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  • Adi Da Samraj: You Do Not Think

    Adi Da Samraj: You Do Not Think
    In this discourse excerpt from an October 10, 2004 , Adi Da explains how all the beings and things we tend to presume have an independent existence are in fa…

  • Beyond ideas

    Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.

    When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

    Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other” doesn’t make any sense.

    Rumi

  • Spiritual maturity

    Spiritual maturity is being ready to let go everything. Giving up is a first step, but real giving-up is the insight that there’s nothing to be given up, since nothing is your property.

    Nisargadatta Maharajah

  • A net of jewels

    The very first step in understanding is in giving up the false concept of ‘I’ as a separate entity. It is also the last step.

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    The existence of ego is purely conceptual. When a person sleeps, consciousness is absent, but he is not dead. We are neither the warm body that is alive nor the cold body that is dead. We are the birthless and deathless vital current of Consciousness itself.

    Ramesh Balsekar

  • Prior to time and space

    You, who are the creator of all, have limited yourself to the concept of being in the size of a body and therefore something that is limited to the length of one lifetime.

    You, who are the creator, have fallen into identification with the action of words arising as mind and cease to see that you are what knows of their arising.

    Prior to time and space you are the Stillness within which they arise.

    Avasa

    One-liners.pdf

  • The never lost paradise

    Is there a purpose in non-duality manifesting as duality?

    We pretend that we’ve lost paradise only for the joy of finding it again. When paradise is regained, it’s realised that it was never lost.

    Richard Sylvester

    book-of-no-one-sample.pdf

  • Just be

    There is nothing to practice.

    To know yourself, be yourself.
    To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be.

    Let your true nature emerge.
    Don’t disturb your mind with seeking.

    Nisargadatta Maharaj

  • Seek nothing outside of yourself

    There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself.

    Miyamoto Musashi

  • It is the eternal

    So long as you identify yourself as the body, your experience of pain and sorrow will increase day by day. That is why you must give up this identification, and you should take yourself as the consciousness. If you take yourself as the body, it means you have forgotten your true self, which is the atman. And sorrow results for the one who forgets himself. When the body falls, the principle which always remains is You. If you identify yourself with the body, you will feel that you are dying, but in reality there is no death because you are not the body. Let the body be there or not be there, your existence is always there; it is the eternal

    Nisargadatta Maharaj

  • Just be

    Do nothing, just be. In being all happens naturally.

    Nisargadatta Maharaj