Why one shouldn't chase salvation or Mukti or liberation?
Confucius has said “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
You are the temple of God. You are the abode of the ultimate. So the question is not where to find truth, the question is: how have you lost it? The question is not where to go; you are already there - stop going.
That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.~~Osho
Why do you want to become free?
𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐨𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 – 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐈 𝐬𝐚𝐲! 𝐍𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭.
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠; 𝐨𝐫, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭, 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭.
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧; 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝.
To be totally liberated means you're no longer part of the cycle of birth and death. You no longer have a body, but you are conscious. You no longer have a mind that thinks all the time.
You're totally free and radiantly happy. You always find yourself in the right place wherever you are. There's no place for you that's better than another place.
You're free. You're liberated. You have eternal happiness, joy. You're no longer concerned about what your body is doing, for you are aware that you have no body. Even though you can see it yourself and you see other bodies, you are sure, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that there are no bodies.
This is a hard one to explain and a hard one to understand, for how can you not be the body when you see the body?
Yet that's exactly what's happening. You have transcended and transmuted existence. What is beyond that cannot be comprehended by the finite mind. There are no words to describe it. So we say it's the blissful state. Yet most of us cannot understand what the blissful state is, because we haven't experienced it.
It's like trying to describe the taste of ice cream to a person who has never tasted it. No matter what you say it doesn't come out right, until the person tastes the ice cream himself.
Therefore you have to experience this for yourself. And it can be experienced.
The first thing to realize is that it can only be experienced when your mind has become silent. When your mind has become silent it means your mind has been destroyed, because the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. When there is no mind, there is emptiness. That emptiness is silence, and that silence is consciousness.
How do I make my mind silence?
How do I silence my mind?
By inquiring “Who am I?" or “Where does the mind come from? How did the
mind originally appear?" In other words you must inquire into yourself.
There is absolutely no thing you can do externally. This is the reason it's not for everyone. Most yogas, all yogas,
all spiritual teachings beside Advaita Vedanta are external. They’re something you do externally. Yet in this teaching, you dive deeply within to discover your self. You're not looking to develop anything. You're not looking to add anything on to yourself. You do the reverse. You remove everything you've ever known from your life, mentally.
Everything you believe in, all of your preconceived ideas, all of your dogmas, everything you believe in has to be dismissed. Hardly anyone is ready to do this.
Think of all the things in your life you have to give up. I don't mean you have to give them up physically. You have to give them up mentally. You have to let go. Everything has to go. Everything that has been brainwashed into your head since you were born, has to be reversed. This is the only way you're going to get there. There is no other way.
You have to reverse yourself, and not identify with person, place or thing, but with the self, with consciousness. And again this is done through inquiring. Whenever an object enters your mind, you have to inquire
“To whom does it come?"
You have to question everything. You no longer accept anything at face value. And yet, as you do this, your life style will not change much, for your body will continue it's work.
As you begin to understand and feel and experience that you are not your body, your body will still continue the work it came here to do. But you no longer think about it. You rather ask yourself “Who is the thinker?" and of course you always come back to “I am. I think about these things."
Slowly but surely you begin to realize you are not the I, you are not the I that thinks. "If I am not the I who thinks, then who am I?" and you wind up in the silence. There is no answer. Do not say to yourself “I am consciousness," or
“I am absolute reality," for if you really are that, there would be no one to make the statement.
When I make these statements to you, I am merely voicing, so you can hear what’s going on.
You have to get to the point where you become that, not where you voice It. And, again, the easiest way to do that is by negating everything else. Whatever comes into your mind, you simply question. You don't accept it at face value.
Say for instance you are an angry person, you’ve got a short fuse and people make you angry, conditions make you angry. Now instead of reacting immediately to the condition as you usually do, you question yourself “To whom does this anger come?" and you wait. You do not say "it comes to me,” until it happens by itself. In other words, this procedure does not need any help from you.
It will come “The anger comes to me. I feel angry," but don't just say it mechanically. Wait till it comes. You ask “To whom does the anger come?" and you become still. Sometimes, if you're advanced enough, nothing else will come for a great while. You'll remain in the silence and bliss.
But sometimes the answer will come immediately “The anger comes to me." Then you ask “Who am I?" and you keep silent again.
You see the way it's done? It is not done mechanically. You allow the self to take care of everything. You watch.
You become as quiet as you can. You no longer get involved with the world too much. You observe, by becoming the witness, but you do not react.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Don’t construct your building of hopes and desires over here. Its foundation is on the sand of impermanence and change, so it will crumble down in the slightest gust of wind.
