The enlightened ones know that the FINAL barrier for a "seeker" is the "desire" to get enlightened! At that stage, each effort becomes an obstacle! Then, there is only ONE way left - effortlessness!
The following excerpts may help in maintaining a BEING-NESS which is completely at ease:
There is no world, no seeker for liberation, no yogi, no seer, no one bound and no one liberated. I remain in my own nondual nature.
Recognising that in reality no action is ever committed, I live as I please, just doing what presents itself to be done.
One established in the Absolute state with an empty mind does not know the alternatives of inner stillness and lack of inner stillness, and of good and evil.
Some think that something exists, and others that nothing does. Rare is the man who does not think either, and is thereby free from distraction.
The man who is free from doubts and whose mind is free does not bother about means of liberation.
Whether seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, or tasting, he lives at ease.
~Ashtavakra Gita
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Dropping the Noise - The Internal Dialogue!
You must learn how to stop your internal dialogue at will.
...I (had) delineated another procedure: walking for long stretches without focusing the eyes on anything. My recommendation was to not look at anything directly but, by slightly crossing the eyes, to keep a peripheral view of everything that presented itself to the eyes. If one keeps one's unfocused eyes fixed at a point just above the horizon, it is possible to notice, at once, everything in almost the total 180-degree range in front of one's eyes.
That exercise is the only way of shutting off the internal dialogue.
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Nothing of what we do, with the exception of stopping the internal dialogue, can by itself change anything in us, or in our idea of the world!
~"Tales of Power", by Carlos Castaneda
...I (had) delineated another procedure: walking for long stretches without focusing the eyes on anything. My recommendation was to not look at anything directly but, by slightly crossing the eyes, to keep a peripheral view of everything that presented itself to the eyes. If one keeps one's unfocused eyes fixed at a point just above the horizon, it is possible to notice, at once, everything in almost the total 180-degree range in front of one's eyes.
That exercise is the only way of shutting off the internal dialogue.
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Nothing of what we do, with the exception of stopping the internal dialogue, can by itself change anything in us, or in our idea of the world!
~"Tales of Power", by Carlos Castaneda
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
The Free Thought!
In our minds, either there is a NOISE or a THOUGHT! To distinguish Thought from Noise, let us call it The Free Thought.
The Free Thought is a "What" - concise and precise. It is pictorial & clear.
But, a drop of confusion, vagueness or ambiguity - and you are back to NOISE!
Why?
Because your thought is a "ping" to the universe. The Free Thought is a meticulous projection - A Created Future which often brings Thrill and Adventure.
The "ping back" comes back as a VIEW - data from sensory input combined with the DESCRIPTIONS (opinions & analysis) by the mind.
This usually creates a NOISE - your reaction in thoughts and actions! You react, and STOP RESPONding and Creating freely.
This leads to an unending cycle of reactions - At any given moment of time, the senses are streaming in with infinite inputs - the pinging back from the universe.
Simply, DROP the NOISE!
Dropping the veil of NOISE, you experience that there are no barriers between you and the world!
The Free Thought becomes an access to Love and oneness!
The universe is experienced as Uni-Verse - One Verse - One Song!
The Free Thought is a "What" - concise and precise. It is pictorial & clear.
But, a drop of confusion, vagueness or ambiguity - and you are back to NOISE!
Why?
Because your thought is a "ping" to the universe. The Free Thought is a meticulous projection - A Created Future which often brings Thrill and Adventure.
The "ping back" comes back as a VIEW - data from sensory input combined with the DESCRIPTIONS (opinions & analysis) by the mind.
This usually creates a NOISE - your reaction in thoughts and actions! You react, and STOP RESPONding and Creating freely.
This leads to an unending cycle of reactions - At any given moment of time, the senses are streaming in with infinite inputs - the pinging back from the universe.
Simply, DROP the NOISE!
Dropping the veil of NOISE, you experience that there are no barriers between you and the world!
The Free Thought becomes an access to Love and oneness!
The universe is experienced as Uni-Verse - One Verse - One Song!
Monday, December 3, 2007
This is THE MOMENT!
Nothing is left to you at this moment but to burst out into a loud laugh!
~The Spirit of Zen
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This moment is the moment of reality, of union, of truth.
Nothing needs to be done to it or to you for this to be so.
Nothing needs to be avoided, transcended, or found for it to be so.
~Da Avabhasa
~The Spirit of Zen
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This moment is the moment of reality, of union, of truth.
Nothing needs to be done to it or to you for this to be so.
Nothing needs to be avoided, transcended, or found for it to be so.
~Da Avabhasa
Friday, November 30, 2007
Why this world?
Lord, said David, since you do not need us
Why did you create these two worlds?
Reality replied: O prisoner of time
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity
And I wished this treasure to be known
So I created a mirror
its shining face, the heart
its darkened back, the world
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw, and a mirror might be revealed.
~"Love is a Stranger", Jelaluddin Rumi
Why did you create these two worlds?
Reality replied: O prisoner of time
I was a secret treasure of kindness and generosity
And I wished this treasure to be known
So I created a mirror
its shining face, the heart
its darkened back, the world
The back would please you if you've never seen the face.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror out of mud and straw?
Yet clean away the mud and straw, and a mirror might be revealed.
~"Love is a Stranger", Jelaluddin Rumi
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Which place to go?
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover will be yourself.
~Alan Alda
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover will be yourself.
~Alan Alda
Friday, September 14, 2007
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