If you want the answer to any problem, do not run to a psychiatrist, or a lawyer, or even a doctor, but sit by yourself and listen.
Yourself has all the answers. Why?
Every atom of the universe is within you.
You are that. You are the entire universe.
You are the microcosm in the macrocosm.
Therefore, all the answers in the universe must also be in you. All of the solutions, all of the wisdom, all of the happiness and bliss you've been searching for, it's within you.
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The habit makes us believe that it is difficult to cease thinking.
If the error is found out, one would not be fool enough to exert oneself unnecessarily by way of thinking.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What is right and wrong?
There is no standard by which to judge something to be right and another to be wrong.
Opinions differ according to the nature of the individual
and according to the surroundings.
They are again ideas and nothing more.
Do not worry about them but get rid of thoughts instead.
If you always remain in the right, then right will prevail in the world.
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People do all sorts of funny things according to their preconceived notions.
We have merely to keep quiet witnessing them.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


#SriRamanaMaharshi said
"The only spiritual life you need is not to react To be calm is the greatest asset in the world.
It's the greatest siddhi, the greatest power you can have.
If you can only learn to be calm you will solve every problem.
This is something you must remember.
When you are perfectly calm, time stops.
There is no time, karma stops, samskaras stop.
Everything becomes null and void.
For when you are calm you are one with the entire energy of the universe and everything will go well with you.
To be calm means you are in control.
You're not worried about the situation, the outcome.
What is going to happen tomorrow.
To be calm means everything is alright
There is nothing to worry about, nothing to fret over.
This is also the meaning of the biblical saying,
"Be still and know that I am God To be calm is to be still.
The Only Spiritual Life You Need Is Not To React!


Grace is in the beginning, middle and end. Grace is the Self.
Because of the false identification of the Self with the body the Guru is considered to be with body. But from the Guru's outlook the Guru is only the Self. The Self is one only. He tells that the Self alone is. Is not then the Self your Guru? Where else will Grace come from? It is from the Self alone. Manifestation of the Self is a manifestation of Grace and vice versa. All these doubts arise because of the wrong outlook and consequent expectation of things external to oneself.
Nothing is external to the Self.
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Bhagavan said, 'The greatest scripture is the silent exposition. Only if you read this scripture will all doubts cease!
To a complaining devotee who said, 'I do not know where the 'l' is,' Bhagavan answered by saying, 'Be where the 'l' is.
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The Higher Power knows what
and how to do it.
Trust It.
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You understand according to your capacity.
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When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.
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On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You've written words that only You and I can know.
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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
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First help yourself - which means to not think.
And then if you still need to you can ask me for help.
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Whatever profession is given to you, do it with full consciousness and awareness.
Perform it as demanded of you.
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Whatever you do, do it for the Lord of your heart.
#AnandamayiMa

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There are sages and saints out there who, expecting nothing from nature or man, are filled with all-embracing love, the very embodiment of independence, act as the spirit moves them and are happy and supreme under all circumstances.
But you, in spite of all your attempts at security, are often frustrated and riddled with fear.
Shake yourselves free and try to become really great. By applying in your active day-to-day life, the power received from saints and sages, the world can be tremendously improved.
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God is not only in the heart of all,
He is the prop of all, He is the source of all, their abiding place and their end.
All proceed from Him, have their stay in Him, and finally resolve into Him.
Therefore He is not separate.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Bhagavan sometimes called Arunachala 'The medicine mountain'.

He used to say"': For all ailments of body and mind giri pradakshina is good medicine'.

In order to get people to sample this medicine, he often prescribed a daily pradakshina for those sadhus who spent most of their time sitting in meditation. He told them that doing pradakshina once a day was a good way to keep the mind in sattva guna [a quiet harmonious state].

Bhagavan once expounded on the greatness of Arunachala by comparing it to a famous mountain in the Ramayana.

'When Rama, Lakshmana and their army entered Lanka,' he said, 'Indrajit, the son of Ravana, launched a very powerful arrow against them.
The arrow caused even Rama and Lakshmana to lose consciousness.
Everyone in the army except Hanuman became unconscious. Hanuman went back to India and returned with a whole mountain which contained the healing herb sanjivini. When the air which had touched this herb touched Rama. Lakshmana and their army, they were all awakened and healed.' Bhagavan concluded his story by saying, 'This Arunachala mountain is more powerful than that mountain'.

Occasionally, when devotees asked Bhagavan about the greatness of the hill he would sit in silence. These exhibitions of mauna [silence] were his answers to the questions. At other times he was more willing to talk. In March 1938, in answer to a visitor's query, he gave a brief summary of some of the scriptural stories about Arunachala.

'The greatness of this hill has been spoken of by different people in many different ways. In the Puranas [scriptures dealing mainly with mythology] it is said that the inside of this Arunachala is in the form of a cave. It is also said that many siddhas [accomplished or perfected yogis] and ascetics live there. Guru Namasivaya has sung about the greatness of this hill. In one of his verses he says that the mountain summons those who are intensively practicing jnana-tapas. When Ambal, the consort of Siva, was performing tapas at Annamalai [one of the Tamil names for Arunachala], the buffalo-headed demon Mahishasura came and spoke to her.

'Why don't you marry me?" he asked. "What happiness have you found by doing tapas?'

'When Ambal turned him down he became violent. Ambal immediately transformed herself into Durga, the fearsome form of Ambal, merely by wishing that the change would take place. This transformation frightened Mahishasura so much that he decided to return home and gather his army before engaging in a fight. Ambal, who knew his plans, sent him the Hitopadesa through Saruga Muni.

Hitopadesa is a small treatise containing advice for Mahishasura. The word means 'good advice'.

As this Hitopadesa was only available in Sanskrit, I requested Bhagavan to write it in Tamil. Bhagavan graciously made a partial translation by composing the following verse:

"This holy place [Arunachala] is ever the abode of righteous people and devotees. Here base people who intend harm to others will perish, being afflicted with many diseases, and the power of the wicked will be lost in a second without leaving a trace. Therefore do not fall into the fierce fire of the anger of Lord Arunachala whose form is a hill of fire. "

Bhagavan concluded his lesson by telling us, 'Who can really speak about the greatness of Arunachala?'

Over the years Bhagavan translated a total of seven verses from Sri Arunachala Mahatmyam [The Greatness of Arunachala], the Sanskrit work which is the major scriptural source of stories about Arunachala. All seven are printed together in Five Hymns to Arunachala, pp. 18-19 (Collected Works).

A few months later Bhagavan spoke again about the greatness of Arunachala: This hill is not one which was formed at a certain time and which will be destroyed at another time. It is a swayambu [spontaneously manifesting] lingam. The word lingam can be subdivided: 'ling' means 'union' and 'gam' means 'that which forms'. There are many other meanings for the word such as God, Atman, form, and Siva.'

Swayambu lingams appear spontaneously as an act of God. They are not created or caused by any human or geologically natural activity.