"If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future. So they are spared the guilt and the anxiety that so torment human beings and they are full of the sheer joy of living, taking delight not so much in persons or things as in life itself. As long as your happiness is caused or sustained by something or someone outside of you, you are still in the land of the dead. The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
To find the kingdom is the easiest thing in the world but also the most difficult. Easy because it is all around you and within you, and all you have to do is reach out and take possession of it. Difficult because if you wish to possess the kingdom you may possess nothing else. That is, you must drop all inward leaning on any person or thing, withdrawing from them forever the power to thrill you, or excite you, or to give you a feeling of security or well-being.
For this you first need to see with unflinching clarity this simple and shattering truth: Contrary to what your culture and religion have taught you, nothing, but absolutely nothing can make you happy. The moment you see that, you will stop moving from one job to another, one friend to another, one place, one spiritual technique, one guru to another. None of these things can give you a single minute of happiness. They can only offer you a temporary thrill, a pleasure that initially grows in intensity, then turns into pain if you lose them and into boredom if you keep them.
Liberation is here only
There is no such thing as entering into nirvana, into moksha, into liberation, into the soul, into the atman. How can you enter a place you have never left? So what happens then? As I said, there is no such thing as an entry into nirvana, but what happens is that the world we were in dissolves like a dream and we find ourselves in our selves. As such, this experience is not at all like an entering, it is more like finding yourself on your bed at the abrupt termination of a journey you were taking in a dream. Since you haven’t gone anywhere there is no question of returning; since you haven’t lost anything, talking of achieving something is meaningless. You are only dreaming a dream; your traveling and searching are in a dream. You don’t have to go anywhere or find anything. All you have to do is awaken.
“You need not look for Nirvana elsewhere or in the future. Because you are it. Nirvana is the ground of your being”—Thich Nhat Hanh.
”If I see one dilemma with man, it's that he can't accept how beautiful he is. He can't accept that he is pure light, that he's pure love, that he's pure consciousness, that he's divine."
~ Ram Dass (20th-21st century American Advaita mystic)
”All I can really do for you is to confess my own reality, and my own reality is also your reality. I am sat-chit-ananda [existence-consciousness-bliss]. I am Parabrahman. I am ultimate oneness. I am divine love, pure consciousness. I am that I am, emptiness, nirvana. There is nothing else. All of your worries, all of your fears, have no foundation. There is only the one and you are that. Why will you not accept it?
~ Robert Adams
Every experience can be broken down into three aspects: the object which is outside you and which you, the experiencer, are experiencing; the I amness, the ego, which is experiencing; and the bridge, the relationship between the two, which is the experience. You can understand these three. And if there is something beyond these three, the fourth – which is also within you – is the witness, which is watching these three from above – which is watching the food being eaten, the one who is eating, and the bridge of experiencing between these two.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐭.
Be aware that anger is happening to you, that anger has caught hold of you, that anger is about to being expressed. Don’t forget this even for a moment. Don’t create any identification with anger. At no point should you think that you are the anger; keep yourself distant from it.
𝐈𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
𝐈𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 – 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫.
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬.
𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 – 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠?
𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫? 𝐍𝐨, 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧. 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧? 𝐍𝐨, 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭. 𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝? 𝐍𝐨, 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐭.
𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 – 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥, 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦 𝐛𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡: 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐭.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐠𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝.𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫.
𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 – 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲.
𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧: 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐞 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐲.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 – 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭! 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.
𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐢𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐲. 𝐀 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭. 𝐀 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐢𝐭.
If you have understood your desire you have understood all. Because in the understanding of desire, desire ceases. And when desire ceases, suddenly you have a totally new feel of your being; you are no more the old. What is the desire?
What are you searching? What are you seeking?
Happiness. Bliss. Joy. That's what you are seeking. And you have been seeking for millennia, and you have not found it yet. It is time, the RIGHT time, to think again, to meditate again. You have been seeking so hard, you have been trying so hard - perhaps you are missing just because you are trying? Maybe it is trying that keeps you away from happiness? Let us think over it, brood over it. Give a little pause to your search, recapitulate.
You have been searching for many lives. You don't remember other lives, no need - but in this life you have been searching, that will do. And you have not found it. And nobody has ever found it by searching. Something is wrong in the very search. In the search naturally you forget yourself; you start looking everywhere, everywhere else. You look to the north and to the east and to the west and to the south, and in the sky and underneath the seas, and you go on searching everywhere.
And the search becomes more and more desperate, because the more and more you search and you don't find, great anxiety arises - 'Am I going to make it this time, or am I again going to miss it?'
