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Here, there is nothing that is believed, so there is no one here who wants you to believe anything, either. Here, the invitation is to be free of all that you have been programmed, conditioned, acculturated, and domesticated to believe so that you can be free, period.
F.:For the next several days, A.V. quotations / pointers from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Dennis Waite, Louise Sterling, and Floyd Henderson shall be offered for your consideration:
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj "Understand that it is not the individual which has consciousness; it is the consciousness which assumes innumerable forms."
"There is no progress."
"Go to zero concepts."
"Both experience and experiencer will disappear."
"First of all you identify something as being good or bad for yourself. Then, in an effort to acquire good or to get rid of the bad, you have invented a God. Then you worship such a God and ... you pray to that God for something good to happen to you."
Dennis Waite "In reality, there is no karma, no saMskAra, no puruShArtha because there is no person who could have them. They are all teaching devices used to bring the student to a realization of the truth by means of carefully gauged, progressive levels of understanding."
"There is no end to desire whilst we consider ourselves to be limited. As one desire is satisfied another is born, continually adding fuel to the fire and taking us away from the happiness that we seek."
"Meditation is a state of absence of thoughts, i.e. absence of mind or ego. And in deep sleep, there is Consciousness only - again no ego. It is those moments when we 'forget ourselves' when we feel most alive and happy. Only forgetting ourselves permanently, i.e., eliminating the ego completely, can bring lasting happiness."
"Good and evil are only relative terms in the phenomenal world; Brahman is beyond both. Evil arises as a result of ignorance."
"Worldly pursuits cannot bring lasting happiness. They are limited while our true nature is unlimited."
Louise Sterling "If You want to be free from suffering, give up the exhaustion of the mind-identified life."
"The Non-Realized are unstable because their so-called reality is constantly being re-interpreted to fit the pattern of desires or fears of endlessly shifting ego-driven personas."
"Nothing needs to be done but to witness the scribble you call your life as it is created without attachment. Let the line go up or down; do not be concerned - simply observe."
"The effect of personality is like a lens which tints the relative life with its particular colour."
"The acorn has no conscious knowledge or plan of how to become an oak tree - yet under the right conditions, the knowledge unfolds naturally and spontaneously. In the same way, under the right conditions the knowledge of Who You Are will sprout, and the understanding will reveal itself."
Floyd Henderson "You are in a play, playing a role, and believing that the role and the play are both real. Why would you believe such nonsense? Because 'your mind" is the playwright, the author of every scene."
"When Maharaj said, 'You are not in the world...the world is in you,' what did he mean? He meant, 'You are not in the world,' that is, there is no 'you' that is real or in any world. He meant that the Real You is not of this relative 'world' that is merely an imagining dreamed up by non-Realized persons. The rest of the quote, 'The world is in you,' means that the world is in your 'mind' and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings."
"Everything that is said here is to be used to get rid of another false belief until all ideas and emotional intoxication and beliefs are gone and nothing remains but the unstated understanding. Only then can the constant churning and re-churning of the false beliefs of the corrupted 'mind' finally cease."
"What is that inner resource, that inner guru? It is the vestige of pure consciousness that remains, deeply buried beneath the waste called 'your mind.' 'Your mind' obscures the consciousness because that 'mind' is so marred with its belief in lies and superstitions and all of its 'knowledge,' all that learned ignorance, that it leaves you insane…so insane that you don’t know Your Self and so insane that you believe the lies and dreams of the planet."
"If your body has disappeared, how can any person remain? And if no person remains, how can a mind remain?"
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