'This hill is not really on earth. All the heavenly bodies are attached to it. The name of that which is the source of both arising and subsiding is lingam.'

While Bhagavan was reminiscing in this way he commented on some other puranic stories.

'The stories in the Puranas say that God collects the dust of the feet of his devotees in a box. Then, wrapping this dust in silk, he is said to do puja to it. He does so to show that he is the devotee of his devotees. He says, "I praise him who praises me in this world".
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The silent Self alone is
God.
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Desire not, fear not, observe the actual, as and when it happens, for you are not what happens, you are to whom it happens.
Ultimately even the observer you are not.
You are the ultimate potentiality of which the all-embracing consciousness is the manifestation and expression.
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In your world, everything must have a beginning and an end. If it does not, you call it eternal. In my view, there is no such thing as beginning and end - these are all related to time. Timeless being is entirely in the now. Being and not-being alternate and their reality is momentary. The immutable Reality lies beyond space and time.
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Beliefs are the food of a make-believe world. Permanent clarity is available to you, but not if you want to cling to your beliefs.
If you insist on believing, believe this:
I am Conscious Life Energy. Because I am, all is. I am vibrant intelligence, by which flowers grow and wounds heal. In my absence, existence as it is known, ceases.
The world is my manifest expression and this body is its instrument of perception and action. In this regard, I am the Knowing of every sensation, feeling and thought.
I am the Author of every action.
#WuHsin


Remember,
the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
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There are no rules of worship. He will hear the voice of every heart that is SINCERE.
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Be soulful.
Be kind.
Be in love.
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Why traverse deserts, why confront the storm, if within you resides the formless Form?
#Rumi


If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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THE ESSENCE
THAT IS ETERNAL
YOU ARE THAT
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The Chandogya Upanishad

Those who depart from this world without knowing who they are or what they truly desire have no freedom here or hereafter.
But those who leave here knowing who they are and what they truly desire have freedom everywhere, both in this world and in the next.


We cling to our point of view as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence. Like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
#Zhuangzi


Enlightenment simply means you disappear, you become the whole.
There is no question of separation or no separation.
There is no question of oneness, because even in the word oneness there hides behind it twoness.
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An intelligent person cannot be egotistic; it is impossible.
If your intelligence cannot show you the simple thing
that ego is a false phenomenon
then you don't have intelligence at all.
#Osho


Be true to the
moment, not to the plan.
#Mooji


Throw away all the maps because you are the goal...!
Maps can help if the goal is somewhere else;
maps cannot help if you are the goal...!
They may even distract you, because when you look at a map you cannot look at yourself,
Books cannot help,
because you are the truth...!
My love, stay here...!
Going in search of Self is illusion;
You are already the One Self..!
You will purchase the map,
Only to find you are already Here...!
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He who gives himself up to the Self that is God
is the most excellent devotee.
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This Atma ( Self), hidden in all beings, does not shine forth; but it is seen by the people of subtle vision with a sharp subtle intellect.
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The eternal, unbroken, natural state of abiding in the Self is jnana. To abide in the Self you must love the Self. Since God is verily the Self, love of the Self is love of God; and that is bhakti. Jnana and bhakti are thus one and the same.
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In reality, saying 'We must see Brahman in everything and everywhere' is also not quite correct. Only that stage is final, where there is no seeing, where there is no time or space.
There will be no seer, seeing and an object to see. What exists then is only the infinite eye.
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As in any piece of cloth the main element is the thread, so in any appearance the essence is the consciousness.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


I allow my human nature to unfold according to its destiny-
-I remain as I am.
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If something disturbs the peace of your heart, give it up.
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Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again and you will be filled with joy.
#Buddha


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"Hell is not punishment, it's training."
#ShunryuSuzuki


"One thing flows into another
and cannot be grasped. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes."
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Don't be self-centered. Rather be centered in the Self.
The greatest accomplishment is when there is no one here to accomplish anything at all.
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How beautiful and rare to find one who is free
of projections, desires and needs-one who is no longer driven by the urge to control, possess or become anything.
Mind comes to a beautiful place of openness, silence, peace and rest.
Such a state can never be created; it is revealed when the tendency to identify with personal projections ceases and mind returns to its original nature-unborn Awareness.
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Realize that your world is only a reflection of yourself and stop finding fault with the reflection.
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I see everyone as I am. This being is the combination of the parents. All are engrossed in concepts, they enjoy them. By developing these concepts, you will not come out of it at all. First understand what is circumstantial and what is real. You are the product of the concepts of your parents, are you not?
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You are not the body. You are the immensity and infinity of consciousness. Don't assume what is not true and you will see things as I see them. Pain and pleasure, good and bad, right and wrong: these are relative terms and must not be taken absolutely. They are limited and temporary.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


There is Nothing to do, Just Be.!
Do Nothing.Be!
No Climbing Mountains and sittingin Caves.
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"Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment.
This includes every mosquito, every misfortune, every red light, every traffic jam, every obnoxious supervisor (or employee),
every illness, every loss,
every moment of joy or depression, every addiction,
every piece of garbage, every breath.
Every moment is the guru."
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"Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind."
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Silence is best.
Silence is itself conversation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What is Self-Realisation? A mere phrase.
People expect some miracle to happen, something to drop from Heaven in a flash.
It is nothing of the sort.
Only the notion that you are the body, that you are this or that, will go, and you remain as you are.
Indeed, Realisation is but another name for the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Weak though my effort was, by Thy grace I gained the Self, Oh Arunachala!
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"Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind"
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WHAT IS THE
     NATURE OF THE MIND

What is called 'mind' is
a wondrous power
residing in the Self.

It causes all thoughts to arise.
Apart from thoughts, there
is no such thing as mind.

Therefore, thought is
the nature of mind.

Apart from thoughts,
there is no independent
entity called the world.

In deep sleep there are
no thoughts, and
there is no world.

In the states of waking and
dream, there are thoughts,
and there is a world also.

Just as the spider emits the
thread (of the web) out of
itself and again withdraws
it into itself, likewise the mind
projects the world out of itself
and again resolves it into itself.

When the
mind comes
out of the Self,
the world appears.

Therefore, when the world
appears (to be real), the
Self does not appear; and
when the Self appears
 (shines) the world
does not appear.

When one persistently
inquires into the nature
of the mind, the mind will
end leaving the Self
(as the residue).

What is referred to as
the Self is the Atman.

The mind always exists
only in dependence
on something gross;

it cannot stay alone.

