"Questions appear real for as long as you consider yourself to be a person.
When you realize you are the impersonal presence, all questions vanish."
Mooji
http://moojiblog.blogspot.ca/
One Self
There is only the one Self.
An unchanging, unmoving Silence.
It is not waiting.
And it is not contemplating.
It is not reflecting.
It is not inquiring.
It is not resting.
All this could be perceived as modes of the mind itself.
What is that which is not in gear?
It is not a state.
It is not in between states.
It is not the gap between thoughts.
It is not a gap.
It cannot be done or undone.
For Itself, there is no such thing as practice.
No such thing as contemplators, meditators or
attainers of It.
Hidden, yet nothing can hide It.
Revealed, yet nothing can see It.
Self-knowing, yet It is without knowledge.
Self-realised, yet It is without mind.
Blessing itself, yet It is beyond duality.
Being, yet It is beyond being.
Unfathomable, unconquerable, ungraspable.
Who or what is there?
Beyond sin and beyond righteousness.
It announces itself as the sense 'I am' inside the body.
But It is even beyond 'I' and beyond body.
Ungraspable, yet attention and the pure intellect
may recognise and acknowledge It.
Being revealed but it is not revealing.
Recognising Its all-pervasiveness, joy fills the Heart.
Intelligence dances.
Peace is very happy.
The universes prostrate themselves,
yet their Lord they cannot see.
Mooji
An unchanging, unmoving Silence.
It is not waiting.
And it is not contemplating.
It is not reflecting.
It is not inquiring.
It is not resting.
All this could be perceived as modes of the mind itself.
What is that which is not in gear?
It is not a state.
It is not in between states.
It is not the gap between thoughts.
It is not a gap.
It cannot be done or undone.
For Itself, there is no such thing as practice.
No such thing as contemplators, meditators or
attainers of It.
Hidden, yet nothing can hide It.
Revealed, yet nothing can see It.
Self-knowing, yet It is without knowledge.
Self-realised, yet It is without mind.
Blessing itself, yet It is beyond duality.
Being, yet It is beyond being.
Unfathomable, unconquerable, ungraspable.
Who or what is there?
Beyond sin and beyond righteousness.
It announces itself as the sense 'I am' inside the body.
But It is even beyond 'I' and beyond body.
Ungraspable, yet attention and the pure intellect
may recognise and acknowledge It.
Being revealed but it is not revealing.
Recognising Its all-pervasiveness, joy fills the Heart.
Intelligence dances.
Peace is very happy.
The universes prostrate themselves,
yet their Lord they cannot see.
Mooji
Go to the begining
" The disciples said to Jesus...'Tell us how our end will be'...Jesus
said, 'Have you discovered then the beginning, that you look for the
end...for where the beginning is, there will the end be...Blessed is he
who will take his place in the beginning...he will know the end and will
not experience death..."
Jesus"
Gospel of Thomas (18)
-quoted by Mooji disciple
ACIM Lesson 97
"Salvation is a miracle, the first and the last; the first that is the last, for it is one."
Jesus"
Gospel of Thomas (18)
-quoted by Mooji disciple
ACIM Lesson 97
"Salvation is a miracle, the first and the last; the first that is the last, for it is one."
Be nothing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWEhqST0Dyk
if you have never tasted sugar, you can not understand what it tastes like.
If you have not tasted nothingness, you can not understand it.
Osho
if you have never tasted sugar, you can not understand what it tastes like.
If you have not tasted nothingness, you can not understand it.
Osho
Are Prayers Answered ?
Are Prayers Answered ?
Many have pondered over this question, but few have come to some certain conclusions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Theologian in Hitler's Germany was an exception. In his Letters and Papers from Prison, he wrote that “God would have us know that we must live as men who manage our lives without him.” This was because God did not answer his fervent prayers for peace, and he died in prison.
Of course his response is typical of Christian Apology: when evidence does not support the theory, make up a reason for it so the doctrines are safe. After all, to question doctrine was considered treason, and at various times Christians were put to death for it, or worse, excommunicated.
Myself, coming from a Judaic-Christian upbringing, I am still often caught by my earliest teachings, for example, by habit, I still think of God as a male figure. I now know this is idiotic, but I have to think twice to remember that "God" is "The Force of the Universes" or "The Infinite." In these cases, there continues to be the dualistic error as well: the idea that I am here and God is out there. So it would be better the say "All that I am aware of and not aware of" instead of the word "God."
