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YogaIsLife
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 Posted - Dec 16 2008 : 4:38:45 PM
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"Why do you talk of action? Are you acting ever? Some unknown power acts and you imagine that you are acting. You are merely watching what happens, without being able to influence it in any way."
And how about when we do something and it feels wrong? And then we do something else and it feels right? There must be a degree of free will in there. I might eat chocolate all the time only to find out that it makes me sick afterwards and still, knowing that, I eat it. After suffering for a while I realise I won't eat chocolate anymore because it makes me sick. Then, paradoxically, I am free and feel happier than ever, because I am doing what feels right for me. But who decided what feels right for me in the first place? In any case, I always have the choice to do or not to do. Of course you can argue that the less you do, the better you will be, the less here being the less interefering with what the heart wants deep inside you. But the fact that you can interfere (call it the mind or wahtever) means that you are choosing. And the trick is to know and be well connected to what your heart really wants, which is the tricky part. Otherwise we would all be blissful and happy all the time, which is what we want. The fact that many of us don't have it means we have "free will". Or at least it seems we do, but at the end the higher power always wins, right? May it be for the best. |
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emc
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Posted - Mar 10 2009 : 3:46:45 PM
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"There is no need of a way out [of the dream]! Don't you see that a way out is also a part of the dream? All you have to do is see the dream as dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The problem is not the dream. Your problem is that you like one part of your dream and not another. Love all, or none of it, and stop complaining. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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emc
2072 Posts |
Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 09:27:45 AM
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Haha, I got this one as "The quote of the day":
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Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I realize this is what I've been spending so much time with during these years on the journey...  
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chinna
United Kingdom
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Posted - Apr 30 2009 : 3:07:07 PM
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Beloved friends
Thank you for this thread.
It is beautiful to see Nisargadatta honoured here by so many. He is my constant companion for decades. I read his texts every day, I do japa on his name constantly, I worship his image and presence as Siva. He is my ishta-guru, my heart, my Self. His teaching is true, sound as a bell, he asked for nothing from anyone except their sincerity and courage.
Namo Nisargadatta Maharaj
Aum namah Sivaya
Tat tvam asi
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 1:02:46 PM
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Originally posted by chinna
Beloved friends
Thank you for this thread.
It is beautiful to see Nisargadatta honoured here by so many. He is my constant companion for decades. I read his texts every day, I do japa on his name constantly, I worship his image and presence as Siva. He is my ishta-guru, my heart, my Self. His teaching is true, sound as a bell, he asked for nothing from anyone except their sincerity and courage.
Namo Nisargadatta Maharaj
Aum namah Sivaya
Tat tvam asi
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - May 02 2009 : 1:04:02 PM
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[If you are still dreaming] it is because you have not really understood that you are dreaming. This is the essence of bondage - the mixing of the real with the unreal. In your present state, only the sense "I am" refers to reality; the "what" and the "how I am" are illusions imposed by destiny, or accident.
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj |
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chinna
United Kingdom
241 Posts |
Posted - May 03 2009 : 12:32:06 PM
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'Freedom is the surrender of all self-concern. It cannot be done. It happens when you realise your true nature.'
This is the quotation from Nisargadatta Maharaj which, more than any other, has lit my path. |
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miguel
Spain
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Posted - May 03 2009 : 1:23:22 PM
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"If you are dreaming you are in a desert dying for a drop of water,it will not help having a glass of water beside your bed...unless you wake up"
The same "author"
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emc
2072 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2009 : 2:28:27 PM
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A one hour video on Da Man! Go to "free audio/video" and "Awaken to the eternal"
http://www.theeternalstate.org/
"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing
Love is knowing I am everything
and between the two my life moves" |
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CarsonZi
Canada
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Posted - May 04 2009 : 3:42:59 PM
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Wow.....My forehead is BURNING from watching this video....and I'm not even finished yet! This is my first real exposure to Nisargadatta...thank you.
Love,
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yogani
USA
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Posted - May 04 2009 : 3:46:32 PM
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Originally posted by emc
A one hour video on Da Man! Go to "free audio/video" and "Awaken to the eternal"
http://www.theeternalstate.org/
"Wisdom is knowing I am nothing
Love is knowing I am everything
and between the two my life moves"
Hi emc and All:
This video on the life and teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj is excellent, and I highly recommend it. It ties in with many things we have been discussing in AYP over the years, and is very compatible.
Thanks so much for sharing it.
The guru is in you.
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2009 : 10:13:39 AM
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Wow!!
Thanks emc. |
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miguel
Spain
1197 Posts |
Posted - May 25 2009 : 2:31:04 PM
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| The video is EXCELLENT.Thank you very much. |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - May 31 2009 : 3:24:24 PM
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The world of mind and matter, of names and shapes, continues, but it does not matter to me at all. It is like having a shadow. It is there, following me wherever I go, but not hindering me in any way. It remains a world of experiences, but not of names and forms related to me by desires and fears. The experiences are qualitiless, pure experiences, if I may say so. I call them experiences for the lack of a better word. They are like the waves on the surface of the ocean, the ever-present, but not affecting its peaceful power.
- Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Jun 05 2009 : 12:44:55 AM
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You are the Supreme Reality beyond the world and its creator, beyond consciousness and its witness, beyond all assertions and denials.
- Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Sep 01 2009 : 10:29:30 PM
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When the mind has been put to rest and disturbs no longer the inner space (chidakash), the body acquires a new meaning and its transformation becomes both necessary and possible.
- Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Sep 06 2009 : 2:02:44 PM
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Concern yourself with your mind, remove its distortions and impurities. Once you had the taste of your own self, you will find it everywhere and at all times. Therefore it is so important that you should come to it. Once you know it, you will never lose it.
In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness -alive. Even the stones are conscious and alive.
- Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Sep 08 2009 : 09:38:49 AM
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Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.
There is only imagination. It has absorbed you so completely that you just cannot grasp how far from reality you have wandered. No doubt imagination is richly creative. Universe upon universe are built on it. Yet they are all in space and time, past and future, which just don't exist.
There can be no continuity in existence. Continuity implies identity in past, present and future. No such identity is possible, for the very means of identification fluctuate and change. Continuity, permanency, these are illusions created by memory, mere mental projections of a pattern where no pattern can be.
- Nisargadatta |
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Balance
USA
967 Posts |
Posted - Oct 04 2009 : 2:47:44 PM
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The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.
When somebody dies, nothing happens. Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains.
It is the changing that dies. The immutable neither lives nor dies; it is the timeless witness of life and death. You cannot call it dead, for it is aware. Nor can you call it alive, for it does not change.
-Nisargadatta
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emc
2072 Posts |
Posted - Dec 11 2009 : 3:46:29 PM
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It is not what you do, but what you stop doing that matters.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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