Liberation is when the mind does not long for anything, grieve about anything, reject anything, or hold on to anything, and is not pleased about anything or displeased about anything.
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Song of Avadhut
Know well that I’m unaffected by the appearance or disappearance of the world;
To me, there is neither maya nor its absence.
How, then, can I speak of the performance of right actions?
My nature is Freedom; there’s no maya to me. -
Emptiness
Empty but aware
Avasa
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Zen mind
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Unconditioned, sane, really free human being
“I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.
It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.
It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.
And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.
That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.”
Osho
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A Net of Jewels – August 25
Fabricating objects in the split-mind is what is called “thinking.” But thinking is not man’s real nature – it is what prevents us from seeing our real nature. Yet there cannot be any prescriptive method to bring about the cessation of thinking because any such effort would emanate from a “me” that is itself nothing but a product of thought.
Ramesh Balsekar
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Liberation
Liberation is never of the person, it is always from the person
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Emptiness
This alone is true emptiness, neither active nor passive, without form or place, without gain or loss.