QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more

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QUOTATIONS AND POINTERS dealing with NON-DUALITY, ADVAITA, NISARGA YOGA and more

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from 

 Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Love says: 'I am everything'. Wisdom says: 'I am nothing'. Between the two my life flows."

And this from Douwe Tiemersma: 

"He [Maharaj] suggests that you return again and again to ‘I am’ until it is your only abode, outside of which nothing exists . . . . " 

REGARDING "THE NOTHINGNESS"

Maharaj:

"Everything is a play of ideas. In the state free from ideation (nirvikalpa samadhi) nothing is perceived."

"There is nothing I feel separate from; hence, I am all. No thing is me, so I am nothing."

"The world just sprouts into being out of nothing and returns to nothing."

"Is it not important to you to know whether you are a mere body, or something else? Or, maybe nothing at all?"

"Without the 'I am' there is nothing."

Questioner: "If I am neither the body nor mind, how am I aware of them? How can I perceive something quite foreign to myself?"
Maharaj: " 'Nothing is me' is the first step."

"To know that 'nothing is' is 'True Knowledge'."

"Be nothing, know nothing, have nothing."

"You must thoroughly understand what you are, or [more importantly] what you could be when nothing is. When nothing is, you still are. What is that you? It is All One, and when everything is, still you are; that is understandable, but when nothing is, how can I be?"

M.: " . . . Gold is the basis for all gold jewellery. Abstract the name and shape from the jewellery and the gold becomes obvious. Be free of name and form and of the desires and fears they create, then what remains?"
Q.: "Nothingness."
M.: "Yes, the void remains."

"For the path of return (nivritti) naughting oneself is necessary. My stand I take where nothing (paramakash) is . . . . "

"I am not attached. I am nothing, and nothing is afraid of no thing."

"On the contrary, everything is afraid of the Nothing, for when a thing touches Nothing, it becomes nothing. It is like a bottomless well, whatever falls into it, disappears."

"To be nothing, to have nothing, to keep nothing for oneself is the greatest gift . . . . "

"The Ultimate state is that state in which nothing exists, neither I, nor you, nor manifestation."

“This is all a big hoax, a big fraud, created out of nothingness. Can you create something out of nothing?"

"That which sees all this, and the nothing too, is the inner teacher."

"Verbal teaching has its use: it prepares the mind for voiding itself of its accumulations."

"Once you have nothing, you have no problems."

"When you hold on to nothing, no trouble arises."

Q.: "Are you always in a state of samadhi?"
M.: "Of course not. Samadhi is a state of mind, after all. I am beyond all experience, even of samadhi. I am the great devourer and destroyer: whatever I touch dissolves into void (akash)."

"There is the body. Inside the body appears to be an observer and outside - a world under observation. The observer and his observation as well as the world observed all appear and disappear together. Beyond it all, there is void. This void is one for all."

" . . . Your true home is in nothingness, in emptiness of all content."

"The sum total of my spirituality now is nothing. Even that word 'nothing' is not there, so there is no spirituality left."

"First I thought I was the body; then I experienced that I was not the body but I was the consciousness; then I got the experience that this consciousness is not really me and that there is no form, no individuality, no nothing."

Q.: "At the back of my mind there is a hum going on all the time. Numerous weak thoughts swarm and buzz and this shapeless cloud is always with me. Is it the same with you? What is at the back of your mind?"
M.: "Where there is no mind, there is no back to it. I am all front . . . no back! The void speaks, the void remains."

" . . . The immovable centre of the movable [is] the eternal witness of the transient. The centre is a point of void and the witness a point of pure awareness; they know themselves to be as nothing . . . . "

" 'The supreme Absolute' . . . is only a name for communication purposes."

"Nothing is useful. No talk is useful when one is by one self. When one subsides in [authenticity], nothing matters, because nothing is. When 'I' subsides, it's all awareness."

"Awareness is not aware of its awareness."

M.: "I used to create a world and populate it - now I don't do it anymore."
Q: "Where do you live, then?"
M: "In the void beyond being and non-being, beyond consciousness. This void is also fullness; do not pity me. It is like a man saying: 'I have done my work, there is nothing left to do'."

Again, "I have the courage to be as nothing and to see 'the world' as it is: nothing" and "Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains."

"I am the Unmanifested talking through the Manifest. When the body, the mind, the vital breath drop off, nothing happens; only I, the Absolute, prevail always."

"I am conscious and unconscious, both conscious and unconscious, neither conscious nor unconscious -- to all this I am witness -- but really there is no witness, because there is nothing to be a witness to. I am perfectly empty of all mental formations, void of mind -- yet fully aware."

