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FFL Masthead Thats perhaps the problem. A band of merry seekers. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what > you do not need." > > "The very search for pleasure is the cause of pain." > > If you are seeking what is the truth about yourself, then realize that > what you are seeking you already are that, in totality. The false > believe in a so called mind seemingly creates an individual seeker > with a false sense of separation from pure Awareness, just realize > that thoughts are not the real you or your ever-present unchanging > Reality. The pure essence or pure presence that is prior to all > thoughts, it is that undeniable sense of Presence that is translated > with the thought "I AM". That ordinary sense of presence of > livingness/Awareness is our Natural State or True Nature. It is always > present right Here & right Now, always unchanging, always untouched by > suffering, always untouched by thoughts, untouched by birth or death. > It is effortless, just a little noticing of the "you" or Awareness, > which is always present prior to thoughts. It is so obvious that we > have overlooked it for so long, looking for something new outside > ourselves, because it is no-thing, yet it is the very substratum of > our existence, it is the very livingness itself, the core of our Being. > > Nisargadatta Maharaj > > > If consciousness is who we already are, then seeking is the very > opposite of what is necessary! If consciousness is who we already > are, seeking of any kind obscures our true nature. The moment a > spiritual search begins, one unwittingly plays a game of hide and seek > where he or she simultaneously plays both parts! > > In Advaita, seeking is patently absurd because it implies a future > time of finding. If all that exists is oneness, how can there be a > past or future? Past and future are concepts in the mind, while the > present momentright here, right nowis all that truly is. If there is > an opposite to Advaita, it is the act of seeking! > > James Braha > > > "Stop all delays, all seeking and all striving. Put down your > concepts, ideas and beliefs. For one instant be still and directly > encounter the silent unknown core of your being. In that instant > Freedom will embrace you and reveal the Awakening that you are." > > Adyashanti > > > If all there is is Consciousness, if there is only Consciousness, > then why or for what are you still seeking? If there is only > Consciousness then right now you must be That and every thing else > that appears in and as awareness must also be That, including any > sense of separate self. Any appearance of mundane, ordinary existence > can be no less of Consciousness than any appearance of unconditional > love, wholeness, bliss, stillness, silence or anything else. Does > anything really need to be transcended, found or let go of? > > Clarity By Nathan Gill > > > STOP Striving! > Sri Sri Ravi Shankar > > > > Wayne: The common question is, "Is the guru necessary?" My answer is > that there are no requirements set forth by Consciousness. > Consciousness can do anything It wants within the manifestation. > Seeking is a phenomenal process, and that's what's crucial to > understand-seeking is a phenomenal process. It happens within > phenomenality; the various progressions that occur are in > phenomenality; the impulse is in phenomenality; and the final event > which is the dissolution of the seeking, actually the dissolution of > personal doership, is in phenomenality. All that happens is in > phenomenality. The result of the process of seeking is only notionally > a result, because what it reveals is what is there all the time > anyway. So there is really no progress in the absolute sense. Yet > within the phenomenal structure of seeking and the seeker, the guru > may play a role. In fact, in the lives of many seekers the guru is a > figure central to the seeking. For those who have found a guru, who > have found their true guru, there is no greater phenomenal experience. > > Wayne Liquorman, Advaita Fellowship -- student of Ramesh Balsekar > > > The end of the search of the one who is seeking is the end of the > seeker - it is the end of the experience of seeker-seeking-sought. > This does not mean the end (or death) of the human mechanism (body, > mind, personality), but rather the end of the identification as a > separate "me". > > Misc. > > > It is essential to come to the point where you DECIDE that enough is > enough. You decide that the seeking is over. You have already closed > the door to problems and now you also stop seeking. All leaks are > gone. You just live here-now, accepting life as it is... and WHAT a > build-up of energy... > > OSHO > > > Stop! In the name of Love > > The Supremes > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
