“The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology.”
~ Albert Einstein
No personal God, theology, dogma
When the mind is free from all accumulations -JK
Life is a process of challenge and response, and whenever the response is inadequate, there is conflict; and the inadequacy of the response can be removed only through understanding the process of relationship. And as we understand more and more the process of relationship, which is the process of myself in action, there is a possibility of the mind being still. A mind that is not still—whether it is pursuing knowledge or greed or becoming something now or in the hereafter—such a mind is incapable, obviously, of discovering because there must be freedom to discover. And as long as the mind is trying to be something, there can be no discovery. It is only in freedom that there can be discovery, and freedom is virtue, because virtue gives freedom. But, to strive to be virtuous is not freedom; it is another form of becoming, which is self-expansion.
So, virtue is the denial of becoming, and that denial takes place only with the understanding of what is. And when there is this radical transformation through self-knowledge, then there is a possibility of creative living. For, truth is not something to be achieved; it is not an end; it is not something to be gained. It comes into being from moment to moment. It is not a result of accumulated, stored-up knowledge, which is merely memory, conditioning, experience. But truth comes into being from moment to moment when the mind is capable of being free from all accumulations. For, the accumulator is the self—the self that gathers in order to assert, to dominate, to expand, to self-fulfill. Only with the freedom of the self does truth come into being—not as a continuous process, but to be discovered from moment to moment. Therefore, to discover, the mind must be fresh, alert, and still.
Choiceless Awareness – Collected Works 5
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rays of the Absolute / Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The ‘I am’ is the sum total of everything you perceive.
It appears spontaneously and disappears, it has no dwelling place.
It is like a dream world.
Do not try to be something,
even a spiritual person.
You are the manifested.
The tree is already there in the seed.
Such is the ‘I am’.
Just see it as it is.”
~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj
The question of what one is comes only in manifestation,
in comparison with other phenomenon.
In my state there is no phenomenon;
my existence is prior to any manifestation.
There is no question of who or what I am.
~ Nisargadatta
VERY. THOROUGH. READING
VERY. THOROUGH. READING
Advaita is Vedanta – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj by Stephen Wolinsky
Pure Advaita with Jim Newman -JN
The separate self can’t imagine what is true because it’s always making what is look like something else.
The only totally unreal part of the appearance is the separate self. What is apparently is what is.
Under the belief of a separate self the I is always looking to find fulfillment find happiness fill its needs. That sets up a story line for the good and the bed and I will judge everyone according to what I feel is right.
IT’S REAL AND UNREAL. The separate sense of self gets real and has no clue what unreal is.
THE TALKING IS DIFFICULT BUT It’s so simple ….. undeniable ….. obvious …..
Tony●● Parsons -Buddha at the Gas Pump
BUDDHA AT THE GAS PUMP WITH RICK ARCHER INTERVIEWING TONY PARSONS
Position 39 paraphrase: RICK: You say there’s no God but use words like Beloved, Divine, etc. TONY: yes but there’s no one in authority controlling…
RICK: You use words like consciousness and awareness to imply that there’s duality But what about pure consciousness or pure awareness where consciousness or awareness is all that there is? TONY: Yes that’s it that’s right!
It’s just an ocean of pure awareness, pure consciousness,no object whatsoever. Robin RJS says that’s exactly what Rupert Spira says all the time!
BUT TONY INSISTS AND RIGHTFULLY SO THAT ALL THE GREAT TEACHERS PAST AND PRESENT ARE CAUGHT UP IN TRYING TO HELP PEOPLE AND THAT IS DUALISM: THERE’S NO ONE TO HELP AND NO ONE TO BE HELPING. THIS CAN BE RECOGNIZED BY ANYONE ANYWHERE EVEN IN THE GUTTER!!!
RICK: ShanKara says ONLY BRAHMAN IS REAL. THE WORLD IS AN ILLUSION. BRAHMAN IS ALL THERE IS.
TONY: YAAAAAY !!!!
Tony Parsons emphatically agreed!
Robin -rjs
The Nature of Consciousness -RSpira
NO UTTERANCE IS EVER TRUTH.
A GOOD “PROVISIONAL DEFINITION” OF CONSCIOUSNESS:
- Consciousness is that in which all experience appears.
- Consciousness is that with which all experience is known.
- Consciousness is that out of which all experience is made.
You are beyond everything. Yet you are everything -RAdams
You have to dive deep, deep, deep within yourself, deeper than you can ever imagine. And the only way you can do this is by giving up the external world, mentally, not physically. In other words, by not reacting to things. To observe things, watch the world go by, leave it alone. It’s neither good nor bad.
It has nothing to offer you. Yet at the same time you’ll be doing what you have to do, what you came here to do. If you’re supposed to work, you will work. If you’re not supposed to work, you’ll not work. If you’re supposed to be married, you’ll be married. If you’re supposed not to be married, you’ll not be married.
Everything will happen by itself. Yet you will know within yourself, that this is not you. The situation is not you. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. You are beyond conditioning, beyond situations, beyond experience, beyond everything. Yet you are everything also.
Robert Adams
God alone is the Doer
“When [the mind] becomes pure, one … realizes: “God alone is the Doer, and I am His instrument.”
~ Ramakrishna
“So long as the sense of being the doer remains, desire does also. Therefore the ego remains. But once this goes the Self shines forth in its purity. The sense of being the doer is the bondage, not the actions themselves.”
~ Ramana Maharshi
“When you realize you’re not the doer everything gets done in a better way, for you stop identifying with the object and the subject. You become free of all attachments. As long as you believe that you’re responsible for anything that takes place in this world, you have a problem. You will have to go through that experience over and over and over again, until you realize that you have absolutely nothing to do with anything. You are pure consciousness. Your real Self is absolute reality. I tell you, you have nothing to do with this world.”
~ Robert Adams
“Carry out all the activities in the objective world, but do not claim authorship for what is being done. As you begin to realize that all the activities are happening through you and that you are not doing anything, then gradually all your desires like the attachment for husband or wife, or greed for money, etc. will dwindle. All of that will go away once the sense of ‘doership’ disappears, because at that stage there will be no personality left to take credit for anything.”
~ Nisargadatta
“You choose a course of action for the future and assume that it is you who are doing the choosing. Actually, it is the Supreme Power that is giving you the strength to choose. Don’t be foolish and think that it is you who are doing the choosing. That power is there all the time, making you do all the things that you do. Instead of trying to organise your future, look at the source of that power and be aware of how it does everything. It makes the body move; it makes the mind move. All the things that you imagine you do by yourself are done by this Supreme Power.”
~ H.W.L. Poonja, “Papaji”
“The illumined soul
Whose heart is Brahman’s heart
Thinks always: ‘I am doing nothing,’
No matter what he sees,
Hears, touches, smells, eats.”
~ Bhagavad Gita
Thanks to Glenn R Danforth