"To be, just be, is important. You need not ask anything, nor do anything. Such apparently lazy way of spending time is highly regarded in India. It means that for the time being you are free from the obsession 'what next.' When you are not in a hurry and the mind is free from anxieties, it becomes quiet, and in the silence something may be heard which is ordinarily too fine for perception...there is no next in 'I am.' It is a timeless state." N.M.
"As long as you have all sorts of ideas about yourself, you know yourself through the mist of these iideas; to know yourself as you are, give up all ideas. You cannot imagine the taste of pure water, you can only discover it by abandoning all flavorings." N.M.
What a great analogy, especially for our bottled water generation. Our true nature is buoyant but submerged beneath the hurly-burly of mind-stuff. Clear the deck. Toss out the past and future and it will surface of its own. Enlightenment emerges through negation of what is unreal, transient mists dissolving into "the actual experience of yourself as the impersonal and unqualified center of being, love, bliss..."
Before long I will die. This body sitting here now, this mind so feverishly fabricating, will cease to be. What, oh what will be left? Well, everything else, and everything else without me is, well, everything. My body and mind will resolve back into everything. Now that's what I call resurrection!
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