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The sense of body is a thought

Devotee: The sleep state is the state when the mind is quiet. I consider it a worse state.
Maharshi: If that were so, why do all desire sleep?

Devotee: It is the body when tired that goes to sleep.
Maharshi: Does the body sleep?

Devotee: Yes. It is the condition in which the wear and tear of the body is repaired.
Maharshi: Let it be so.
But does the body itself sleep or wake up? You yourself said shortly before that the mind is quiet in sleep. The three states are of the mind.

Devotee: Are they not states of the soul functioning through the senses, etc.?
Maharshi: They are not of the soul or of the body. The soul remains always
uncontaminated. It is the substratum running through all these three states. Wakefulness passes off, I am;
the dream state passes off, I am;
the sleep state passes off, I am.
They repeat themselves, and yet I am.
They are like pictures moving on the screen in a cinema show.
They do not affect the screen.
Similarly also, I remain unaffected although these states pass off. If it is of the body, are you aware of the body in sleep?
Devotee: No.

Maharshi: Without knowing the body to be there how can the body be said to be in sleep?
Devotee: Because it is still found after waking up.

Maharshi: The sense of body is a thought; the thought is of the mind, the mind rises after the ‘I-thought’, the ‘I-thought’ is the root thought.
If that is held, the other thoughts will disappear. There will then be no body, no mind, not even the ego.
Devotee: What will remain then?
Maharshi: The Self in its purity.

– Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. Talk 244.
An Excerpt.

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All your relationships are mirrors

Walk in the marketplace like a buddha. Live in the world. The world is very enriching because relationship is a mirror. All relationships are mirrorlike. You see your face in the mirror of the other’s being. It is very difficult to see your own face directly – you will need the other, the mirror, to see your own face. And where can you find a better mirror than the eyes of the other?
Sometimes, look in the eyes of your enemy and you will see a facet of your being.

Sometimes look in the eyes of your lover, your friend, and you will see another facet of your being. Sometimes look in a person’s eyes who is indifferent to you and you will see yet another facet of your being.

Collect all these faces; they are yours, aspects of your being. In different situations, with different people, in different worlds, move and gather all this richness and awareness and alertness and consciousness. Then go back to the center and take all this awareness with you, and your ecstasy in the meditation will be deeper and richer for that.

– Osho

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Awareness of thinking

The practice of the Dhamma is such that you must come to this point where you know the knowing mind, awareness; being aware of your awareness.

Every practice must come to this point.

Knowing mind is the mind that knows the object, watching
mind or ‘one step up mind’ is the one that knows of both of them.

Most people don’t know the knowing mind and don’t get to the point where they can see the knowing mind that knows the object..
If you don’t see how the mind works, you don’t know how the
mind creates these concepts. Concepts are created by the mind.

If you do not see that the concept is created by the mind, you can’t stop it. (i.e. when we sit and we think that our bodies are going very big or very small and we don’t know that the mind is imagining this).

– Contemplation of the Mind, Cittanupassana,
Bhikku Khemavamsa

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Bhakti

If you surrender yourself to the Higher Power all is well. That Power sees your affairs through. Only so long as you think that you are the worker you are obliged to reap the fruits of your actions. If on the other hand, you surrender yourself and recognise your individual self as only a tool of the Higher Power, that Power will take over your affairs along with the fruits of actions. You are no longer affected by them and the work goes on unhampered.
Whether you recognise the Power or not the scheme of things does not alter. Only there is a change of outlook.

– Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 503

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Teaching the Dharma

How can we help others before we have tamed the negative forces hidden within ourselves?

Anyone who wants to teach the Dharma must first make it an integral part of his being; it would be no good just repeating the words, like a deaf musician playing tunes that, however beautiful, he cannot hear himself.

To receive the teachings, our motive should be a sincere aspiration to apply them to ourselves; if we are just trying to acquire something that we can teach to other people, like the music a beggar plays to get money, receiving teachings will be useful neither to ourselves nor to others.

It is equally wrong to collect knowledge of the Dharma for the sake of our own fame and importance. As the saying goes, Greater knowledge, greater pride; further from home, further from honesty.

How can we help others before we have tamed the negative forces hidden within ourselves? That would just be a joke, like a penniless beggar talking of feeding the whole village.

To secure the genuine welfare of others we must first perfect ourselves until we can emulate Patrul Rinpoche, who modestly claims he has no realization, yet whose whole being is saturated with the meaning of the Dharma.

– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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Renounciation

Sann verklighet (sat-cit-ananda) kan inte avstås. Insikten ska ske antingen via inquiry till självet. Eller genom surrender. Det senare är att ”dö” fortfarande i livet för de flesta.
(jivanmukti)

After we have renounced whatever
Can be renounced, That which abides,
And cannot be renounced, is
True Being shining in the Heart,
The fount, the flood of Bliss.

~ Guru Vachaka Kovai (Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi’s Teachings presented by Sri Muruganar)

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Meditation

Meditation is not what you think. You sit in absolute silence and your mind starts going over all your movies. During that process, you become so familiar with the scripts you keep in your life that you end up getting sick of them. Then you realize that the person you think you are is nothing but a complicated script you spend most of your energy on. After a more thorough examination, you discover your personality disgusts you.
And that’s because it’s not really you. If you feel terrified enough about that personality, you spontaneously allow it to fade away. And then, if you’re lucky, you can experience yourself without the distortion of that personality.

~ Leonard Cohen

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Projections of the mind

All our different activities are projections of the mind, created by our thoughts. If you follow these deluded thoughts, there will be no end to your mind being upset by delusion, just as when the wind blows over the surface of a lake, the crystal clarity of the water is masked by ripples. It is therefore important to control the mind by applying the view, meditation, and action, both in meditation and in postmeditation, for major situations and minor ones.

– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
from the book ”Zurchungpa’s Testament”

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Meditate in that endless solitude, in the beauty of that love

Meditate alone. Get lost. And don’t try to remember where you have been. If you try to remember it then it will be something that is dead. And if you hold on to the memory of it then you will never be alone again. So meditate in that endless solitude, in the beauty of that love, in that innocency, in the new; then there is the bliss that is imperishable.

— Krishnamurti