Sunday, November 20, 2011
Something Must Be Happening Already (Video)
~Mooji
Satsang with Mooji, 5th February 2010 in Tiruvannamalai (India)
After recognition often comes a question:
"How to get
firm in this?"
Only when you think you are an object,
you will start to think if it is true or not true,
is it firm or not firm?
Inquire into this, who
is firm and not firm?
Who is asking this question?
Stay just in the place of seeing, observing...
and this
question will die in front of you.
~Mooji
Through Meditation We Can Come To See That The Only Thing That Makes Us Suffer Is Our Own Mind.
~Adyashanti
The task of any useful spiritual practice is therefore to
dismantle cherishing the thoughts, opinions, and ideas that make up the false
self, the self that is seeking. This is the true task of both meditation and
inquiry. Through meditation we can come to see that the only thing that makes
us suffer is our own mind.
Sitting quietly reveals the mind to be nothing but
conditioned thinking spontaneously arising within awareness. Through cherishing
this thinking, through taking it to be real and relevant, we create internal
images of self and others and the world. Then we live in these images as if
they were real. To be caught within these images is to live in an illusory
virtual reality.
Through observing the illusory nature of thought without
resisting it, we can begin to question and inquire into the underlying belief
structures that support it. These belief structures are what form our emotional
attachments to the false self and the world our minds create.
This is why I sometimes ask people, “Are you ready to lose
your world?” Because true awakening will not fit into the world as you imagine
it or the self you imagine yourself to be. Reality is not something that you
integrate into your personal view of things.
Reality is life without your distorting stories, ideas, and
beliefs. It is perfect unity free of all reference points, with nowhere to
stand and nothing to grab hold of. It has never been spoken, never been
written, never been imagined. It is not hidden, but in plain view. Cease to
cherish opinions and it stands before your very eyes.
~by Adyashanti
“Do not seek the
truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” ~Seng-ts’an
Image: Meditation By The Lake by Nat Sakunworarat at publicdomainpictures.net