Let me remind you again.

Do not try to change your thoughts, or to

change your life style, or to work on your bad habits, or to try to
remove fear, and the rest of it. Rather you lift your vision high, to the
highest, by following the I-thought to its source. And one day you will
discover something interesting. Your body will appear to melt, to
dissolve. The world, the universe will appear to dissolve. Your God will
appear to dissolve. Everything you stood up for, everything you have
believed in, all of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, will
dissolve. And you will find yourself as omnipresence, all-pervading
consciousness. You will discover that you've always been the ultimate
reality, ultimate oneness. You are the 'I' am. You are free.
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The fastest way to quiet the mind is to search for the 'I', because the 'I'
is the mind. And when you discover that the 'I' is the Self there is no
more mind. Then you have transcended the mind automatically. That's
the easiest way.
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Recognize the natural silence of your own Self. Silence is not a behavior.
Silence is not a practice. It is the natural perfume of being. Trying to be
still is not stillness. Find that stillness inside, which simply Is. There is no
one to practice it. It can only be recognized. It is here. It is not hiding. It
is not hurried. Simply stop identifying with the past, future, present or
with any self image. Be open to being nothing. No thing. So that
internally you are simply like a space. But this is not an inert space, but
a space full of aliveness. Still don't define yourself as aliveness. Don't
define yourself at all. Simply remain in natural self-attention.
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You have to keep asking yourself this, over and over again, "What is
reality? What is consciousness? What am I doing here?" Find out. Spend
periods in the silence, where you observe your breath, where you watch
your thoughts, do this as often as you can. Never react to the world no
matter what it shows you. Dive deep within the Self.
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Actually the human body cannot keep silent. There's something else
that enters the silence. It has nothing to do with your humanity. It's
only after years perhaps of meditation in previous lives, that you can be
mature enough to really know what this path is all about. When I give
you these practices, it's not for you as a human being. You appear to be
able to go through it as a human being, but I can assure you your
humanity has nothing to do with it. When you enter the silence you
enter a profound peace, bliss consciousness, pure awareness. That's what
the silence is. It's not being quiet. It's beyond that. It's not just quieting
your mind, like I say all the time. It's understanding that there's no
mind to quiet. When you realize there's no mind, you automatically
become silent. When you still think you've got a mind, you make every
effort to quiet the mind, and you can't. How many of you believe you
can quiet the mind through effort? You can't do that. It's not the effort
that makes you quiet your mind. It's the intelligent understanding that
you have no mind to begin with. Then you just keep still and everything
takes care of itself.
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If you have no mind, then everything is no problem. So if you want to
take away suffering, you must take away mind, which means cutting
your attachment to thinking. When you practice hard and keep a great
don't-know, you see that you already have no mind. Already having no
mind, why would you possibly need sutras? Why would you need
dharma speeches and explanation? If you are not sick, why eat
medicine? If you have no mind then sutras are not necessary, dharma
speeches are not necessary, Buddha's teachings are not necessary,
everything is not necessary.
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When the words are spoken, there is silence. When the relative is over,
the absolute remains. The silence before the words were spoken, is it
different from the silence that comes after? The silence is one and
without it the words could not have been heard. It is always thereat
the back of the words. Shift your attention from words to silence and
you will hear it.
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Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop
being what you are not. Because we wish to keep hold of our
attachments. Freedom is to be free of attachments and the main
attachment is to the 'I'-self.
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See what you're doing now. You're thinking. That spoils it. Learn to stay
without thought. Even if for a few seconds. It's hard isn't it. This is the
reason you have to ask yourself, "To whom do these thoughts come?"
It's only a modality to cause you to stop thinking.
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Watchfulness is the magic: it makes everything from your mind
disappear, and leaves you in utter silence and stillness. From that
stillness arises the feel of your being and the being of the whole universe.
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When I look beyond the mind, I see the witness. Beyond the witness,
there is infinite intensity of emptiness and silence
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When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of
thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.
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To know that you are a prisoner of your mind, that you live in an
imaginary world of your own creation is the dawn of wisdom. To want
nothing of it, to be ready to abandon it entirely, is earnestness.
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The one thing you are looking for, the one thing you truly want, is the
one thing that can never, ever appear. That is why so many people I've
met over the years are so exhausted, burnt out, at the end of their
spiritual tether. They are seeking something they cannot find, but
continue to seek anyway, in the vain hope that one day 'it' will appear...
What you seek is what you truly are. Your true Self - the One you want
- can never appear to you, it can never be a 'thing' for you, an 'object'
to have and to hold, for there cannot be two of you. One seeker and
one sought is already one too many. Break up from this false
relationship. Simplify, simplify.
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Words and questions come from the mind and hold you there. To go
beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence;
silence and peace this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions.
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Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand relax.
If you relax it comes. If you relax it is there.
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When a thought is powerful, it is because it has a lot of belief in it. At a
certain point, thoughts become irrelevant. When they are irrelevant,
the Self fully reveals itself in this moment.
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Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there
is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through
thought.
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The correct understanding will be when you realise that whatever you
have understood so far, is invalid.
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Just as space in a room is not affected by how much furniture is in the
room so space is not affected by activity or by mind or by thought. You
are Space, do not touch the furniture in this space, which means keep
quiet, do not mentate, do not activate thoughts. If thoughts arise allow
them to come and go, but don't hold on to them or let them land. Do
not touch "I am the body." Instead the first and last thought must be, "I
am pure infinite Consciousness, I am Love itself."