It is the mind that
is called the subtle
body or the soul (jiva)

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There's something within you that knows what to do. There is a power greater than you that knows how to take care of you without your help. All you've got to do is to surrender to it. Surrender your thoughts, your mind, your ego, to the current that knows the way. It will take care of you. It will take better care of you than you can ever imagine.
#RobertAdams
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Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future.
Stay in the eternal now, where all is well.
After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world.
Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.
#RobertAdams
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The Original Mind Is Beyond All Thought" Do not hate the origin of thoughts or stop thoughts from arising; simply realize that our original mind, from the very beginning, is beyond all thought, so that no matter what happens, you never get involved with the thoughts. It enlightens the original mind, and no other understanding is needed. However, if you get attached [to] the desire for enlightenment, then it will become a source of illusion. the original mind is beyond all thought, and do not become in the least attached to your nascent thoughts, be it good or evil, Buddhism or worldly matters, your affairs or others, whatever they may be, let them arise or cease as they will., and so you will naturally accept the original mind. Thoughts arise
temporarily in response to what is seen and heard; you must have faith that the original mind that is realized is not different." #Bankei


"When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
#DTSuzuki
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The source of al sufferine, is attachment.
#Buddha


If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
#Buddha
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"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction."
#Rumi
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"To be calm is the highest achievement of the self."
#Zenproverb
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In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity.
Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.
#MantakChia
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A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why l ever thought to use language
#Rumi
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He who has led you so far will guide you further.
#Rumi
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Silence & Smile
are two
powerful tools.
Smile is the way to solve many problems & Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
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Don't worry, don't be scared; everything will become clear. Don't be upset, don't be alarmed; everything will work out. This is the Way of natural law.
The mind of an awake man is like a mirror. He doesn't get attached to anything. He doesn't expect anything.
He doesn't shy away from anything. He reflects, but he doesn't hold back his thoughts. Therefore, he can act effortlessly and achieve his goals in a natural and spontaneous way.
#LaoTzu


For nothing is secret that will not be revealed, nor anything hidden that will not be known and come to light. #Luke8:17

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Freedom is a trap! A man who is imprisoned in a jail needs to be free, doesn't he? He is trapped in the jail and he knows that the people outside are free.
You are all in prison and you have heard about outside from your parents, priests, teachers and preachers. "Come to us," they say, "and we will give you freedom.
Come to me and I will give you rest." That is the promise, but this is only another trap. Once you believe it, you are caught in the trap of wanting freedom.
You should be out of both these traps - neither in bondage nor in freedom - because these are only concepts. Bondage was a concept which gave rise to the concept of freedom. Get rid of both these concepts Then, where are you? #Papaji
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"Questioner: It seems to be an addiction of The Consciousness, to worry about things around.

Maharaj: Yes, 'addiction', and 'entertainment'.

Suppose I spill water. Immediately, I take the towel and wipe it up, but I do not feel that I have done something foolish.
... It has happened!

Just as the towel is soaking up the water,
... Without thinking that it is doing so.

Q: What a strange love for this 'I Amness'.

M: Although it is strange, it gets manifested in concrete forms.

We hang on to concepts about saving the world - doing good.

With all the great concepts and ideas, great people have had, where are the saved, and the saviors today ?

Q : I would like everything to be in harmony - non-chaotic.

M : Don't hang on to 'Name And Forms'.
... Get rid of 'Name And Forms'!

Q : Why it is so difficult to understand that simple thing ?

M : Because whatever you have understood,
... You are clinging to - 'embracing'.

Get rid of that !

Whatever you have understood from this world,
... You are hanging onto.

Give it up !

The way that you understand yourself;
... Give that up also! "

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Don't give undue importance to the worldly life, but give more attention to the spiritual devotional practice have been described by the Sadguru ." Practice to  station oneself in the thought free Supreme State for longer time everyday .  Regular Meditation on Gurumantra is must . Daily constant practice of removing the Jiva tendencies, while dealing with the worldly life in a natural state of Being". You must  give up other complicated practices and stick steadfastly to this spiritual  practice and discover your true natural state which is full of Bliss. The word Dispassion (Vairagya) means Desirelessness or Renunciation . This state comes to one who understands that the world is illusory , and not to like anything else except that inner happiness . When  disciple through the Realization of Brahman becomes" That "(Self) , then complete happiness itself. When there is constant awareness of Brahman then the Consciousness should never be thought to be bound by the body. Only when the attachment of body and worldly objective things are gone does one becomes true disciple (Guruputra). He attains the constant , eternal, pure, intelligent, beginningless state of the Absolute, Parabrahman. To be a True Devotee of Sadguru , Paramatman , and empower oneself to attain that state is the duty of disciple (Guruputra). Only Sadguru helps the Jiva to reach the highest state of Being. The state of Brahman , free from all upadhis and cravings, which is the natural fundamental state of everyone, is the ultimate resting place. Once the true Sadhaka get there, he will never be caught again in this rotating wheel of illusionary worldly life. The world and worldly life are false. It is all play of illusion (Maya). Our devotional practice for spiritual endeavors is not strain you but to make you happy. The Sadguru puts bliss directly into your lap. He tells it all in one simple sentence . "You yourself are happiness. If you do not seek happiness outside and remain what you are, you will then experience bliss. Realize this truth and be happy all the time.
#SriAvadhootanandMaharaj


...and #NISARGADATTAMAHARAJ SAID:
"Each seeker accepts, or invents, a method which suits him, applies it to himself with some earnestness and effort, obtains results according to his temperament and expectations, casts them into the mound of words, builds them into a system, establishes a tradition and begins to admit others into his 'school of Yoga'. It is all built on memory and imagination. No such school is valueless, nor indispensable; in each one can progress up to the point, when all desire for progress must be abandoned to make further progress possible. Then all schools are given up, all effort ceases; in solitude and darkness the vast step is made which ends ignorance and fear forever.
The true teacher, however, will not imprison his disciple in a prescribed set of ideas, feelings and actions; on the contrary, he will show him patiently the need to be free from all ideas and set patterns of behavior, to be vigilant and earnest and go with life wherever it takes him, not to enjoy or suffer, but to understand and learn.
Under the right teacher the disciple learns to learn, not to remember and obey. Satsang, the company of the noble, does not mold, it liberates. Beware of all that makes you dependent. Most of the so-called 'surrenders to the Guru' end in disappointment, if not in tragedy. Fortunately, an earnest seeker will disentangle himself in time, the wiser for the experience.

Q:   Surely, self-surrender has its value.
MAHARAJ:   Self-surrender is the surrender of all self-concern. It cannot be done, it happens when you realize your true nature. Verbal self-surrender, even when accompanied by feeling, is of little value and breaks down under stress. At the best it shows an aspiration, not an actual fact.


