- Paramahansa Yogananda

 "As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind."

Sri Dattatreya

  A yogi has no particular path,He simply renounces "imagining" things, His mind then ceases out of its own accord, And "the perfect state" naturally occurs..

Sri Muruganar

 

If you refrain from looking at this, that, or any other object,
then by that overpowering look into Absolute Being,
you become yourself the boundless space of pure Awareness,
which alone is real Being.

GANGAJI

 Be still. It takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name, you have no past, you have no relationships, you have no country, you have no spiritual attainment, you have no lack of spiritual attainment. There is just the presence of Beingness with itself.

Wu Hsin

 “The mirage of an egg cannot be shattered by any mallet. Likewise, the mirage of a separate self cannot be shattered by any individual. The individual is, itself, the mirage.”

A course in miracles

 “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.”

RAMANA maharshi

 

Morgan O. Smith

 “Time is a trick of perception; reality is always now. The mystic does not wait for eternity—they recognize they are it, wearing the disguise of moments passing.”

SRI AUROBINDO

 

Jack Kerouac

 

Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky ways of cloudy innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect.

We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere, or one universal self. Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes through everything, is one thing. It’s a dream already ended. There’s nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. 

Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the one vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.

 

THE SPIRITUAL TRIAD #7. ATMA – The Divine Part

 

Atma (also written “Atman”) is the highermost and supreme part of man’s spiritual being. It is pure eternal Spirit. It is the Higher Self, the Divine Self, the Real Self of the human being and it is literally one and the same in essence and identity as the Infinite Supreme Self. This is in accordance with the fundamental teaching of Hinduism; that our Self (the Atman) IS the Supreme Self (Brahman). Atman literally means Self. It is the only one of our Principles to which the unqualified term “the Self” may be applied.

It is not an individual thing. There is no such thing as “my Atman” or “your Atman.” The Eternal Spirit is neither yours nor mine and is not the separate individual possession of anyone. There is neither “my Atman” nor “your Atman” but only THE Atman, the ONE Universal Self of all. It is here that all is truly one. The golden key to understanding universal oneness, divine allness, and non-duality (and thus the key to world peace!) is contained in this teaching about the Atman. I am the Atman. You are the Atman. Atman is Who and What we really are. It is our essential nature, it is our true self, it is the All IN All. In fact, It is the one and only Reality. As the Upanishads say, “This Atman IS Brahman.”

Since the Atman is literally Divinity Itself, we should always remember that it never incarnates or reincarnates, nor is it ever affected by our Karma or even by anything whatsoever. It just simply IS.

    AUTHOR UNKNOWN  

Hell: intermediate state vs eterrnal

   No more is it the Egyptian Amenthes, the region of judgment and purification; nor the Onderah – the abyss of darkness of the Hindus; for even the fallen angels hurled into it by Shiva, are allowed by Parabrahma to consider it as an intermediate state, in which an opportunity is afforded them to prepare for higher degrees of purification and redemption from their wretched condition. 

Hell, Jesus used it but as an ordinary metaphor. Whence then came the dreary dogma of Archimedean lever of Christian theology, with which they have succeeded to hold in subjection the numberless millions of Christians for nineteen centuries?

THE DANCE

 Hindus say not that the world was created but that it is being created every moment. It is a constant flux of creation; it is a continuum. It is a constant flux of creation; it is a continuum of creation. So really, if you look at things in this way, then God is not a person: God is energy. Then God is not something static: God is movement. He is dynamic because a dance is a dynamic movement. You have to be in it every moment: only then can it exist. Dance is an expression, a living expression, and you have to be in it continuously.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

  The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise the Self. There is nothing else to do.

Kahlil Gibran

  Your children are not your children. They're sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they're with you ,yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries With yesterday .

Sitting Bull

 Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, for no one has the right to take another life. The warrior, for us, is the one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.

MICHAEL JAMES

 since the fundamental cause of all the suffering and lack of perfect happiness that we experience in this dream-life and so many other dreamlives is our imaginary self-forgetfulness or self-ignorance, we can end all our suffering and attain perfect happiness only by experiencing the absolute clarity of true self-knowledge. Since the illusion of duality is caused by our self-forgetfulness – our forgetfulness of our fundamental non-dual consciousness of our own infinite and absolute being – it will be dissolved only when we experience perfectly clear non-dual self-knowledge or self-consciousness.

(Bhagavad-gita 8.20)

 “There is another, eternal nature, which is transcendental to manifested and nonmanifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.”

Entering the Spiritual Sky

Alan Watts

 Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy... and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to feel it in your bones.

KATHOPANISHAD 1:2:23

 

Paramahansa Yogananda

 "The man of cosmic consciousness, never feeling himself as limited to a body or as reaching only to the brain, or only to the cerebral-lotus light of a thousand rays, instead feels by true intuitive power the ever-bubbling Bliss that dances in every particle of his little body, and in his big Cosmic Body of the universe, and in his absolute nature as one with the Eternal Spirit beyond manifested forms."

Night of Lord Shiva - Cosmic Brahman Talon Abraxas

Paramahansa Yogananda

 "God is playing hide-and-seek through human hearts, so that ultimately you will understand that it is His love you are seeking in your human loves. If you omit God from your human loves, love fades away. But by bringing God into your daily life, ordinary human love changes into divine love, manifested from the image of God within you."

Sogyal Rinpoche

 “Samsara is the mind turned outwardly, lost in its projections. Nirvana is the mind turned inwardly, recognizing its true nature.”

A Mind Like a Clear Pool artwork by Gyempo-Wangchuk

Carl Sagan, Cosmos

 "We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

THE BHAGAVAD GITA

 

PEACE BY THOMAS MERTON

 

Opening to Oneness: A Practical & Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts by Nancy Mujo Baker

 Part of the delusion is imagining that it is a question of having something we don't have, whereas the discovery is that I am it, not that I have it.

