Enlightenment: The Ego, what is it? How to transcend it.

[Wind]

"Anyone who is susceptible to beauty in music or place has a spiritual path ready-made for him."

"When one's love for another is of the highest type and leads to an expansion of understanding, compassion, and tolerance of others, he has glimpsed the greater purpose of personal love: how the surrender of his heart may lead to its opening to, and becoming united with, Universal Love."

Ever-present reality

"The Overself is here and now and always. It is everywhere and nowhere. It is the ever-present Reality. You must hold to that as the key thought. If you keep on thinking only in the human and intellectual way, you limit your progress. To develop your intuition is to transcend intellect. You will have to know yourself finally through your intuition and not alone through your intellect. At this very moment in your inner mind, if you wish, there is THAT which is the ever-present witness and which is the ONE. That means it is present in all the multitudes of separate selves, but itself is only one. It exists always in a state of perfect harmony, undisturbed. It is like the deep body of the ocean. The waves and the foam and the froth make a tremendous noise on the surface, but deep down all is still." - Paul Brunton

"All aspirations, battles and victories are confined to the realm of the waking and dream states only, which is the realm of dynamic consciousness.

Pervading and yet beyond the waking state and its activities lies unborn awareness, our true Self.

Know that whatever happens in life, the final point: Everything is fine, all is fine!" ♥

~ Mooji

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tLDYHRWXzDQ

[Wind]

You are God's present being unwrapped.
Don't identify with the paper.

~ Mooji

[Wind]

Surrender is necessary

"Lose yourself if you would find yourself," said Jesus. Lose the false conception that the self is something by itself, able to stand separate and alone, capable of being regarded as an object knowable by you, the subject. Let this untruth go, and you will find the truth. Cease this identification with the personality, and you will find the Overself."

"It is a matter of changing his self-image, of moving over from the picture of a personal ego to the non-attempt to form any image at all, remaining quite literally free from any identification at all. It is not an active work of negating ego but a passive one of simply being, empty Being! For the ego will always strive to preserve itself, using when it must the most secret ways, full of cunning and pretense, camouflage and deceit. It takes into itself genuinely spiritual procedures and perverts or misuses them for its own advantage."

- Paul Brunton

[Wind]

I feel like a gardener who is now maintaining this garden (thread) now, I hope that it is okay Chris. These daily quotes give so much inspiration and I wish to share them with you all.

There is an innocence in you that all the Saints and Prophets of all times and of all religions, are tirelessly pointing to. It is perfect and can never be lost.

Though for many it appears to be hidden, it can never be altered or destroyed,
for there is nothing apart from Itself.

It can only appear to be masked by the belief in personal identity and conditioning.
Through the urge for real understanding, the false is now being exposed, undone and replaced by the truth.

Come to this Altar with a heart of full devotion and openness.
Offer up yourself in service to the imperishable and keep quiet.

~ Mooji

[greybeard]

Wind I am delighted that you are maintaining the thread.
I no longer have the responsibility of looking for material to post or looking after it.
Not that in reality I ever had to.
May this garden continue to flourish.
1500 visits this week.

Much love
Chris

[Wind]

Two views on individuality

"The essence of his human personality is a divine individuality."
"The "I" of the ego is supported by the "I" of the spiritual being, the spiritual self. Indeed the first derives its reality from the second and the second survives when the first passes away."

"The personal ego has its singularities and particularities, its present aims and past memories, its life within time, its own temperament and special characteristics. All this amounts to this: it is unique. The individuality is the highest, subtlest, and finest, even divinest part of being. It is out of time. It is pure essence, the other is a compounded entity. For it the hours do not pass; for the other there is a constant sequence, a moment-to-moment existence. Sometimes men catch a glimpse of it, this other self which is really their own best self and which is not something to be attained by a progression since it is forever present. It does not have or need thoughts. Every moment which they give to identifying themselves with it is their salvation. If this takes one far from kith and kin, from all speech with all persons, it also carries him into a diviner relationship and communication with them."

~ Paul Brunton

[greybeard]

Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden - two intellectual power houses interviewed together

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=INLi9DfT7rg

[Wind]

"A mind filled with thoughts about things, persons, and events, with desires, passions, and moods, with worries, fears, and disturbances, is in no fit condition to make contact with that which transcends them all. It must first be quietened and emptied."

"Wrong personal intention may be negated by right intuitive guidance, but it is not easy to recognize the latter as such. The difference between a mere impulse and a real intuition may often be detected in two ways: first, by waiting a few days, as the subconscious mind has then a chance to offer help in deciding the matter; second, by noting the kind of emotion which accompanies the message. If the emotion is of the lower kind, such as anger, indignation, greed, or lust, it is most likely an impulse. If of the higher kind, such as unselfishness or forgiveness, it is most likely an intuition."

"To arrive at a simultaneous consciousness of both states--the personal ego and the impersonal Overself--is possible, and has been done intermittently by some people such as mystics and artists--or permanently by philosophers."

- Paul Brunton

[Shadowman]

The realization of enlightenment, or buddhahood, is difficult. And it is also not difficult. It is difficult if you start looking for it. It is not difficult if you simply sit down, settling within yourself in calmness, quietness, being just purely aware.

Then you are the buddha, then you are the enlightenment. It is not that you become enlightened, it is not your becoming. It is your very being, it is you in your simplest, spontaneous nature.

Enlightenment is your self-nature. - "Bodhidharma" by Osho

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hl545RF6dXA

In Lak'ech
tim

[Guish]

Posted by tim (here)
The realization of enlightenment, or buddhahood, is difficult. And it is also not difficult. It is difficult if you start looking for it. It is not difficult if you simply sit down, settling within yourself in calmness, quietness, being just purely aware.