Silence is seen as a way to connect with the divine. It allows us to quiet the mind and listen to the inner voice of our souls, which is often drowned out by the noise and distractions of everyday life.
This inner voice can guide us towards a deeper understanding of our purpose and connection to the greater universe. Silence can also be a powerful tool for meditation and contemplation. By quieting the mind and focusing on the present moment, we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
This can lead to a greater sense of inner peace and a more profound connection with the divine. Additionally, silence can be used as a form of devotion and worship. Many spiritual traditions include practices such as silent prayer and meditation as a way to connect with the divine and to deepen one's spiritual practice.
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Buddha is a rebel.
He is not a follower of anyone.
#Siddharth
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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame.
#Buddha


Silence is not absence of Sound.
Silence is absence of
you.
#WuHsin
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The Highest Form of Grace is Silence.
It is also the highest spiritual instruction.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Silence is most powerful.
Speech is always less powerful than
Silence,
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What is the nature of the Self?
What exists in truth is the Self alone.
The world, the individual soul, and God are appearances in it.
Like silver in mother-of-pearl, these three appear at the same time, and disappear at the same time.
The Self is that where there is absolutely no "|" thought.
That is called "Silence".
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is "|"; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Heart is the only Reality.
The mind is only a transient phase.
To remain as one's Self is to enter the Heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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He that has earned the Grace of the Guru shall undoubtedly be saved and never forsaken, just as the prey that has fallen into the tiger's jaws will never be allowed to escape.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What I like is, to know who I am and to remain as I am with the knowledge that what is to happen will happen and what is not to happen will not happen.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Silence is essential.
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Self is the real Guru.
Grace alone pulls you into the heart. Beg, cry, plead, pray to the divine for the fire of Self to burn away all trace of ego. Be free of I/mine which is ego & just abide effortlessly as Self.


No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front.
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 WHEN I AM WITH GOD EVERYTHING IS PRAYER.
#RUMI
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The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are.
#Rumi
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The heart is like a candle longing to be lit.
Torn from the Beloved it yearns to be whole again, but you have to bear the pain.
You cannot learn about love.
Love appears on the wings of grace.
#Rumi
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Silence has also a voice but it needs an awake soul to understand it. #Rumi
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WHEN I AM SILENT, FALL INTO THAT PLACE WHERE EVERYTHING IS MUSIC.
#RUMI
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Conversation With God Requires silence. ::: Try unceasingly to keep your mind on God. Be with Him all the time. Practice His presence.
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Conversation with people requires audible voice. Conversation with God requires silence, People who talk too much are not with God; there is much less time in their thoughts for Him. Those who inwardly converse with God are outwardly more silent. No matter what their surroundings, they are habitually more quiet. Because the devotee has plenty to say to God, he has very little to say to others. When those who have much to say to God do speak, their words are of God, and are full of wisdom and understanding.
When the perception of God begins, you have no time for useless things. You want to remain by yourself-God and yourself. And you do not want to waste a precious moment that could rather be spent with Him. Even when such devotees are active, that activity never diminishes their perception of love for God.
Idle talking causes one to lose devotion for God. It feeds mental restlessness that takes the mind away from Him.
Try unceasingly to keep your mind on God. Be with Him all the time. Practice His presence. Don't waste your time In this world of activity, the daytime is the devil's playground. The only way to outwit the devil is to keep your mind with God. And when night comes, forsake the world and all your cares of the day and meditate; be entranced with the love of God. To be with Him is a million times more joyous and strengthening than is sleep.
#ParamahansaYogananda


When you realize that life in every body and in all manifestations of nature is nothing more than explosions of God Consciousness, you are in His eternal presence.
God is always in the stars and in the clouds of the earth, in our thoughts, feelings, and will; and when you realize this, then you realize your connection to Infinite. This is self-realization: you feel no longer like a small wave of life, but like the ocean itself.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Serve always as if you are Serving the Supreme Being
#AnandamayiMa

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If you find happiness in God who is everywhere, all pervading, who is your own self, that is real happiness.
#AnandamayiMa
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A quiet mind is all you need.
All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


LOOK AROUND AND YOU WILL SEE SUFFERING IS A MAN-MADE THING.
#SRINISARGADATTAMAHARAJ
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To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
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To find a buddha all you have to do is see your nature. Your nature is the buddha.
And the buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares. If you don't see your nature and run around all day looking somewhere else, you will never find a buddha.
#Bodhidharma


To be in harmony with the wholeness of things is not to have anxiety over imperfections.
#Dogen
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If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters then expect nothing, seek nothing and grasp nothing.
#Dogen


The man of Zen simply lives in harmony and out of harmony.
His spirit is simple, clean, pure and sincere.
His Zen, which no one sees, is treasure beyond all value.
You can see his body, you cannot see his Zen.
You cannot see his inner meditativeness, you cannot see his awareness ... unless you become aware yourself.
You can know only that much which you have experienced
#Osho


NOW is the only reality.
All else is either
memory or imagination.
#Osho
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Now, here, for the first time you do not have to do anything. Simply sit quiet for one moment in time.
That is all that is required to realize existence, consciousness and bliss.
#Papaji
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ENLIGHTENMENT IS HERE, NOW AND FOREVER.
IF YOU HAVE NO CONCEPTS, YOU KNOW THIS DIRECTLY AND INDUBITABLY.
HWL POONJA - #PAPAJI
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Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it.
The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy.
#Mooji
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The truth is always here but you are too complex and too distracted to see it.
So you will have to walk all over the universe to come back to find it right under your nose.
This is the paradox of existence.
It is always you, it has always been you
but you think it is something else.
It is you but it is not the you that you would like to be or that you think you are, it is the true You.
#Mooji
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Step into the fire of self-discovery.
This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.
#Mooji
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Your true nature...you must clearly understand that in it there are no things, no men and no Buddhas; for this Void contains not the smallest hairs-breadth of anything that can be viewed spatially.
#ZenMasterHuangPo
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Without going anywhere you'll arrive.
#Milarepa
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Obstacles don't block the path.
They are the path.
#Zenproverb
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Try to cultivate this attitude in life:
If I can have what I want, that's good.
If I can't, that's fine too.
This will help us turn our suffering into joy, and live a happier life.
#MasterShengYen
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Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.
#Rumi
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God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.
#Rumi


Keep your attention inside your Heart

The mind has a dilemma. It is afraid of change, deeper
change, yet the mind is attracted to life, which is change. Don't be mixed up in all that business. You merely observe, casually, passively and keep your attention inside your Heart.
#Mooji

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The Heart Sutra says that there is 'nothing to attain.'
We meditate not to attain enlightenment, because enlightenment is already in us.
We don't have to search anywhere.
We don't need a purpose or a goal.
We don't practice in order to attain some high position.
In aimlessness, we see that we do not lack anything, that we already are what we want to become, and our striving just comes to a halt.
We are at peace in the present moment, just seeing the sunlight streaming through our window or hearing the sound of the rain.
We don't have to run after anything.
We can enjoy every moment.
People talk about entering nirvana but we are already there.
Aimlessness and nirvana are one.
#ThichNhatHanh
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You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of day?
So, O man, because you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
#SriRamakrishnaParambansa
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Under all circumstances rely upon
God.
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Many feel the urge to create a new and better world. Rather than let your thoughts dwell on such matters, you should concentrate on That by the contemplation of which there is hope of perfect peace. It is man's duty to become a seeker after God or Truth.
What is perceived in this world is in the nature of a dream, similar to what one sees in dreams. The only difference is that the former takes place in the waking state and the latter during sleep. Albeit, I am always with you.
#AnandamayiMa
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God is. Whatever you behold is nothing but a manifestation of Him.
Once you know Him and live in Him, there is an end to all your sorrows and sufferings. You then realize supreme Bliss, eternal Joy. Strive hard, therefore, to realize Him. #AnandamayiMa
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Keep a secret chamber of silence within yourself...
In this chamber of peace, God will visit you.
#ParamahansaYogananda

