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    Grace is everything.
    Grace is another name
    for what we are.
    Grace is indefinable,
    the ever-perfect, timeless.
    It is that in which
    the apparent timeful plays
    as names and forms
    in their brief dance as life.
    We are the experience and
    simultaneously the witness
    of this experience.
    Grace is that which calls you
    away from the chaos,
    away from the noise of the world.
    Grace is the same as peace,
    but there is no peacekeeper
    nor anyone being silent.
    Grace is the breath of the Self.

    ~ Mooji


    "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." ~ George Harrison

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    .......
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    If you think you know something, then you don't know anything. And if you think, and realise you don't anything, then you have become aware of your ignorance, which is a good amount of wisdom to start your path

    But the moment you think you have learned something and have become wiser, by understanding your ignorance, then just right there you have betrayed yourself, and become ignorant again, you are nothing but someone who doesn't know anything about anything, once again

    You never know things, you are, but if you think "Now i know these things, i have grown" then you are fool and know nothing

    Your path next and from here, is to figure out how stupid you are, and fail so much that you will hate your ignorance for several years. Then you will know things, unless you think you know things

    -

    And with that i was let free from my studies and left to wander on my own around life

    I'm a very stupid and ignorant person since then
    Tired

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    Something very important i forgot to quote is this

    Final words to me where

    "The constant problem with you, is that you think, you always think too much, you are so dumb that you always have to think about things"

    LMFAO! Self explaining it is
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    IF YOU THINK YOU KNOW...YOU DON'T KNOW - Nisargadatta Maharaj - Shower of Grace Part Five - lomakayu

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    Quote Posted by Mashika (here)
    Something very important i forgot to quote is this

    Final words to me where

    "The constant problem with you, is that you think, you always think too much, you are so dumb that you always have to think about things"

    LMFAO! Self explaining it is
    Think too little
    Think too much

    The constant is thought (from pillar to post)


    All manifestation, boiled down, is thought (bubble).

    No thought, no nothing.

    A lot of thought went into reality, it seems.

    Postmodern tree of life (+/-) ?


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    Perfect Brilliant Stillness

    Page 162.

    When you are given the unspeakable grace, the unbelievable, undeserved, unearned gift, of being able to see, to notice, what you are thinking is an opinion, or is something by which you identify yourself, the gift of being able to listen to yourself, then stop.
    Honour the gift by stopping. And let it drop. The opinion. Let it drop.
    The bit of identity contained in every statement about yourself, every comment, involving yourself, let it drop. Every question coming from yourself Let it drop.
    Let the grace of this moment of catching yourself; having an opinion, talking as an I;
    L et that grace stop you.

    Im spending time reading this book and listening to the Audio.
    David has some humour, which I enjoy.
    He does not waver --there is no we in One. --no other.
    The mind can not take this in.
    Chris

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    .
    Walking off into the forest .... there I become the forest. Immersion of my awareness into blue... & there I become a single drop and also the entire ocean. Casting my eye into the universe too, of course this feels like home too, since we are nothing if not star dust as well.

    To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. -Lao Tzu

    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

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    What Is Our True Self? — Let’s Find Out

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    Mike Conners -- Free Will and Enlightenment


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    THE ULTIMATE MEDICINE - PART TWO - Nisargadatta Maharaj - lomakayu


