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From self-centered to zero-centered
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If you want to self-realize (i.a. realize what you are) you must first unrealize what
you are not... Stop believing in the unreality of what you SEEM to be.

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By splitting us up
We go down
In war
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How to snap out of the fixation of the ego?

How to snap out of me?
Realizing there in no such "thing" as me...
--
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In order to maintain your body, you have to struggle... The ego is based on
the image of the body in the contextof the world, following the same
direction. Ego maintenance requires constantstruggle.

--..--..--..—
Maya is useless. There is no need. The apparent material needs are like the
needs induced by commercials. It's all a pretense, meant for playing a game.
Even treating Maya seriously and believing the material needs are real is a
pretense, is part of the game.
(I believe) the objects are real only if (I believe) the context in which the
objects appear(the world) is real. If the world is not real, the objects are
not realeither.
If I believe my characteris real but the world is not real, then I am not
real either.
I (or me) believes, instead, that the I or the me will still exist after seeing
through the illusion, after the veil of perception is removed. But the I or the me
has no life at all.
--..--..--..—

Nondual clear pure awareness is self-sustaining. You don't have to hold it, maintain
it, preserve it, keep it in existence.
--..--..--..—
Suffering arises from the use of thoughts and words such as "Real" (permanent) in the
face of (impermanent) dreamy phenomena.
The mere thought that an unreal (impermanent) appearance is real is enough to
produce tons of unnecessary (therefore stupid) discomfort.
--..--..--..—

Ordinary life is an elaborate analysis of a dream.

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Instead of having “Oh shit!” On your mind when you’re in trouble or about to die, it’s
better to think "Om Chit-Ananda!"
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Reality “is what it is” while we are distracted by analyzing “what it is not”.

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"I" is like "Ouch"
"Ouch" is just a reaction
"I" is just a reaction

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When the mind stops
There is no thought moving
When there is no thought moving
There is nothing you need to stop

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Reader - What is Real...then?
Zero - Then, the real, is prior...
And prior there is nothing.
Isn't it funny?

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KEEP IN MIND
THERE IS NO MIND
SO
YOU'VE NO MIND

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That which can be thought is not you.
That which can be thought is not true.

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Peaceful detachment is a gift of pure awareness itself

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Self is an accident
Self-realization is a God-accident
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All ideas are fiction, all should be ignored.

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In just a moment of Pure Awareness you reach an entire life of enlightenment

The little ego god, or egod, is never good enough... E-god is never contented enough,
never happy, popular or complete enough
Better than lucid dreaming is no dreaming... Just lucidity.

--
If all you expect out of life is a little disappointment, you will never be
disappointed.
That’s really what life is all about: learning how to handle disappointment.

There is no seeing without distance
--

During your everyday life move the attention smoothly, without fixating on any
particular thing... Just de-focus a little more.

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You don't have to free yourself with spiritual practices
You have to free yourself FROM spiritual practices
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You have forgotten to count the body as an object, ie as something "other" than you.
Add it to the right list: objects...

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The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience.
And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive
experience.

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Once you realize the false dreamland, you can't unsee what you've seen

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The enlightened mind recognizes in a second what the ordinary mind (of the common
man) recognizes - hardly - in hundreds or thousands of years.
--

Question = Answer
Both are simple sounds, and one noise is as good as another.
If you really got it, you no longer have questions and no longer wait for the right
answer...
-…..
Ego
Is just a phantom
A Fun-toon
A Fun-tool
…

There can be no dialogue between the awakened and the sleeping consciences.
The former no longer believes in the planetary dream, the latter mistake the daytime
dream for reality and live exclusively on dreams.
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If you have self-esteem issues, you are in the wrong place.
Here you lose it completely.
Here I don't try to increase people's self-esteem, but to accentuate a ruthless self-
awareness, which eliminates any self-esteem.
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Samsara is not a trap because "no one" exists to get trapped by it!
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In the world of appearances, Truth (or Reality) has zero visualizations.
Nobody is listening to the thoughts, because thoughts don't make any sound.
Thoughts are dead and thus deaf.

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Reader: "How can awakening be integrated with one's dreams?
How can I integrate Truth with my daily life? "
Zero: "Awakening does not integrate dreams, it disintegrates them.
Ditto for the Truth.
You cannot integrate the Truth with 'your' daily life.
Truth disintegrates personal history and therefore also disintegrates what you now
call 'your' daily life. "
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Your ego will do anything to survive. It can make you believe anything
--

Concerns about the body show how fragile and vulnerable your mind is; show how
strong is your attachment to physical sensations, how overwhelming is your
submission to the sensory organs, how intense is your identification with gross
perception.
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Constantly put the word "appears" in front of everything you see-think-feel-believe:
The wall seems to exist,
Emotions seem to arise
I look like a person in a dream.
This is the only truly reasonable language to share.
Apparently...
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The universe operates on a dream-imaginary-mental-psychica-fictional base.
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Spiritual path is not a path of self discovery, self realization or self knowing but self
forgetting.
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The outcome is not up to your-self: is not up to you nor to the self.
Isn’t it great news?

It means that everything is up to nobody… and nothing is up to somebody.
--
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Hope is
The hopium

Of your mind
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Ego is like a computer virus that makes you desire an external appearance.
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Know your self and you will know the universe... Some wise men said.
But if the self is nothing but an illusion what else can the universe be if not an
illusion?
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The enlightened one is one who has received a shot in the face from Reality, a shotso
strong that he has never recovered.
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Sum of false knowledge = false knowledge
Opinions + interpretations + gossip = false knowledge
Dreams + appearances + impressions = false knowledge
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In just being there is no sense of doership, no past, no memory, no knowing

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Stop dream-me-in (dreaming)
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The I behind the ‘eye’ is a lie
--**--

Seeing = pure knowing
Thinking = false knowing
Speaking = thinking loud
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The person is an appearance, a mental construct.
When the person is seen through, emotional disturbances (and so physical symptoms
derived from the apparent person) dissolves.
--**--
No clinging
Just clicking
__**__

Perception is the veil.
But we don’t realize it because we are slaves to our perceptions and we think they
make us free to see reality as it is. We are in the prison of perception, but we call
reality this prison.
It can be difficult to wrap our minds around all of this because perception can seem
so incredibly convincing.
__**__
Authentic self-realization is the realization of not-self.
__**__

Accept advice on life only from those who have already finished it or from those who
died alive.
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Normality, in society, is the viewpoint of most awake people.
Normality, in Awakening, is the viewpoint of the majority of those who sleep.
--

--
Seeking = sickness
Seeking makes you sick,
a sick seeker
__**__

Everything's a distraction, entertainment, always has been.
The only truth you need is that it's all lies.
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Our troubles, our stresses and sufferings, are the result of keeping our distance, or
actually running away from them. When we go up to them, they vanish like a mirage.
--
The man - or woman - of your dreams exists: to find him/her you just have to sleep
more.

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The less you lie about yourself the less you suffer.
And the biggest lie is that you are a self.
This is the lie that produces 99% of your afflictions
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Self-Remembering (or recalling of me-my story) is the source of all misery.
Forgetfulness of the self is the source of all happiness.
--
The deluded person is not the one who sees illusions but the one who looks at them
without seeing them, that is, without recognizing them ...

You're definitely looking at them now, but you're probably not seeing them.
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The ego has never become reality.
Reality has never become ego.
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Everything's a distraction, entertainment, always has been.
The only truth you need is that it's all lies.
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It is when you tell, believe and defend your alleged personal story that the sense of
self - that is, the ectoplasm with which you are identified - strengthens, thickens and
seems more real, more authentic, more convincing.
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The best for you
Is the absence
Of your "self"
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Attempting to bridge the apparent separation validates the belief in separation.
Paradoxically, seeking union strengthens the sense of separation.
Acclaiming the One does nothing but reiterate duality.

--
One trick to understanding the planetary dream is to not try to understand it.
Don't try to understand why the world is a planetary dream.
Instead of trying to figure it out, just let it unfold by itself.
Relax your mind and let the dream clues emerge spontaneously
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When your attention remains nailed to personal importance, that is to the self, you
lose sight of everything else, that is, you lose the infinite possibilities independent of
the self.
There are endless possibilities but you have missed them all because you focus only
on your own miserable self-importance, or on the false hope of your greedy and tiny
self.
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The ego is that part of you that "always seeks" ...
And what is it looking for?
Always looks for separation!
Always seeks duality!
Always looks for the difference!
Always looks for change!
Always looks for what is not there!
And precisely because it seeks what is not there it always produces dissatisfaction,
disappointment, frustration.
-

Look how easy it is to make your intellect go haywire:
Dfhyydfdvbjmhigfhudgygfu
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Th eeese
Ltter s
Me n
Nt hi g
... It is your mind that gives meaning to what appears
--
In an instant I realized that 'my' spiritual journey began and ended with the me, that
is, it began with an illusion.
And here is Self-Realization.
No me, no journey.
Just a pure, impersonal realization...