I also realize that it is impossible to know where I end, and God begins. This means that I am an Atheist because I do not believe God is "outside of me" and it means that I am a Theist, because God does live inside me. Nevertheless, we're stuck in a dualistic world, with dualistic language, so communication without dualistic concepts is impossible.
Many have pondered over this question, but few have come to some certain conclusions. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Theologian in Hitler's Germany was an exception. In his Letters and Papers from Prison, he wrote that “God would have us know that we must live as men who manage our lives without him.” This was because God did not answer his fervent prayers for peace, and he died in prison.
Of course his response is typical of Christian Apology: when evidence does not support the theory, make up a reason for it so the doctrines are safe. After all, to question doctrine was considered treason, and at various times Christians were put to death for it, or worse, excommunicated.
Myself, coming from a Judaic-Christian upbringing, I am still often caught by my earliest teachings, for example, by habit, I still think of God as a male figure. I now know this is idiotic, but I have to think twice to remember that "God" is "The Force of the Universes" or "The Infinite." In these cases, there continues to be the dualistic error as well: the idea that I am here and God is out there. So it would be better the say "All that I am aware of and not aware of" instead of the word "God."
I also realize that it is impossible to know where I end, and God begins. This means that I am an Atheist because I do not believe God is "outside of me" and it means that I am a Theist, because God does live inside me. Nevertheless, we're stuck in a dualistic world, with dualistic language, so communication without dualistic concepts is impossible.
So the question "does God answer prayer" is first based on many assumptions we take for granted. We assume we are here, and God is out there. We assume that we are a body and that our eyes see, our ears hear, our fingers touch. These ideas we take for granted as truths yet they can not be proven. We assume we are powerless, and God is all powerful, that we are faulty and God is perfect.
Our prayers of requests are mostly about things we believe are on this earth: our personal body, our personal situation, our personal relationships; our friends; our acquaintances, our country, and maybe others.
Our prayers of thanks to God are also about things we believe are here on this earth, things about our person, our personal situation, our friends, etc.
Our prayers of requests are mostly about things we believe are on this earth: our personal body, our personal situation, our personal relationships; our friends; our acquaintances, our country, and maybe others.
Our prayers of thanks to God are also about things we believe are here on this earth, things about our person, our personal situation, our friends, etc.
If we are imagining all this, as we dream at night, then supplicating (or thanking) our God for "stuff", is also is imaginary. We imagine our needs, we imagine our wants, we make our requests with fervency etc. and sometimes we get what we want, sometimes we get something else, and at other times we don't get a response.
When we get what we want, we feel wonderful. When we don't, we feel bad.
Of course the mind wants to see that it is right, and wants to see itself as "the special one" it believes itself to be, so even in it's seeing the results of prayer, it looks through a "crooked glass."
For example, if we prayed for peace in the neighbourhood and a white cat walked across the road in front of us, we would think that God has answered our prayer and sent us a good omen.
When we get what we want, we feel wonderful. When we don't, we feel bad.
Of course the mind wants to see that it is right, and wants to see itself as "the special one" it believes itself to be, so even in it's seeing the results of prayer, it looks through a "crooked glass."
For example, if we prayed for peace in the neighbourhood and a white cat walked across the road in front of us, we would think that God has answered our prayer and sent us a good omen.
If we don't get what we want, we can rationalize that God is too busy with the bigger problems of the world, or that he has gotten very old and falls asleep at the job, or that he is limited by the very laws that govern our experience, or that we are not good enough, or we asked for something bad for us, or that we didn't use the right formula in our prayers etc.
At times in your life, you may change your religion, in the belief that the new doctrines or the new incantations will bring you more success. You might go back to the source religions and become a fundamental Jew, Christian, or Muslim. We see this phenomenon happening today as people try harder to connect with this idea of a God outside of themselves.
I propose instead that you rethink the idea of you, the idea of God, and the idea that the two are separate. ACIM says there is only one problem, and one solution. The problem is that you think you are separate from God. The solution is that you are not.
ACIM also says that this world was made by us to hide from God and His wrath. It says that we experienced tremendous guilt when we separated from Him, became fearful, and created this imagined universe as a projection from our mind.
