[SufiMystic] Fan the flames of ‘I Am’

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Here is Nisargadatta saying the same thing:

 

My teacher told me to hold on to the sense 'I am' tenaciously and not to

swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his advice and in

a comparatively short time I realized within myself the truth of his

teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his face, his words

constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the stillness of the mind I

saw myself as I am -- unbound.

 

I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the mind on

pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours together, with

nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and joy and a deep

all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all disappeared -- myself,

my Guru, the life I lived, the world around me. Only peace remained and

unfathomable silence.

 

My Guru ordered me to attend to the sense 'I am' and to give attention to

nothing else. I just obeyed. I did not follow any particular course of

breathing, or meditation, or study of scriptures. Whatever happened, I

would turn away my attention from it and remain with the sense 'I am', it

may look too simple, even crude. My only reason for doing it was that my

Guru told me so. Yet it worked! Obedience is a powerful solvent of all

desires and fears.

 

 

 

At 2/5/2002-06:25 PM Jan Sultan wrote:

>sufiMystic

>[sufiMystic] Fan the flames of 'I Am' - Aziz Kristof

>

>When the 'I Am' blossoms in the middle of our being, we can be fairly

>content. At least we have some ground under our feet. No longer are we

>groping in the darkness searching for miraculous Enlightenment. I Am is

>what I Am. The experience of myself becomes solidified. Now one is learning

>how to retain the sense of I Am in meditation and in all situations, so

>slowly it becomes the real center of one's life. In meditation one is

>learning how to keep the center of Presence, how to be constantly mindful

>of it. This mindfulness is opening this center more and more, so it starts

>to be aware of itself automatically. That's why we also call it witnessing,

>for it just happens to be there although nobody has invited it. It is like

>blowing on the fire until suddenly it catches by itself and is witnessing

>whatever we do. It is that simple.