mindfulness

Don’t pretend to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are….

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Nisargadatta Maharaj.jpgThat which you are, your true self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own happiness.  To find it, to know it, to cherish it is your basic urge.  Since time immemorial you loved yourself, but never wisely.  Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all.  Be true to your own self, love yourself absolutely.  Do not pretend that you love others as yourself.  Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them.  Don’t pretend  to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are.  Your love of others is the result of self- knowledge, not its cause.  Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine.  When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.  When you realize the depth and fullness of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection.  But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it.  Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation.  It is a vicious circle.  Only self-realization can break it.  Go for it resolutely.

– Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj from I am That

Meditation is a lot like cultivating a new land

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Meditation is called the Great Teacher. It is the cleansing crucible fire that works slowly but surely, through understanding. The greater your understanding, the more flexible and tolerant, the more compassionate you can be. You become like a perfect parent or an ideal teacher. You are ready to forgive and forget. You feel love toward others because you understand them, and you understand others because you have understood yourself. You have looked deeply inside and seen self-illusion and your own human failings, seen your own humanity and learned to forgive and to love. When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic. An accomplished meditator has achieved a profound understanding of life, and he or she inevitably relates to the world with a deep and uncritical love. Continue reading →

We should listen truly

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“It is important to know how to listen, not only to me particularly, but to anybody. It is important to know how to listen because if we know how to listen truly, something extraordinary happens to us, because then without any bias, without any prejudice, we can go to the root of the matter immediately. But if we throw up a lot of arguments, concoct devices or contradictions to see who is correct and who is not correct and carry on with our own particular idiosyncrasies and ideas, then we will not discover the truth of the matter at all. We shall only be concerned with our own particular conclusions, with our own point of view. So if I may suggest, it is important that we should listen truly because if we can know how to listen, the truth will reveal itself. We do not have to explore the problem, but if we know how to listen to the song of a bird, to the voice of another, if we can listen as to music without any interpretation or translation, it definitely clarifies the mind; so similarly, if it is possible, let us listen with that intention – not to confute or to conform, but to directly find out the truth for ourselves.”
– J Krishnamurthi

 

 

The 7 Laws Of Attraction

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1) The Law of Manifestation:

Consciousness is always a choice. It’s the choice to bring your awareness to the present moment, the decision to see and prioritize that which is truly important, that which is genuinely honoring and the value enhancing in your life. Our constant question must be: What am I focusing my consciousness on right now? Then the question that follows is: What might this consciousness be creating for me? Continue reading →

bring happiness and joy to countless generations of ancestors….

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When we are cooking a dish that we learned to make from our mother or father, a dish that has been handed down through generations of our family, we should look at our hands and smile because these hands are the hands of our mother, the hands of our grandmother. Those who have made this dish are making this dish now. Continue reading →

Change is easy once you see yourself as you are…

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You can’t make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you begin to see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that, changes will flow naturally. Continue reading →

Hope, Faith, Love and Forgiveness

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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.

 

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;therefore we must be saved by faith.

 

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone;therefore we must be saved by love.

 

No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by that final form of love, which is forgiveness.”

 

– Reinhold Niebuhr

at some point, the flowers cannot resist, they just have to open up….

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In order to have real transformation, we have to deal with the roots of our anger—looking deeply into its cause. Continue reading →

Everything we want is right here in the present moment

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Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment. Continue reading →