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The
universe is uncaused, like a net of jewels in which each is only the
reflection of all the others in a fantastic interrelated harmony without
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Self-Realization
is effortless. What you are trying to find is what you already are. |
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Enlightenment
is total emptiness of mind. There is nothing you can do to get it.
Any effort you make can only be an obstruction to it. |
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If
you but cease from useless conceptualizing, you will be what you are
and what you have always been. |
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Seeing
truly is not merely a change in the direction of seeing, but a change
it its very center, in which the seer himself disappears. |
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The
only ultimate understanding is that nothing is, not even he who understands. |
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For
enlightenment to happen the perceiver must turn right around and wake
up to the fact that he is face to face with his own nature - that
HE IS IT. The spiritual seeker ultimately finds that he was already
at the destination, that he himself IS what he had been seeking and
he was in fact already home. |
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Concepts
can at best only serve to negate one another, as one thorn is used
to remove another, and then be thrown away. Only in deep silence do
we leave concepts behind. Words and language deal only with concepts,
and cannot approach Reality. |
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Between
pure Awareness and Awareness reflected as consciousness there is a
gap which the mind cannot cross. The reflection of the sun in a drop
of dew is not the sun itself. |
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Ceasing
to conceptualize means ceasing to perceive objectively, which means
perceiving non-objectively. It is to see the universe without choice
or judgement and without getting into subject-object relationship.
What happens then? Nothing, except that you are what you were before
you were born: everything. |
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When
the apparent but illusory identity called a person has disappeared
into the awareness of total potentiality that it is and has always
been, this is called enlightenment. |
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Manifestation
may adopt any number of forms but the substratum of all the myriad
forms is Consciousness, without which there cannot be anything whatsoever. |
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Nothing
can have any meaning, or even any existence, except in terms of something
else. |
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The
man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it.
His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing
anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is
everything and nothing. |
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Your
doubts will never be totally destroyed until perception has gone beyond
mere phenomenality, and such perception is not a matter of will but
of Grace. |
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Only
that which was prior to the appearance of this body-consciousness
is your true identity. That is Reality. It is here and now, and there
is no question of anyone being able to reach for it or grasp it. |
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The
same Consciousness prevails at rest as the Absolute and in motion
as duality. When the sense of "me" disappears completely, duality
vanishes in ecstasy. |
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To
any conceptual problem there cannot be any valid answer except to
see the problem in perspective as an empty thought, and that there
is no such thing as a "problem" which is other than merely conceptual. |
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An
experience is never factual but only conceptual. Whatever an experience
may be, it is nonetheless only a happening in consciousness. |
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The
manifest phenomenal aspect of what we are and the unmanifest noumenal
Absolute are not different. Phenomena are what we appear to be. Noumenon
is what we ARE. |
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The
essential basis of self-realization is the total rejection of the
individual as an independent entity, whether it comes about as a spontaneous
understanding or through an utter surrender of one's individual existence. |
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