Don’t reject the body sensations and emotions that present
themselves to you. Let them blossom fully in your awareness without
any goal or any interference from the will. Progressively, the potential
energy imprisoned in muscular tensions liberates itself; the
dynamism of the psychosomatic structure exhausts itself; and the
return to fundamental stability takes place. This purification of body
sensation is a great art. It requires patience, determination, and
courage. It finds its expression at the level of sensation through a
gradual expansion of the body into the surrounding space, and a
simultaneous penetration of the somatic structure by that space. That
space is not experienced as a simple absence of objects. When the
attention frees itself from perceptions that hold it in thrall, it
discovers itself as that self-luminous space which is the true substance
of the body. At this moment, the duality between body and space is
abolished. The body is expanded to the size of the universe and
contains all things tangible and intangible in its heart. Nothing is
external to it. We all have this body of joy, this awakened body, this
body of universal welcoming. We are all complete, with no missing
parts. Just explore your kingdom and take possession of it knowingly.
Do not live any longer in that wretched shack of a limited body.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Happiness is inside you
# Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside. Ramana Maharshi
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Ramana on silent teaching
Teaching in Words and Silence - Sri Ranama Maharshi
On a Shivaratri day, after dinner, Bhagavan was reclining on the sofa surrounded by many devotees. A Sadhu suggested that, since this was a most auspicious night, the meaning of the verse in praise of Dakshinamurti should be made clear. Bhagavan gave his approval and all were eagerly waiting for him to say something. He simply sat, gazing at us. We were gradually absorbed in ever deepening silence, which was not disturbed by the clock striking the hour, every hour, until 4 a.m. None moved or talked. Time and space ceased to exist. Bhagavan’s grace kept us at peace and silence for seven hours. In this silence, Bhagavan taught us the Ultimate, like Dakshinamurti. At the stroke of four Bhagavan asked us whether we had understood the meaning of the silent teaching. Like waves on the infinite ocean of bliss, we fell at Bhagavan’s feet.
T. K. Sundaresa Iyer
Ramana Smrti Souvenir
On a Shivaratri day, after dinner, Bhagavan was reclining on the sofa surrounded by many devotees. A Sadhu suggested that, since this was a most auspicious night, the meaning of the verse in praise of Dakshinamurti should be made clear. Bhagavan gave his approval and all were eagerly waiting for him to say something. He simply sat, gazing at us. We were gradually absorbed in ever deepening silence, which was not disturbed by the clock striking the hour, every hour, until 4 a.m. None moved or talked. Time and space ceased to exist. Bhagavan’s grace kept us at peace and silence for seven hours. In this silence, Bhagavan taught us the Ultimate, like Dakshinamurti. At the stroke of four Bhagavan asked us whether we had understood the meaning of the silent teaching. Like waves on the infinite ocean of bliss, we fell at Bhagavan’s feet.
T. K. Sundaresa Iyer
Ramana Smrti Souvenir
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
J Klein-your true nature transcends it ( Mind)
"Observe the way your mind moves, works, without having any preconceived ideas about it.
A moment will come when you discover yourself to be the witness.
Subsequently, when all striving has left you, you will realize that you are the light shining beyond the observer. Reality is neither a product of the mind nor the result of a whole train of thoughts, it just is.
The only method we can suggest is to observe impartially the way in which your mind reacts in the different circumstances of everyday life."
"Do not nourish the ideas you have built around yourself nor the image people have of you. Be neither someone nor something, just don't play the game. This will bring about being, constant awareness.”
''The very instant thoughts and feelings arise you have not the slightest notion of being a person, the ego is totally absent. The ego itself is no more than a thought and two thoughts cannot take form simultaneously.
Identification with the ego only comes into being once the thought concerning the object has subsided. Then it claims this thought as its own.
Once this becomes obvious, you realize that the servitude (to the mind) you previously took to be real is but an illusion, your true nature transcends it."
