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Surrendering

God, on being worshipped, bestows steadiness in devotion which leads to surrender. On the devotee surrendering, God shows His mercy by manifesting as the Guru. The Guru, otherwise God, guides the devotee, saying that God is in you and He is the Self. This leads to introversion of the mind and finally to realization.

When a person has realized, a universal life-current takes possession of him and he becomes an instrument in its hands. His own separate will is gone. This is the real Self-surrender. This is the highest kundalini (the divine cosmic energy), this is real bhakti (devotion), this is jnana (knowledge of the Self).

– Sri Ramana Maharshi

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Recognizing the nature of samsara

Recognizing the nature of samsara, you will feel weary of it, and such weariness will inspire you to strive toward liberation-and by striving for it, you will attain it. Samsara will never just disappear on its own. You have to want to get rid of it actively yourself.

If you acknowledge the suffering of samsara, you will recognize that the source of suffering lies in your obscuring emotions and the negative actions they engender, and that the source of your obscuring emotions lies in your clinging to the idea of self. If you can rid yourself of that clinging, suffering will cease.

Liberation means freeing yourself from the ties of your emotions and negative actions. The way to free yourself from them is to practice the Dharma-to train in discipline; in concentration; and in prajna, the wisdom that allows you to realize the non-existence of the individual self and phenomena. Discipline is the basis of concentration; concentration is the basis of wisdom. If you practice the Dharma properly, even for as little as an hour a day, the results of countless lifetimes and kalpas of negative actions can be purified.
As you practice the Dharma steadily, even in quite a modest way, you will gradually be able to progress further and further on the path to liberation. Eventually, you will attain a true bliss that can never diminish.

– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, The Heart of Compassion

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Anything which you have concealed the nature of your own Self has to be discovered

Do what you have to do. Anything with which you have camouflaged or concealed the original ultimate nature of your own Self has to be discovered, uncovered, or revealed.

It has to reveal itself by itself — not by any effort. Not by any effort.

Don’t think about anything of the past, present and future. No thought and no effort. That is the requirement. This gem doesn’t need your candle to be seen. It has its own luster, self-effulgent. You will not see the sun with the light of your candle but through the sun’s own rays. Who needs a candle to see the sun? No candle is needed because the sun has the luster of light itself. So you don’t need any effort to see anything which is light.

– Papaji

Surrender,
let Silence have you.

Surrender to the source,
Surrender to awareness,
this is the only place of protection.

Surrender your heart and you will know all. Surrender to Consciousness and Bliss.

Surrender means to surrender your bondage and to simply be Freedom.

– Papaji

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You are loved

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don’t have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success— none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Imagine that being in this love is like relaxing endlessly into a warm bath that surrounds and supports your every movement, so that every thought and feeling is permeated by it. You feel as though you are dissolving into love.

This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart—not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, “I am.”

– Ram Dass

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A tremendous fear hidden beneath almost every human activity

There is a tremendous fear hidden beneath almost every human activity, a fear so subtle and so constant that people rarely notice it directly because it disguises itself through ambition, through relationships, through success, through spirituality, through endless movement and distraction.

And this fear, beloved ones, is the fear of not adjusting, the fear of inner emptiness, the fear that if all the noise is stopped for even a few moments, there might be nobody solid there at all.
And because humanity cannot tolerate this possibility, people spend their entire lives constructing identities continuously, layer upon layer, achievement upon achievement, opinion upon opinion, relationship upon relationship, building psychological walls around a center that was never truly stable to begin with.

And this is why the ego becomes so defensive whenever its identity is questioned – because deep down, it senses its own fragility. Deep down, it knows it survives only through constant reinforcement, like a flame requiring continuous fuel.
And, beloved ones, this is why human beings are so easily disturbed by criticism, rejection, failure, aging or loss – because these things threaten the image they have built about themselves. They threaten the continuity of the story called ’me’.

Have you noticed how quickly identity changes according to circumstance? One moment, a person feels great because someone praised him. The next moment, he feels worthless because someone criticized him. One moment, he feels successful because society admires his achievements. The next moment, he feels empty because someone else appears more accomplished. If identity were truly solid, such fluctuations would not be possible.
But the ego is not a stable reality. It is psychological movement pretending to be permanence. It is memory pretending to be essence. It is thought pretending to be being.

And because thought itself changes every moment, the ego must continuously struggle to maintain the illusion of consistency. This struggle exhausts humanity deeply. People are not only tired from physical work, they are tired from maintaining identity every moment. They are tired from defending opinions, protecting self-images, managing impressions, trying to appear valuable in the eyes of others. The whole machinery of ego requires immense energy because it is fundamentally artificial.
Beloved ones, watch carefully how society strengthens this illusion continuously.

~ Osho

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What are you crying about?

At the same moment when I see this stuff, my heart hurts. But you don’t protect your heart from breaking, because a broken heart is like cracking a shell to let the deeper heart come forth. 

Cultivating a compassionate heart is like the monk who is crying because his son has died, and his student comes up and says, “What are you crying about? You know it is all illusion.” The monk replies, “Yes, but the death of a son is the greatest illusion.”

You don’t close off your humanity, but if you don’t find balance within that humanity you’ll burn out. If you don’t balance your humanity you end up putting armor around your heart, and if you armor your heart you’ll starve to death; that’s why you burn out, because you’re not getting fed.

If you are going to be free, your freedom means that you do not avert your eyes from anything, in yourself or in anyone else.

– Ram Dass

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The silent flute

I wish neither to possess,
Nor to be possessed.
I no longer covet paradise,
More important, I no longer fear hell.

The medicine for my suffering
I had within me from the very beginning,
But I did not take it.
My ailment came from within myself,
But I did not observe it
Until this moment.

Now I see that I will never find the light
Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel,
Consuming myself.

– Bruce Lee

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When you act like a fool, then you’re a fool

To you who say that your body, just as it is, is already Buddha

When you, inseparable from Buddha, put Buddha’s activity into practice – only then are you a Buddha. And when you act like a fool, then you’re a fool.

It’s only in your approach to life that Buddha appears.

A person who puts a buddha’s actions into practice is called a Buddha.

Any buddha that humans have thought up isn’t a Buddha.

When we say Buddha is unlimited, it means that he’s beyond any fixed form. It isn’t a measurement of his size.

Buddha is sharp-witted, cheerful, and free of attachment. Nevertheless, lots of people these days think that Buddha is dreary and unlucky.

– Kodo Sawaki, ’To You’

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A little secret

I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. The reality in back of the universe is Pure Awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.

It’s in the silence that your problems just dissolve. Try it. It really works.

When you sit in the silence, it will come to you. You will see how the body came to be, and how the body goes, and a new body comes to be, and a new body goes. But you are alive. The real You persists. Nothing can ever destroy it. Water cannot drown it. Fire cannot burn it. Whatever happens to the body in this world cannot eliminate the ’I am’. It has nothing to do with your age, or whether you’re well or sick, or rich or poor. It is the Self. It has always been and it will always be. It is YOU.

Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere, at any time. What appears to be wrong is simply your own false imagination. That’s all.

~ Robert Adams