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Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Dennis Waite
Louise Sterling
"The entrained mind of the seeker tends to romanticize or deify the
thought-less, concept- free Reality - to create in the mind another concept of a 'free' or 'realized' state."
"Freedom cannot be bound by structures of thought and word."
"The movement towards self-preference - based on desire and fear - is an aberration, a distorted spasm in a naturally and spontaneously functioning system. How can this aberration not result in suffering? The non-realized seeker clings to his or her desires and fears, believing that relinquishing them will result in loss or lack. This is laughable - relinquishing them will result in total freedom."
"What is the flavorless state in which all flavors can be tasted? This is the question that must consume you."
"Freedom is spontaneous action - beyond cause and motive. Spontaneous action is not pre-meditated. Without the knowledge of all causes, how can you know what is selfish or selfless? You make your assessment from your limited personal viewpoint. How can you know what action will result in a harmonious outcome. Or even if a harmonious outcome is appropriate?"
Floyd Henderson
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, Advaita Vedanta Quotes and Pointers from Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, Dennis Waite, Louise Sterling, and Floyd Henderson shall be offered for your consideration:
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj“I am stabilized. There is no going into samadhi, or coming down from samadhi. That is over.”
“From the Absolute no-knowing state, spontaneously, this consciousness ‘I am’ has appeared—there is no reason, no cause.”
“That mind-language will talk only about the impressions it has collected. The knowledge ‘I Am’ is not a thought but observes the thoughts.”
“When you are thoroughly knowledgeable, you will come to the conclusion that this beingness is also an illusion.”
“The nearer you get to the truth, the more you lose interest in worldly affairs. Such a one will not have any interest in the world, but will act like an ordinary person.”
Dennis Waite "The ego will never be happy. Individualism and materialism take us away from the happiness that is our true nature."
"The ego is born out of ignorance and identification and gives rise to all of our subsequent problems."
"Advaita defines 'real' as being that which exists in or transcends all three periods of time (i.e. past, present and future)...."
"Because we already are That, there is not, strictly speaking, anything that we can do to become That. Once the ignorance of the fact is removed, the already existent truth is revealed."
"The knowledge, once it has served its purpose of pointing toward the truth, is discarded too."
"The ego is born out of ignorance and identification and gives rise to all of our subsequent problems."
"Advaita defines 'real' as being that which exists in or transcends all three periods of time (i.e. past, present and future)...."
"Because we already are That, there is not, strictly speaking, anything that we can do to become That. Once the ignorance of the fact is removed, the already existent truth is revealed."
"The knowledge, once it has served its purpose of pointing toward the truth, is discarded too."
Louise Sterling "The entrained mind of the seeker tends to romanticize or deify the
thought-less, concept- free Reality - to create in the mind another concept of a 'free' or 'realized' state."
"Freedom cannot be bound by structures of thought and word."
"The movement towards self-preference - based on desire and fear - is an aberration, a distorted spasm in a naturally and spontaneously functioning system. How can this aberration not result in suffering? The non-realized seeker clings to his or her desires and fears, believing that relinquishing them will result in loss or lack. This is laughable - relinquishing them will result in total freedom."
"What is the flavorless state in which all flavors can be tasted? This is the question that must consume you."
"Freedom is spontaneous action - beyond cause and motive. Spontaneous action is not pre-meditated. Without the knowledge of all causes, how can you know what is selfish or selfless? You make your assessment from your limited personal viewpoint. How can you know what action will result in a harmonious outcome. Or even if a harmonious outcome is appropriate?"
Floyd Henderson "In order to know Reality, you must be sane. In order to be sane, you must be out of your mind."
For their suffering to end, persons must (1) understand the functioning of the totality; must (2) see that all suffering is rooted in the assumption of ego-states as false identities; and must (3) realize that they have no 'mind' but instead are being driven by the 'minds' of others (which they now think is their own 'mind')."
"For their suffering to end, persons must (4) be aware of the fact that a 'mind' is nothing more than the storehouse of all the lies and beliefs and ideas and concepts that must be cast aside in order to end human suffering; and must (5) see the limitations of doingness alongside the timelessness and limitless nature of beingness...and non-beingness as well."
"In this relative existence, nothing is going on but a breeziness of play, but persons are caught up in a tornado of work, in a storm of seriousness, and in a tempest of drama."
"So-called 'life' in this sphere of consciousness is just a process of functioning, and while the 'mind' of a person will dream up notions about separation or differentiation, none exists. The process just keeps on happening. A belief or a concept, a religion or a philosophy, a state or a nation, a hero or a villian…all are just part of the process of functioning. All those are just dreamed up names, and all such dreamed up labels (dreamed up by that accumulation of corruptions called 'the mind') generate a false sense of reality."
Please enter the silence of contemplation.