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That's all you have to do: dishonor the illusions!
Discredit what you are not by honoring what you really are.
Honor Reality, dishonoring unreality.
Honor the essence, dishonoring the appearance.
Disgrace the mask by honoring your true face.
Honor silence by dishonoring thoughts.
Dishonors the self, honoring That.
Disgrace your name by honoring the nameless.
Honor the Awakening, dishonoring the dream!
--
When does Santa Claus exist?
Only when you believe in Santa Claus.
It seems incredible, yet many do not realize that an illusion - like the self - exists only
when one believes in it.
--
Enlightenment is the worst thing that can happen to the spiritual seeker as it involves
the realization that there is no enlightenment to seek. The seeker unconsciously
postpones this realization because otherwise he would be unemployed for life.
Spiritual enlightenment is nothing other than the unemployment of the spiritual
seeker.
--

If the body needs energy.
And if you are energy.
Then what it is that your body needs?
Of you!
And what do you really need?
Of you and nothing else!
--
You cannot fail to self-realize!
You cannot avoid enlightenment because enlightenment is not up to you.
Your ego cannot prevent self-realization because it does not depend on your ego.
Self-realization is a wonderful death sentence that fortunately you cannot escape.
--
The eye does not see the eye.
The body is not seen by the body.
The non-thing that looks at the body is not the body.
The non-thing that sees humans is not a human.
--

Reader: "Our doors of perception, that is our structuring in space time, can allow
anything other than ignorance of the ultimate reality in itself?
How then to find the way out of the dream? "
Zero: "Profound questions whose answer obviously lies beyond any word....
However I try to answer for the sake of expressing the ineffable.
1 - I don't know how things are there, but the perceptive doors of this biological
machine of mine are transmitted to me directly to filter, distort and repaint the so-
called reality. This constant distortion for me corresponds to the activity of dreaming
and therefore it is ignorance of reality.
The point, however, in my opinion, is that this reality cannot be perceived or known
simply because the pure subject is not an object. It is not something static, definable,
measurable, identifiable with a broken bio-machine ...
Furthermore, I consider the body only a mass of impressions, a consistent external
appearance, a dream within a dream.
2 - who wants the escape from the dream?
The little "I dreamer"?
And would it make sense to talk about escaping from an illusory place? Wouldn't
escape also be another illusion?
Maybe you don't need to go out because you aren't really inside the dream.
Let's pretend that you are already the reality you are looking for out of a dream; in
this case, wanting to escape would reinforce the sense of imprisonment.
Then for heaven's sake ... Even my words are only chatter scattered and dispersed in
this dream. "

-
- For the male it is more painful to enter heaven
- Why?
- Because to enter heaven, God must first enter in you
--

--
These are some dialogues that - in the last months - I had with yo people.
-
Guy. Hi, how u doing?
Zero: Neti neti.
Guy: That is…?
Zero: Neither good nor bad.
Guy: Don’t you care about your inner state, your feelings, your emotional spectrum,
your state of consciuosness?

Zero: Here there is no interest for psycho-emotional evaluation, no caring for mood
swings (neither positive nor negative) or for the state of consciousness (high or low).
Added to each other they are always equal to zero… And my awareness rests always
in that ultimate combination of states
----

There is no dissolution or creation, no one in bondage, nor anyone pursuing spiritual
practices. There is no one desiring liberation nor anyone liberated. This is the
Absolute Truth.
--
Never mind the mind.
If its source is sought, it will vanish, leaving the Self (the pearl) unaffected.
There is no mind to control if you realize the Self.
You have ignored what is real and are holding on to the mind which is unreal.

-- -- --- -- --
One morning a guest went to Bhagavan and much to his
Amusement handed him a paper on which the following
Was written:
“Bhagavan remembers that I expressed some doubts about
The resemblance between dreams and waking experience. Early
In the morning most of these doubts were cleared by the
Following dream, which seemed particularly objective and real:
“I was arguing philosophy with someone. I pointed out
That all experience was only subjective, that there was nothing
Outside the mind.
“The other person demurred, pointing out how solid
Everything was and how real experience seemed. It could not
Be just personal imagination.
“ I replied, ‘No, it is nothing but a dream. Dream and
Waking experience are exactly the same.’
“‘You say that now’, he replied, ‘but you would never say a

Thing like that in your dream.’”
And then I woke up.
--
To think is not our real nature.
--
In due time you will realize that your true glory resides where you cease to exist.
--
There is neither creation nor destruction,
Neither destiny nor free will,
Neither path nor achievement;
This is THE FINAL TRUTH.
**__**

D.: At present there is a Sino-Japanese war going on. If it is only in the imagination,
can or will Sri Bhagavan imagine it not to be going on and so put an end to it?
B. (laughing): The Bhagavan of the questioner (whom the questioner sees as an
external being) is as much a thought of his as the Sino-Japanese War!
--
There are no stages in Realization or Mukti. There are no degrees of Liberation
There are no levels of Reality; there are only levels of experience for the individual,
not of Reality. If anything can be gained which was not there before, it can also be
lost, whereas the Absolute is eternal, here and now.
However, although there are no stages of Self-realization there are what might be
called pre-views, glimpses, which are not yet stabilized or made permanent.
You are the Self even now, but you confuse this present consciousness or ego with
the Absolute Consciousness or Self. This false identification is due to ignorance, and
ignorance disappears together with the ego. Killing the ego is the only thing to be
done. Realization already exists; no attempt need be made to attain it. For it is not
anything external or new to be acquired. It is always and everywhere—here and now
too
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No one is ever away from his Self and therefore everyone is in fact Self-realized;
only — and this is the great mystery — people do not know this and want to realize
the Self. Realization consists only in getting rid of the false idea that one is not
realized. It is not anything new to be acquired. It must already exist or it would not be
eternal and only what is eternal is worth striving for.
--

You are not told to shut your eyes to the world, but only to see your Self first and
then see the whole world as the Self. If you consider yourself as the body, the world
appears to be external; if you are the Self, the world appears as Brahman manifested
--
The wrong identification (of one thing with another) is the work of the contaminated
mind
--
"All that is needed is to give up thking of objects other than the self. Meditation is not
so much thinking of the self as giving up thinlung of the non-self ...,
"The more you get fixed in the self the more easily will other thotlghts drop of by
themselves. The mind is nothing but a bundle of thoughts and the me-thought is the
root of all of them. When you see who this "me" is and whence it proceeds, all
thoughts get merged in the Self.
**__**
Regulation of life such as getting up at a fixed hour, bathing,
Doing mantra, japa, etc, observing ritual, all this is for people who
Do not feel drawn to Self-enquiry or are not capable of it. But for
Thosewho can practice this method all rules and discipline are unnecessary.
--

The world is a superimposition on the one Reality, like the appearance of a snake on
a coiled rope seen in dim light.
But here too the wrong identity ceases as soonas the friend points out that it is a rope.
Whereas in the matter of the world it persists even after it is known to be unreal. How
is that? Again the appearance of water in a mirage persists even after the knowledge
of the mirage is recognised. So it is with the world. Though knowing it to be unreal, it
continues to manifest.
But the water of the mirage is not sought to satisfy one’s thirst. As soonas one knows
that it is a mirage, one gives it up as useless and does not run after it for procuring
water.
--

Meditation is initiated and sustained by a conscious effort
Of the mind. When such effort entirely subsides, it is called samadhi.3
If you can keep still without engaging in any other
Pursuits, well and good. But if that cannot be done, what is the
Use of remaining inactive only with regard to realisation? So
Long as you are obliged to be active, do not give up the attempt
To realise the Self.
So long as the ego lasts, effort is necessary. When the ego
Ceases to exist, actions become spontaneous
No one succeeds without effort. Mind control is not your
Birthright. The few who succeed owe their success to their
Perseverence.
Sometimes glimpses of Realisation are attained before it
Becomes permanent, and in such cases effort still continues to
Be necessary.
Effort is necessary up to the state of Realisation. Even then,
The Self should spontaneously become evident; otherwise
Happiness will not be complete. Up to that state of spontaneity
There must be effort in some form or another.
D.: Why should I try to get Realisation? I shall emerge from
This state of illusion just as I wake up from a dream. We do not
Make any effort to get out of a dream when we are asleep.
B.: In a dream you have no inkling that it is a dream, and
Therefore no obligation to make an effort to get out of it. But in

This life you have some intuition based on your experience of
Sleep and on what you hear and read, that it is a sort of dream, and this intuition
imposes on you the duty of making an effort
To get out of it. However, who wants you to realise the Self if you
Don’t want to? If you prefer to be in this dream, stay as you are.
(Sometimes, however, as in the following very similar
Conversation, the seeker was reminded that even the effort is a
Part of the illusion of individual being.)
"Your thinking that you have to make an effort to get
Rid of this dream of a waking state and your making efforts to
Attain Realisation or real awakening are all parts of the dream.
When you attain Realisation you will see there was neither the
Dream during sleep nor the waking state, but only yourself and
Your real state."
--
If you see a number of men in a dream and then wake up and recall your dream, do
you try to find out whether the persons of your dream-creation are also awake?
A self-realised being cannot help benefitting the world. His very existence is the
highest good
--
D.: What is the essential nature of upadesa or spiritual
Instruction given by the Guru?
B.: The word upadesa literally means ‘restoring an object

To its proper place’. The mind of the disciple, having become
Differentiated from its true and primal state of Pure Being, which
Is the Self and which is described in the scriptures as Sat-chitananda
(Being-Consciousness-Bliss), slips away therefrom and,
Assuming the form of thought, constantly pursues objects of
Sense-gratification. Therefore it is assailed by the vicissitudes of
Life and becomes weak and dispirited. Upadesa consists in the
Guru restoring it to its primal state and preventing it from
Slipping away from the state of Pure Being, of absolute identity
With the Self or, in other words, the Being of the Guru.
The word can also be understood as meaning ‘to present
An apparently distant object to close view’; that is to say, it
Consists in the Guru showing the disciple what he had considered
As distant and different from himself to be immediate and
Identical with himself.
--
You need not eliminate any false ‘I’. How can ‘I’
Eliminate itself? All that you need do is to find out its origin
And stay there. Your effort can extend only so far. Then the
Beyond will take care of itself. You are helpless there. No effort
Can reach It.
--
The notions of bondage and liberation are merely
Modifications of the mind... To those who have attained this

Realisation and thus abide absolutely identical with the Self, there
Is neither bondage nor liberation
--
There is no such thing as realising the Self. How is one
To realise or make real what is real? People all ‘realise’ or regard
As real what is unreal, and all they have to do is to give up doing
So. When you do that, you will remain as you always are and
The Real will be Real. It is only to help people give up regarding
The unreal as real that all the religions and practices taught by
Them have come into being.
(“There is no such thing as realising the Self ” – Bhagavan has
Often said this in order to remind those who asked that the
Self alone is, now and eternally, and is not something new to
Be discovered. This paradox is of the essence of non-dualism.)
--
Ceaseless practice is essential until one attains without the
Least effort that natural and primal state of mind which is free
From thought, in other words, until the ‘I’, ‘my’ and ‘mine’ are
Completely eradicated and destroyed.

