Since Nisarga appears to be the flavour of the week.........some mutterings from the Beedi dude.
---------- Nisarga: All this weighing, selecting, choosing, exchanging -- it is all shopping in some 'spiritual' market. What is your business there? What deal are you out to strike? When you are not out for business, what is the use of this endless anxiety of choice? Restlessness takes you nowhere. Something prevents you from seeing that there is nothing you need. Find it out and see its falseness. It is like having swallowed some poison and suffering from unquenchable craving for water. Instead of drinking beyond all measure, why not eliminate the poison and be free of this burning thirst? Questioner: I shall have to eliminate the ego! Nisarga: The sense 'I am a person in time and space' is the poison. In a way, time itself is the poison. In time all things come to an end and new are born, to be devoured in their turn. Do not identify yourself with time, do not ask anxiously: 'what next, what next?' Step out of time and see it devour the world. Say: 'Well, it is in the nature of time to put an end to everything. Let it be. It does not concern me. I am not combustible, nor do I need to collect fuel'. ------------ What is this fuel? The hook of invested-in-experiences........... the hook of the identifying, whether the identification is with the mundane or with self-realization. The hook evaporates.............faced with the seeing that an experience, any experience, no matter it's depth or encompass...... .....occurs in time. That is, there is a clear demarcation of when the experience was not(i.e had not started) and when the experience was. When there is a recording of such demarcations, and thus the recall of such recordings, aka the defining of it, the propounding of it, the defense of it..... .....lo behold the hook. Lo behold the fuel for the continuance of the combustion.
