SoonHei

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  1. "I Am before the belief that I needed to remember myself or that I could forget myself was learnt." Mooji
  2. I realize that many of you are bhaktas, and I'm taking away your enjoyment. I'm taking away your God that you worship, be it in the form of Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Moses, whomever you like to worship. But I speak at many levels. As far as a Jnani is concerned it's virtually impossible for a God to exist, separate from yourself. But yet, such people as Nisargadatta Maharaj, Bhagvan Ramana Maharshi, and many other Jnanis did bhakti. Ramana used to pray to Shiva in the form of Arunachala. Nisargadatta also prayed to Shiva. So the question is, why did they do that? And the answer is, for the sake of others. To get to the stage where God does not exist for you any longer is a very high transcendental stage. I do not expect you bhaktas to give up your worship. As you know, on Sunday we have puja and we have chanting. To whom are we chanting? To Hari, to Ram, to Krishna. I must again tell you as long as you believe you are the doer, that you are the body and the mind do not fool yourself into thinking you're not, for if you weren't you wouldn't react the way you react to situations. So as long as you believe that things are real, then you have to pray to God, because God does exist for you. You can call God the law of karma. In reality karma does not exist. Yet how many of us have such reality? Therefore the best thing for you to do is to practice the Jnana practices, but keep doing your puja. Do not give it up. If you're doing japa, whatever practice you have, keep it up. But practice self-inquiry, and as you practice self-inquiry you will notice something very interesting happening to you. You will notice that little by little you begin to give up your worship, slowly but surely, until the day comes when you become the object of your worship. If you've been worshipping Krishna, you will see yourself as Krishna, and so forth. If you try to act like a Jnani before your time, you will have a lot of problems, for you will develop, "I don't give a damn" attitude, and that's not what we're talking about. I'll give you an idea of how a Jnani acts. There was once a Jnani who lived in a little shack on the mountain by himself. He was radiantly happy. He was coming back from his walk, and he saw some thieves breaking into his house. He crept up by the window to see what they would take, and of course he owned nothing. There was just a torn blanket on the floor. So the thieves started to curse, and one said to the other, "This guy has nothing here. Let's just take the blanket and leave." So they took the blanket. The next day he intuitively perceived that the two robbers were caught by the police, so he hurried down to the police station to see what would happen. And when the sergeant saw him he said, "Come in. Are these the men who stole from you?" And he said, "Yes." So the policeman asked him, "What did they take?" and he said, "They took my hat, and my shirt, and my pants, and my shoes." And the two thieves started screaming, "What a liar this man is. He didn't have anything. He just had a torn blanket." And the sergeant said, "Is this true?" The Jnani said, "When I put the blanket on my head it becomes my hat. When I put it around my shoulders it becomes my shirt. When I tie it around my waist it becomes my pants. And when I walk on it, it becomes my shoes." Of course the sergeant laughed and he said, "Shall I press charges?" and the Jnani said, "No." The two thieves became his disciples. The meaning of that story is, because you're a Jnani it doesn't mean you don't have compassion. A real Jnani has more love and compassion than anyone else, but it's not attached to anything, and he'll be the first one to run to somebody's aid, to help somebody. It sounds like a contradiction, but it's not. For while the Jnani carries a body, the body becomes under the Jnanis jurisdiction, and becomes an instrument for good in this world. Therefore you can never judge a Jnani, for you have no idea what a Jnani is or what he is. You can see a Jnani praying to God, just as ardently as a bhakta, yet the Jnani knows there is no God, but does it for the sake of others. So when I tell you there is no God, and there is no universe, and there is no world, and there are no people, there's only absolute reality, do not take it too seriously. See where you're coming from. Be true to yourself. Do not fool yourself. Whatever you're into, whatever you're going through, if you sit in the silence and practice self-inquiry, things will begin to stir within you. Things will begin to happen. You will find that your feelings change, your reaction changes, you become less selfish, you develop loving kindness, you understand what this universe is all about, and you are at peace. (long silence) Robert Adams, T65: What Is, Is God
  3. @Nak Khid So much has been written about this, but few seem to understand that this supposed Advaita ( Not 2) Siddhant ( philosophical conclusion) has come about due to the mis-translation of the word ‘Maya’ into English. This Sanskrit term does not translate squarely into English as ‘illusion’. There are subtleties to the meaning, which more correctly can be understood as: ‘That which is not’. Which refines the meaning from: the thing only seems to exist... to: that thing is indeed Real— but is not what I think it is. For Adi Shankara, the world is not an illusion— it is indeed real. But it is Maya. And Maya is also Real. It is an eternal power of Brahman (the Divine). It is the power which keeps the experience of the Divine obscured. That obscuration is also obviously indeed Real. So Maya is Real— not an illusion, which implies thinking something is there when it’s not. Well, It IS there!— but it’s not what we think it is. Based on this mis-translation of Sanskrit, the Neo Non Duality movement has been born. You dream at night is an illusion. But to put out an illusory fire you will to throw illusory water at it. Same way, to quench your illusory thirst you need to drink illusory water. Even though all is an illusion/dream there are still illusory/dream laws which uphold them. Just like i am answering your illusory question with this illusory answer. It can also be left unanswered but i am providing you with illusory water (the answer) for your illusory thirst (the question). What you're asking can be likened to the following: Why does a character in a movie go to lengths to resuce his kidnapped child if it's a movie/fake?