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That Chitta is tripartite according to its functions, namely, ego, intellect and mind. When influenced by the three qualities, it manifests in greater details as follows:
By Sattva (brightness), it becomes the five senses, hearing, sight, touch, taste and smell;
By Rajas (activity) speech, hands, feet, organs of excretion and of procreation;
By Tamas (darkness) earth, air, fire, water and ether.
The supreme intelligence coquettes with the universe in this manner, remaining all the time unaffected, a witness of its own creation.
#TripuraRahasya (Ch.14, 76)
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As you get closer to the truth, you will loose interest in worldly affairs.
#srinisargadattaMaharaj
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When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Q: What is the purpose of meditation?
M: Seeing the false as the false, is meditation. This must go on all the time.

Q: We are told to meditate regularly.

M: Deliberate daily exercise in discrimination between the true and the false and renunciation of the false is meditation. There are many kinds of meditation to begin with, but they all merge finally into one.

Q: Please tell me which road to self-realization is the shortest.

M: No way is short or long, but some people are more in earnest and some are less. I can tell you about myself. I was a simple man, but I trusted my Guru. What he told me to do, I did. He told me to concentrate on ‘I am’ — I did. He told me that I am beyond all perceivables and conceivables — I believed. I gave him my heart and soul, my entire attention and the whole of my spare time (I had to work to keep my family alive). As a result of faith and earnest application, I realized my self (swarupa) within three years.
You may choose any way that suits you; your earnestness will determine the rate of progress.

Q: No hint for me?

M: Establish yourself firmly in the awareness of ‘I am’. This is the beginning and also the end of all endeavour.

Excerpts from: I AM THAT.
Chapter:Desirelessness, the Highest
Bliss.
Talks with #SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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THE NISARGADATTA GITA - Pradeep Apte (dedicated to the Great Master)
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

I AM: THE FIRST AND THE LAST CHAPTER: (1 of 231 ponderings)

(45) 'The state of being, that is the message ‘I am’, without words, is common to all, change begins only with the mind-flow'.

That stage when the message ‘I am’ had just arrived and was word free is common to all.
Everybody goes through this period, the non-verbal state, only knowing that ‘you are’ or ‘I am’.
In this stage there only exists the opposite ‘you are not’ or ‘I am not’.
Your movements from ‘I am’ to ‘I am not’ or vice-versa occur quite spontaneously with no volition at all.
Changes begin as soon you are taught words or language and very soon the concepts take over, your verbal life or the mind-flow begins.
Along with these come the three states of being awake, dreaming or deep sleep and you believe that you are an individual with a body and mind functioning in this world.
Then, you meet the Guru and you are told to rediscover this long lost wordless, nascent ‘I am’.
It is still there covered up and you now have to relive it - that is the nature of ‘Sadhana’ (the Practice).
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One should live with the conviction that one is not the body, but the pure consciousness within the body.
The spring of Self-realization will flow from within.
'What God has created is given back to God. I do nothing' - this is the sign of a sincere devotee.
That which is motivating the body is the true devotee. He has a pure heart. He himself is God. He offers his body and awareness to God and then he remains as pure consciousness
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I am the total functioning every moment, millions of years ago or now. Without me the functioning cannot take place. I do not want meek and humble disciples, I want them to be powerful, as I am. I do not make disciples, I make Gurus. I want you to jump in the test tube in the process of this investigation.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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As soon as God is convinced that you are in earnest and nothing can turn you away from Him, then through the guru He gives you the final realization - the guru transmits to you the light of God that flows through him. Perhaps you thought you would never know such a blessing. That supreme experience I received from my Guru. He gave me by his touch what I could not attain by the power and effort of my meditations alone.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Can you show me God?
#SriRamanaMaharshi.: No God cannot be seen, he is not an object of senses which can be seen.
You can't see God because you are God!
How can you search for That which you are?
God is not an object that can be seen.
God is the subject. He is the seer.
Don't concern yourself with objects that can be seen
Find out who the seer is... You alone are God.
#Papaji
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You must become nothing.
Only a person who is nobody can abide in the Self (God).
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Love is not different from the Self.
Love of an object is of an inferior order and cannot endure.
Whereas the Self is Love, in other words, God is Love.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole universe. This world is not other than the mind, the mind is not other than the Heart; that is the whole truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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HEART
IN THE CENTRE OF THE CAVITY OF THE HEART
the sole Brahman shines by itself as the Atman (Self) in the feeling of ‘I-I’. Reach the Heart by diving within yourself, either with control of breath, or with thought concentrated on the quest of the Self.
You will thus get fixed in the Self. I have been saying all along that the Heart Centre is on the right side, even when learned men differed from me. I speak from experience. I knew it even in my home during my trances (samadhi). Again during the incident recorded in SelfRealization, I had a very clear vision and experience. All of a sudden a light came from one side erasing the world-vision. I felt that the heart on the left had stopped and the body became blue and inert. Vasudeva Sastri embraced the body and wept over my death, but I could not speak. All the time I was feeling that the Heart Centre on the right was working as well as ever. This state lasted fifteen or twenty minutes. Then suddenly something shot out from the right to the left like a rocket bursting into the sky. The blood resumed circulation and the normal condition of the body was restored.
The entire universe is condensed in the body and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole universe. This world is not other than the mind, the mind is not other than the Heart; that is the whole truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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0 mind,
it is not wise for you to come out
[in the form of thoughts];
it is best to go within.
Hide yourself deep within the Heart and escape from the tricks of Maya, who tries to upset you by drawing you outwards.
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If you want to hold the beautiful One, hold yourself to yourself.
#Rumi


Looking at my life I see, that only Love has been my soul's companion.
#Rumi

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Where the water of life flows, no illness remains.
In the garden of union, no thorn remains.
They say there's a door between one heart and another.
How can there be a door where no wall remains?
#Rumi
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With love you cannot bargain there, the choice is not yours.
Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence,
if you have the courage to look in its face.
To the parched lips of those who are willing to surrender.
Love will bring the wine that changes darkness into vision, cruelty into compassion and dust into precious incense.
Love means to reach for the sky and with every breath to tear a hundred veils.
Love means to step
away from the ego, to open the eyes of inner vision and not to take this world so seriously.
#Rumi
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Through your grace I have found a treasure in myself.
#Rumi
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Love is the sea where intellect drowns.
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Enter the ruins of your heart, and know the meaning of humility.
#Rumi


Whatever gladdens the mind is the scent of my Beloved; whatever enraptures the heart is a ray from my Beloved!
#Rumi


