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“That which is seen is unable to look and that which looks cannot be seen.”

Wu Hsin

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Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Chuck Klosterman

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Saints are like trees. They do not call to anyone, neither do they send anyone away. They give shelter to women, child, o an ani, al, t you sit under a tree it will protect you trom the weather, from the scorching sun as well as from the pouring rain, and it will give you flowers and fruit.

Whether a human being enjoys them or a bird tastes of them matters little to the tree; its produce is there for anyone who comes and takes it.

- Anandamayi Ma

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Patanjali says be non-attached. That means be flowing, accepting, whatsoever life brings. Don't demand and don't force. Life is not going to follow you.

You cannot force life to be according to you. It is better to flow with the river rather than pushing it. Just flow with it! Much happiness becomes possible. There is already much happiness all around you, but you cannot see it because of your wrong fixations.

But this non-attachment in the beginning will only be a seed. In the end, non-attachment becomes desirelessness. In the beginning non-attachment means non-fixation; in the end non-attachment will mean desirelessness, no desire. In the beginning: no demand; in the end no desire.

But if you want to reach to this end of no-desire, start from no-demand. Even for twenty-four hours try Patanjali's formula. Just for twenty-four hours, flowing with life not demanding anything. Whatsoever life gives, feeling grateful, thankful... Just moving for twenty-four hours in a prayerful state of mind - not asking, not demanding, not expecting - and you will have a new opening. Those twenty-four hours will become a new window. And you will feel how ecstatic you can become.

But you will have to be alert in the beginning. It cannot be expected that non-attachment, for the seeker can be a spontaneous act.

OSHO

Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Volume 1 Discourses on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

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"This is the time for everybody to meditate.

This is the time that, except for meditation, nothing can help you to get out of your misery. And meditation is a simple phenomenon. Just whenever you have time, sit silently, doing nothing. Relax, close your eyes, watch your thoughts as if you are watching a movie on the screen. You are just a watcher. And you are in for a great surprise, perhaps the greatest surprise of life. If you can watch your thoughts just as if they are moving there on the screen, and you are not involved in them, they start dispersing. It is your involvement that gives them life energy. When you withdraw yourself and become just a witness, thoughts start falling, like leaves which are dead start falling from the trees. Soon you will be surprised, the screen is empty.

The moment the screen of the mind is empty, a miracle happens. Your consciousness, which was focused on the screen of the mind, finding nothing there, turns upon itself. The circle is complete. It went from you up to the screen, but there is nothing there to stop it, and it comes back to the original source. Consciousness coming back to the original source is what I call enlightenment. You have become awakened; you have opened your eyes for the first time. Now for you there is no death, no misery, no pain; for you there is only blissfulness. And this blissfulness is not something that you will attain after death. This blissfulness is something that happens here and now.

I teach the religion of here and now."

OSHO

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“If there’s a path at all —

it’s emptying yourself of what you’re not.”

Adyashanti

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“Awakening doesn’t mean ‘you’ awaken. It means that there is only awakening. There is no 'you’ who is awake; there is only awakeness. As long as you identify with a 'you’ who is either awake or not awake, you are still dreaming. Awakening is awakening from the dream of a separate you into simply being awakeness”

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Adyashanti

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the thought is of the mind, the mind rises after the 'I-thought', the 'I-thought' is the root thought. If that is held, the other thoughts will disappear. There will then be no body, no mind, not even the ego.

— Ramana Maharshi

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When you encounter self-criticism, confusion, or resistance, simply pause and relax..

That's being kind to yourself.

- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

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THE MIND KEEPS YOU IN DARKNESS

The awareness that is realisation is beyond the mind.

Far, far beyond the mind. It is the business of the mind to keep you unaware of what you really are. It fills you so completely with doubts and fears, it gives you the notion that there is nothing beyond the mind. By continuously generating doubts and fears it accomplishes the trick of preventing you from being aware of who you really are. It keeps you ignorant of the fact your are already realised, that you have always been realised. It is the function of the mind to keep you in the darkness of the past. When there is no mind, there is no past and no time. When there is no mind, the ultimate truth of who you are shines uninterruptedly, unimpeded, and unobscured by wrong ideas.

Hwl Poonja

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You cannot make enlightenment, because enlightenment is unconstructed. Realizing the awakened state is a matter of being diligent in allowing nondual awareness to regain its natural stability. It is difficult to reach enlightenment without such diligence, without undertaking any hardship."

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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The ultimate Dharma is the realization of the indivisibility of basic space and awareness. That is the starting point, and that is what is pointed out to begin with. It is essential to understand this; otherwise, Samantabhadra and his consort are an old blue man and woman who lived eons ago. It's not like that at all! Samantabhadra and his consort are the indivisible unity of space and awareness.

~Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, from his book As It Is, Volume I|

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You need to simply allow the moment of

uncontrived naturalness.

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

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There are two kinds of accumulations: the accumulation of merit with concepts and the nonconceptual accumulation of wisdom.

The accumulation of merit with concepts includes the preliminary practices, the ngöndro. The nonconceptual accumulation of wisdom is the abiding in the samadhi of the natural state.

By gathering the two accumulations, we unfold the two types of supreme knowledge - the knowledge that perceives whatever exists and the knowledge that perceives the nature as it is.

By unfolding the two types of supreme knowledge, we realize the two kayas, dharmakaya and rupakaya.

Rupakaya means "form body" and has two aspects: sambhogakaya, which is the form of rainbow light, and nirmanakaya, which is the physical form of flesh and blood. This is a summary of the Vajrayana path.

Vajrayana is said to be a swift path to enlightenment simply because of unifying means and knowledge, development stage and completion stage. Vajrayana practice involves combining the visualization of a deity together with the recognition of mind essence; that is why it is a swift path. Vajrayana training is the means to realize that everything, as it is, all that appears and exists, is the buddha mandala. That is why we train in sadhana practice.

~ TULKU URGYEN RINPOCHE

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