Then you are the buddha, then you are the enlightenment. It is not that you become enlightened, it is not your becoming. It is your very being, it is you in your simplest, spontaneous nature.

Enlightenment is your self-nature. - "Bodhidharma" by Osho

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hl545RF6dXA

This reminds me of one of Bill's interviews. While meditating, one doesn't evolve but one goes back to one's own nature. It's about going back and not forward.

[Guish]

Posted by greybeard (here)
Bruce Lipton and Gregg Braden - two intellectual power houses interviewed together

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=INLi9DfT7rg

That was an excellent interview Chris. Thanks for that.

[Guish]

Inner struggle.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jk5i4GX1BJY

[greybeard]

Biology of Belief - by Bruce Lipton (full documentary)

BL: The new mechanism of evolution suggested by the new biology you describe in your book is one that
consists of repeating patterns of self-similarity; it is a pattern based upon fractal geometry*. The
significance of fractals is that they represent basic patterns that are iterated (repeated) over and over
again. If you can recognize a pattern at one level of the structure you can apply that awareness to
understand the patterns throughout the whole structure.
LG: Right, like the Fibonacci patterns** found in nature?
BL: Right, so basically the evolution of human civilization is self-similar the evolution of a single giant organism. We are *humans are the cells in that ' social' organism. The relevance is that human civilization will evolve through the phases that characterized the evolution of animals, Human civilization will go through evolutionary phases that are redundant to previous evolution patterns. For example, in
the evolution of vertebrate animals, the pattern provided for fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and
mammals, an evolutionary jump occurred between each of these major classes of organisms, Civilization
is in the process of such a jump now, as we are evolving from a reptilian-based civilization to a
mammalian-based civilization. The intellectual character of our culture's leadership is currently most
similar to that of reptilian behavior. And yet more advanced mammalian characters yourself and myself
are in the process of rewriting a new blueprint for civilization, different from the way we are living now.
Reptiles are 'conscious,' and do not express the trait of 'self-consciousness.' What that means is that
they live for the moment but they have no conception or vision about how their actions today affect
civilization tomoorow.

To read the whole interview please follow the link below.

http://www.brucelipton.com/files/theb...

http://www.brucelipton.com/biology-of...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jjj0xVM4x1I

[Guish]

Posted by greybeard (here)
Biology of Belief - by Bruce Lipton (full documentary)

BL: The new mechanism of evolution suggested by the new biology you describe in your book is one that
consists of repeating patterns of self-similarity; it is a pattern based upon fractal geometry*. The
significance of fractals is that they represent basic patterns that are iterated (repeated) over and over
again. If you can recognize a pattern at one level of the structure you can apply that awareness to
understand the patterns throughout the whole structure.
LG: Right, like the Fibonacci patterns** found in nature?
BL: Right, so basically the evolution of human civilization is self-similar the evolution of a single giant organism. We are *humans are the cells in that ' social' organism. The relevance is that human civilization will evolve through the phases that characterized the evolution of animals, Human civilization will go through evolutionary phases that are redundant to previous evolution patterns. For example, in
the evolution of vertebrate animals, the pattern provided for fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and
mammals, an evolutionary jump occurred between each of these major classes of organisms, Civilization
is in the process of such a jump now, as we are evolving from a reptilian-based civilization to a
mammalian-based civilization. The intellectual character of our culture's leadership is currently most
similar to that of reptilian behavior. And yet more advanced mammalian characters yourself and myself
are in the process of rewriting a new blueprint for civilization, different from the way we are living now.
Reptiles are 'conscious,' and do not express the trait of 'self-consciousness.' What that means is that
they live for the moment but they have no conception or vision about how their actions today affect
civilization tomoorow.

To read the whole interview please follow the link below.

http://www.brucelipton.com/files/theb...

http://www.brucelipton.com/biology-of...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jjj0xVM4x1I

Another excellent video. It reminds me of Louise L Hay. She battled her cancer by changing her beliefs. It goes back to what Budha said a long time ago. " we are what we think". I appreciate the scientific approach to explain the context. Thanks again, Chris.

[Guish]

Clarity of perception

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4U_hifd4VS4

[Wind]

God can never be close.
God can never be close because it would mean that there is some place where God is not.
God is infinite. We cannot exist outside of the infinite.
Therefore, God is our Reality.

~ Mooji

[Chester]

Posted by greybeard (here)
Wind I am delighted that you are maintaining the thread.
I no longer have the responsibility of looking for material to post or looking after it.
Not that in reality I ever had to.
May this garden continue to flourish.
1500 visits this week.

Much love
Chris

When I begin to feel a little lonely or blue, guess where I go?

This thread... yes...

this thread

[Guish]

Another Alan Watts lecture.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mMRrCYPxD0I

[Chester]

OK.... I can't help it -

"Wind!... you keep blowing me away!"

[Wind]

Chester, you sure are one funny fellow!

"It is the work of a lifetime to venture on such a great improvement of character as will place the lower self under our control, instead of our being controlled by it. We are likely to get disheartened at times by the seeming slowness of progress. This is partly because we are too apt to think in terms of this single incarnation only, whereas those who understand life's actual range think of it in terms of dozens and scores. Hence we have to learn a certain tolerant patience with ourselves, while at the same time maintaining an ardent aspiration for self-improvement and a critical attitude towards our weaknesses. This sounds contradictory but it is not really so. It is rather a matter of getting a proper balance between the two attitudes." - Paul Brunton

Here is a message from Mooji's Facebook page:

Dear Friends,

Sri Mooji and the sangha team are happy to share that we are currently working on a new book of quotes. As we focus on this new unfolding, we will be posting less frequently on Facebook for some time. Enjoy both the fresh quotes as they come in every few days as well as reflecting on those which have been posted daily over these past years.

Mooji embraces you in the Heart.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UjuibmVhY8g