  4. Nothing Can Make You Happy Happiness is what results when there is no seeking. Happiness is the zero. It is the wave crashed back into the ocean. Happiness is what remains when there is no desire or fear. And happiness is what remains when there is nobody there. You are never happy. Whenever you are, there is happiness in the future. You are the raindrop on the windshield. The raindrop on the windshield is not the windshield. Happiness is windshield only. And only when there are no raindrops, there is the windshield. Until of course you recognize that you are never the raindrop and were always the windshield. Then raindrops or rainstorms cannot shake your happiness. Be the windshield. Be yourself. You don't become Happy... you ARE happiness itself.
  5. Stop focusing or listening to the thoughts. You don't think or choose to not think. Thinking happens and is known by you. Consider that you're sitting in a crowded place and are having a conversation with a person. You are focused soley on what that person is saying. There are others around you and your ears also hear their sound, but you're focused soley on the conversation with your friend. Same way, you will find that thoughts will continue... You cannot "stop thinking" But you can choose to focus instead on the silence instead of the thoughts. The thoughts/mind is tricky though and will try to lure your attention to itself. That's where practice comes into play. And yes. By doing this you will come to see that you are Enlightenment itself.
  6. You are not even a human being. You just are a point of awareness, coextensive with time and space and beyond both, the ultimate cause, itself uncaused. If you ask me: ‘Who are you?’ My answer would be: ‘Nothing in particular. Yet I am. • That which makes you think that you are a human is not human. It is but a dimensionless point of consciousness, a conscious nothing; all you can say about yourself is: ‘I am.’ You are pure being — awareness — bliss. To realise that is the end of all seeking. You come to it when you see all you think yourself to be as mere imagination and stand aloof in pure awareness of the transient as transient, imaginary as imaginary, unreal as unreal. It is not at all difficult, but detachment is needed. It is the clinging to the false that makes the true so difficult to see. Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the now. Eternity in time is mere repetitiveness, like the movement of a clock. It flows from the past into the future endlessly, an empty perpetuity. Reality is what makes the present so vital, so different from the past and future, which are merely mental. If you need time to achieve something, it must be false. The real is always with you; you need not wait to be what you are. Only you must not allow your mind to go out of yourself in search. When you want something, ask yourself: do I really need it? and if the answer is no, then just drop it. Nisargadatta Maharaj
  7. Exactly Just the discovery/knowing/being it. Like with the eyes. It's not that they find a way in the end to turn around and see themself... They just realize they are themself. A knife cannot cut itself.... Izzzyy izzzy babbyyyyyyyy
  8. @Raptorsin7 why it cannot be pointed to is kind of like how the eyes cannot see themselves or teeth cannot chew themselves or a scale cannot weigh itself. Can you tell me why teeth cannot chew themselves? Or why eyes cannot see themselves? Can you? No! You can't really explain that to someone... It needs to be understood/seen to be the case... That why teeth cannot chew themselves or eyes not seem themselves... Same way. It can't directly be explained/pointed to... And if some words are to be used... It is because non-dual truth is you! The guru is none other than you! And You cannot point to yourself just as the eye cannot see itself. Or a finger point at itself... You can only BE / KNOW you. So the guru (self) tells you (also self) that i cannot point at myself
  9. Fortunate is the man who does not lose himself in the labyrinths of philosophy, but goes straight to the source from which they all rise. • All metaphysical discussion is fruitless unless it causes us to seek within the self for the true reality. One can, and often does, go through numerous books, a whole library perhaps, and yet comes out without the faintest realization of what one is. Learning often renders a disservice, especially when it causes a person's ego and pride to develop; these prove to be serious obstacles to progress. Science is exploring the external universe, when it has not yet explored the self. Inventions are being made constantly, they will never cease as we can go on inventing one new thing after another. What is the use? All this is maya. Turn inwards and know your self first. All these notes you are making of my sayings and so on, are useful for beginners, for friends and to answer the questions of others. But for yourself, you know that they are only pieces of paper. Dive into the Self and find all you want to know there! All controversies about creation, the nature of the universe, evolution, the purpose of God etc, are useless. They do not lead to true happiness. People try to find out about things which are outside themselves before they try to find out 'Who am I?' Only by this means can they gain happiness - not by understanding the whole universe, for the self is happiness. Ramana Maharshi
