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Modrec želi z besedami zgolj izraziti svoje naravno stanje: Nisem človek, sem neopisljivo To.
Postanite uresničevalci besede in ne le poslušalci, ki sami sebe varajo.
Jakobovo pismo 1,22
Most of you still believe that you have to read books. Find sacred teachers. Meditate for hours. Travel the world looking for the right person, the right place, the right thing. Searching for the holy grail to become free. What are you doing when you do this? Aren't you accumulating more knowledge? You want to empty the garbage pail, not keep adding to it. True? But yet you keep adding to it. Every time you read a new book it comes out. You're adding to the garbage pail. In other words you're inflating your ego more and more, your ego becomes bigger and bigger. Because you have something new to talk about don't you. A new teacher, a new method, a new mantra, you become excited over this and you become excited over that. This is what keeps you back from realization. Always remember this. Never forget this. You want to subtract, you want to delete, not add on.
~ Robert Adams
Nothing can ever happen to you. Why do you worry so much? What are you afraid of? Your life? You have no life.
What you call your life is nothing. It doesn't exist. It's no thing. You worry about your hair falling out. (laughter)
You worry about needing a new pair of shoes, you're getting fat, what a waste of energy. Like feeding a dead horse.
We're all going to wind up in the cemetery, so what difference does it make what you do?
-Robert Adams
"Whatever happens, happens by itself. All this is the show, or the expression, of consciousness – the nature of it is change. It is the dance of the conscious presence. There are so many ways in which consciousness entertains itself, many different forms, abilities, capacities are functioning, but the functioning is merely to entertain itself. When it is tired, it rests in sleep, when awake it needs some kind of entertainment, some movement, some doing. They are all appearances in consciousness; each will last according to its own duration, but basically, nothing that happens has any validity or importance."
Nisargadatta Maharaj, Prior to Consciousness, January 27, 1981
"Knjiga, ki bi jo moral imeti vsakdo, tudi če trenutno ne more do-umeti (ponotranjiti in zaživeti) njenega sporočila. Sporočilo indijske advaita tradicije namreč obrača na glavo posameznikov pogled nase in na življenje. Modrec – ” jnani”, džnani (tisti, ki je spoznal, ki ve na način, ki je onkraj vedenja in onkraj ne-vedenja) običajno ne nastopa javno.
Nisargadatta je bil izjema. S svojo preprosto in lahko razumljivo govorico je sodobnemu človeku običajno težko razumljive vsebine približal, kakor najbrž nihče drug. Sporočilnost advaita tradicije posameznik še lahko razume, jo nekako začuti, veliko težje pa je to do-umeti, ponotranjiti in to za-živeti. Ampak, kakor pravi tradicija, pomembno je enkrat slišati (prebrati) in ”seme” vedenja, znanja, se bo vsadilo. To, o čemer uči advaita oziroma Nisargadatta, je namreč človekova ”prava”, izvorna narava, ki vseskozi teži za tem, da bi bila prepoznana kot taka. Tudi v zen tradiciji je pravzaprav malo mojstrov, ki so znali stare tekste preobleči na novo in jih približati sodobnemu človeku. Za ”resnega” duhovnega iskalca, ki ni vešč tujih jezikov, je prevod Nisargadattinih pogovorov nekaj neprecenljivega."
"Seek my grace within the Heart.
I will drive away your darkness and show you the light.
This is my responsibility.
If you would only fix your gaze upon me,
you would know
that established in the Heart,
my gaze is ever fixed upon you."
D: Is a set meditation necessary for strengthening the mind?
Sri Ramana Maharshi: Not if you keep the idea always before you that it is not your work. At first, an effort is needed to remind yourself of it, but later on, it becomes natural and continuous. The work will go on of its own accord, and your peace will remain undisturbed.
Meditation is your true nature. You call it meditation now because there are other thoughts distracting you. When these thoughts are dispelled, you remain alone — that is, in the state of meditation free from thoughts; and that is your real nature, which you are now trying to gain by keeping away other thoughts. Such keeping away of other thoughts is now called meditation. But when the practice becomes firm, the real nature shows itself as true meditation.