More and more desperation, more and more misery, more and more madness. You go nuts. And the happiness remains as far away as ever - in fact it recedes farther away from you. The more you search, the less is the possibility to get it. Because it is inside you.
Happiness is the function of your consciousness when it is awake. Unhappiness is the function of your consciousness when it is asleep. Unconsciousness is your mirror burdened with great dust and luggage and past. Happiness is when the burden has been dropped and the mirror has been found again. And again your mirror can reflect the trees and the sun and the sand and the sea and the stars. When you have again become innocent, when you again have again become innocent, when you again have the eyes of a child - in that clarity you are happy
”So break the old pattern of present-moment denial and present-moment resistance. Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed. Step out of the time dimension as much as possible in everyday life. If you find it hard to enter the Now directly, start by observing the habitual tendency of your mind to want to escape from the Now. You will observe that the future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory. Through self-observation, more presence comes into your life automatically. The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. Whenever you are able to observe your mind, you are no longer trapped in it. Another factor has come in, something that is not of the mind: the witnessing presence.”
Excerpt From: Tolle, Eckhart. “The Power of Now.”
”If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
“People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.”
Eckhart Tolle
”A person who lives moment to moment, who goes on dying to the past, is never attached to anything. Attachment comes from the accumulated past. If you can be unattached to the past every moment, then you are always fresh, young, just born. You pulsate with life and that pulsation gives you immortality. You are immortal, only unaware of the fact.
There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.”
Go on dying to the past and never think of the future - and then try to be miserable. You will fail. You cannot be miserable.
We miss the reality between these waverings of past and future. Reality is here and now.
Past should be a learning experience, and not an everlasting punishment. Just remember that past is dead, and future unborn, hence both are not, both are illusions. One can remember the past when needed or plan for the future, but at the same time it should not go on eating our present moment….
1) From DOER Become WITNESS
2) From WITNESS To AWARENESS
3) From AWARENESS To TATHATA (SUCHNESS)
1) If you abuse me, I should not feel or experience that you abused me or I was abused. You abuse him who is 'I'.
If you hurt me with a stone, I should not feel so you threw the stone and I was hurt, but I should feel you threw the stone and this person was hurt.
I should always stand at the THIRD CORNER OF THE TRIANGLE. I should always jump to the THIRD CORNER.
If my house catches fire I should not feel MY house is on fire, I should feel that his house is burning and I am looking at it.
The commencement of Sadhana for a WITNESS is to SEPARATE LIFE INTO THREE PARTS.
We do it in TWO PARTS. I am here and you are there. You are the abuser, I am the receiver. That's all, there are only TWO WAYS, the THIRD IS NOT THERE.
In being a WITNESS, we ADD THE THIRD PERSON.
I should always be a THIRD PERSON and NOT A SECOND PERSON, under all circumstances.
2) If I raise my foot, I do it consciously. Even a word is uttered in a state of full consciousness. If I say yes, I mean to say yes. I have said that consciously. And if I say no, I mean to say no. I have certainly said so with awareness.
In this state of AWARENESS everything that is meaningless in life stops because nobody can do anything worthless and meaningless while being aware of it.
Awareness means I am totally aware of what I am doing at the time of doing it.
3) The THIRD maxim of TATHATA -- total acceptability is still mere difficult. If one can master AWARENESS, he can master TATHATA (total acceptability).
In TATHATA (total acceptability), we are pleased with whatever there is, whether it is misery, death, a meeting with a loved person or annuity etc. There is no rejection, there is tranquility.
Tathata is a believer who does not complain. He says, whatever is, is all right. Every breath is full of willingness. Total acceptability is the throbbing of his heart.
TATHATA (SUCHNESS) means total acceptability. Such an acceptability can take place when one is TOTALLY AWARE. It is possible only after being a WITNESS.
Remember only one thing: the past is a hindrance, the greatest hindrance. It has to be completely dropped, utterly dropped. To be with me is to be in the now — no past, no future. This moment is all there is and just this moment is god. Everything else is just the mind dreaming, desiring, imagining.
Once the past and future have dropped — and they are always dropped together; if you drop one, the other disappears of its own accord. They are two aspects of the same game. The past projects itself into the future. It wants to repeat itself — in a little more modified way, but still the same. Between the two is the moment. The moment, this moment, is the only reality, and the door to reality. So let this moment become your whole life. Live moment to moment, with no ideology, with no desire for any kind of future, with no goal. And then you need not go to god — god comes to you.