Certainly the world seems like it is based on murder and death. All life seems to exist by eating other life. To live, creatures must kill. Men too live this way. While we don't often kill our our tribe members, we do kill other animals, or other tribes.
The problem is that we believe we are separate from God: the All. The solution is, that we are not. Given this, does The All answer prayer?
Given that we are One with god, prayer makes no sense. Does God talk to Himself? We often do, so if He is anthropomorphic then so does He. <smile> But I think not. We simply come to realize that prayer without duality doesn't mean anything.
The beautiful pamphlet called the "Ladder of Prayer" which was dictated to Helen Schucman after ACIM was dictated, discusses this subject. AT the bottom of the ladder, we can not help but pray from littleness, asking for things. As we develop up the ladder, we realize that the world is an illusion and reflects our thoughts. More and more we want to change our thoughts. Our prayers become more silent and less driven by "wants" but rather attraction for Truth. We come to realize that the world will never give us what we really want, and further that we are simply using it to hide from Truth.
"Prayer becomes a song of joy that the creation sings to the Father, and the Father sings to to Son."
"You first forgive, then pray, and you are healed. Your prayer has risen up and called to God, Who hears and answers. You have understood that you forgive and pray but for yourself. And in this understanding you are healed. In prayer you have united with your source, and understood that you have never left. This level cannot be attained until there is no hatred in your heart, and no desire to attack the Son of God." IV.4
ACIM also says that this world was made by us to hide from God and His wrath. It says that we experienced tremendous guilt when we separated from Him, became fearful, and created this imagined universe as a projection from our mind.
Certainly the world seems like it is based on murder and death. All life seems to exist by eating other life. To live, creatures must kill. Men too live this way. While we don't often kill our our tribe members, we do kill other animals, or other tribes.
The problem is that we believe we are separate from God: the All. The solution is, that we are not. Given this, does The All answer prayer?
Given that we are One with god, prayer makes no sense. Does God talk to Himself? We often do, so if He is anthropomorphic then so does He. <smile> But I think not. We simply come to realize that prayer without duality doesn't mean anything.
The beautiful pamphlet called the "Ladder of Prayer" which was dictated to Helen Schucman after ACIM was dictated, discusses this subject. AT the bottom of the ladder, we can not help but pray from littleness, asking for things. As we develop up the ladder, we realize that the world is an illusion and reflects our thoughts. More and more we want to change our thoughts. Our prayers become more silent and less driven by "wants" but rather attraction for Truth. We come to realize that the world will never give us what we really want, and further that we are simply using it to hide from Truth.
"Prayer becomes a song of joy that the creation sings to the Father, and the Father sings to to Son."
"You first forgive, then pray, and you are healed. Your prayer has risen up and called to God, Who hears and answers. You have understood that you forgive and pray but for yourself. And in this understanding you are healed. In prayer you have united with your source, and understood that you have never left. This level cannot be attained until there is no hatred in your heart, and no desire to attack the Son of God." IV.4
"Let the dead bury the dead"
A wonderful quote by Jesus...
We're all dead, this is a dream... He is saying to our Mind..."Wake up"
This world is a dream.
My Kingdom is Not of This World
ACIM WORKBOOK PART I LESSON 132.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
W-132.1. What keeps the world in chains but your beliefs? 2 And what can save the world except your Self? 3 Belief is powerful indeed. 4 The thoughts you hold are mighty, and illusions are as strong in their effects as is the truth. 5 A madman thinks the world he sees is real, and does not doubt it. 6 Nor can he be swayed by questioning his thoughts' effects. 7 It is but when their source is raised to question that the hope of freedom comes to him at last.
W-132.2. Yet is salvation easily achieved, for anyone is free to change his mind, and all his thoughts change with it. 2 Now the source of thought has shifted, for to change your mind means
you have changed the source of all ideas you think or ever thought or yet will think. 3 You free the past from what you thought before. 4 You free the future from all ancient thoughts of seeking what you do not want to find.
W-132.3. The present now remains the only time. 2 Here in the present is the world set free. 3 For as you let the past be lifted and release the future from your ancient fears, you find escape and give it to the world. 4 You have enslaved the world with all your fears, your doubts and miseries, your pain and tears; and all your sorrows press on it, and keep the world a prisoner to your beliefs. 5 Death strikes it everywhere because you hold the bitter thoughts of death within your mind.