"The very instant thoughts and feelings arise you have not the slightest notion of being a person, the ego is totally absent. The ego itself is no more than a thought and two thoughts cannot take form simultaneously. Identification with the ego only comes into being once the thought concerning the object has sbusided. Then it claims this thought as its own. Once this becomes obvious, you realise that the servitude you previously took to be real is but an illusion, your true nature transcends it.
A moment will come when you discover yourself to be the witness.
Subsequently, when all striving has left you, you will realize that you are the light shining beyond the observer. Reality is neither a product of the mind nor the result of a whole train of thoughts, it just is.
The only method we can suggest is to observe impartially the way in which your mind reacts in the different circumstances of everyday life."
"Do not nourish the ideas you have built around yourself nor the image people have of you. Be neither someone nor something, just don't play the game. This will bring about being, constant awareness.”
''The very instant thoughts and feelings arise you have not the slightest notion of being a person, the ego is totally absent. The ego itself is no more than a thought and two thoughts cannot take form simultaneously.
Identification with the ego only comes into being once the thought concerning the object has subsided. Then it claims this thought as its own.
Once this becomes obvious, you realize that the servitude (to the mind) you previously took to be real is but an illusion, your true nature transcends it."
"The very instant thoughts and feelings arise you have not the slightest notion of being a person, the ego is totally absent. The ego itself is no more than a thought and two thoughts cannot take form simultaneously. Identification with the ego only comes into being once the thought concerning the object has sbusided. Then it claims this thought as its own. Once this becomes obvious, you realise that the servitude you previously took to be real is but an illusion, your true nature transcends it.
Be As You Are: Ramana Mharshi, Quotes
"'I exist' is the only permanent self-evident experience of everyone. Nothing else is so self-evident as 'I am'. What people call self-evident, that is, the experience they get through the senses, is far from self-evident. The Self alone is that. So to do self-enquiry and be that 'I am' is the only thing to do. 'I am' is reality. I am this or that in unreal. 'I am' is truth, another name for Self."
"The mind is nothing other than the 'I'-thought. The mind and the egoare one and the same. The other mental faculties such as the intellect and memory are only this. Mind [manas], intellect [buddhi], the storehouse of mental tendencies [chittam], and ego [ahamkara]; all these are only the mind itself."
"The mind is nothing other than the 'I'-thought. The mind and the egoare one and the same. The other mental faculties such as the intellect and memory are only this. Mind [manas], intellect [buddhi], the storehouse of mental tendencies [chittam], and ego [ahamkara]; all these are only the mind itself."
I is the light of Awareness that shines upon all things
""Christianity: "Jesus said: "I" is the light (of awareness) that shines upon all things. "I" is the All from which everything emanates and to which everything returns." (Thomas, 186)
Enlightenment is the sudden recognition that non-duality is, has always been, and will always be the reality of our experience. Duality is an illusion. Consciousness is not private and personal, but impersonal, universal, and eternal. There is no limited personal entity, no conscious ego. The ego is a perceived object, not the all perceiving awareness.
Self realization is the subsequent stabilization in the peace, happiness and freedom of our natural state. The world, seen in the light of impersonal awareness, reveals itself as a permanent miracle, a divine display that celebrates its invisible source.
Source: http://www.francislucille.com/""
Enlightenment is the sudden recognition that non-duality is, has always been, and will always be the reality of our experience. Duality is an illusion. Consciousness is not private and personal, but impersonal, universal, and eternal. There is no limited personal entity, no conscious ego. The ego is a perceived object, not the all perceiving awareness.
Self realization is the subsequent stabilization in the peace, happiness and freedom of our natural state. The world, seen in the light of impersonal awareness, reveals itself as a permanent miracle, a divine display that celebrates its invisible source.
Source: http://www.francislucille.com/""
End Game-- by Charlie Hayes
"As John Wheeler reminded me (Charlie Hayes) repeatedly “Understanding is the key.” Understanding comes form investigation. Get really curious to see what this I is that claims “there’s no meaning" or "it’s all empty and numb somehow”. That is “the end game”. Get down to brass tacks: what IS this assumed sense of life, sense of being, that still operates as a seemingly separate me-person despite the insight that happened." Quote
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