NON - ACTION
"The key to transcending the illusion lies in doing nothing."
Many people feel that they should do something to acquire true spiritual knowledge.
Then what remedy does the master prescribe to the disciple to acquire knowledge? If
a man is healthy and he asks the doctor to cure his disease, what can he reply? Then
he asks the same question to the chief of the village and to a lawyer, and they tell
him, "You have become stout." Then he thinks, "What could be the reason that I have
become stout?" He asks the doctor. The doctor feels his pulse and thinks, "What can I
say to him, he has no disease? It can't be diagnosed." Then someone wise tells him,
"You are affected by a terrible disease! What else can I say?"
Pursuing absolute Truth is similar to the example given above. People do so many
things to attain Truth because they feel they must act. People tell them, "You have
become an individual being [jiva]." Just brush it all aside, saying "Nothing has
happened. Surely, nothing has happened." Let your understanding be this, and thus
become absolutely free. Can there be any talk about that which never existed? When
you say "I", the notions of "mine" and "yours" emerge simultaneously, and this is the
main problem.
There is one and only one Truth. When you say, "My hand is paining me", you know
that you are not your hand. Knowledge is for learning what you have heard. One
should know God as he is, then there is nothing left to achieve. When you understand
the true meaning, then nothing is left to be done. So to understand Truth, all that is
illusory must be destroyed. People make all kinds of efforts to conquer the illusion,
but the illusion is very tricky. It still resides in the one who says he has to conquer the
illusion. So how should it be tackled? And what has to be done after one realises the
Truth? If you ask this, the answer is – "You have to do nothing regarding the body,
your household, etc... Let them be as they are."

Suppose while you were asleep you had a dream that you met a bear while walking
on the road. You wrestled with it, sat on its chest and finally killed it. The moment
you awoke there was no bear to be seen, there was nothing. Similarly, to feel that "I
am realised", "I am a saint", "I am an aspirant" or "I am after spiritual knowledge" is
delusion. To feel that God "comes" and "goes away" is an illusion. Your illusory
concepts play the role of the bear – when you wrestle with them, sometimes they
make you fall and at other times you make them fall. The master's advice is, "Why do
you meddle in this? All this chaos is the chaos of illusion." Let the objects be
wherever they are. If you try to manage affairs, you will forget the primordial
Supreme. Doership is the illusion and non-doership is Self.
The aspirants always think of that which is untrue. They ask, "What shall I do,
Maharaj?" The Guru asks him not to sniff tobacco, and the disciple immediate reacts
by putting his nose into the box containing tobacco! Or he may say, "You say that all
this is false, yet you yourself also indulge in it." There are only two things in the
world: worldly existence and Reality. To take interest in what has happened is to get
involved in worldly affairs. If you abandon all these things, true knowledge will
dawn. This is why a man gets caught in bondage. Individuality is to involve the mind
in the objective world, and Godhood is to do nothing. God is in the temple while
there are rocks lying outside. Why should God value rocks? For this God [your own
Self], to live among stones is called "individuality" or "ignorance".
Saint Tukaram says, "God is quite ancient." God is prior to everything. A jnani has
understood that the Supreme being [Paramatman], which is prior to all, is silently
sitting in his heart. Leaving this God alone, people think of doing good or bad. That is
the illusion for the individual being. The illusion makes man knowledgeable, makes
him a narrator of the Vedas, and makes him play this worldly game. If a thing is
good, it is good; if it is bad, it is bad; if one is wealthy, he is wealthy; and if one is
poor, he is poor. Who is the real aspirant? He is the one who has understood the
illusion is nothing. However much you may have wrestled with the bear in a dream, it
is still all false. But the illusion does not allow the aspirant to be victorious.
The concept of "I" and "you" is a delusion, as is the concept of "aspirant". Even the
idea "I am God" is a delusion. This world itself is rooted in delusion. If I and you are
God, then why should there be any supposition? As told before, "Abandon
everything!" Ignorant people start beating cymbals for worship. This knowledge is
actually ignorance. Hence, even this knowledge has no true value. Only knowledge of
the Self destroys ignorance. The individual "I" is the one who dabbles in the illusion.

So just do nothing. The aspirant is tortured by those who tell him, "You must do this
and you must do that." All this is to fool him. The illusion has long horns on his head.
If you supersedes him, he gores you, and if you fall behind, he kicks you.
Thus, the key to transcending the illusion lies in doing nothing. All happiness,
misery, worry and anxiety are inherent in the illusion. You have to do nothing,
you have to abandon nothing. In Dasbodh, Saint Ramdas says, "Action and non-
action are illusion." So those who have not understood this illusion may dance wild.
The illusion is dreamlike. If you wrestle with a bear in a dream, your victory or defeat
is irrelevant. So it is said that the illusion is unconquerable, even for Lord Brahma,
Vishnu, Harihera, etc., since they all take it to be true. Vishnu said, "I shall protect
them", so he became a four-handed God. This is an illusion, yet all are engrossed in
it.
Suppose a barren woman's son said that he had held a torch at Maruti's [an eternal
celibate] wedding. This world in the form of illusion is just as fictitious. So those who
say they have conquered the illusion are thoroughly deceived. The devotee of God
does not experience the happiness or misery arising from the illusion. His glory is
small, but higher than that of the gods Hari and Hara. The reason is that he takes
everything as untrue and knows that there is no action, cause or doer. Wherever there
is a feeling of cause and effect, it is due to the feeling "I am not Reality." This feeling
is the effect and the "I" is the cause. When you feel that you are not Reality, you
become an individual "I". When you feel that you are neither an "I" nor Shiva, you
become Final Reality. "I", "good", "bad, etc., all these are signs of delusion rising up
from the material world. All this is a game of "blind man"s bluff". Reality is the one
who covers the players eyes, and hence, he is not part of the game. He blindfolds the
participants only once. Knowledge and ignorance are the material cause of the world
[prakriti]. This itself is delusion. Who expounds the scriptures and who conveys
knowledge? Chanting, penance, methods, study, etc., are all the mesmeric activities
of the illusion. You cross over the material world only when you are free from all
"duties". These are all matters at this initial stage. So long as there is knowledge,
there is delusion. Reject whatever you supposeyouare. "Reject" means do not dabble
in anything whatsoever. Continue your worship: "I am the Self, I am Reality, I am not
the body, I am not the name." The one who is speaking inside is "I", is God. Just be
convinced of that.
There was a princess who wanted to find a lazy man to marry. Accordingly, an
announcement was made in every village. Prospective suitors claiming to be lazy

soon arrived at the palace. The princess wanted to assure the validity of their claims.
One man pretended to be so lazy by arriving on the shoulders of someone else.
Another feigned silence in support of his claim, and another refrained from using his
hands to eat food. There were as many pretensions of laziness as there were suitors.
The princess rejected them all. But there was one shrewd fellow who simply
informed the princess that he had come to get married to her. She asked him, "How
can you prove that you are lazy?" He replied, "All the others are merely pretending.
They are only actors and are not lazy at all." Maintaining silence, not walking, and
not eating with the hands – these are all external actions meant to deceive. These
qualities are not of the nature of a really lazy person. Similarly, for a jnani, it is
absolutely evident that he is Reality.
The true mark of a saint is taking the world to be untrue. If it is not understood that it
is in the nature of the material world to be false, then one cannot get "married to the
princess." Laziness does not mean abandoning outward actions. The individual "I"
has the habit of engaging itself in constant activity. To do something is in the nature
of the bodyconsciousness. What has to be done, and for whose sake? Illusion implies
"my idea". There is a proverb: "He started worshipping God when he got tired of
doing things."
If you reject all that is untrue, then you become God Reality. The illusion is believing
that "I ought to first do this and that , manage this and that, become rich, and then
afterwards I will become a saint and start acting differently." So leave things exactly
as they are. If you meddle in things, your body consciousness will get enhanced and
you will constantly feel that you ought to be doing something. This is the obstruction
for attaining Final Reality. When you are not the body, then it is useless to think
about wealth or poverty. All is untrue. Then why this unnecessary query? Godhood is
"not to do anything." We say, "Remain quiet, like God", but in actuality we indulge
ourselves in body consciousness.
To not worry about anything means to be at peace
--

Karl Renz
Whatever you put attention to is not what you are.
Put attention to that what is attention!
Be the seer and not that what can be seen, that is putting attention to the Absolute
Seer which never can be seen in anything, neither presence or absence.
Put attention to that what is not an idea and not any concept and that is That what you
are.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Put total attention to That what is in spite of presence or absence, and not putting
attention to the knowing or the not knowing.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Nothing is more ecstatic than that which doesn't need to experience any ecstasy at all

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You are That what you call Life in spite of experiencing life or no-life. That is
Eternal Life and not what you can experience as life.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

What you are is in spite of the mind understanding or not understanding... Not
because!
So the Peace you are doesn’t depend on the mind who understands or not. The
realization of mind is very nice and very fine in the world, but not for What you are.
It’s not good enough!
So, you have to see the emptiness of the realization of the mind. Whatever the mind
is realizing is empty or false... It’s as artificial as the mind is. It’s temporary... It
comes and goes.
So, it’s like a ghost realization.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You fall in love with the first light, the first awareness, which is already presence.
But it is not That what you are.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
The ‘I’ is just a center where you look from.
It’s just a camera position that you call as ego, a reference point, that’s all.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
What You Are doesn’t need to remember itself.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
And then those of Love begin to offend others.
“You speak from the mind, but I speak from the heart”.
Incredible!
Always making distinctions between mind and heart.
"And I am a person of heart and you are a mental person".
Fantastic how these hearted people offend everyone around.
I really hate them (laughter).
There is a continuous offense by claiming that you are a mental person and I am a
person of heart.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
K: Master phantom needs awareness to exist. What kind of reality would it be that
needs awareness to exist?