W-132.4. The world is nothing in itself. 2 Your mind must give it meaning. 3 And what you behold upon it are your wishes, acted out so you can look on them and think them real. 4 Perhaps you think
you did not make the world, but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. 5 Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you
came.
W-132.5. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. 2 Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly. 3 Ideas
leave not their source. 4 This central theme is often stated in the text, and must be borne in mind if you would understand the lesson for today. 5 It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see, and that it changes as you change your mind.
W-132.6. But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is. 2 There is no world! 3 This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. 4 Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. 5 He will return
and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again.
W-132.7. But healing is the gift of those who are prepared to learn there is no world, and can accept the lesson now. 2 Their readiness will bring the lesson to them in some form which they can understand and recognize. 3 Some see it suddenly on point of death, and rise to teach it. 4 Others
find it in experience that is not of this world, which shows them that the world does not exist because what they behold must be the truth, and yet it clearly contradicts the world.
W-132.8. And some will find it in this course, and in the exercises that we do today. 2 Today's idea is true because the world does not exist. 3 And if it is indeed your own imagining, then you can loose it from all things you ever thought it was by merely changing all the thoughts that gave it these
appearances. 4 The sick are healed as you let go all thoughts of sickness, and the dead arise when you let thoughts of life replace all thoughts you ever held of death.
W-132.9. A lesson earlier repeated once must now be stressed again, for it contains the firm foundation for today's idea. 2 You are as God created you. 3 There is no place where you can suffer, and no time that can bring change to your eternal state. 4 How can a world of time and place exist, if you remain as God created you?
W-132.10. What is the lesson for today except another way of saying that to know your Self is the salvation of the world? 2 To free the world from every kind of pain is but to change your mind about yourself. 3 There is no world apart from your ideas because ideas leave not their source, and you maintain the world within your mind in thought.
W-132.11. Yet if you are as God created you, you cannot think apart from Him, nor make what does not share His timelessness and Love. 2 Are these inherent in the world you see? 3 Does it create like Him? 4 Unless it does, it is not real, and cannot be at all. 5 If you are real the world you
see is false, for God's creation is unlike the world in every way. 6 And as it was His Thought by which you were created, so it is your thoughts which made it and must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.
W-132.12. Release the world! 2 Your real creations wait for this release to give you fatherhood, not of illusions, but as God in truth. 3 God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. 4 What He creates is not apart
from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, the Son begin as something separate from Him.
W-132.13. There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. 2 Can a world which comes from this idea be real? 3 Can it be anywhere? 4 Deny illusions, but accept the truth. 5 Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. 6. Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released.
W-132.14. Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see upon it. 2 They can not be there. 3 No more can we. 4 For we are in the home our Father set for us, along with them. 5 And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free.
W-132.15. Begin the fifteen-minute periods in which we practice twice today with this:
2 I who remain as God created me would loose the world from all I thought it was. 3 For I am real because the world is not, and I would know my own reality.
4 Then merely rest, alert but with no strain, and let your mind in quietness be changed so that the world is freed, along with you.
W-132.16. You need not realize that healing comes to many brothers far across the world, as well as to the ones you see nearby, as you send out these thoughts to bless the world. 2 But you will sense your own release, although you may not fully understand as yet that you could never be released lone.
W-132.17. Throughout the day, increase the freedom sent through your ideas to all the world, and say whenever you are tempted to deny the power of your simple change of mind:
2 I loose the world from all I thought it was, and choose my own
reality instead
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What is Forgiveness
ACIM Workbook, PART II
1. What Is Forgiveness?
W-pII.1.1. Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. 2 It does not pardon sins and make them real. 3 It sees there was no sin. 4 And in that view are all your sins forgiven. 5 What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son? 6 Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. 7 What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
W-pII.1.2. An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgement that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. 2 The mind is closed, and will not be released. 3 The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. 4 What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
W-pII.1.3. An unforgiving thought does many things. 2 In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. 3 Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. 4 It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
W-pII.1.4. Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. 2 It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. 3 It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. 4He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. 5 But he who would
forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
W-pII.1.5. Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. 2 He has
forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. 3 Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honours as the
Son of God
What is Forgiveness
ACIM Workbook, PART II
1. What Is Forgiveness?
W-pII.1.1. Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. 2 It does not pardon sins and make them real. 3 It sees there was no sin. 4 And in that view are all your sins forgiven. 5 What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son? 6 Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. 7 What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
W-pII.1.2. An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgement that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. 2 The mind is closed, and will not be released. 3 The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. 4 What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
W-pII.1.3. An unforgiving thought does many things. 2 In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. 3 Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. 4 It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
W-pII.1.3. An unforgiving thought does many things. 2 In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. 3 Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. 4 It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
W-pII.1.4. Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. 2 It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. 3 It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. 4He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. 5 But he who would
forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
W-pII.1.5. Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. 2 He has
forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. 3 Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honours as the
Son of God
Having and giving
The only things you can truly own, are those you're able to give.
