or contrived way, but by keeping your mind inside your heart; by trusting the Inner Guru and by recognizing each moment as perfect in itself; and by simply being your Self. This is the true and natural responsibility or rather 'Response-ability ', the ability to respond effortlessly to the needs of the moment.
My God, my God, Why have I forsaken Thee?
Develop the habit of thinking of yourself as consciousness, Not as the body or a person. Do not associate yourself with any object or concept, however appealing, and the personal, the cause of all miseries will dissolve. Remain in the state of space-like awareness, free from all notions. This is the path-less path to timeless Awareness.
All is perfection only. Perfection is everywhere to behold; But first you must have the eyes to see it. Only the one with perfect eyes can see Perfection. Think of yourself, And a subtle image is formed Inside the mind. You are not this nor any image or thought. You are the Silent and formless Awareness Within which innumerable impressions appear And disappear without trace.
Forgiveness, openness and understanding Flow naturally where there is compassion.
Stop right here! Don't think more - it is quite enough. Don't say more - it is quite enough. Don't strive more - it is quite enough. Now, don't touch any idea of moving forward, -simply rest as This, as it is, Without that, as it could be. Now drop the idea of being This.
Detached observing leaves no footprints in the Beingness.
Drop the belief that you need more time and experience to get this; for that is merely another idea arising in the time-less Being. You know that you are. In order to negate or affirm anything, you must already be there prior to whatever you will negate or affirm. You cannot be that which you perceive. You are the perceiving core. Rest as that. To grasp this is instant freedom, to miss this is bondage.
You are total unicity beyond duality. That you are. You are so one with yourself that you cannot perceive yourself. You can only imagine that you are other than that. It is like a knife that can cut so many vegetables but cannot cut itself because it is one with itself, or the scale which can weigh so many objects but cannot weigh itself. It is the same with the one supreme Self- the sole Reality, being ever One with itself, it cannot perceive that which it Is; it can only perceive what it is not.
Don't fix anything I'm saying here for the moment. Don't make tatoos out of these utterances, Just stay open, silent and receptive and the work of grace will unfold naturally.
...such is the nature of all thoughts and sensations, they come and go. Your previous problems seemed equally as pressing and important in their time as your current problem now does, but they are no more, absent from the present by the force of nature. If such is the nature of thoughts and feelings, surely your present difficulties share the same destiny. Why worry about it? All these movements are witnessed in you and by you as pure awareness. Stay as That!
You don't need any symbols here. No support. That self-knowingness which arises within this form as 'I AM' is enough. Only don't associate any concepts with that. Stay as That. It is self-fulfilling.
Oh my Lord, Today Remove whatever remains.
Now, after all is said and done, What remains? Only that which is not conveyed by any words nor revealed through any activity. Nothing gained and nothing lost- Simply that unspoilt and unspoilable awareness we are.
Attempting to identify with the source is an idea. You are already that.
Something brought you here. Something inside is delighted to be reminded - you are nobody.
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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"Rather than continuing to seek the truth, simply let go of your views."
Gautama Buddha.
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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Bob Marley
"When the morning gather the rainbow, Want you to know, Im a rainbow too now, To the rescue, here I am!"
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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The root cause of all suffering is the sense of separate existence. We have a divisive consciousness that perceives things as the me and the not me, the mine and the not mine, as my people and yours, as my nation and yours. Having divided all things, we feel threatened by the other. Fear in turn breeds war, conflict and further forms of violence.
Are we then beyond redemption? Are we to remain a bunch of pessimistic philosophers or apathetic on-lookers bemoaning our collective doom? Not necessarily.
We as a race are on the brink of a colossal transition from one of separation to that of Oneness. We would awaken from darkness to light, from untruth to truth. We would realize the oneness of all living things.
Though each of us may live different lives, located away from each other in space and time, we are biologically, emotionally and spiritually one.
There is only one body. What happens to the animals in the seas, happens to us - men and women. What happens to the forests happens to us in our bodies, since our bodies like the trees are made of the same earth. Are not our bodies moving clay forms endowed with intelligence?
A conscientious effort at healing the earth would manifest as the ultimate healing of our own bodies.
There is only one mind. This is the mind that has flowed through our fore fathers, us and would in turn continue to live through our children and their progeny. The collective torment or fear suffered by our own brethren in one part of the world would manifest as sleeping or waking nightmares to someone else-where in the world. Our pleasures and pains are interminably interlinked. We are one and cannot continue to live any further in an illusion of separation.