Q: It would be a f**king limited one...
K: Yes.
Then the f**king phantom - called "mind" - minds around – all day long. That’s
called mind-f**king mind and then the mind-f**king mind pronounces that – I Am
the awareness!
---- -- -- - -- --
The phantom never did anything and what-you-are is inexhaustible. Even the
phantom is inexhaustible because when you-are, the phantom-is – energy itself.
How can you exhaust energy?
But you try and you never succeed.
-- -- -- --
By trying to end this imagination, you create another image of yourself. So, the false
creates false.
It starts false and it creates false.
False, false, false, false, false – everywhere.
Here, there and beyond – false, false, false.

Whatever you imagine – is false.
But how to end that?
Trying to end it – is false.
The phantom is ‘I’ and ‘I’ will I-magine.
The false trying not to be false. The unreal trying not be unreal – trying to become
real. That’s his bloody nature.
Consciousness trying to know consciousness.
Consciousness already is unreal. Then consciousness tries to know consciousness –
penetrating consciousness. A phantom penetrating a phantom and creating other
phantoms – infinite phantoms, more and more phantoms. Now there are seven billion
Adams and Eves, Kane and Able and all of that – coming out of that first Adam,
which is already false.
-- -- -- -- --
To say "it doesn’t matter" is a nice saying, but everyone wants to get rid of the
phantom, because this mind, phantom, is suffering – from the beginning till the end.
But whatever you do to get rid of it, confirms that there is one who is in it. It doesn’t
work.
You cannot get rid of that phantom by any doer, meditation and tra..la..la.
So you better be what-you-cannot-not-be and that is the only way of getting rid of
whatever concepts and ideas you have about yourself.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Q: So, what-you-are is effortlessness, but the personality is the effort...
K: It wants to survive. It’s like the phantom tendencies of this body want to survive.
You want to live forever as what you think you are, but it’s not possible. You cannot
survive – but you try. You eat organic, you go to wellness clubs, you do enema, you
try your best to live longer. Actually you don’t like to live, but you want to live
longer.
It’s crazy!
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You really have to make a lot of effort to memorize what happened before and how
you are, because if you don’t memorize how you are, there’s no ‘me’ anymore! Every
morning you have to jump in, memorizing how you are and how you react to a
circumstance otherwise you don’t exist. It’s just a little memory effect, like a
computer memory.
Then there’s a software program running, trying to keep things in check.
Trying to make it a good ego.
A lifetime work of being a good person!

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
What you can enjoy cannot bring the joy of What You Are.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Every emotion is fiction.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
I want to make you an absolute addict for That what you are and by that addiction
alone, by that surrendering to that addiction, your longing is being devoted only to
That. This is like giving attention to only That what is what you are. That’s burning
you down... But not by trying to make it more bearable.
So I try to make it something that is the only thing worth being, and the rest is...
Whatever it is.
Who cares?
Only being That what you are is ending all the beginnings.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Fear is only there in the false evidence that you are. Fear means False Evidence
Appearing Real. That appearance... That evidence that you have... This ‘me’, this
mind that I can experience, is a false evidence, because it needs an evidence to exist.
And whatever needs an evidence to exist, is false, because That what is the Absolute
existence doesn’t need to exist to exist. It doesn’t need any proof of existence.
The Truth you are never needs to be proven.
It doesn’t need any confirmation of any kind. And that what now has experiences is
just a story. A story of the mind, of ‘me’ and all of that. It started at one point and at
one point it will be over, but What you are, it was, it is and will be what it is... In spite
of that story of the one that is, or is not, in peace.
These samadhis, this peace and whatever can be given, is a dependency.
So, peace off.
Because That what you are doesn’t need any peace and that what needs peace will
never find peace. For there’s no peace in the world, there’s no peace in anything
because they are all ideas!
The peace you are, you never lost. That what you never lost, you cannot find in any
of this so-called... Whatever you call it.
The peace you can experience is not the peace you are...
Be happy that you don’t have to be happy!
And that happiness you are doesn’t know any difference between that and That.
That Absolute indifference of whatever is... Cannot be achieved by any
difference – it cannot be reached by any mind that makes a difference, and the mind
makes differences because it needs the differences to survive.
But what you are doesn’t need anything.
So what?

Then the mind even comes up with ‘Oh, I’m the unborn.
I’ll take some landing in the unborn.
I’m not born so I don’t die’.
It’s trying to control fear again... "because I’m not born, I don’t fear". Who needs to
be unborn not to fear?
Osho’s tombstone says ‘Never born, never died’... Ha, ha, ha.
‘I leave you my dream’... Ha, ha, ha
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
I’m talking to That what was never conditioned by whatever.
Having a body doesn’t make you a body. The body experience doesn’t make you a
body, the mind experience doesn’t make you a mind, the absence doesn’t make you
the absence.
You are always in spite... And never changed by anything.

-- -- -- -- --
You cannot not be that Absolute you are ... So be it!
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

I can only make you attracted to That where I speak from and by that attraction alone
you burn down.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Trying not to avoid is feeding that avoider.
Whatever you try now from that position doesn’t work.
Even trying not to avoid, is avoiding the avoidance.
So, you have to be in spite of the avoider avoiding what can be avoided... Which is
actually unavoidable. So, I sit here and tell you that you cannot avoid being What
You Are. So, just be it! Be That what you cannot not be, because that’s unavoidable,
because it waits for you anyway. This phantom that rises, will disappear again. It
came and it will be gone - this avoider.
So why not be That in the presence of it or in the absence of it?
Why wait for it to be gone?
It will be gone one day and you will be the leftover again because the leftover cannot
avoid itself. You are that Reality which is unavoidable.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You’re already in the tiger’s mouth, don’t worry. It will eat you but not when you
want to be eaten. It eats you in spite of you wanting to be eaten. You don’t have to be
on a barbecue to be ready for the tiger.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
By whatever awareness that nothing can make you more as you are, you burn out that
idea that something can happen to you.

Now there’s this energy of fear, a fear of dying, a fear of consequence. But even in
the absence there’s no consequence for you, and nothing has a consequence for What
You Are. So, whatever you experience has no consequence.
You’re in spite of all happenings and non-happenings.
In the total absence of any consequence, where’s the fear?
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
This is not a practice, this is not a process, this is not an evolutionary. This is just
confronting yourself with death permanently, twenty four hours a day, three sixty-
five days meditating on the absence.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Just be That what is in spite of anything.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
You are the absence in the absence and you are the presence in the presence. But
there’s no one in the absence and no one in the presence.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

You have to stay as a mystery for yourself. That’s why they call it absolute absence
of any idea or no-idea of what-you-are and what-you-are-not.
All the ideas come from the first root thought ‘I’.
Then come all the ideas of what-you-are and what-you-are-not. Then comes
identification and non-identification, doership and non-doership.
-- -- -- -- -- --
Whatever you try to make it as a circumstance, doesn’t work!
That what is the Self doesn’t need any special circumstance at all.
It’s always in spite of any circumstance of readiness or ripeness.
There’s not even luck involved! If it’s meant to happen, it will happen. But not
because you want it. If it’s meant to happen, it will happen in spite of your effort, in
spite of what you’ve done, in spite of all the sadhanas, in spite of whatever--
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

This joy of being What You Are, which is in spite of whatever you can imagine... Is
incomparable to all the bloody joy of the rainbow, spirit or golden awareness! All of
that is empty for what you are... Because it cannot make you more or less as you are.
So, enjoy the emptiness of all experiences.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Be what can never be lost or found in anything.
And that doesn’t need to be called anything. Just be that what you cannot not be and
that is in spite of whatever you imagine or not.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

You don’t want to wake up.
It will feel like a rape!
If you could, you’d stay in deep-deep sleep.
No one wants to wake up but when you woke up, it’s too late.
It’s an accident and it already feels like a rape that you have to exist!
What to do?
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Just be that which is in spite of whatever and then if there’s still someone who cares
about it, let him care about it.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
It’s just being in spite of wisdom and in spite of love. Being in spite of whatever,
that’s life just flowing.
-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Don’t give up anything. Just give up giving up.
Surrender the surrendering!
There is nothing for you to surrender to be.
Surrender the surrendering, devote the devotion by being what you are. Kill all ideas
just by being what you are.

