Being has no requirements whatsoever. Nothing needs to be changed or attained in order to be. This present appearance is already the perfect expression of Being and cannot be avoided.
Nathan Gill
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Ever-present background
Just keep in mind the feeling “I am,” merge in it, until your mind and feeling become one. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection, and your mind will be firmly established in the thought feeling “I am.” Whatever you think, say, or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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There is nothing to be achieved
If you understand the meaning of all this, it implies that you know there is nothing to be achieved. Anyone who supposes they can achieve it by getting hold Of, or grasping at something is full of self- conceit — an arrogant person with perverted views.
Hui Hai
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Suffering
Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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No center
Just remain in the center, watching. And then forget that you are there.
Lao Tzu
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Know yourself
As long as there is the body and the sense of identity with the body, frustration is inevitable. Only when you know yourself as entirely alien to and different from the body, will you find respite from the mixture of fear and craving inseparable from the “I-am-the body” idea
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The natural state
There is a state beyond forgetting and not forgetting–the natural state. To remember, to forget–these are all states of mind, thought-bound, word-bound
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you need.
What you need will come to you if you do not ask for what you do not need. Yet only few people reach this state of complete dispassion and detachment. It is a very high state, the very threshold of liberation
Nisargadatta Maharaj
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There is but One Being in all things and this One is you
What it is shared here is a completely radical and uncompromising message. It has no prescriptions and does not suggest anything to do at all. It does not ask you to be a particular way, but rather that you are not required to be at all.
It speaks about what has always been present and is right now but it was and is completely overlooked. It tries to describe a paradox.
When we are born the sense of separation between the body and whatever surrounds it is not present, then after a few years the identity arises and everyone around you will confirm to you that you are a real person, with free will and choice, that you have to work hard to become worthy, satisfied… you have to make your life work. A feeling of contraction is present and it becomes the centre by which all thoughts, emotions and actions seems to arise from.You are now someone and life is happening to you, you have to defend yourself with threats, you seek pleasure and avoid pain. You really believe that you can do all of these things. We become seekers, looking for something that can fullfill a subtle dissatisfaction, a subtle but deep sense of lack. What this message describes is that the belief of having an identity, a separate me amongst separate others in a separate world is an illusion. There is no one and there never was. Everything just happens and there is no one ever in control of anything.
There is no one right now reading this even if something there is strongly convinced that this is not the case. There is just THIS and it is NOTHING appearing as THIS. This cannot be understood or grasped by the me, but something can resonate there as this is the real nature of what is. In THIS ALL-NESS everything can arise, even the sense that separation is real, and that sense can fall away. There is no need or cause for that to happen. The illusion can remain until death or it can collapse right now.
When this is seen (by no-one) it becomes clear that what we were longing for all along has never gone away. There is just everything and nothing. THIS is pure joy, love and freedom.Emotions, thoughts, feelings can still arise then in This, but they are not owned by a separate someone. There is no personal suffering any-more, there is just a flow of energy.
The seeing of THIS is not an experience that you can make happen by doing, because in this seeing you won’t be there. THIS does not belong to anyone.The seeing of THIS, the so called awakening, liberation or enlightenment, can or cannot happen. There is no direction or purpose in LIFE. There is no-one there that can do anything about it. Even when an imagined you feels hopeless and helpless there is only hopelessness and helplessness happening.
Avasa
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Life’s purpose
Living is life’s only purpose.
Nisargadatta Maharaj