RAM DASS

 

Lama Surya Das

 "Let go. Let Be. See through everything and be free, complete, luminous, at home -- at ease."

Azra Bertrand and Seren Bertrand, Womb Awakening: Initiatory Wisdom from the Creatrix of All Life

 

“Across time and cultures, the underlying structure of existence was always conceived of as a dark abyss, a dark Void, a dark primeval sea, or a primordial dragon mother—an undifferentiated dark sea of potential energy that existed before all manifest creation, and from which sprang all of existence. This darkness had a feminine vibration and was thought of as the Original Mother, often represented by the sacred sound vibration Om and the color black.”

Buddha (Extracted from Sutta Nipāta 862-868)

 "In this world, partiality and greed arise in connection with desire. The duality of pleasure and displeasure gives rise to anger, falsehood and doubt. If there is doubt, learn the way of wisdom. "

David Bentley Hart

 "Contemplative and philosophical traditions, Eastern and Western, insist on this: that the source and ground of the mind’s unity is the transcendent reality of unity as such, the simplicity of God, the one ground of both consciousness and being. For Plotinus, the oneness of nous, the intellective apex of the self, is a participation in the One, the divine origin of all things and the ground of the openness of mind and world one to another. For Sufi thought, God is the Self of all selves, the One—al-Ahad—who is the sole true 'I' underlying the consciousness of every dependent 'me.' According to the Kena Upanishad, Brahman is not that which the mind knows like an object, or that the eye sees or the ear hears, but is that by which the mind comprehends, by which the eye sees, by which the ear hears; atman—the self in its divine depth—is the eye of the eye, the ear of the ear, the ground of all knowing."

Gian Kumar

 "The witnessing force behind mind, that characteristic self or spirit is called atman; the God in you."

Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha)

 

"He already knew to feel Atman in the depths of his being, indestructible, one with the universe."

Mooji

 "In reality there is no such thing as someone being able to “stay permanently” in the Self. No one has ever done it: the Buddha couldn’t do it, neither could Christ do it. Rather, the Self has been recognized as what we are, and it is effortlessly and timelessly perfect, always. In truth, there is no actual “in and out” of the Self, no fluctuation—for these are seen to arise within the immutable awareness."

Chsndogya Upanishad

  All this is Brahman. Everything comes from Brahman, everything goes back to Brahman, and everything is sustained by Brahman. One should therefore quietly meditate on Brahman. Each person has a mind of his own. What a person wills in his present life, he becomes when he leaves this world. One should bear this in mind and meditate accordingly.

-Bashar

 "You are not really in physical reality, physical reality is within you."

Ritajananda

 "In the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad" it is said that it is not the physical person who is attractive, but it is the Atman residing in that person which attracts us. It is that which provides all our delights. Love for someone, the delight experience in that love, both come from the source we call God."

Awdhesh Singh

 "Self-knowledge, which comes from within, gradually change our beliefs and drops those beliefs which are false and stupid. After being cleared off all the dirt acquired by us in the form of second-hand knowledge in our early age, we can directly see the reality, through our own eyes, through our own heart and mind, as our mind gets unconditioned. It is this mind that is rightly compared to God, as such a consciousness is pure, having been cured of all ignorance and darkness and we come close to our true self—Atman or soul."

Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha (A New Directions Paperback)

 

"Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. It is written: “Your soul is the whole world.” It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his innermost and dwells in Atman. There was wonderful wisdom in these verses; all the knowledge of the sages was told here in enchanting language, pure as honey collected by the bees."

Alejandro Jodorowsky

 "If the cosmos wants them to find each other, even if they are very far away, they will find each other. If it doesn't want them to find each other, even if they are face to face, they will not see each other."

Drunvalo Melchizedek

 Once, all life in the universe knew the Flower of Life as the creation pattern - the geometrical design leading us into and out of physical existence. Then from a very high state of consciousness, we fell asleep & forgot who we were. Now we are Rising up from that sleep, shaking old, stale beliefs from our minds and glimpsing the ✧Golden Light✧ of this New Dawn streaming through the windows of perception.*:･✧

Tirumantiram

 He is our Own He is the Primal One He taught the Vedas Four He is the light that glows within the purest gold They adored Him in love They approached Him all desires devoid And climbed the Mystic Tree High; Their breath halted in Samadhi They with Him became One-

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

 "I have described the discovery of Atman and Brahman – God immanent and God transcendent – as separate, but there is no real distinction. In the climax of meditation, the sages discovered unity: the same indivisible reality without and within. It was advaita, “not two."

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

 "In profound meditation, they found, when consciousness is so acutely focused that it is utterly withdrawn from the body and mind, it enters a kind of singularity in which the sense of a separate ego disappears. In this state, the supreme climax of meditation, the seers discovered a core of consciousness beyond time and change. They called it simply Atman, the Self."

Shiva Negi

 

"Enlightenment is the realization of your true self (Atman) as the Supreme Consciousness (God), and be immortal and blissful forever."

Katha Upanishad 2:18

 

Darren Main

"This life is a dream—sometimes a dream of beauty— sometimes a terrifying nightmare. We will all wake from this dream eventually. Spiritual practice allows us first to transform the dream from one of terror to one of joy, and then from a dream of joy, to awakening to our true nature as Atman."

- Rumi

 "Love is cure.

Love is power. Love is the magic of changes. Love is the mirror of divine beauty."

Image: The Kiss by Miklós Ligeti. Hungarian 1871-1944

~ Ramana Maharshi

 “All fear is nothing but thoughts. If there is only One, there cannot be a second to fear. If we look at our Self as one, there is nothing else to fear.”

Ghosts by Diana Franco Campos