Serve
always as if you were serving the Supreme
Being.
#AnandamayiMa
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Stay immersed in the Bliss of the Self.
#AnandamayeeMa


It cannot be that anybody, anywhere is not my very own. I am with you at all times.
#AnandamayeeMa


Your suffering, your pain, your afflictions are my sorrow. This body understands everything.
Ma means one who (fulfills the need) of her children in perfect measure. Because she can assess the children that is why she is mother.
#AnandamayeeMa
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As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited.
Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the
power you want, to use in any direction.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Do Not take this life too seriously, it will be gone before you know it.
#ParamahansaYogananda


Someday  when religion is practiced not as dogmatic belief but as definite methods of perceiving spiritual truth-the scientists and religionists are going to shake hands and work in common cause for the all-around, advancement of the human race.
#ParamahansaYogananda

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Meditation is not about turning off your thoughts (good luck with that), it's about redirecting them. If you catch yourself drifting away 20 times in a 5 minute meditation and you bring yourself back 20 times, that's a successful meditation, not a failure. As long as you stay focused on what you want to focus on and catch the mind when it drifts away, you are meditating. It's called a practice because like any other skill or exercise, the more you work at it, the easier it gets. And when you get good at it during your designated meditation time, you find yourself using it all day long. Just like weight lifting makes you stronger in general, meditation makes you mindful in every area of your life.
#Buddhist Boot Camp


#ZEN THINGS

1. Do one thing at a time
2. Do it slowly and deliberately
3. Do it completely
4. Do less
5. Put space between things
6. Develop rituals
7. Designate time for certain things
8. Devote time to sitting
9. Smile and serve others
10. Make cleaning and cooking become a meditation
11. Think about what is necessary
12. Live simply
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Anything you can't control is teaching you how to let go.
#Zen saying


When faced with any difficulty of life resolve it by following these four steps: face it. accept it, deal with it, and then let it go.
#MasterShengYen
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I am neither this, nor that, but the supreme illuminator of both, pure, devoid of anything inner or outer. I am infinite; verily, I am the non-dual Brahman Supreme Truth
#Adishankaracharya


People try spiritually to achieve realization. The true realization is to achieve a kind heart. Other than that, there is nothing really that is useful. Nothing else
#KhadroLa


DECISION MAKING

The next time you feel intimidated by the prospect of making a choice and you don't feel anything in your heart one way or the other, just keep quiet, but without waiting for something to appear. You are going to have to bear some discomfort for a bit because something inside will not want to experience that feeling of not knowing. Something wants to go, but just sit with that uneasiness.
Remain as awareness itself. Then, at some point, everything will calm down. A kind of recognition rather than a decision may enter your heart. The way forward may clearly manifest, and you simply move in a certain direction.
#Mooji
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It is the Supreme Being which is projecting and portraying itself as the 'T'-consciousness and person.
How amazing that the single T' shines as ego, as presence and as absolute awareness whilst remaining immutable.
#Mooji
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But in the end
spirituality is about waking up
from the dream of separateness to the truth of unity. That's what it's about."
#Adyashanti
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Tha one who still shakes with each rub, Needs some deep lessons to be learned as yet,
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The further one goes, the less one knows.
#LaoTzu
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It is impossible to talk about the sea to the frog that lives in a well ; he's limited by the space he lives in.
It is impossible to talk about ice to an insect that lives only in summer; he's limited by the space he lives in.
It is impossible to talk about the Tao to a man of letters who lives in one place lost in the bush, it is limited by narrowness of the teaching received
#ChuangTzu
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Nothing exists by itself alone. We all belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces.
My happiness is your happiness; my suffering is your suffering. We heal and transform together.
#ThichNhatHanh
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no mud no lotus
Both suffering and happiness are of an organic nature, which means they are both transitory; they are always changing.
The flower, when it wilts, becomes the compost.
The compost can help grow a flower again.
Happiness is also organic and impermanent by nature.
It can become suffering and suffering can become
happiness again.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Such silence.
Nobody is with me,
just my shadow walking along with me.
After seeing this whole beautiful world, when you enter into your home nobody will be with you, not even your shadow.
Your aloneness will be total.
Every meditation is a preparation for enjoying the aloneness which is our nature.
#Osho
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Still the mind. You still the mind by not reacting. By watching, by looking, by seeing but not reacting. You sit in the silence observing your mind thinking.
Observing your thoughts. Observing your feelings. And you leave them alone. You no longer try to change anything. You stop following your thought patterns. As we discussed before you "Drop it!" Whatever comes to you, you simply drop it! You no longer go along with your thoughts. You catch yourself every time the thoughts start thinking. You keep remembering to catch yourself. To catch yourself thinking.
#RobertAdams


Everything is simplicity there is nothing to do.
There is no place to go.
There is no thing to become.
You are that, just the way you are.
Awaken to your true Self which is what you are right now.
#RobertAdams


I found myself without desires and without knowledge.
There was nothing left but love, the state of witness was left behind; there was only love, all pervading, all embracing, absolute.
There were no crucial experiences, no soul-shattering visions.
I just ceased imagining myself to be what I never was and there was nothing to replace the unreal with.
There was no need to look for replacements - the nothingness was the fullness of understanding, love and silent peace.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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I do not ask you to trust me.
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Trust my words and remember them, l want your happiness, not mine.
Distrust those who put a distance between you and your true being and offer themselves as a go - between.
I do nothing of the kind.
I do not even make any promises.
I mere say: if you trust my words and put them to test, you will for yourself discover how absolutely true they are .
If you ask for a proof before you venture, I can only say: 1 am the proof.
I did trust my teacher's words and kept them in my mind and I did find that he was right, that I was, am and shall be the Infinite Reality, embracing all, transcending all.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Give your real being a chance, to shape your Life. The sinner and the saint are merely exchanging notes. The saint has a past and the sinner has a future.
Therefore do not judge.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The eternal ever is, a non-experiential state.
How can there be the experience of the truth?
It is prior to beingness.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking, nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which 'I am' is timelessly present. Soon you will realise that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels, that disturbs. Avoid the disturbance, that is all.
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Help yourself and you will help the world.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


#SriRamanaMaharshi
God and the Guru are not different.
Just as the prey which has fallen into the jaws of a tiger
has no escape, so those who have come
within the ambit of the Guru's gracious look will be saved by the Guru and will not get lost;
yet, each one should, by his own effort
pursue the path shown by God or Guru and gain liberation.
God and Guru will only show the way to liberation; they will not by themselves
take the soul to the state of liberation.