-- ---- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
D. Harding
Look at that affliction from the Place of no affliction.
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The best day of my life - my rebirthday, so to speak - was when I found I had no
head. This is not a literary gambit, a witticism designed to arouse interest at any cost.
I mean it in all seriousness: I have no head.
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Pretending that, as our sole selves, we exercise free will, is as absurd and dishonest as
it is vainglorious and stressful. Only the Source of all, under the sway of none, has
free will; and only deeds which are seen to proceed from it, which are referred back
to it, which are felt to be its own deeds - only these carry its marvellous smell, the
smell of an originality and rightness which belongs solely to that Origin.
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To live the choiceless life that we have been describing is not fatalism. It is not giving
up the struggle and accepting that one is a machine within a Machine. It is to identify
with the Machine's Inventor, to take one's stand in Freedom itself. It is to be one's
Source, to choose what flows from it, and to perceive it as very good.
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It's what you see that counts, not what you think of it.

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You bathe in the realization that you're built for loving and being everyone, and for
confronting no one.
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Profound things are simple. If it is not simple, it cannot be true. But simple things are
difficult.
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What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: I stopped
thinking. [...] Reason and imagination and all mental chatter died down. For once,
words really failed me. Past and future dropped away. I forgot who and what I was,
my name, manhood, animalhood, all that could be called mine. It was as if I had been
born that instant, brand new, mindless, innocent of all memories. There existed only
the Now, that present moment and what was clearly given in it. To look was enough.
And what I found was khaki trouserlegs terminating downwards in a pair of brown
shoes, khaki sleeves terminating sideways in a pair of pink hands, and a khaki
shirtfront terminating upwards in—absolutely nothing whatever! Certainly not in a
head.

It took me no time at all to notice that this nothing, this hole where a head should
have been was no ordinary vacancy, no mere nothing. On the contrary, it was very
much occupied. It was a vast emptiness vastly filled, a nothing that found room for
everything—room for grass, trees, shadowy distant hills, and far above them
snowpeaks like a row of angular clouds riding the blue sky. I had lost a head and
gained a world.
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The result of observing only the universe is anxiety. Only observing the Observer of
the universe will put a stop to a man's worrying and fussing and scheming. When his
interest is diverted inwards he naturally relaxes his hold - his stranglehold - on the
outer world. Having withdrawn his capital and paid it into his own Central Bank
(where it appreciates to infinity), he has nothing to lose out there and no reason for
interfering. He knows how to let things be and work out in their own time. He's in no
hurry. Knowing the Self, he can hardly fail to trust its products.
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Inwardly you are God, outwardly you are a person. Instead of thinking you are just a
person, that appearance, you can awake to the power behind you, the safety within
you, the source of inspiration and guidance at the heart of your human life. This
enables you to be yourself even more so.
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Here is just emptiness.
There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff.
There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.
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Whether looked at from outside or inside, bodies dissolve, matter vanishes, spirit
remains - once we bother to go into the matter. "Spirit is the living body seen from
within, and the body is the outer manifestation of the living spirit." Extend this
statement by Carl Jung to all bodies from electrons to galaxies, and you have the
ultimate physics
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Rely on the Tao is to rely on the only Power there really is, on the Dark Horse which
(though it makes a show of being a non-starter if ever there was one) turns out to be
the winner. My tip is: back it, put your shirt on it. It never fails, never lets you down.
As the Taoists put it: draw on this well. It never runs dry. I say to you, as always,
don't passively believe a word of all this. Test this Power. You are it, it's your Nature,
your Nothingness, your First Personhood, not far to seek. Give It a whirl: or rather,
allow yourself to be whirled by It.

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You experience no Awareness-gap between 'falling asleep at night' and 'waking up in
the morning', and no Awareness-gap while your body is undergoing surgery in the
operating theatre.
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It is your essential nature to remain unaffected, as unstained and uninjured and
unstressed as your TV screen is by all the murders and shootings and burnings that
rage on it.
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It's always No-thing at the near.
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From the unstressable into the stressed.
Always your stress-medicine, your rule, the flag you fly, is ASYMMETRY, NON-
CONFRONTATION.
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Your defences are perfect since you have nothing to defend.
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Personalities who concentrated on winning regardless, on gaining and never losing
face, don't make encouraging reading. In fact, the trouble with these so-called
magical powers isn't that they are too powerful but that they aren't nearly powerful
enough. They are feeble because in the last resort they are illusory: whereas the real
Power, the Power that empowers all powers, is nothing else than your true Nature,
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There are no gradations between being a stressful something and being the stress-free
Nothing/Everything, no compromises. The difference is not negotiable.
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BE PERFECT - AND GET BETTER!
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Things can't be trusted. They pose problems, they change, they perish. Not so this
Aware Nothing. It alone can be relied on
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Bow before the evidence.
You have nothing left to lose, and everything to gain, by bowing before the facts ...
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All this choosing one thing in preference to another is illusory, a great cover-up.
Separate individuals, as such, are powerless to make the slightest difference
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If there's a lesson we should have learned by now, if there's one crucial discovery we
have made again and again in the course of our study, it is that appearances are
misleading and you aren't a bit what you look like
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To go back to Nature and become centred again, you have only to come to your
senses, and stay with your body instead of running away from it. You have only to
rejoin the Ground - shock-proof and earthquake-proof - which you never left.

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Nobody can get on a collision course with you, because there's nothing to collide
with.

NISARGADATTA
The truth cannot be seen or perceived, but the truth can observe the untruth.
The truth does not need the help of words.
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FOR A REALIZED ONE, THE WHOLE FUNCTIONING IN THE WORLD IS A
BHA]AN (spontaneous expressions of sharing, singing, dancing)
-

Please understand that there is only one thing to be understood, and that is that you
are the formless, timeless unborn.
--
You take your imagination for facts and my facts for imagination...

--
Pure knowledge is not imparted by another: it comes unasked. It is the one that is
listening: it is your own true nature.
--
Liberation is the liberation from the conceptof bondage, not from any bondage as
such.
___**__
“Only after a year, when your mother called your name, you realized your
separation”.
__**__
Once I have clearly understood, without the slightest doubt, that I am not the "me" as
the corrlated subject/object of any "you”, where is the question of any bondage?
Bondage for whom, of what?
**__**

Whatever you understand, you are not. In non-understanding you understand
yourself.
--
When you know the false as false, then you do not have to worship at all. Any idea of
doership-that things happen because you do something-also goes away.
--
The jnani does not give importance to this waking, sleeping and beingness. Just as
you are not afraid of a serpent made out of rubber, so in a similar way the jnani has
no interest in this waking state and beingness.
--
M: There is no karma in the state of Parabrabman. Where is the question of karma?
V: But you were talking about conception, body-mind.
M: Who has entered the body-mind form?
V: I...? We...?
M: Now the space has entered in this room, the space is there. Why and how has the
space entered this room?
V: At first there was no space...no time?
M: The space is outside, the space is here also; there is no distinction between outside
and inside space, it is all space only! So where is the question of coming and going?
--

The one who has solved this (existential) riddle comes to the conclusion that this
beingness and this entire manifest world is unreal. There is no need for knowledge
when this beingness was not. When even great gods like Brahma and Vishnu were
confronted with this puzzle, they closed their eyes and went into samadbi and just
disappeared.
Please understand very clearly
That there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that I - or anyone else -
Can do for you as an individual in regard to the liberation that you
Are seeking. Please understand very clearly that you as an individual
Entity just do not exist; where then is any question of your being
Bound or being liberated? What then, you may ask, is to be done?
Holy answer is: nothing. If you accept the fact that you exist not as
Entity, but only as a phenomenal object which has no independent
Existence on its own, then who is there to make any effort or under
Go any discipline?
__**__
Nis. Explain that enlightenment or aaakcning rives not DO
Anythmg; it does not in sny xay "alter" our state
**__**
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to say very often rhat he spoke to
The visitors not as one individual to another but as
Consciousness to consciousness; he thereby annihilated, as an entity,

Not only the Qsciple but also hmself, the Guru. He saw the disciple
As his own reflection in the mirror of consciousness but, again, not
As an entity, but as the expresssion of that unicity which they both
Are.
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Nisargadatta used to say that the conceptual "individual" is truly inseparable
from his real nature, like sugar and sweetness: The inlvidual must realize that to
know him “self”, there can be no self other than the self which he himself is.
__**__
Nis. Often says the that problem is the fact that the indtvidual who thinks he is
enlightened is as much in bondage as another who thinks he is ignorant and in
bondage. This is because "that" which thinks it is in bondage, and "that" which thinks
it is enlightened are both identified conceptually with a phenomenal (mental) object.
The supposedproblem, therefore, relates not to any condition of bondage or freedom,
but to the identification with a
Supposed separate entity with supposed autonomy.
**__**
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to emphasize that this negationof the negation - the
double negation- is the final step in apperception, but that it must "happen"; no
"one" can "achieve" it.
…
Nisargadatta Maharaj always used to bring out the limitations of Yoga and yogic
powers and achevements. "The Yogi may have mastered all aspects ofYoga", he

would say, "and may avoid death every time he faces it and may remain in Samadhi
most of the time, and live for two thousand years. But then what?" His point was that
Yoga and all its achievements are at the level of conceptualization in spacetime and
are of no spiritual value in the absenceof apperception of what-we-are.
Maharaj used to say repeatedly: "understanding is all." And by understanding he did
not mean merely an intellectual comprehension. What he meant was apperception as
such, a clear brilliant light of apprehension in which there was not the slightest touch
of objectivity, not even a lurking doubt of a "who" or "what", in whch logical
intellectual analysis had no look-in at all.
Some seekers might end up in frustration when they find that long years of such
practice had brought them nothing, whereas some others might go along the pathless
path and reach the destination (which is no destination) almost effortlessly. Some
others mightfall by the wayside having mistaken some puerile spiritual "powers” as
the ultimate goal.
…
Nisargadatta Maharaj was very peculiar. Quite a few visitors used to feel enormously
confused about Maharaj's ways.
He was supposed to be a Jnani and yet he had ritual prayers held in his abodethree
times a day. He smoked his bidis (country-made cigarettes), ate whatever was placed
before him, vegetarian or nonvegetarian, and generally seemed to live like any
ordinary person. What is more, when some visitors asked him what he should do to
Put Maharaj's teaching into practice in his daily life, Maharaj would ask him to
establish hlmself firmly in the identity of his true nature and then do whatever he
wished to do.
…
Nisargadatta often said that whatever appears phenomenally - whatever is sensorially
perceived - is like the
Wrapper of the real thing, a sample, a description, an advertisement, a mask: like a
polic constable in uniform representing the Inspector General of Police, a civil
servant representing the Government, the tip of an iceberg indicating the mass
underneath. In other words, whetevcris sensoriallyperceivable - the positive - and
seems to be real, is only an outward appearance ofwhat lies underneath - the
negative.