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    MASTERING THE ART OF BEING AWAKE AND BEING HUMAN
    The true spiritual journey, especially in today’s world, requires each of us to become a master. It is no longer enough to seek the master, to sit at the feet of the guru, to worship an external authority. You must become the master!
    The master is both Zorba the Greek and Buddha the Enlightened — a “Zorba the Buddha.” A master can dance on the razor’s edge of having realized their true nature as unshakable consciousness and yet be fully immersed in a shaky world. A master knows “I am not the body” and yet can function as a body. A master has transcended the ego-self and yet has a sense of self — because without a self, how could he or she function in the three-dimensional world? Without a sense of self, you wouldn’t be able to communicate, or cross the road, or go shopping (or hunting) for your food — you wouldn’t survive.
    So how can you be IN the world, but not OF the world?
    This question is profound. The solution isn’t something you can learn with some methods, by doing a few workshops. To be in the world but not of the world requires a profound inquiry.
    It means being willing to listen to yourself from a deeper place — to listen from that place in yourself that is deeper than the acquisitive mind. The acquisitive mind wants to get somewhere, wants to know, wants to grasp, wants to possess, wants to take ownership of its experience. When we don’t truly know ourselves, we believe ourselves to be that voice inside the acquisitive mind — the voice that wants to be safe, that wants to be secure. On a functional level — you could also call it on an animal level — we need to be safe and secure. But on a psychological level, this need for safety and security prevents us from knowing our true awake nature.
    To listen from that deeper place in you requires such a letting-go, such a willingness to stop giving your allegiance to the voice that drives the acquisitive mind. If you are to live fully awake and fully human, you are required to look within and ask what stands in the way of unclenching the ego’s grip on life. Can you tell the truth about your suffering? Can you be honest with yourself about how you fight with your experience, how you make an enemy of your thoughts and your feelings, how you reject and suppress and run away from what you don’t like or want? Can you see how, by listening to the acquisitive mind, you are reifying a divided self? Can you see that it’s not your experience that causes your suffering, but your rejection of the experience?
    And then can you go a little deeper — by asking yourself if you are truly willing to stop rejecting your experience, to stop dividing life into good and bad, to stop making an enemy out of what is here? Because only if you are truly willing to end the war within can you start to wake up out of egoic identity and the dream of separation.
    To wake up is to derive no identity from circumstance or experience, and yet to be fully engaged with the human experience. When a living inquiry arises in you — because your deepest longing is to know the peace that is always here whether life’s going your way or not — the awakeness of your true nature starts to shine through all circumstances and experiences. This awakeness is a presence that brings you into deep intimacy with life. And only when you are fully intimate with life can there be a real richness to your earthly life.
    When you can surf the waves of the human experience — neither spiritually bypassing nor drowning in the mess of it — you become a master of life. What really happens is that the acquisitive mind steps down from its self-appointed position as master. It stops being the one that rules how you operate in life, the one that tortures you, that torments you with endless narratives of rights and wrongs. It’s as if this false master dies because you stop feeding it with your allegiance. When you stop believing the voice of this false master to be true, when you stop mistaking yourself for this voice, its role as the “controller of your life” dies — and it falls back into its rightful place. It dies as the tight knot of self, and it falls open into its true nature as being.
    In falling open, mind transforms into the servant of that which is true. Now you are the master — not as someone who replaces the controller as another “supreme ruler,” but as one who has mastered the art of being awake and being human.
    There’s no passivity in falling open — you’re not just “going with the flow,” floating downstream sleepily. On the contrary, there is poised receptivity — alertness, vigilance, presence, openness. You are right here, unmoving, unshakeable, and yet able to respond to any situation in a nanosecond. You have become a master of life, fully vibrating with aliveness — neither abdicating responsibility nor using your will to overpower life. There is elegance, grace, and a great power in this.
    ~ Amoda Maa

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    "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." ~ George Harrison

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    Suspicions,

    Enlightenment,

    Like grains of sand....



    Neti Neti
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    God knows nothing. Why?
    Because there is nothing independent of God.
    There is nothing apart from Truth to know.
    You must hear and feel my words not merely as words
    but as spirit and truth.
    Therefore, listen with full attention and inside your Heart,
    because this is not merely a mental exercise.
    Actually, the mind gets exorcised by the Master’s words.
    The Buddha’s words are direct, timeless, immediate.
    My words must resonate.
    In the search for Truth, resonance is the fastest
    and highest way.
    Through synchronicity, everything is assimilated
    very easily, like a natural osmosis.
    Just you are.
    This knowledge is the goal of all earnest striving.
    ‘I am’—there is nothing apart to report.
    You just quietly and joyfully merge inside your own ocean
    and what emerges out of that absorption
    is a book the world has not yet read.
    The book is writing itself in its very unfolding.
    The author and the book are One.

    ~ Mooji


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    Hi Guys,

    It's been a while.

    Do not extinguish life fires. Handle them with care and use them in constructive ways.

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    Good to see you
    Love Chris
    Be kind to all life, including your own, no matter what!!

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    It's good to see you again, Guish.
    "When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." ~ George Harrison

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    Quote Posted by greybeard (here)
    Good to see you
    Love Chris
    Hi Bro,

    Good to see you too. I have been very busy with the good stuff. I have good news to share. I will be an ordained Zen buddhist in a couple of weeks.

    Much love,
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    It's good to see you again, Guish.
    We always return to the source. Isn't it?
    Good to see you too.
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