To be beautiful means to be yourself.
You don’t need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
These are personal notes and links regarding the dissolution of one's Self-Image --i.e. one's ego. The path is non-duality. Life itself has brought me here. These notes are reminders of my direction, and my lack of direction. They are to strengthen my focus on what ACIM calls "the real world" i.e. "that which does not change." While these notes are written for me, if you find them helpful, you may feel at home to read any of them.
See Reality
101. To see reality
is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror.
Only the mirror must be clear and true.
A quiet mind,
undistorted by desires and fears,
free from ideas and opinions,
clear on all the levels,
is needed to reflect the reality.
102. Realize that no ideas are your own;
they all come to you from outside.
103. Reality is not a concept,
nor the manifestation of a concept.
It has nothing to do with concepts.
104. As the mind is made of words and images,
so is every reflection in the mind.
It covers up reality with verbalization
and then complains.
The above Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.
is as simple as to see one's face in a mirror.
Only the mirror must be clear and true.
A quiet mind,
undistorted by desires and fears,
free from ideas and opinions,
clear on all the levels,
is needed to reflect the reality.
102. Realize that no ideas are your own;
they all come to you from outside.
103. Reality is not a concept,
nor the manifestation of a concept.
It has nothing to do with concepts.
104. As the mind is made of words and images,
so is every reflection in the mind.
It covers up reality with verbalization
and then complains.
The above Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.
Consent to silence
100. Do understand that the mind has its limits;
to go beyond, you must consent to silence.
The above Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.
to go beyond, you must consent to silence.
The above Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening.
Real vs UnReal
"All that you are attached to,
all that you love,
All that you know,
All that you know,
... someday will be gone.
Knowing this, and that the world is your mind
Which you create, play in, and suffer from,
Is known as discrimination.
Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal,
The known is unreal and will come and go
So stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth.
Knowing this, and that the world is your mind
Which you create, play in, and suffer from,
Is known as discrimination.
Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal,
The known is unreal and will come and go
So stay with the Unknown, the Unchanging, the Truth.
Papaji
talking
106. Be careful.
The moment you start talking
you create a verbal universe,
a universe of words, ideas,
concepts and abstractions,
interwoven and interdependent,
most wonderfully
generating, supporting and explaining each other
and yet all without essence or substance,
mere creations of the mind.
Words create words,
reality is silent.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening .
The moment you start talking
you create a verbal universe,
a universe of words, ideas,
concepts and abstractions,
interwoven and interdependent,
most wonderfully
generating, supporting and explaining each other
and yet all without essence or substance,
mere creations of the mind.
Words create words,
reality is silent.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj quotes are from the book
The Seven Steps to Awakening .
More than enough
There is something perverse
about more than enough.
When we have more,
it is never enough.
It is always somewhere out there,
just out of reach. The more we acquire,
the more elusive enough becomes.
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