…
Nisargadatta Maharaj used to say repeatedly that the apperception of the silent
presence orbeingness is the only apperceptionnecessaryto disidentify ourselves
from the individual entity that we-think-we-are. Apperception has to be
immediate because otherwiseit would only be an intellectual understanding in
conceptual, temporal duration, duration, with a pseudosubjectwho is supposedto
understand a profound, mysterious, complicated, elusive knowledge.
…
The dalectic reasoning ofour mind – the split-mind of duality – can take us to a
stage where our split-mind can take us no further than sterile conceptuality. In
that sense, Nisargadatta used to say quite often: "You must reverse".
Exhorted the visitor to "go back", to "reverse", to consider: “What were you a
minute ago, before conceptualization?".
…

Jnaneshwar
Day and night are both unknown to the Sun; similarly, a clear
Understanding of the essential unity between Shiva dn Shakti
Dispels all sense of duality.

Would it not be ridiculous that "THAT" which is knowledge itself, its very essence
and embodiment, should depend on any other knowledge to establish itself?
If by the knowledge "I am That", an individual considers himself
Liberated, it clearly shows that he has stiu notapperceived his
True nature which is the fullness of knowledge itself. If a lamp
Should expect light from another lamp, surely it means that it
Has forgotten that light is its own nature.
Is it possible to find oneself by going from place to place (undertaking all kinds of
physical and mental disciplines)?
After such a wandering over a long period, if one does find that one was seeking
only oneself when there was no need for any seeking, would there be any joy on
finding oneself?
The search is undertaken by what is a mere appearance with which the self has
identified itself, and it is only when this very fact is realized that the seeking
stops.
Knowledge, based on words (thought), which is the inter-related oppositeof
conceptual ignorance, mayappear to be highly valuable but because it is conceptual it
is also ephemeral; real enlightenment occurs only when this knowledge loses itself
into noumenal beingness.
So long as knowledge is in relation to ignorance, it is not the ultimate knowledge.
Ultimate knowledge comes about only by transcending both knowledge and
ignorance which exist only at the conceptual level.
The state of pure knowledge is such that it is not affected by the duality of
knowledge and ignorance; it does not increase because ofone nor does it decrease
because ofthe other.

Can the sky enter into itself? Will the fire burn itself? Can one get up on one's own
head?
Can the sight see itself - or taste taste itself? Has sound ever heard itself?
Has the sun ever risen for itself? Has any fruit fructified for itself?
Has the smell ever smelt itself?
Similarly, pure knowledge (pure subjectivity) cannot be an objectto be
experienced.
Would anyone have even heard the word "ignorance" if knowledge
(consciousness)had not appeared?
…
While it cannot be denied that the image of the face is indeed seen in the mirror, the
true face is not in the mirror and exists irrespective of the existence of the mirror.
Similarly, while the phenomenal appearance is certainly perceptible to the senses, the
subject as the unmanifest noumenon exists independently of the phenomenal
manifestation.
The mirror may show the image of a face but it is the face that sees the image; and
the face in any case exists independently of
The mirror whether it shows the image or not.
..
Now (after self-realization), the smell has become that which smells; the hearing has
become that which hears.. Thus, the one who enjoys and that which is enjoyed, the
one who perceives and that which is perceived is the "seeing"
__**__

Jnaneshwar has realized that what-he-is is the absence of "himself' as an entity; total
absence of the notion (or Cognition) of the absenceof himself. In other words, it is
only in the total absence of himself that there can be total presenceof what-he-is.
…
What Jnaneshwar wants us to realize is that objects are void and that their subject is
just as devoid of autonomy as they are. If the subject and its objects are thus void -
because none would be perceivable in the absence of the conceptual mechanism of
spaceand time - then it follows that all thoughts and all actions (which necessarily
involve a spatial extension and temporal measurement) must also be illusory.
..
Wei Wu Wei (Terence James Stannus Gray )

Sacrifice that involves an act of will is not a sacrifice of, but an affirmation of, the
self. Sacrifice of the self, on the contrary, is a lâcher-prise, a surrender.
Anything one does for oneself is not worth doing.
-
Revaluation of values must be applied to everything within the reach of the mind;
nothing has a right to escape it, from the most abstruse speculation down to the
apparent facts and circumstances of the daily life that goes on around us, domestic,
social, political.
If you take them seriouslyand judge them you are accepting them as values. But
if you have come to revalue values then you perceive their total unreality.
You do not judge them as 'good' or 'desirable', you do not judge them as 'bad' or
'harmful', you do not judge them as anything in themselves, you merely perceive that
they are not anything at all. They are what children do so seriously with boxes of
bricks under the dining-room table. Very serious matters in their eyes, very
unimportant indeed in yours.
Our values change as we grow up.
Revaluation of values automatically results from comprehension of the unreal.
Comprehensionof the unreal is an indirect perception of Reality. Reality cannot
be positively comprehended. It can never be expressed in dualistic language. It
can only be approached by negation. But that is true Discrimination, the only
Discrimination that can be so called, and it is la Vue Juste or True Vision.
It should not be impossible for a pilgrim on the way who had comprehended the
need for such a revaluation of values - and only a pilgrim could do so - to take part on
the plane of seeming in the activities implied by the terms in question. He could
discriminate regarding these notions, but it should not be possible for him to see them
as 'desirable' without at the same time seeing them as, and in the same degree,
'undesirable' (for so they must necessarily be).
--
We have only to live noumenally - and that implies an awareness which is not
aware of itself and which has no room for conceptuality.

--
To use the word `Real' is applying a phenomenal concept to noumenon ; it is seeking
to objectivise noumenality. Can we hope to find freedom from phenomenal bondage
by such casuistry?
--
When the artificial ego is transcended, all its manifestations will automatically
disappear. For that reason discipline must be futile.
Therefore detachment is the only method, and that is attained by understanding
the falsity and futility of all the things on which the ego depends for its
sustenance.
--
A `way' leads from here to there: from here to here there can be no `way'
--
Definition of Ch’an : Buddhism debunked and de-buddha’d.
--
Every time you watch yourself doing something, perceiving something, you are
transcending yourself.
Every time you stand outside yourself (transcend yourself) you leave the river of time
and swim ashore. You are on the bank watching time flow past. But, as has already
been said, an element of us is always on the bank - otherwise we could not be

conscious that time flows. Therefore what really happens when we transcend
ourselves is that we transfer our identification from the fictitious entity to Reality.
To attempt to seize the present via the fictitous entity is to seek to bring that fictitious
entity into the Presence of the Present. That is to attempt to bring the illusory into the
presence of the Real.
When we deliberately endeavour, by some kind of act of discipline, that is by 'will',
that is by means of the ego-mechanism, to seize the present we are merely fixing our
attention on the more recent past.
The illusory self cannot affect our position on the wheel of recurrence, for an illusion
by definition is powerless to affect anything.
--
If you dial your own number on the telephone, will you get the connection?
Then we must look in another direction?
Will you see what you are looking for by looking in the wrong direction?
Of course not !
I mean by looking in the right direction ! You will not see it even then.
Well, how on Earth .' . .?
No amount of looking in any direction could help you to see what is looking.
--
PRESENCE is no thing: Absence is all.
Presence is appearance: Absence is the source of everything.
Presence is what is not : Absence is what is. For phenomenal absence is noumenal
presence.
I am Absolute Absence—absence of presence and of positivity.
--
No `me' can be freed, because there is no `me' at all; `me's' are pink elephants. He
might see the whole universe as void, but as long as he `himself' is seeing it, `himself'

seeing, he is no nearer freedom, since freedom is very precisely freedom from his
idea of `himself'. His notion of his `self' is his only bondage.
There could not be liberation with-out the total annihilation of the notion of
phenomenal identity.
That is why `self-cultivation', in the wrong sense of a `self' working to cultivate its
`self', is steadily affirming the obstacle it is seeking to remove. That also is why no
`self' has ever been `enlightened', or ever will be. The contention that `X' is
enlightened is not so much a contradiction in terms as like maintaining that a bird in
an empty cage is not captive.
--
--
Until we have known Liberation can we hope to be free of that identification with the
psycho-somatic apparatus? Until we are free of that identification can we hope to
know Liberation?
But that amounts to saying, 'Until we have abandoned that identification can we hope
to abandon that identification?'
Surely the answer is that they are one and the same phenomenal experience and
therefore simultaneous, for in order effectively to abandon identification we must no
longer exist (psychologically).