"The ‘Ultimate state’ . . . is that state where no needs are felt at any time, where nothing is useful for anything."

"I am infinite peace and silence in which nothing appears."

"Have you felt the all-embracing emptiness in which the universe swims like a cloud in the blue sky?"

"It is the clinging to sensate life that binds you. If you could experience the inner void fully, the explosion into the totality would be near."

"In that pure light of consciousness there is nothing, not even the idea of nothing. There is only light."

"Whatever spiritual things you aspire to know are all happening in this objective world, in the illusion. All this is happening in the objective world. All is dishonesty. There is no truth in this fraud."

"The final answer is this: nothing is. All is a momentary appearance in the field of the universal consciousness; continuity as name and form is a mental formation only, easy to dispel."

To be continued.

Please enter into the silence of contemplation.

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Here, with those who are still driven to talk about "god," the "Son of god," the "Holy Spirit," "Buddha," "Krishna," etc., etc., etc., the invitation to them is to view those as verbs, not nouns.

THE EXPLANATION

If looked at as nouns, they point to illusions and are, therefore, a total waste of time to even discuss; if looked at as verbs which are resulting in certain sane but rare behaviors among humanity, then they are worthy of some attention during the relative existence.

Meaning? There are members of certain groups who say things such as "My concept of god in the past was of a weak god, an absentee god, A Santa Claus-type god, a mean, punishing, vindictive god, etc. Today, I am in close contact with a loving and caring god whom I worship and praise and glorify and give thanks to."

The reply to that usually goes like this: "If you are in contact with a god that wants to be worshipped and praised and glorified, then you're dealing with someone like yourself - a narcissist - and hanging out with narcissists will never bring an end to your narcissism (that narcissism evidenced by the fact that you think you are "godly").

Next, in the phrase 'loving and caring god,' any supposed god that truly had her or his act together would tell you that the totally irrelevant part of that phrase is 'god' and that the only part that is relevant is the "loving and caring" part.

"That is, a non-narcissistic their god / their goddess would say, "I care not an iota about being worshipped and praised and glorified by you or anyone else. How arrogant and insecure and needy would I have to be to want that? Forget the man-made, dreamed up noun 'god' and focus on the 'god as a verb' understanding and then go forth and let loving and caring be verbs - not adjectives - and let them generate the act of love and the act of caring and let those actions manifest through you." 

Yeshu'a (Jesus) and Pope John Paul II and Pope Francis were spot on:

"No one shall ever see 'the kingdom of heaven.' It is within"

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and earth shall fade away."

--Yeshu'a (Jesus)

and 

"Heaven and hell are not geographic places

but are states of mind, nothing more than

concepts dreamed up by men."

--Pope John Paul II 

"There is no hell."

--Pope Francis, the current pope

in an interview with journalist Eugenio Scalfari,

a writer used by the Pope to issue off the record

teachings which become a part of the Papal Magisterium.

[That said, would that the popes who have shown the courage to reject a core concept of their dogma - namely, "hell" - would find the additional courage required to question the very existence of their institution in light of the centuries-long cover-up of their history of raping children and in light of the mental and emotional and psychological scarring of billions of their members past and present.

And that need for courage also applies as questions need to be asked about why so many other sky cults are still being supported and allowed to continue to exist as well. When certain types of programming and conditioning have been shown to blind the masses, they should end. Will they? Not likely. Why?

Because what the masses think and say and do is most influenced by the international crime families which hold sway over the masses as criminals conduct their planet-wide operations. What are the major international crime families and which are the most influential and have the largest memberships?

The Mafia / La Cosa Nostra; the Catholic Church (with it 1.2 billion followers) whose Vatican Bank worked for decades with the Mafia while laundering mob earnings (for a 15% all-profit charge by the Bank); Protestant and Evangelical Churches (with over 1.2 billion followers) like the one I was raised in where the youth director molested and sexually assaulted young girls; big business which has long created environments in which people have been abused; powerful political bodies like the U.S. Congress, etc., etc., etc.)

With all of those crime families, neither the followers nor the leadership ever voluntarily step down or shut down their criminal activities. Be they gangs, organized crime families, religions, big business, politicians, etc., they all want control and they all want power and they all want money, and nothing internal will interfere with the driving forces at play.

The masses must demand that all those in charge must step down and their groups and institutions must shut down, and there's the real problem because the continuation of their crimes are enabled not as much by the people running such crime organizations as they are enabled by the masses of people who - wanting some perceived "payoff" - remain involved with them and give them money and support them and aid and abet the continued existence of those criminal enterprises and thus facilitate the ability of church criminals and political criminals and other types of criminals to continue to commit their crimes.] 

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