Enlightenment Quotes

[Solace]

@Mikael89 In other words, the Self is all there is. There is no heart, body, mind or world. Just the Self. All else is maya, an illusion, a projection on the screen of pure consciousness.

Ass implies physical and comes with the belief that, “I am the body”. The Heart is formless, spiritual, and contains the whole universe.

Who cares about names? I find that looking at a tree is much more enjoyable than talking about the trees history or the origin of its Latin name. One is direct experience, the other is mental masterbation, which clouds of perception of reality. Making it hard to see what is real and unreal.

The Self is all there is. 

[Shin]

[Solace]

 

Edited November 13, 2018 by Solace

[Solace]

Quite to the point! 

[Solace]

[Solace]

“Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. 
Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. 
Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. 
Realize the Wonder, the Eternal Unknowability of the Totality of Existence, and fear of death is transcended. 
If happiness or freedom depends on the Answer to the Question, then there can be no happiness or freedom. 
The Question cannot be satisfactorily or finally Answered. 
For one who abides at Infinity, happy and free, at ease with his Ultimate Ignorance, the Question and the Answer are equally unnecessary. 
What began will come to an end. 
What is Wonderful is not threatened. 
The Process of the Totality of Existence is Transcendental and Eternal. 
Only a fraction of the Whole can pass away in any moment, since only a fraction of the Whole appears in any moment. 
Therefore, the Heart Itself is always already Full of Wonder and Love. 
"I" is the body-mind, the fraction of the Whole that is now appearing and will soon disappear. 
"I" must be surrendered to the Heart, to the Whole, which is Infinity, Wonder, and Love.”

-Adi Da Samraj

There is no Enlightenment, no evolutionary entrance into the truly Spiritual Condition of human existence, without ego-death, or transcendence of the mind. There must be the literal death of the separate and separative consciousness. In this moment, you are holding on to your sense of separate consciousness as if it were something tangible and material. You possess yourself through a great contraction of body and psyche. By virtue of this gesture, you have become rigid, mediocre, deluded, relatively loveless, self-possessed, and isolated. To be without an inner consciousness is, for you, unthinkable. To be incapable of feeling yourself as a separate consciousness is, for you, a terrifying prospect. Nevertheless, that is precisely the realization with which you must become completely comfortable. ('Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!, p. 171).

 

Edited November 16, 2018 by Solace

[eputkonen]

[Hellspeed]

I don't know

[pluto]

[eputkonen]

[Gabriel Antonio]

 

[Shin]

17 hours ago, eputkonen said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Outer]

[Sevi]

9 minutes ago, Outer said:

So what does Allen Watts himself do, @Outer ? Just mumbles around about his spritual ideas and not let any single one takes away anything from his wisdom?

[Outer]

4 minutes ago, Sevi said:

So what does Allen Watts himself do, @Outer ? Just mumbles around about his spritual ideas and not let any single one takes away anything from his wisdom?

If he's saying he has a way to lead you to enlightenment, then its like he picks your pocket and sells you your own watch. In his own words.

[Sevi]

 

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[Solace]

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

What Bhagavan implies here is that nothing other than our effort at self-investigation is worth our time and effort, because only our effort at self-investigation will enable us to ‘realise’ our self. All our achievements, wealth, objective knowledge etc. will be taken away from us on our body’s death. Therefore we should not be concerned about our gains or losses in this life time, because all this will become meaningless and inconsequential sooner or later.

If this world is a dream - which according to Bhagavan it is - then nothing matters in this dream world other than effort to wake up from this dream. This message needs to be frequently repeated within our mind, as only such reminders will motive us to pursuit our practice of atma-vichara with one-pointed love and interest – because, as Bhagavan said, ‘There is nothing else to do’.

From: http://happinessofbeing.blogspot.com/2016/10/god-is-not-actually-witness-of-anything.html?m=1

 

Edited November 19, 2018 by Solace

[Aaron p]

[kieranperez]

“To be or not to be, that is the struggle.” - Shunyamurti