--
Preparation for Satori.
There is no Path to Satori. It cannot be attained. As we have seen, all the Masters tell
us that we cannot seize Reality: it is Reality that seizes us. And we must not strive for
it, because Mind cannot be reached through mind.
But we can prepare ourselves for it. This preparation consists in attaining - attainment
is on the plane of phenomena - a state of consciousness in which as many hindrances
as possible are removed, a state of relative dépouillement, so that we shall be en
disponibilité, so that Reality may be able to seize us if It will.
Many of us know, are convinced intellectually, that our bodies are unreal but
nevertheless ninety-nine per cent of our thoughts and actions are based on the belief
in their reality, i.e. In their apparent reality, that what our senses tell us about them is
real. That is perhaps a fair measure of the gap between intellectual understanding and
real knowledge.
What of those of us who have come to conceive of them as force-fields in continual
flux? Do we think we have arrived at a concept that has one foot in phenomenal
science and the other in Reality?
--
There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something
other than it is, i.e. Holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish),
and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-
acting, that there is only one thing that can be done.
--
On the phenomenal plane we seek pleasure and the avoidance of pain. On the
noumenal plane we know the absence of both - which is bliss.
--
Blaming a man for what he 'does' is in accordance with the same process of logic as
blaming a door when it bangs or an object when it falls on your foot.

--
Reality alone exists - and that we are. All the rest is only a dream, a dream of the One
Mind, which is our mind without the 'our'. Is it so hard to accept? Is it so difficult to
assimilate and to live?
-
It is not sufficient to understand that everything about us, including ourselves, is a
dream structure. The Masters make it clear that we must go further and understand
the ultimate reality of phenomena, i.e. That all dream structures are a manifestation of
Mind, of Mind which is ourselves.
--
Real seeing requires no eyes - for there is no one to see.
--
A school is an efficient instrument for reinforcing the stranglehold of the so-called
'ego'.
Much reading is also a struggling to 'attain'.
--
--

When you begin to realise that you are dreaming, what happens?
You wake up!
--
The concept-making mind is an inhibitory instrument.
--
Subjectivity is what is left when all objects are ignored.
--
'Dying' is dying to phenomenality: 'birth' is being born to phenomenality, i.e. To
perceiving and - later - to conceiving.
-
There is only perceiv-ing: all else is void of noumenality - the eye that cannot see
what is looking.
--
We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily
conceived.
--
'In reality there are no living beings to be liberated by the Tathagata.' (The Buddha in
the Diamond Sutra, XXV)
Why? Because the process of 'living' (in 'time' and 'space') is an illusion. We are not
an illusion in so far as we ARE, but our living on the plane of existence (or seeming)
is illusory.
--

There are no trains anyhow, and no passengers, but only fluctuating force-fields in
which energy pullulates in diverse patterns, energy that is conscious of itself.
--
'If a person wishes to make a study of illusion, in spite of the fact that his own body is
an illusion, we are reduced to the absurdity of an illusion studying an illusion.'
(Chang Chan).
Definition of a classical psychoanalyst: an illusion treating a sick illusion for an
illusionary sickness.
--
They just cannot reconcile themselves to the abandonment of the notion that an
imaginary entity can do whatever it wants whenever it wishes, and without reference
to the Mind that imagined it.
The idea seems like suicide to them. But even if you do feel like that about it - which
means that you have not understood - why cling to a last pitiful remnant of illusion as
though it could save you from anything but enjoying clear vision at last! And if it is
suicide - is not that just what you seek - the extinction of your 'self', the 'death' of the
'old' man?
--
Every one of the awakened tells us ad nauseam that all we need to do is to arrest the
movement of thought in order to know whole-mind and find ourselves awake. This
explains also why wu or satori is always precipitated by a sudden sound, anything
from a clap of thunder to the snapping of a twig, or, indeed, any other sensory
perception whatever. Such perception momentarily arrests the eternal tic-toc of
thought and, the subject being ripe, whole-mind takes possession and is no longer
split.
--

Giving something to somebody, helping anybody to obtain or do anything he wants,
is gratifying the fictitious self of that person and affirming its power over him.
Therefore so to do is to render him a disservice.
You can only render a service to somebody, and the only service you can render
anybody, is to give him an opportunity of depriving himself of something, and of
weakening the stranglehold of his fictitious self thereby.
In the first case the subject will thank you for rendering him a disservice, in the
second case he will bear you a grudge for rendering him a service. Unless he happens
to understand.
--
There can be no such thing as a Cause, for the idea of causation presupposes the
objective existence of Time. Cause-and effect therefore are an illusion appertaining to
the plane of seeming.
It follows that all theological, philosophical, metaphysical, and other rationalistic
notions are attempts to explain what by means of our media of explanation must
necessarily and forever be inexplicable.
--
The eye that cannot see itself is the I that cannot conceive itself.
--
Louis de Broglie and Schrödinger, crowning half a century's work in physics, seem to
have demonstrated mathematically and in the laboratory that there is nothing real that
exists, nothing absolute that could exist. Mass appears to be only resistance to change
(to movement of energy), decreasing in bulk in accordance with acceleration and
increasing proportionally in energy. Matter, therefore, has no existence as such.
Hui Neng seems to have known that about 1300 years ago. Scientists have now
demonstrated it. Wise men believed Hui Neng; the unwise will believe the scientists.
--

What we call 'the past' is a memory-impression of the present, of what 'was', and still
is, present.
--
Some people, instead of catching buses when they stop, seem to make a point of
missing them and then running after them in despair. Usually they have to walk
home.
--
TWO: how can one teach?
ONE: Those who were qualified to teach, those few, like the
Maharshi, said that silence was more efficacious, but in early stages teaching can
only be given via a series of untruths diminishing in inveracity in ratio to the pupil's
apprehension of the falsity of what he is being taught.
TWO: That is devastating!
ONE: Not at all: it is just education. Truth cannot be communicated: it can only be
laid bare.
--
The universe is not real in itself, but only as a projection of underlying 'reality'.
Phenomena are real as projections on to the 'screen' of 'reality'.
--
The processes of perception and conception are complicated (fabrications) and
require a lapse of time for their completion.
The apparent self in our dreams believes in himself; the sea or motor-car in front of
him is real, dangerous, powerful or whatever it may be, and the people, some of them
to us long dead, are as real as they were when we knew them. The mind that dreams
our dreams dreams as convincingly as the mind that dreams our so-called waking life.
When we awaken, our critical mind, applying its waking standards, sees the dream

personages as unreal, as distorted, as fantastic, as what it calls 'figments of the
imagination'.
And those who awaken from their 'waking' dream, from the dream of 'daily life', can
we doubt that they see their 'waking' dream personages as we see those of our
sleeping dreams, i.e. As unreal, distorted, fantastic, as figments of the imagination?
From their words it seems clear that they do, and that so it is.
Neither dream, and there are other kinds of dream experienced in other states, to
which the same applies, is one whit more or less real than the other, for both, all, are
mind-manifestations experienced by nobody in different conditions.
The only reality in either, in any kind of dream, of mind-manifestation, is Mind Itself.
--
What may be meant by 'reincarnation'? That the dream goes on, for death is merely a
phenomenon and changes nothing but appearances.
--
Arguing about transcending the I-concept, 'reducing' the 'power' of the ego, or what-
not, is merely evidence of continued belief in the reality of that which, being merely a
concept, is totally unreal.
It is like a man saying, 'I am perfectly sane: I know that I am not a poached egg,
instead I am busily engaged in unpoaching myself and soon I shall not even need a
piece of toast in order to be able to sit down.'
--
Have we ever wondered why the Zen Masters, on the rare occasions on which they
refer to the I-concept, only do so indirectly in some such terms as 'the dirt on your
face'?
It is enough for them to show us that concepts are inevitably unreal. Any attempt to
'reduce' or 'transcend' or 'discipline' what is only a concept can only affirm its illusory
appearance of reality. When all concepts are seen for what they are, that is, are
recognised as such and nothing more, the ego finds itself in the waste-paper basket
with the rest.
--

From the 'Physics and Metaphysics' angle of vision we have seen clearly enough that
there could not possibly be such a thing as an I. The notion is as ludicrous as
attributing individuality to the sound made by reeds stirred by the wind.
--
When you give a shilling to a beggar - do you realise that you are giving it to
yourself?
When you help a lame dog over a stile - do you realise that you yourself are being
helped?
When you kick a man when he is down - do you realise that you are kicking yourself?
Give him another kick - if you deserve it!
--
NEITHER MEDITATION, premeditation, or unpremeditation, will ever rid you of
yourself, for it must necessarily always be `you' who are meditating, premeditating,
or unpremeditating to an end which seeks to abolish this notion of you who are doing
it; and nothing meditated, premeditated, or unpremeditated, by you can ever do that.
They may produce a result, or results, but never that one, which is the only one that
matters.
Meditation cannot be a possible way to arrive at the disappearance of the conceptual
appearance which impedes your apprehension of what you are.
--
As long as one accepts ‘time’ as such (or tacitly believing in it) he is dreaming
-
OBSERVE EACH of your performances from waking to sleeping, and from
sleeping to waking: is not your every action a reaction? Are you ever not-
conforming to conditioning, to precedent causes, called 'habits', fashion, or anything
else?
Have you ever been free?
So how could you be bound?
Examine what you regard as your self: can you locate any entity anywhere that could
be subject to bondage? Have you ever been bound?
So how could you be free?
Does this way of seeing liberate from the notion of being bound and so from the
need of freedom?

