ShivAllahSita sutra 77

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It is not the worship of a person that iscrucial, but the steadiness

and depth ofyour devotion to the task. Life itself isthe Supreme

Guru; be attentive to itslessons and obedient to its commands.When

you personalize their source, youhave an outer Guru; when you take

themfrom life directly, the Guru is within.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

A total acceptance of yourself brings about

A total transcendence of yourself.

Wisdom without love is like having lungs

But no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order

To acquire knowledge but in order to

Live and love more fully.

No person or event has the power

To make you happy or unhappy.

~Adyashanti

 

In the absence of intention there can be nopsychological basis for any

involvementwith activity and events or their outcome.There is then

perfect alignment withwhatever might happen, an acceptance ofevents

without any feeling of eitherachievement or frustration.~Ramesh S.

Balsekar

 

Save your mentally manufactured tales of

Enlightenment-to-come for someone else’s ears.

The price to enter this love

Is your hope for a better future.

We are not a crowd of beggars here.

You and I have been down that long, twisted road

All the way to its end.

Here we do not ask God for favors

But instead celebrate the light in each other’s eyes.

So if you are ready to stop denying yourself

Your own beauty

You have come to the right place.

Wake up now and praise this day

When you realize that God’s eyes

Are the ones you are looking out of, and into.

Praise this day –

And with each breath you take

Be filled with the golden arc of love

Which announces the ending of

Your argument with God.

Praise this day

Simply because it exists

And sit down now in the warm skin

Of your own lap;

For you are home

And it is time to rest

In the merciful light

Of your own eyes.

~Adyashanti

 

Who is a master? He is the Self after all. Accordingto the stages of

development of the mind the Selfmanifests as the master externally.

The famousancient saint Dattatreya said that he had more

thantwenty-four masters. The master is one from whoone learns

anything. The Guru may be sometimesinanimate also, as in the case of

Dattatreya. God,Guru and the Self are identical.A spiritually-minded

man thinks that God is all-pervading and takes God for his Guru.

Later, Godbrings him in contact with a personal Guru and theman

recognises him as all in all. Lastly the same manis made by the grace

of the master to feel that his Selfis the master.~Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

Spiritual love is the expression of

An undivided self.

Don’t forget that you are clear

Light of awareness.

There is nothing but the One

In relationship with itself.

~Adyashanti

 

There is no "You" or "I," no objectto contemplate, no

contemplation!Everything is That lost in That.The blind theologians

didn't understand.Then they saw, and their seven levelsof attainment

dissolved to nothing.~Lalla

 

What is God?

A living contradiction

Perfectly resolved within itself.

That’s why God makes you crazy

And shines with the only sanity there is.

Best to cash in all your arguments

And come out to play in the

Empty field.

~Adyashanti

 

Sometimes I feel like a king,sometimes I moan in my own prison.Swaying

between these statesI can't be proud of myself.This "I" is a figment

of my imagination.~Rumi

 

You want me to speak of love

And so I will.

But the Love of which I can speak

Costs me all my coins of illusion

And so I cannot compromise its virtues

Nor quibble over its price.

This Love is Divine Nectar

A wine found only at

The innermost table.

It has seen endless days

Of rain and sun and harvest.

It has been made wise and mellow

By the passing of time

And its refined taste

Is uncompromising to those

Who prefer their wine young

And overly sweet.

Although at times you may

Appear to be swept away

By its dizzying effects

You will find that you have

The clarity of a diamond and

The reflexes of a falcon.

You will remain capable of compassion

And ruthless decisiveness alike.

In one hand

You will hold a feather

And in the other

A sword.

Drink the wine of this Love

And your life will change.

Instead of being a gatherer

Of the Divine Light

You will be its shine.

It will be the end of you

And the beginning.

~Adyashanti

 

Weak desires can be removed by introspectionand meditation, but

strong, deep-rooted onesmust be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or

bitter,tasted.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

I commend my Spirit

Unto the grace of the Great Way.

Whether consciously or not

This has always been

The doorway to liberation.

All you lovers of truth

And all you true lovers

Now is the time to be done with it.

Wash your battle-scarred hands

In this Presence among us.

Cast off your warrior’s clothing

And slip into your night slippers.

Untie your hair or cut it off.

The Hidden One is present

And doesn’t care where you’ve been

Or what you’ve done

Or what you are doing now.

Commend all of yourself –

Body, mind and spirit

To this Grace.

Slip out into the night air

Into the waiting

Quivering birth of this

Golden Heart.

Lean down now

Like wet, green grass and

Kiss the bottoms of your feet.

~Adyashanti

 

Whatever happens in the working of theuniverse at the present moment

has to beaccepted. Not accepting it means humanmisery.~Ramesh S.

Balsekar

 

There is something deeper than pain and pleasure:

Wanting to know what is true.

Just for a moment, take your hands

Off the steering wheel.

Here is a secret: The Buddha has never

Been born, nor has the Buddha ever

Been absent from birth, life or death.

At each moment we are expressing what

We know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves

Very little we will express and manifest

That unconsciousness of our true nature.

If we know who and what we are very thoroughly,

We will express and manifest that in what we do.

It is all very simple.