Bhagavan with a smile placed his little finger over his eye and said, "Look. This little finger covers the eye and prevents the whole world from being seen. In the same way this small mind covers the whole universe and prevents the Brahman from being seen. See how powerful it is!
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D.: What is the purpose of creation?
M.: It is to give rise to this question; investigate the answer to this
question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal source of all, including the Self.
The investigation will resolve itself into one of quest for the Self and cease only after the non-self is sifted away and the Self realised in its purity and glory.
D.: How is the investigation to start?
M.: The Self is plain to all and the starting also equally plain.
D.: What is the starting point for one in my stage of development.
M.: Each one has some method of upasana or japa. If that is pursued in all sincerity with due perseverance, it will automatically lead to
the investigation of the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Effort is necessary
to move oneself deeper and deeper in the practice of Self-enquiry, not philosophising on the subject.
Firm determination is necessary to achieve experience, not trying to find it at one particular point.
This is to be done until the ego is consumed and only the Self remains.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Bhagavan: There is only one consciousness. But we speak of several kinds of consciousness, as body-consciousness, Self-consciousness. They are only relative states of the same Absolute consciousness. Without consciousness, time and space do not exist. They appear in consciousness. It is like a screen on which these are cast as pictures and move as in a cinema show. The Absolute consciousness is our real nature.

D.: From where do these objects arise?

M.: Just from where you rise. Know the subject first and then question about the object.

D.: It is only one aspect of the question.

M.: The subject comprehends the object also. That one aspect is an all-comprehensive aspect. See yourself first and then see the objects. What is not in you cannot appear outside.

D.: I am not satisfied.

M.: Satisfaction can be only when you reach the source. Otherwise restlessness exists.
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Be Quiet that is Truth.
Be Still, that is God.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Fortunate is the man
who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the Source from which they all
rise.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Your effort is bondage.  #SriRamanaMaharshi


That bliss of the Self is always with you, and you will find it for yourself, if you would seek it earnestly. The cause of your misery is not in the life outside you, it is in you as the ego. You impose limitations on yourself and then make a vain struggle to transcend them.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss.
Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment,
the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on.
That Guru comes only to tell him.
'The God is within yourself.
Dive within and realise.'
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The inner silence is self-surrender.
And that is living without the sense of ego.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Keep quiet. #Papaji


Sit quietly and do not move your mind or intellect. Then observe the observer.
This is your true nature, from where everything else comes. It is your own nature, don't forget.
If you make any effort or use any method of trying to achieve something at some distant future, this will bring you into time. And time is mind. So this will be the play of mind only. But your original nature is empty.
If you follow any thought that arises in the mind, you will find it arises from emptyness, from its source. And when you are aware, when you see "I am that source itself," then there is no need to practice anything. No need to go anywhere. And you will see that you have always been that. This is called freedom, and you are not to achieve or attain it in some distant future. It is already there.
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I advise you to surrender to Master, and listen to him from inside.
Then let the body become like a machine.
You don't control him, he just works.
Find the wagon seated in your Heart, and you will always be at Peace.
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The Lord is always in you, near you.
If you are standing next to a person, you don't need to chant his name to make him come to you.
Repeatedly calling out God's name gives you the mistaken idea that He is far away from you.
He is not. He is standing right next to you, softly calling out your own real Name.
If you were not so busy calling out His name, you would hear Him.
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Every day and every moment a thought comes like an honored guest into your heart.
My soul, regard each thought as a person, for every person's true value is in the quality of thought they hold.
#Rumi


If you want to win hearts,
sow the seeds of love.
If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road.
#Rumi


I am Your lover come to my side
I will open the gate to Your Love.
Come settle with me Let us be neighbors to the stars.
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When I am silent, I fall into a place where everything is music.
Everything is made of Love.
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Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
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#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao

Sound

Wind in the cave:
Movement in stillness.
Power in silence.

In a cave, all outer sounds are smothered by rock and earth, but this makes the sounds of one's own heartbeat and breath audible. In the same way, contemplative stillness turns us away from everyday clamor but allows us to hear the subtle in our own lives.
When listening not with the ear but with the spirit, one can perceive the subtle sound. By entering into that sound, we enter into supreme purity. That is why so many religious traditions pray, sing, or chant as a prelude to silence. They understand that the repetition and absorption of sound leads to sacredness itself.
The deepest sound is silence.
This may seem paradoxical only if we regard silence as an absence of life and vibration. But for a medita-tor, silence is sound unified with all of its opposites. It is both sound and soundlessness, and it is in this confluence that the power of meditation emerges.


#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao

Reflection

Moon above water.
Sit in solitude.
If waters are placid, the moon will be mirrored perfectly. If we still our-selves, we can mirror the divine per-fectly. But if we engage solely in the frenetic activities of our daily involvements, if we seek to impose our own schemes on the natural order, and if we allow ourselves to become absorbed in self-centered views, the surface of our waters becomes turbulent. Then we cannot be receptive to Tao.
There is no effort that we can make to still ourselves. True stillness comes naturally from moments of solitude where we allow our minds to settle. Just as water seeks its own level, the mind will gravitate toward the holy.
Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.
Neither the water nor the moon make any effort to achieve a reflec-tion. In the same way, meditation will be natural and immediate.


#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao

Devotion

Make the crooked straight, Make the straight to flow.
Gather water, fire, and light.
Bring the world to a single point.
If we have devotion-total faith and commitment to our spiritual path— our determination will naturally build momentum. Fewer and fewer obstructions will come before us.
Our path becomes like a crooked one made straight. No matter what tries to keep us from our purpose, we will not be deterred.
Proper devotion lies not simply in a headlong course. It also requires fortitude. Our bodies, our hearts, and our spirits must be totally concentrated upon what we want. Only by uniting all our inner elements can we have full devotion.
If we see our path clearly and our personalities are completely unified, then there is no distinction between the outer world and the inner one. Nothing is faraway any-more, nothing is not open to us.
That is why it is said that the world is like a single point: So strong is devotion that there is nothing that is not a part of it.


#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao

Ablution

Washing at dawn:
Rinse away dreams.
Protect the gods within, And clarify the inner spirit.
Purification starts all practice. First comes cleansing of the body-not to deny the body, but so that it is refined. Once cleansed, it can help us sense the divine.
Rinsing away dreams is a way of saying that we must not only dispel the illusions and anxieties of our sleeping moments but those of our waking ones as well. All life is a dream, not because it isn't there, but because we all project different meanings upon it. We must cleanse away this habit.
While cleansing, we naturally look within. It is believed that there are 36,000 gods and goddesses in the body. If we continually eat bad foods, intoxicate ourselves, allow filth to accumulate anywhere outside or inside of ourselves, then these gods abandon us in disgust.
Yet our concerns must ultimately go beyond these deities in the temples of our bodies to the universal One. After we clear away the obscuring layers of dirt, bodily problems, and delusions, we must be prepared even to clear away the gods themselves so that we can reach the inner One.


#365DailyMeditationsDengMingDao

Beginning

This is the moment of
embarking.
All auspicious signs are in
place.
In the beginning, all things are hopeful. We prepare ourselves to start anew. Though we may be intent on the magnificent journey ahead, all things are contained in this first moment: our optimism, our faith, our resolution, our inno-cence.
In order to start, we must make a decision. This decision is a commitment to daily self-cultivation. We must make a strong connection to our inner selves. Outside matters are superfluous. Alone and naked, we negotiate all of life's travails.
Therefore, we alone must make something of ourselves, transforming ourselves into the instruments for experiencing the deepest spiritual essence of life.
Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
It is said that if one chooses to pray to a rock with enough devotion, even that rock will come alive. In the same way, once we choose to commit ourselves to spiritual prac-tice, even the mountains and valleys will reverberate to the sound of our purpose.


Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person.
When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish.
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LIVE IN THE HEART
Live in your heart rather than in your head.
If life wants to announce a direction (for you to go in, it will prepare the way for you by presenting feelings in your body and mind to enable that movement to occur. And when your mind is seated in your heart, even if you should feel torn, other beings will come at precisely the right time to facilitate whatever transition needs to happen. Not only does your life become wind assisted, but you will also discover how miraculous this existence is.
#Mooji


When I am silent, I fall into that place where everything is music.
#Rumi
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We are stars wrapped in skin The light you are seeking has always been within
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Come on, sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me.
#Rumi


The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy.
Love is beyond either condition:
without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
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Lots Of Way To Reach God.
| Choose Love.
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A man once asked Rumi.
"Why is it you talk so much about silence?'
His answer:
'The radiant one inside me,
has never said a word, take my soul to that place where I may speak without words.
#Rumi
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Any search moves away from the spot where the object of the quest is...
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Locking the storehouse of happiness, man runs everywhere else, begging for that happiness.
How foolish, when he has the
entire store of joy lying
within himself!
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Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend only upon the outside source; go deep within and seek the Infinite Source. All are recorded in the annals of God.
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Whenever you want to know something, don't start with data retire within and concentrate. Seek guidance from within. When the mind is receptive, then bring the data; start working out the business or mental solution. Do not be filled with discouragement and say it cannot be done.
Every human being is a representative of the Infinite Power. You should manifest that Power in everything you do. Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend only upon the outside source; go deep within and seek the Infinite Source. All methods of business success, all inventions, all vibrations of music, all inspirational thoughts and writings, are recorded in the annals of God.
First, determine what your goal is; ask divine aid to direct you to the right action whereby your objective will be fulfilled; then meditate. Afterward, act according to the inner direction that you receive; then you will attain what you want. When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything! Success in everything will come to pass in a short time, for Cosmic Power can be proved by the application of the right law.
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Yoga Master, Sri M told this beautiful story of a meeting with Mahavatar #Babaji in his book, “Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master – A Yogi’s Autobiography:”                                                                     “My Guru stood up beside me and we both turned in the direction of the path to Neelkanth. From behind the tall teak trees, emerged a figure so beautiful, so transcendental, that my hair stood on end. I knew by instinct that it was Mahavatar Babaji who had come to grant me darshan out of his Love and Compassion.

My beloved teacher fell prostrate at His blessed feet and I followed suit. “Get up,” said a melodious voice, “I have urgent business with you. Now Mahesh,” he said addressing my master, “I think you should listen to Madhu. Times have changed, and I think we will shorten the list.” As you wish,” said my teacher.

I could not take my eyes off from the golden complexioned Being standing before me, bare-bodied, except for a shining white loin cloth that barely reached the knees and flowing brown hair that fell to his shoulders. He looked Divine, but it is difficult to describe his form. His hair touched his heels and was ablaze with a radiant fire. His countenance had a Heavenly luster and his body appeared wet as though he had had a bath and yet was dry. I could feel the oneness of all Creation in Him. The deathless fragrance of His body told me the tale of His immortality.

It felt as if the scent that emanated from Him entered my soul. He turned to me, and as I gazed into those compassion filled eyes, my mind went back to my past lives and my connection with Him.

Tears streamed down my face and my whole being pulsated with a Bliss that I had never experienced before. He raised his hands in blessing. We once again prostrated at His feet. When we raised our faces from the ground, He was already gone. Only the fragrant scent lingered. We walked back quietly to the cave. My heart was still full of Love for Babaji. After meditation, my Guru and I sat as usual in front of the Dhuni and after a long silence he started to talk about Babaji:

“Babaji is ever the same. He was never born and can therefore never die. They call Him aja, the unborn. From time to time our compassionate Lord of irradiant splendor does manifest for humanity to do what needs to be done. Pulling the veil of Maya over Himself, He will take a form of Lightless light to incarnate amongst the haunts of men. Babaji guards, guides, and enlightens the evolutionary blueprint of mankind.

His deathless body of lightless light may take any form through which He can express and show Himself to the faithful from age to age. People know Him by many names, and yet Babaji is called the Nameless One. He broods over the infant humanities from eternity to eternity. Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but He shall be in the here and now, eternally to stay. The limited vision of Sages, Siddhas, philosophers and yogis cannot pierce His transcendental star. His spiritual stature is inconceivable. He is the collective Elohim, the spiritual essence of the nine Nath Lords combined. He is the Great Sacrifice who in countless supernovae explosions infused every atom of creation with His spirit of livingness, Wisdom and Truth. To redeem not only humankind, but all life and matter to their pristine state of Consciousness............” Sri M, Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath
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Everywhere is Consciousness and everywhere is home.
#Papaji
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Keep quiet.
#Papaji
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You simply have to be aware of the mind motions that initiate these never ending problems. Something actually arising from consciousness is just a concept and it is this concept that gives rise to the myth of individual identity. "I am" is the first movement of the mind and that's where problems arise.
#Papaji
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Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti 💜🧡❤❤🔥🙏😌


Consciousness is the screen on which all the pictures
come and go. The screen is real, the pictures are mere shadows on it.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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In deep sleep man is devoid of possessions, including his own body. Instead of being unhappy he is quite happy. Everyone desires to sleep soundly.
The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in man and is not due to external causes. One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise the Self. There is nothing else to do.
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Reality is simply the loss of Ego. Destroy the Ego by seeking its identity. Because the Ego is no entity, it will automatically vanish, and reality will shine forth by itself.
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GOD is not an object that can be seen.
God is the subject.
He is the seer.
You alone are God.
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When a person reaches a certain stage and becomes fit for enlightenment,
the same God whom he was worshipping comes as Guru and leads him on.
That Guru comes only to tell him.
'The God is within yourself.
Dive within and realise.'
God, Guru and the Self are the same.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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That which is, is only one consciousness.
One should get rooted in it, in one's own Heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Only if one knows the truth of love, which is the real nature of Self, will the strong entangled knot of life be untied. Only if one attains the height of love will liberation be attained.
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The same line you take in meditation will be expressed in your activities.
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Meditation opens one's true being to the Light, to that which is Eternal.
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Man's true nature flows towards God alone.
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As the perfume of the flower spreads through the air, so will the fragrance of God produced by your daily practice be transported on the wind into the world at large.
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Look, one cannot be sure of the next breath.
Keep this in mind and meditate on Him.
Your lifetime is fast slipping away and with every breath your lifespan is decreasing.
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Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
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Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement.
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#ChuangTzu: Inner Chapters
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
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