Peace is your natural state -RM

Ramana Maharshi

PEACE AND HAPPINESS

D: How can I get peace? I do not seem to obtain it through vichara.

M: Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state. Your vichara has been made only in the mind.
Investigate what the mind is, and it will disappear. There is no such thing as
mind apart from thought. Nevertheless, because of the emergence of thought, you surmise something from which it starts and term that the mind. When you probe to see what it is, you find there is really no such thing as mind. When the mind has thus
vanished, you realise eternal peace.

D: Through poetry, music, japa, bhajana, the sight of beautiful landscapes, reading the lines of spiritual verses etc., one experiences sometimes a true sense of all-unity.
Is that feeling of deep blissful quiet
(wherein the personal self has no place) the same as the entering into the heart of which Bhagavan speaks?
Will practice thereof lead to a deeper samadhi and so ultimately to a full vision of the Real?

M: There is happiness when agreeable things are presented to the mind. It is the happiness inherent to the Self, and there is no other happiness. And it is not alien and afar. You are diving into the Self on those occasions which you consider pleasurable; that diving results in self-existent bliss. But the association of ideas is responsible for foisting that bliss on other things or occurrences while, in fact, that bliss is
within you. On these occasions you are plunging into the Self, though unconsciously. If you do so consciously, with the conviction that comes of the
experience that you are identical with the happiness which is verily the Self, the one Reality, you call it Realization. I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the heart.

🕉 Maharshi’s Gospel
Being Answers of
BHAGAVAN SRI RAMANA MAHARSHI
to Questions put to Him by Devotees

True silence will happen by itself -RAdams

Adams, Robert

“True silence has absolutely nothing to do with the world. True silence is omnipresence, is all-pervading. Your real nature is silence. Always remember, it is different than just keeping still. Anyone can keep still for a while, maybe a couple of seconds, before the mind starts attacking you. But true silence is when you go deeper, where you forget about your body, you forget about your affairs, your mind, your world, and you enter that atmosphere where there is bliss-consciousness.

True silence is the nature of creation. The planets turn on their axis, the galaxies spin through space. … Everything is in a state of flux. Everything moves. Yet, it’s all very silent. You do not hear a thing. If you get up at four o’clock in the morning and go outside and look, what do you hear? You hear silence, deep silence, total silence, beautiful silence. It is not hard to get into that type of silence. You simply begin to sit still and become oblivious to everything.

It will happen by itself. You will go deeper, and deeper, and deeper, and deeper, until you’re no longer aware of your body or your surroundings. The true silence can be kept up at all times. You do not have to sit to go into the silence any more. In the beginning stages you do, for you’re learning how to keep silent. But as time goes by, you can be shopping in the market place, you can be working in the factory, you can be washing dishes, you can be doing all kinds of things, and you will be in the silence.”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)

No resistance, no ignoring -rjs

Robin Starbuck

RESISTANCE TO HIGHER SPIRITUALITY
Don’t think for a moment that Spirit, God, ‘Creator’ of the universe (of Spirit) describes itself in cryptic language just to make your life miserable! That couldn’t be further from the truth!
There is no easy way to use a language – any human language – and explain issues of a non-human (non-mortal) nature. But the hard, cold fact is that humans are in essence mentally lazy. They hear earth-shattering truths but fail to follow them to a substantial conclusion.
“Matter as such does not exist.” So spake Einstein. But the world goes on and on ad infinitum with nary the slightest doubt as to the solidity, the all-pervasiveness and absolute dominion of same. It’s as if our mighty mortal man would quell the very knowledge gleaned by quantum- and astro-physics in the name of getting on with their summertime slumber.
~ Dr. Robin Starbuck

Fear gets transformed -JK

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

P: But what do you do exactly?

K: When fear arises from whatever cause, remain with it, without any momentum, without any movement of thought.

P: What is it then?

K: It is no longer the thing which I have associated with the past as fear. I would say it is energy held without any movement. When energy is held without any movement, there is an explosion. That then gets transformed.

Exploration into Insight
J. Krishnamurti

When striving’s done -rjs

Robin Starbuck

All morning I had a question.
But I didn’t know what the question was!
So then I had two unknowns.
It was most disconcerting!
I yearned to go all the way
Out of the “me” realm
Of the Unreal.
Didn’t care an iota about
Rewards and accolades of flesh.
Wanted to be where striving’s done
And seeing all aright was my
Healing gift to everyone.
“Me” knew that there was a message
A message that would consign her
To having never existed at all.
What is it?
What can it be?
“Unlike most people, you are
Starting to see that there is
NO UPPER LIMIT AT ALL.
Humans love to compromise two realms
Two realities, mis-connections
Pulling them back down when they would soar
But not you Robin and you’ve paid dearly
But this is your prize – to try
To share.”

DrRobinStarbuck, 2018

Universe is dream -RAdams

Adams, Robert

This universe is a dream just as
when you are dreaming. No one can
ever tell you that the dream is a dream
as long as you are dreaming. Yet you
awaken from your dream, and the
dream never existed. It came
out of you and it returned to you.

This world in which we live is the
same thing. There is absolutely no
difference. You are living the mortal
dream. Consequently, great sages
have told us we have to identify with
Consciousness, with the Absolute
Reality, not with what is going on.
The only freedom we have got
is not to react to anything,
but to turn within and
know the truth.

Robert Adams

Thoughts must be quelled immediately -RM

Ramana Maharshi

Your nature is Peace and Happiness. Thoughts are the obstacles to realisation.
One’s meditation or concentration is meant to get rid of obstacles and not to gain the Self. Does anyone remain apart from the Self? No!
The true nature of the Self is declared to be Peace.
If the same peace is not found, the non-finding is only a thought which is alien to the Self.
One practises meditation only to get rid of these alien fancies. So, then, a thought must be quelled as soon as it rises.

Whenever a thought arises, do not be carried away by it.
You become aware of the body when you forget the Self.
But can you forget the Self? Being the Self how can you forget it?
There must be two selves for one to forget the other. It is absurd.
So the Self is not depressed; it is not imperfect: it is ever happy.
The contrary feeling is a mere thought which has actually no stamina in it.
Be rid of thoughts.
Why should one attempt meditation?
Being the Self one remains always realised, only be free from thoughts.
~Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, 462