~~~
All you have to do is witness the disappearance of a single thought. Stay
there with open attention and witness the space that is left.
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Beyond the moving mind, there is the background of awareness, which
does not change.
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Awareness is that which knows your thoughts right now. It's that which
remains present and alert when you give thought a pause for 2-5
seconds as well. It is the space for all experiences to be known by, and
appear within. It is also Free and unbindable by any experience
whatsoever.
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The mind, body and world wake and sleep in Me, the light of pure
Knowing, but I never wake or sleep in them.
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I am nothing at all. I am delightfully nothing, timelessly nothing,
joyfully nothing, exquisitely nothing and yet none of this can exist
without me.
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Are you the author of your thoughts?
Or in other words, can you create a thought before you are aware of
it?
Are you in control of your body?
Thoughts are not a problem. Thinking that thoughts is the problem.
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Dont interfere. Dont fix anything. Watch! Observe!
What you judge you cannot understand.
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You are what exists before all stories.
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Eyes cannot see you. You are the source of sight.
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You are here. You are not the one who will go and come. Let what
you're suffering from go and come, not you. You stay put.
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Can't you simply be silent, not doing anything at all - not on the
intellectual level, not on the physical level, not on the emotional level -
doing nothing at all, just being there, utterly quiet? And then you will
be possessed by truth. And the only way to know truth is to be
possessed by it.
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The light of seeing-knowing shines everywhere. Nothing can block this
light, not even ignorance.
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We are so powerful that we can actually create the illusion of forgetting
that we created the illusion of forgetting!! We create the idea of no-
free-will out of sheer free will, and are able to do it to such a degree
where we don't even see that we did that anymore. That's how free
and powerful we are. God can convince himself that he isn't god. The
creator can convince himself that he is a victim of creation. How
beautiful.
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Don't move. Just die over and over. Don't anticipate. Nothing can save
you now because you have only this moment. Not even enlightenment
will help you now because there are no other moments. With no future,
be true to yourself and express yourself fully. Don't move.
~~~
In reality there is only the source, dark in itself, making everything
shine. Unperceived, it causes perception. Unfelt, it causes feeling.
Unthinkable, it causes thought. Non-being, it gives birth to being. It is
the immovable background of motion. Once you are there, you are at
home everywhere.
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You can become aware that you are like the screen in the movie. You
cannot see the screen, you see the images on the screen. Yet the images
are not real. If you try to grab them, you grab the screen. Just
contemplating this helps. And then you realize that you are like the
screen, that is your real nature, and all the images in the universe are
superimposed upon you, just as the images of the movie are
superimposed on the screen.
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To remain without thought in the waking state is the greatest worship.
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"You" can never be lost. What can be lost is your way of thinking about
yourself, your identity with limitation. It is the conditioned mind that
says, "I'm lost." Let mind be lost. Lose your mind. Lose your mind inside
your Heart.
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The only way you will ever awaken is through the silence, not through
analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through
simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the
dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.
~~~
Everybody is invited to this bonfire. Throw all your questions. Throw all
the answers as well. Throw all your cares. Have that much courage. Say
I have no time for answers anymore. Put everything into this fire. And
do it now also. This is the instant way. Throw everything now. No
practice, No philosophy. But who can do it, you see? Be willing to be
completely empty. Don't even be a woman or a man. Don't be a seeker.
Don't be anything. Don't say any more prayers. Don't chant any more
mantras. Don't go on any more pilgrimages. Leave everything, because
up until now even your seeking is an avoidance, another excuse of your
mind not to discover the ever-present truth. Our minds want to say a
lot about truth. But nothing it says is true. You are here before the
mind. You know it's ways. This is why I say throw everything in the fire
right now. It seems very drastic, my words, but they are totally
powerful. Why keep walking around with the mind on your back? Put
him down and walk away free.
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The ego needs some problems. If you understand this, in the very
understanding the mountains become molehills again, and then the
molehills also disappear. Suddenly there is emptiness, pure emptiness all
around. This is what enlightenment is all about a deep understanding
that there is no problem.
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The darkness, the void, the space that the mind is terrified to enter, is
the beginning of all life. It's the womb of being. Fall in love with it, and
when you do, it will immediately be taken from you, as you witness the
birth of light. The Tao doesn't take sides. It embraces both the dark and
the light. They're equal.
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Just be a witness of all those emotions, thoughts, which you call the
cyclone. Just be a witness, and that point of witnessing is the center of
the cyclone. This is the simplest method to realize oneself.
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We are actually experiencing the Reality only; still, we do not know it.
Is it not a wonder of wonders? Reality is simply the loss of the ego. The
quest "Who am I?" is the axe with which to cut off the ego.
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There is a vast treasure within all of us, this is where we must look for
our sustenance.
It is like the root that sustains and supports the tree.
That root is where the tree has to look for its support.
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There is a vast treasure within all of us.
This is our true nature and it is like the root that sustains and supports
a tree.
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Voc como o espao vazio no qual o vento sopra.
A natureza do vento mover-se de um lugar para o outro, mas o
espao infinito e quieto e, sendo infinito, incapaz do menor
movimento.
No pode haver vento sem espao, mas pode haver espao sem vento.
O espao no perturbado pela atividade do vento, nem uma brisa
suave, nem um furaco o afetam em absoluto.
Similarmente, voc, o Ser, ilimitado e imvel como o espao, mas voc
se identifica com os movimentos da mente-vento brincando dentro de
voc, e se esquece da sua verdadeira natureza.
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