There is only one consciousness. We live in a holographic universe. Every individual, awakening into oneness is automatically affecting a few thousand people pushing them towards the only sane alternative way of experiencing reality.
Our experience of reality having changed we would go on to discovering newer ways of living and loving. We would create a better planet for the present and the future. This is our shared destiny.
- Sri Bhagavan
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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Mooji:
You are not what you are perceiving. You are the perceiving core. Stay as that.
Oneness
The place of identity is a most fearful state. Good and evil, life and death, you and me – all ideas. Oneness doesn't require repression or control of the varying expressions being free from modifications.
The infinite cannot leave itself, manifesting out of itself, infinite diversity, myriad forms; like clouds appearing from empty sky, emptiness dances this world.
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
Edited by Chronic777 (04/07/08 05:33 AM)
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Chronic777
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Osho On Love
This is why I say that love itself is knowing God. God can only be known in love because in love the "I" disappears. You will never find love where "I" exists. Love is only there when "I" is not.
Let me tell you a secret: only the pleasure you give to others becomes bliss. And there is no end to bliss. Bliss is the nectar of life. It is eternal, endless.
Is there a greater satisfaction to be found than undertaking a task with love? Is anything more gratifying than serving others? No, nothing at all.
The love that rolls on like the waves in the ocean is no less than a fervent prayer, no less than God himself, no less than the benediction of ultimate and absolute salvation. If your love does not halt on its way, but marches on, it sets you free. Let there be no end to its onward march until the last man in the world has been brought into its fold, into that communion with the universal soul.
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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“The witness, the observer, divides the world into subject and object, into the witness and the witnessed. Therefore as long as there is a witness, duality will continue. Witnessing is the last frontier of the dual world, after which the non-dual begins. But one cannot reach the non-dual without being a witness. To be a witness means that I now give up dividing the world into many. Instead I will divide it two- the witness and the witnessed. And when I have reduced the many fragments of the world to two, it will not be difficult to come to the complete unity of existence when duality will disappear, when the observer and the observed will become one and the same. If one succeeds in becoming a witness he will soon have glimpses of the one without the other, when there is neither witness nor witnessed, but only witnessing.” Osho
“And when this state achieves its fullness it will abide forever, and then even witnessing will disappear. Then…one is whole. He is the awakened one.”
OSHO
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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No Practice
"You are! You needn't practice to be. From the highest perspective, all practices are for the ignorant, for they keep you in the illusion of being bound, which you are not. Practicing for freedom is like buying a map to find out that you are already here. You already are. Practice means to employ some method aimed at reaching some goal. Do not confuse practice with the natural urge to discover, to know yourself, because this urge can be satisfied with the medicine of pure understanding. Whereas a practice necessarily assumes separation, which, in regards to Self, is erroneous, for the Self is eternally whole. Of what use would be a method for the Absolute?"
Mooji
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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"There are three types of craving that cause clinging: craving for existence, craving for non existence, the craving for stimulation of the senses."
Dude on shroomery
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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Registered: 05/08/04
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Mooji
"You are nobody"
"When the mind adjusts to simply staying here, then that mind is not called mind any more. It's just Self. It's only ever Self."
"You dont awaken to Truth by analysing the dream - Find out who the dreamer is"
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
"There's no state in which one is seeing reality. WHO is seeing WHAT? You can only BE real. (And that you are always.) The problem exists only in thinking. Let all false ideas go, that's all. There's no need for true ideas. (Since there are none.)"
St Francis
"What you are searching for is where you are already searching from"
Buddhists
"Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form"
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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Mooji
"We are the unicity of being in its dance as existence. We are ever one as truth & love."
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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Papaji to Mooji:
"If you desire to be one with truth, "you" must completely disappear"
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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Chronic777
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'I don't know' is a fine state to be in. You are still busy working on your body-mind attachments. I would like you to leave all that behind. There is no end to that pruning, pull it up at the root. How? By staying as Awareness only. Stay as the Highest. Honour the Truth in yourself. This body was given to you so that you could discover your true nature, the Origin of all, the one unborn Self. To inquire, relentlessly contemplate and strive until you are fully free from the slimy quicksand of the ego-ridden mind. For this single purpose you have appeared into manifestation: to solve yourself by dissolving the you which is the non-self, and thereafter to effortlessly celebrate your discovery as Peace, Love, Light and Joy.
Mooji
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When your in the cinema watching the big screen, your in the film so much because you forget "you", you become empty, you become engrossed in the film. Engross yourself in life, discover emptiness.
Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Why judge when you can love?
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