The mind is never clear and can never be. The mind is what unclarity is. And all relationship is through the mind; hence the problem. You will have to learn the ways of no-mind So it is not a question of how to be clear; it is a question of how to be a no-mind. Through the mind the same thing will go on being repeated, again and again. The mind is repetitive, it is mechanical. It moves like a wheel: the same spokes come up again and again and again.
This is the difference between the western approach and the eastern. The western approach is to bring clarity to the mind. The whole of psychoanalysis is nothing but that: how to bring a clarity to the mind. The eastern approach is how to get out of the mind, because the mind is not going to be clear ever. The mind is confusion. There is not any possibility with the mind. It is not that there are confused minds and minds which are not confused, no. All minds are confused… the mind as such is confusion.
So it is not a question of how to become clear about your relationship; that is just a by-product. You have to get out of the mind slowly, slowly; you have to learn ways of getting out of it. And that’s what meditation is all about: it is slipping out of the mind. The mind is a mechanism. There is no need to get identified with it. Use it, but remain aloof, remain separate. Know perfectly well that you are a witness. Just as you are a witness of the outside world — the trees, the moon and the people — exactly like that you are a witness to the inside world — the dreams, the imagination, the anger, love, hate, jealousy, possessiveness, and all that. But you are always a witness, and the witness is always clear. The mind is always confusion, the witness is always clear.
Become more and more of a witness. Don’t get identified with the mind. It is very close but still it is not you. So there is no point in working on the mind. The whole work now has to be not on the mind but on you. Disconnect yourself from the mind more and more. When anger comes, sit silently and watch it. You are a watcher on the hills and anger is there just like a cloud passing by. There is the hate and there is the jealousy, but you remain aloof; you just see them. Don’t judge them, don’t be against them, because the moment you judge you become entangled. That’s what Jesus means when he says ‘Judge ye not’. That is the secret key to no-mind. Don’t say ‘This is good’, don’t say ‘This is bad’; just don’t say anything. Silently see it, take note of it: anger is there — it is neutral, neither good nor bad. And you will be surprised that it comes, it surrounds you and then it goes away.
Once you have learned the knack of it — that you can remain undisturbed and undistracted by the mind stuff that is continuously moving like traffic — you will have clarity. Not only clarity about this particular problem: you will simply have clarity — clarity about your whole life, clarity about everything that you are doing. And out of that clarity is beauty and benediction. Out of that clarity religion is born. You become religious out of that clarity, but it is never of the mind.
”Enlightenment depends to a large extent on believing that you are born for Freedom in this lifetime, and that it is available now, in this moment.
The mind, which creates the past and future, keeps you out of the moment where the Truth of your Being can be discovered.
In this moment, there is always Freedom and there is always peace.
This moment in which you experience Stillness
Don‘t let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now
”When the mind has been transcended there is no longer a world that you see like it was before. You see the world as images, appearances on the screen of life and you become blissful. You become more blissful than anything this earth can offer you. This world, this universe cannot offer you anything as good as this bli
... And we want to have this bliss because it's our natural state. This bliss is peace, happiness, joy. Can you ever imagine being in eternal happiness, eternal peace, eternal joy? When nothing bothers you any longer. Nothing comes into your mind any longer. Nothing disturbs you any longer. Yet the so-called disturbances are still going on. They're still going on as it was before but not for you.
For you no longer have a mind to comprehend these things. The mind has been totally annihilated, totally destroyed. The body will continue what it does yet you will understand that you are not the body. You are not the doer. You are free. You are total freedom. You are effortless, choiceless, pure awareness. This happens by itself."
”Pretty soon you become old, and you appear to die. Do you want to believe this lie, that you die, that you get old, that there are problems in this world? This is all a lie. It's the mortal dream. Do not identify with the mortal dream. Know who you are once and for all. You are that which was never born, which does not prevail, and can never die.
You are that which is beyond all concepts, all reasoning, all thoughts. You are that which has always existed as pure awareness. You are that which is neither female or male, which is neither good nor bad, which is neither right or wrong, which just is. Beauty, joy, love, harmony, peace, bliss, this is your real identity. You can be free right now, in this moment itself.
Insecurity has its own wisdom. A person who is insecure is always more alive, more full of zest, because he has to face life every moment. The challenge is there every moment and he has to face that challenge. A secure person becomes dull. He has no need to face any moment. He has arranged for everything. He has arranged for the future also. He can live a dull life and he can die a dull death. That's what security is. It is a convenient way to live and a convenient way to die.
But life never happens to these people who are too much obsessed with convenience. Life only happens to those who are ready to live dangerously.
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