Receive life as if it were an open highway passing right through the windshield into your being.
"Until you realize the unsatisfactoriness of everything, its transiency and limitation, and collect your energies in one great longing, even the first step is not made." N.M.
Nisargadatta shares the perspective here of the anonymous saint who authored "The Cloud of Unknowing."
Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence Reality is found." N.M.
I feel this more and more. Itself it is constant, although I am not yet constantly attuned or established in it. This era of pervasive buzzing distractions has to be the most difficult yet to escape the subject-object self. Or perhaps this era portends a crescendo of awakening. God, I hope so.
Continue on, even after the mind quits.
"You cannot know yourself through bliss alone, for bliss is your very nature. You must face the opposite, what you are not, to find enlightenment." N.M.
First time around, statements like these seem cryptic and obtuse. This time they are plain truth clearly stated. Cut all ties and all that remains will be effulgent bliss, clear perfect and free. But first we must examine what binds: ties to body, ties to thought, to the ever buzzing material world, to our personal stories--bring them into the light of discrimination, where they are exposed as ephemera. See them for what they are: what we are not. As each veil falls away, our spiritual sensibility clarifies and intensifies. We become solvent rather than solution.
The '"I am" meditation saws off the tree limb on which we stand.
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