Seeking for non-seeking is much cooler. Just think of the money you'll save.On Mar 19, 2006, at 8:55 PM, anon_astute_ff wrote: Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to SEEKERS of truth and
liberation everywhere.
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Thats perhaps the problem. A band of merry seekers.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anon_astute_ff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> "You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what
> you do not need."
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> "The very search for pleasure is the cause of pain."
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> 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
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>
> 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 moment—right here, right now—is all that truly is. If there is
> an opposite to Advaita, it is the act of seeking!
>
> James Braha
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>
> "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
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> 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
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>
> STOP Striving!
> Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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>
>
> 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
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>
> 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.
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>
> 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
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>
> Stop! In the name of Love
>
> The Supremes
>
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