~Adyashanti

 

Effort is necessary up to the state ofrealisation. Even then the Self

shouldspontaneously become evident, otherwisehappiness will not be

complete. Up tothat state of spontaneity there must beeffort in some

form or another.There is a state beyond our efforts oreffortlessness.

Until it is realisedeffort is necessary. After tasting suchbliss, even

once, one will repeatedlytry to regain it. Having once experiencedthe

bliss of peace no one wants to be outof it or to engage in any other

activity.~Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

There is no such thing as integrating truth

Into an illusion.

The spiritual rubber hits the road when truth

Begins to act within this human experience.

There is no future in this.

It is one thing to come upon enlightenment, the

Breaking through distinctions to the great unity. It is

Quite another to realize its function and activity. Until

The emptiness can dance spontaneously, realization is

Not complete.

~Adyashanti

 

My Master, Ramana Maharishi, said to me,"God is not an object to be

seen, He is the subject.He cannot be seen, He is the Seer, find this

Seer."My Heart was opened."Find the Seer," This is the

Teaching.~Papaji

 

The true Self is the direct experience

That no-self exists.

Selflessness arises out of the realization that

You are the world and much more as well.

All arises within you and is an expression of you.

~Adyashanti

 

Be fully aware of your own being and you willbe in bliss consciously.

Because you take yourmind off yourself and make it dwell on whatyou

are not, you lose your sense of well-being,of being

well.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

I have given all that I am

As have you.

Whether wearied or exalted

Let’s fall on the floor laughing.

What a colossal blunder

We have all fallen prey to,

Slipping into sanity like this.

Our minds are surely gone

When we see everything as God.

Prepare yourself Mother Earth

The inmates are loose

The fools have

Broken free of their chains.

~Adyashanti

 

The surest sign of spiritual progress is a totallack of concern about

progress. There is an utterabsence of anxiety about anything like

liberationand a sort of hollowness in one's being, a kind oflooseness

and involuntary surrender to whatevermight happen.~Ramesh S. Balsekar

 

Everything is a spark of that eternal radiance.

Why flee from the world in order to find it

When you yourself are already on fire?

~Adyashanti

 

Are you searching for your soul?Then come out of your prison.Leave the

stream and join the riverthat flows into the ocean.Absorbed in this

worldyou've made it your burden.Rise above this world.There is

another vision...~Rumi

 

Time to cash in your chips

Put your ideas and beliefs on the table.

See who has the bigger hand

You or the Mystery that pervades you.

Time to scrape the mind’s shit

Off your shoes

Undo the laces

That hold your prison together

And dangle your toes in emptiness.

Once you’ve put everything

On the table

Once all of your currency is gone

And your pockets are full of air

All you’ve got left to gamble with

Is yourself.

Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top

Of the highest stakes table.

Place yourself as the bet.

Look God in the eyes

And finally

For once in your life

Lose.

~Adyashanti

 

What has happened to me?All these songs tell one story:that of Lalla

on a lake, not knowingwhat sandbar I'll run aground on.What kind of

luck have I had?I made harmony out of a man's clumsyplastering job on

the ceiling.Still I wonder whichsandbank will strand me.And how is it

now with me?Magnificent, this becomingmore and more awake.~Lalla

 

There is no such thing as "fake it ‘til you make it"

In the enlightenment business. It is all about truth.

No faking allowed, no consolation prizes.

It’s about as much fun as you can have

While being burned at the stake.

~Adyashanti

 

All suffering is born of desire. True loveis never frustrated. How can

the sense ofunity be frustrated? What can be frustratedis the desire

for expression. Such desire isof the mind. As with all things

mental,frustration is inevitable.~Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

This tavern is about to close its doors.

So my friends, we must go.

But do not rejoice

Or regret your leaving

For this Wine is within you

The warm nectar of

A thousand Buddhas.

We will meet together again at this tavern

I am sure

But do not forget

That at the innermost table

This Wine of ours is always flowing

And it is where all true lovers dwell.

Within the stillness of Stillness

You will be met there

And consumed by the Winemaker

By the object of your secret devotion.

Then you will sing

The most drunken song of all:

I am He, you will sing

I am She, you will sing –

The song of your long awaited

Return to your senses.

~Adyashanti

 

After the four walls are torn down,the four walls of

intellect-mind-body-senses,there is still the old gate remaining.The

old habit of "I" in the form "I am Free."This gate is not neededand

will leave at the time of death if not before.Both are the

same.~Papaji

 

I am here to take away your illusions –

Your illusions of control, of freedom, of self.

You think you have control but you don’t.

You think you have freedom but you don’t.

You think you have a self but you don’t.

Join me here Now

where there are no points of view.

Slip under good and bad

Right and wrong

Worthy and unworthy

Sinner and saint.

Meet me here

Where everything is unframed

Before understanding

And not understanding.

Meet me here

Where silence roars

Where stillness is dancing

Where the eternal is living and dying.

Meet me here

Where you are not you

Where you are It

And It is unspeakable.

Meet me here

Where all points of view

Merge into a single point

That then disappears.

Meet me here

Before there ever was something

Before there ever was nothing.

Meet me here

Where everything speaks of this

Where everything has

Always spoken this

Where nothing is ever lost or found.

Meet me here.

~Adyashanti

 

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