Nisargadatta

A few more gems before heading out...

Believe me, you need nothing except to be what you are. You imagine you will increase your value by acquisition. It is like gold imagining that an addition of copper will improve it. Elimination and purification of all that is foreign to your nature is enough. All else is vanity. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

As long as you deal in terms: real - unreal, awareness is the only reality that can be. But the Supreme is beyond all distinctions, and to it the term 'real' does not apply, for in it all is real and, therefore, need not be labelled as such. It is the very source of reality, it imparts reality to whatever it touches. It just cannot be understood through words. Even a direct experience, however sublime, merely bears testimony, nothing more. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Realization of absolute being is here and now. It is not a process that takes time as such. Every breath you take should be looking ever more deeply into "I am", which is like a mantra beyond mere mantra. Every breath, every moment, you have your inmost doorway into the absolute being, absolute awareness, absolute joy and peace. Just keep going through your inner doorway of "I am" and you will find yourself more and more beyond time, effort and anxious struggle, more and more beyond all relative struggle, success or failure about anything whatsoever. Looking into "I am" in every breath is like using time to go beyond time. It introduces the timeless into time, the breathless into breathing, the thoughtless into thought. It cannot possibly fail, for each pulse of this central inquiry into awareness of being is itself an ultimate success. That you would decide to do this central self-realization is central self-realization. All results of this will take care of themselves. Anything you cannot do will be done for you. ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

I don't think you really understand the purpose of my dialogues here. I don't say things simply to convince people that they are true. I am not speaking about these matters so that people can build up a philosophy that can be rationally defended, and which is free of all contradictions. When I speak my words, I am not speaking to your mind at all. I am directing my words directly at consciousness. I am planting my words in your consciousness. If you disturb the planting process by arguing about the meaning of the words, they won't take root there. Once my words have been planted in consciousness, they will sprout, they will grow, and at the appropriate moment they will bear fruit. It's nothing to do with you. All this will happen by itself. However, if you think about the words too much or dispute their meaning, you will postpone the moment of their fruition. Enough talking. Be quiet and let the words do their work! ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

I don't know which Mr Mind your quoting, but it's a great example of Awareness thoroughly entrenched in personhood...

More irrelevance from the irrelevance Master himself...

ST can kiss my butt with regard to their thoughts about Nisargadatta pointers... Who do these detractors on ST think they are? Idjits...

"To lose entirely all interest in knowledge results in omniscience. It is but the gift of knowing what needs to be known at the right moment, for error-free action."

"At present you meekly accept whatever the mind dictates as your own. If the mind goes into silence, where and what are you?"

"Everything happens as it does because the universe is as it is."

"Life is unafraid and free. As long as you have the idea of influencing events, liberation is not for you: the very notion of doership, of being a cause, is bondage."

"Go to the root of your beingness. In the process, the beingness will be transcended and the ultimate 'You' only remain, without the knowledge 'you are'. That ultimate state is known as vishranti, which means total rest, complete relaxation, utter quietude etc."

"If you expect any benefits from your search, material, mental or spiritual, you have missed the point. Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false."

"Developing attitudes is a sign of fear."

"When all the false self-identifications are thrown away, what remains is all-embracing love. Get rid of all ideas about yourself, even of the idea that you are God. No self-definition is valid."

"Helping others is mere imagination, however noble. In truth you do not help others because there are not others."

"I am not concerned with taking care of anything. The world has been in existence for millions of years. There have been thousands of avatars and great men, and important personalities. Has a single one of them been able to do anything to change the natural course of events in the world?"

"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."

~Nisargadatta

Stick that in your big tin cup!