The things that you are not able to give, only imprison you.
You truly know something only when you're able to teach it. You
only know love when you can give it. You only know happiness
when you can bring it to others. You can only know abundance
when you provide value to the lives of others.
That's not to say that we must give away all we have, but rather that
it is the ability and willingness to give, which makes it ours in the first
place. Can you imagine anything more miserable than having
everything in the world, and no one to share it with?
Whatever you're holding back and hiding from the world -- your
skills, your thoughts, your passion, your knowledge, your enthusiasm,
your courage -- is holding you back. The riches you have, be they
material, intellectual or spiritual, are worthless unless you use them.
-- Ralph Marston
the Lord is My Shepherd
the Lord is My Shepherd
so I have need of nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures,He leads me beside quiet waters,
giving me everything I need,
He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness,
for I invite Him to be my Guide,
and He does this because of His love for me
for we are brothers,
sharing the same familly name,
Even though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for You are with me;
Your Spirit is my comforter
and You have replaced my fears with Your Love.
You prepare a festival for me
awaiting my return home,
even before I have learned to forgive all my enemies...
You anoint my head with oil,
having a purpose for me that I can not even comprehend,
my cup overflows,
for I have not yet learned how to
deal with all Your gifts
Surely Your goodness and Your love will fill me
all the days of my life,
and I will dwell
in the house of the LORD
forever.
by D. Chandonnet, inspired from Ps 23:1-6 and a Course in Miracles
Defence is Attack
Notes to self,
Sore shoulders indicate the results of defensiveness
To be humble, one must see themselves as the other. In this sense, humbleness is to see into another's universe.
To attack another's belief system is to attack that person.
When he complains, it is a request for love. He feels unloved. Maybe the best way to deal with it is to change the subject. If i minimize it it can be a reason to find further proof for it...
To see myself as an english person, is not humility. "The great way is not difficult" if i let go of my body identity...
Hugs
Sore shoulders indicate the results of defensiveness
To be humble, one must see themselves as the other. In this sense, humbleness is to see into another's universe.
To attack another's belief system is to attack that person.
When he complains, it is a request for love. He feels unloved. Maybe the best way to deal with it is to change the subject. If i minimize it it can be a reason to find further proof for it...
To see myself as an english person, is not humility. "The great way is not difficult" if i let go of my body identity...
Hugs
Prayer in our schools?
This seems to me to be such a dishonest thing to teach to our children.
Imagine, ask your children to pray to the Tooth Fairy. It's like asking them to believe in Santa Claus! Why not be completely honest with them?
Just because you grew up filled with guilt over the physical joys of sex, why would you want to submit your children to the same?
The game of relationships
We are always using relationships, because we need them to define what we are. Our friends help us know what we "like", what we don't like. We move closer directed by desire, we move apart directed by fear.
But the "Unity Principal" has no relationship, since it is One. It knows what it is.
It does not accept some and reject others. It does not move closer or further. Fear nor desire have no impact on it.
It plays no favourites.
Spontaneous Enlightenment... no future
Spontaneous Enlightenment
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Selfimage drawings
http://realbeautysketches.dove.ca/
an artist draws two pictures, one based on a person's description of themselves, and a second based on someone else's view of the same person.
The picture you carry of yourself, is less than you!
an artist draws two pictures, one based on a person's description of themselves, and a second based on someone else's view of the same person.
The picture you carry of yourself, is less than you!
God loves us how much?
God loves us so much, She has given us the impossible -- the experience of separation from All.
Smile
Smile
Thinking or Awarness
If thinking is about the ego-self --then it is self-destructive, for it tries to become more and more separate from what is.
Honour your father and your mother...
Insight: as I get older I come to experience the energy of my father, as well as that of my mother, realizing that I am (at the experiential level) very much what they were at an energetic level.