--
Ultimate Insight:
There has never been an objective `being'.
That is the only absolute truth there could ever be.
Why?
Because from that alone can perfect understanding arise. Nor is any other
apprehension needed, for all comprehension lies therein.
The perfect understanding of that is perfect under-standing itself. And that is because
only non-objectivity itself can know it.
There is nothing more to be said, and – ultimately – nothing but that need ever have
been said.
`Knowing that, the rest is known.' (An Upanishad)
--
Whatever they are not, whatever they are,
Cannot be known by whatever they are
Or by whatever they are not,
For there is no knower to know anything,
Nor any thing to be known.
--
If one has understood this, profoundly understood it, that there is not any "me", then
there is any longer a reason why one should go on living in subjection to an
identification with a psycho-somatic 'I' which one now clearly knows is not what one
is?
Has one not realised that a 'self' is only one's object, perceptual and conceptual, and
that it could not be what we are?
If so, one is free to snap out of that fixation and to live as one is - for one 'is as one is',
and one must always be that, from whatever illusory notions one may suffer.

Can one not just 'live free' without abandoning one's 'lifelong' associations but also
without affective attachment?
Can one not go on playing one's part in the play of everyday life, as the actor does in
his, living out one's living dream, simply and worthily, though without remaining
identified with it or 'without taking it seriously' as one says?
The Sages did not consistently conform to any pattern of saintliness, their
phenomenal manifestations were on occasion quite ungodly. Their phenomenality
was not confined to their corporeal functions. Sai Baba (of Shirdi) was often violent,
though such manifestations were momentary and rootless, perhaps deliberate. Our
notions concerning the behaviour of Sages are only concepts; and anyhow they are
not to be copied.
'Living free' is being 'as one is'.
Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it?
It is not even a 'doing': it is beyond doing and not-doing. It is being as-we-are.
This is the only 'practice'.
--
If the sought is the seeker, then the seeker must be the sought, and the seeking must
be the finding, and the finding the seeking.
--
Absence as such is total absence—absence of phenomenal absence as well as of
phenomenal presence.
Such is the utter absenceof realness or thingness—of any sensorially perceptible or
mentally conceivable object.
And whatis that?
Absence of everything—including affectivity.
--

So whatcan it be? To whatdoes one awaken?
To Absolute Absence.
--
Absence is, quite simply, absence of self.
--
… only as Such (as the Absence) could you manifest at all
--
`You cannot see it because you are transparent.'
(stop reading until you see what this means).
-
Paravritti, metanoesis, the `180 degree turn-over', is not a turning over by a `doing or
notdoing' you, a turning from positive to negative; it is not done by `a you'.
It is not done at all. It is the timeless, unceasing prajnāic functioning of our dhyanic
non-being that becomes phenomenally present when there is neither doing nor
nondoing, i.e. When there is `fasting of the mind'.
--
THE SENSORIALLY-PERCEIVED universe is thereby the objective (manifested,
funcional) aspect of mind. Mind has no other objective aspect at all. That is to say
that it has no objective existence as `mind'.
--
EVERYTHING COGNISED is just what is called `mind', And what is called `mind'
is just the cognising of everything.
`Therefore it is said `Perceiving a phenomenon is perceiving Universal Nature, since
phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'
--

It matters not whether we are making concepts about samsāra and nirvāna, object and
subject, phenomenon and noumenon, other and self, presence and absence, for all
represent aspects of the division of mind in the process of conceptualisation which is
termed dualism. The absence of this process—non-dualism, advaita, —which
implies pre-conceptualisation, mind upstream of all conceptualising— is a return to
wholeness of mind, which is called `the truth of Ch'an'. That implies disidentification
with a phenomenal object, a psyche-soma, which is picturesquely referred to as
`enlightenment', or liberation from the supposed bondage which appears to result
from that identification.
--
Turn the light on to yourself – and, believe me, you’ll find nothing there.
--
Fear, desire, affectivity are manifestations of the pseudo-entity which constitutes
pseudobondage.
It is the entity, rather than the manifestations, thereof, which has to be eliminated.
--
Mind, though apparently split in the process of phenomenalisation, remains whole as
noumenon, and only in the becoming apparent, or in order to become apparent, is it
obliged to divide into an apparent see-er and an apparent seen, a cogniser and a thing
cognised, which nevertheless can never be different, never two
--
AS LONG as there is a `you' doing or not-doing anything, thinking or not-thinking,
`meditating' or `not-meditating', you are no nearer home than the day you were `born'.
--
As long as you do anything as from a `you', you are in `bondage'.
As long as you do anything as from a pseudo-entity, you are in `bondage'.

If in saying Ì' we speak as from a psycho-somatic phenomenon that believes itself to
be an independent entity acting or not-acting autonomously as a result of its own
volition, then no matter what we may know or ignore, what we may have practised or
not-practised, we are well and truly in bondage.
--
WHEN CONTACT is made, by means of a switch, the electric current flows, the
wire is instantly àlive', the resistance becomes white-hot, and there is light.
When the contact is broken, the current no longer flows, the resistance cools, there is
darkness, and the line is `dead'.
The electric current is what is implied by `prajna' where sentient beings are
concerned: it is the act of action, the living of life.
Nobody knows what electricity is, nobody knows what prajna is: both terms are just
names given to concepts that seek to describe in dualistic language a basic ènergy'
that enables appearance to appear and being to be.
When contact is made we know it as `light' and as `life' ; when contact is broken we
know it as `darkness' and as `death'.
But the source of ènergy' remains intact and intangible.
Are we the hot resistance and the light, the cold resistance and the darkness--or the
vital current itself?
--
The negative is the source, origin, the noumenal, substance (sub-stance: what stands
beneath); and the positive is the surface appearance.
Always Absence — that which negates the superficial, the positive and present and
phenomenal—is what Is.
The supreme error consists in mistaking positivity for all that is.
-
An entity requires inferences such as 'space' and 'duration', an entity is subject to
limitation, an entity is an object and needs a subject.

--
We worry a lot about the I-concept of the individual, but rarely about the I-concept of
the group. Families also sometimes have developed protuberant egos. And as for
nations ...
Nationalism is a manifestation of the ego of a group, often exacerbated to an extent
that social conditions deny to the individual.
Even associations, clubs, and particularly political parties, develop an I-concept with
the lamentable and ridiculous results that accompany all manifestations of this
concept.
Yet there is no reality in such phenomena, other than the ultimate reality without
which phenomena could not manifest.
But just as there have always been families which have escaped the development of
such a concept, and associations, clubs, even parties which are merely SUCH, so
nationalism is only a sporadic growth and has not always existed in our or any other
civilisation.
Many people are proud of this manifestation and regard it as a virtue, just as some
people cherish pride as a virtue: les primaires civilisés, les civilisés primaires.
Perhaps if we are able to transcend the ego-ism of the group we may the more easily
find the way to transcend the ego-ism of the individual, for one and all are identical
concepts and, one and all, devoid of reality.
--
Anthropologists, and even the general public, know that in many parts of the world,
among some so-called primitive peoples, the husband goes to bed and experiences the
birth-pains of his wife who is in travail.
It would be of no avail were you to tell him that his pains are imaginary, that he had
no organs susceptible of causing such pains, and that he has no occasion to have
them. He is subjected to that concept and is unable to transcend it.
Is not the I-concept, to which we, so-called non-primitive people, are subjected, just
that?

--
The world around us is a concept, not a percept. It is a concept resulting from the
percept of a percept ('ourselves') of the Unself.
--

David Carse
The difference between awake and not awake is so incredibly thin it hardly can be
said to exist. It’s as if, to use an admittedly strange image, all that is needed is a very
tiny shift in your mind, to shift your mind metaphorically to one side of where it is,
by an almost imperceptible amount; and that shift, that pop would be sufficient to
change the perspective enough so that all would be seen as it is. Tiny; so tiny that
almost nothing is needed. I call it a ‘phaseshift,’ probably from watching too much
Star Trek; everything remains as it is, it’s just that the perceiving is brought into
phase with What Is.
What has changed? Nothing; that’s how tiny a shift is needed.
-
Walking in the Vermont woods at night, I learned at a young age that what you could
make out in the darkness, what you could see, depended on how you looked.
Repeatedly, you would see a movement in your peripheral vision and turn to look
directly at it, to see only darkness. Eventually, one learns not to turn, not to look
directly, but to keep it just in your peripheral vision, just at the point where you are
almost not looking at it at all. That is when you can see it best. Subtle. It is lost,
overlooked if there is positive movement, direct searching, active thinking, anything
but profound stillness. Focus on it, and it is gone. All of the talking, all of the asking
questions, reading books, meditating, thinking, focusing, seeking, is all
counterproductive becauseit is pushing in the wrong direction, creating activity and
turbulence and noise.
---

-
One of the really amazing things about all this is the realization that the whole human
tradition and history and movement and tendency toward ‘spirituality’ and ‘the holy’
and ‘sacredness’is entirely off track. It is totally misguided. There is nothing holy or
spiritual or sacred or divine about All That Is. It is entirely a-theistic. It is completely
and thoroughly impersonal from start to finish. The human tendency toward awe and
mystery and the numinous is just that: a tendency, part of the programming of the
body/mind organisms.
-
I once spent an afternoon listening to a teacher explaining reality like this: Say you
have spent your whole life looking at a photographof a tree. Beautiful, full color, fine
resolution. So you think that’s all there is; that beautiful photographof a tree is what
you think of as reality. But I’m here, he said, to take you back a step, before the
photograph. (He had read Maharaj.) So 1 show you the negative from which the
photograph was made. (This was before digital cameras.) Suddenly, you realize your
whole reality has a flip side. Here in duality, everything has its opposite, which exists
along with it. Now, if you place the negative over the photograph, you can see they
cancel each other out. Where there is dark in the photograph, there is light in the
negative, and vice versa. Even the colors are the oppositeof each other.
So what you get when you hold them together is: precisely nothing.
The positive cancels the negative and vice versa so there is neither positive nor
negative, there is nothing. Void. And that is what reality truly is. Not what you have
always thought it is, and not its opposite, but the simultaneous existence and non-
existence of both.

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