De flesta inser detta, men vi gör ändå allt för att undvika det.
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
– Carl Jung
Vi kan förstå sökandet efter något större än oss själva – vi kan också läsa in något som inte finns. Vi gör alla vårt eget val, i sökandet efter vår andliga pingvin.. 🐧
Obs, ironi. Jag myser av att höra Werner Herzog, men internet svämmar över av andliga pingviner.
Krishnamurti hade ett blixtrande skarpt intellekt. Han menade att för att nå självkännedom så krävs relationer. Detta är spegeln, allt du är framstår i mötet.
Men se också vad det kan mynna ut i. Vi ska inte stanna. Fortsätt till sann självkännedom: ”Negating without resistance this content of consciousness is the beauty and compassion intelligence.”
Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. — Krishnamurti
Context: Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. Even in a monastery, you are related to the society which has made the monastery as an escape, or closed the doors to freedom. The movement of behaviour is the sure guide to yourself; it is the mirror of your consciousness. This mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and the sorrow. Poverty lies in the running away from this, either in its sublimations or in its identities. Negating without resistance this content of consciousness is the beauty and compassion intelligence.
From The Beauty of Life: Krishnamurti’s Journal
Right now, if you leave all of your past – if you forget your father, your parents, your family, your religion, your country, all which is accidental – if you forget all that is accidental and just remain with yourself here and now, then who are you? No name will come to your consciousness, no form – just a simple awareness that you are. You won’t be able to say who you are.
You will simply say, ”I am.”
You are a simple consciousness, a pure mind, an innocent mirror. Right now, this very moment, you are. Who are you? Just a simple awareness that ”I am.” Even the ”I” is not needed. The deeper you move, the more you will feel just ”am-ness,” existence.
Osho: Vigyan Bhairav Tantra v1.38
Vi kan ge upp oss själva; verkligen förlora vad som gör oss till dem vi är. Inom shamanismen benämns det som själsförlust. I psykologin som en emotionell paralys och dissociation. Traumat tar över och förstenar själen.
Vi måste aldrig ge upp oss själva. Alltid söka efter frid, även när smärtan känns som den aldrig skall ta slut.
In mythology, tears are often supposed to have a redeeming and healing effect. If you have ever dealt with people who have become petritied by suffering, you know how redeeming it is if they can cry. Once a person reaches a certain climax of suffering, very often he or she cannot cry or break down anymore. They simply harden in horror. And then there is danger ahead.
Marie-Louise Von Franz, Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales
The three decisions that control your destiny are:
- Your decisions about what to FOCUS on.
- Your decisions about what things MEAN to you.
- Your decisions about what to DO to create the results you desire.
-Tony Robbins
(Bilden är en AI robots inspiration av citatet ovan)
Vi kan inte motstå en tanke om vi på något sätt interagerar med den. Inte ens om vi försöker ignorera den. Allt vi försöker, gör den starkare.
This is the hardship.
The collected grief in life
the chains I drag behind me
just a ghost story.The pain that amounts to nothingness.
The guilt, the pride, the anger.
The glowing red fist that I would not let go.This is the belly laugh of a mad dream
I’ve hold onto air
all fine actually.It’s not even broken dreams.
Just the story I’ve given it.
It has served its value, it needs to go.You really don’t hold on to anything.
It’s just the story you’ve given it.
trying to hold on to nothingness.
Vi hittar inte ut från våra tankar. Det är en loop som pågår i all oändlighet. Det är en falsk tro att det på något sätt går att tänka sig ur tankeprocessen. På så sätt går livet vidare mellan glädje och sorg, hopp och lidande.
Now I know there’s no easy ride.
I omedvetenhet är detta det normala. Det är en del av livet. En dans som tillsynes är slumpartad men som faktiskt leder oss framåt. Genom livskriser och insikter vi får till oss på olika sätt. Föds en längtan efter något mer.
Q: We are like animals, running around in vain pursuits and there seems to be no end to it. Is there a way out?
Nisargadatta: Many ways will be offered to you which will but take you round and bring you back to your starting point.
First realise that your problem exists in your waking state only, that however painful it is, you are able to forget it altogether when you go to sleep.
When you are awake you are conscious; when you are asleep, you are only alive.
Consciousness and life — both you may call God; but you are beyond both, beyond God, beyond being and not-being.
What prevents you from knowing yourself as all and beyond all, is the mind based on memory.
It has power over you as long as you trust it; don’t struggle with it; just disregard it. Deprived of attention, it will slow down and reveal the mechanism of its working. Once you know its nature and purpose, you will not allow it to create imaginary problems.Q: Surely, not all problems are imaginary.
There are real problems.Nisargadatta: What problems can there be which the mind did not create?
