Nothing

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Namaste!

 

> And *nothing* is easy to find, apparently.

> Or, since it's nothing, perhaps it is hard to find.

> How does one find nothing if they don't know what it

> looks like?

> Simple, it's said, one just goes out and looks for

> .... nothing.

> Until one finds it!

- Gordon

 

"To find Nothing" is "to cease Finding".

 

The idea of *Nothing* as the object is used by the

Gnani to make us fold our attention back to the

subject.

 

So "Don't search for it. It is nothing". - Lalla

 

To cease finding is to cease searching for objects of

desire. All objects are of desire.

 

So "Enlighten you desires". - Lalla

 

Bhagavan Ramana's Upadesa undhiyar in Tamil

- Verse no 26

 

thaanai iruthale thannai aridhalaam

thaan irandu atrradhaal undheepara

thanmaya nittai idhu undheepara

 

Being the Self is knowing the Self because the Self

(alone) Is, without another. This is, abiding in

Reality.

 

(Same as Upadesa Saram verse no 26 in Sanskrit)

 

The Self alone is. There is no object to find,

"nothing".

 

> If we objectify this nothing (whatever it may be)

> we're lost.

- Miles

 

 

Thanks Sri Vicki, for getting Lalla'a verse to

attention.

 

Thanks Sri Gordon, for provoking the "finder" to

meditate on "finding".

 

Thanks Sri Miles, for the guidance.

 

on namo bhagavate sri ramanaya

 

suri

 

-

Vicki

RamanaMaharshi

Thursday, February 22, 2001 11:52 PM

[RamanaMaharshi] Enlighten your desires

 

>

> Enlighten your desires.

> Meditate on who you are.

> Quit imagining.

>

> What you want is profoundly expensive,

> and difficult to find,

> yet closeby.

>

> Don't search for it. It is nothing,

> and a nothing within nothing.

>

> - Lalla

> 14th Century North Indian mystic

>

>

> From "Naked Song"

> Versions by Coleman Barks

> Maypop 1992

>

 

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