When we honour them, we accept our very energy... Even when they conflict and seem to have a life of their own.
People who have not made peace with their parents, can not be at peace with themselves, because they are fighting their own energy.
Papaji Quotes
Poonjaji (PapaJi) Quotes and Sayings
Sri H. W. L. Poonja (13 October 1910 – 6 September 1997) also known as "Poonjaji" or "Papaji" was borin in india. Poonja ji was a disciple of Ramana Maharishi and nephew of Swami Rama Tirtha. Although Poonjaji denied being part of any formal tradition, he is considered by many to be a teacher of the Advaita Vedanta and Bhakti traditions. After Osho left his body, many of his disciple went to lucknow to be with Poonja ji.
- Stillness of mind comes from giving up all attachments except that attachment to Self.
- Self is what gives breath to Life. You need not search for It, It is Here. You are That through which you would search. You are what you are looking for! And That is All it is.
- You have to be very careful, to be vigilant, to see what is coming from the mind, and to see the happiness that is coming from the Self.
- That ocean of eternal peace is you. What is the difficulty that we suffer from? It is that we seek peace elsewhere and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.
- Your purpose is to find out who you are. Find this out. Know who you are.
- Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don’t give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
- Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are.
- Now is the time to have a direct introduction to this moment. This moment is free of time, of mind, of any notions...introduce yourself to this moment.
- Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Just get rid of the concept, "I am the body, separate from the source." You return to what you always were.
- There is a never-ending cycle of birth and death. What is birth and what is death? They are desire. This never-ending cycle is fuelled by desire, the desire to enjoy sense objects in a body. When desire ceases, this cycle also ceases. This apparently endless cycle of birth and death ends with the cessation of desire. It is not only birth and death that end. When desire ceases, the universe itself ceases. It is as if it never existed. That's how it is.
- Don't go to the past. The past is a problem, the past is mind. When you go to the past all will be problems so don't go to the past. The mind is the past and the past is a graveyard. Don't go the graveyard.
- Look within,
There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru.
You are always Free.
There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching.
Osho -be ordinary
A man of Tao remains ordinary, absolutely ordinary. Nobody knows who he is, nobody knows what he carries within him, what treasure. He never advertises, he never tries to display.
But why do we advertise? Because of the ego. You are not satisfied with yourself, you are satisfied only when others appreciate you. KOHINOOR is not enough.
You may have a valuable stone, but
it is not enough; others must appreciate it.
Others' opinion is more valuable – not your being.
You look into others' eyes as if they are mirrors and if they appreciate you, applaud you, you feel good.
Ego is a false phenomenon. It is the accumulation of others' opinions, it is not a knowledge of the self.
This self, the so-called self which is really the ego, is nothing but the accumulation of reflections– and then there is always fear.
Others may change their mind, you are always dependent on them.
If they say you are good you have to follow their rules to remain good, you have to follow them to remain good in their eyes, because once they change their opinion you will no longer be good.
You have no direct approach to your being, it is via others. So you not only advertise, you magnify, you falsify. You may have a little truth, a little beauty, but you magnify it and it becomes ridiculous.
Osho: If the Shoe Fits
But why do we advertise? Because of the ego. You are not satisfied with yourself, you are satisfied only when others appreciate you. KOHINOOR is not enough.
You may have a valuable stone, but
it is not enough; others must appreciate it.
Others' opinion is more valuable – not your being.
You look into others' eyes as if they are mirrors and if they appreciate you, applaud you, you feel good.
Ego is a false phenomenon. It is the accumulation of others' opinions, it is not a knowledge of the self.
This self, the so-called self which is really the ego, is nothing but the accumulation of reflections– and then there is always fear.
Others may change their mind, you are always dependent on them.
If they say you are good you have to follow their rules to remain good, you have to follow them to remain good in their eyes, because once they change their opinion you will no longer be good.
You have no direct approach to your being, it is via others. So you not only advertise, you magnify, you falsify. You may have a little truth, a little beauty, but you magnify it and it becomes ridiculous.
Osho: If the Shoe Fits
Surender to What Is
What is there to loose? I have nothing of importance. All is temporary. Even the idea of myself, this too is temporary.
If I let the non-essential drop off, then I will be like the stone the master used to carve the perfect one --the David...
What is here that is not temporary?
find this.
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