  10. There are two ways of understanding an experience. The first is to compare it with the memories of other experiences, and so to name and define it. This is to interpret it in accordance with the dead and the past. The second is to be aware of it as it is, as when, in the intensity of joy, we forget past and future, let the present be all, and thus do not even stop to think, “I am happy. Alan Watts
  11. Robert Adams: You've got to do what you've got to do. But I'm speaking of the highest teaching. Where everything is taken care of. Look at Ramana again as an example. When he was a boy, he would have been dead, if it weren't for this mysterious power to take care of him. He just went into the jungle, went into a cave and sat there. He didn't know where his food was going to come from. He didn't even think about it, how he was going to take care of himself. It didn't enter his mind. He just sat motionless, for days, until a woman came up the hill and started to feed him. Student: But he was more or less born enlightened and we're just struggling. R.A.: Well I'm just speaking of the highest ideal. What I'm trying to tell you is that if you have trust and faith, there is a mysterious power that will take care of you and supply all you need.
  12. I laugh when I think how I once sought paradise as a realm outside of the world of birth. It is right in the world of birth and death that the miraculous truth is revealed. But this is not the laughter of someone who suddenly acquires a great fortune; neither is it the laughter of one who has won a victory. It is, rather, the laughter of one who; after having painfully searched for something for a long time, finds it one morning in the pocket of his coat. Thich Nhat Hanh
  13. Silence is meditation without mental activity. The inner silence is self-surrender and that means living without the sense of the ego. Silence comes into being when the individual is completely free from ego, when he surrenders himself totally to the Lord. • A devotee asked Ramana Maharshi: "Why do we need to meditate? I say it is "my mind" - then should it not listen to me and meditate by itself when I tell it to? Why does it keep running outside all the time?" Ramana Maharshi kept silent at that time. At about the same time, a squirrel had given birth in the ashram, and unfortunately a few days later the mother squirrel got eaten by a cat. Ramana Maharishi took the job of taking care of the baby squirrels. He kept them inside a cage that was kept in the mediation hall. After a few days when everyone was sitting in the meditation hall, the same cat came inside. It so happened that the baby squirrels rushed out of the cage at the same time. Ramana Maharishi got up hurriedly, caught all the baby squirrels one by one and put them back in the cage and locked the door firmly shut. He then turned to the devotee that had asked the above question and calmly said - "These poor little squirrels do not have the maturity to know the dangers of the outside world, that if it goes out, the cat will make a meal of them. When they get that maturity, they will go hide inside by themselves. Until they get the maturity, we have to keep putting them inside. It is the same thing with our mind. Our mind does not know that if it goes to the outside world, there is nothing but suffering. It keeps running out in ignorance. When it gets the maturity, it will go inside by itself. Until then, it is our job to put it inside with effort - which we do in meditation. Ramana Maharshi _____________________________________ Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think and of everything you do, is for yourself - and there isn't one. Wei Wu Wei
  14. @Nak Khid the body reacts in pain. Notice per the equation, pain is not reduced to zero. Only the resistance factor becomes zero which makes suffering zero. What you call "pain" remains... But without resistance, the pain would be no different than pleasure, baby ♥️?
  15. Suffering = pain multiplied by resistance When resistance variable is at zero. Suffering is zero.
  16. @Consilience only THIS But no limit or end to the clarity or the brightness THIS becomes
  17. That "I" is not you. Thought is stuck in thought loop