The Mind and Understanding

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[Reply to someone [i think on guru ratings] who insisted that the words of

sages [alone] cannot push you towards Self Realization]

 

People say the mind cannot solve anything. They say words cannot get you

enlightenment! So how do you arrive at dispassion, surrender, acceptance,

understanding, faith, effort, self-inquiry etc.?

I use my mind, what do you use?

 

It is the mind which in the first place created this division and

separation. And it is the mind itself through understanding and

acceptance/surrender can make you whole again.

 

Jan

UltimateAdvaita

 

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Here are a few quotes saying something similar:

 

" The MIND turned outwards, results in thoughts and objects.

Turned inwards, it becomes itself the SELF. "

- Ramana

 

" The intellect divides everything between what it considers pleasant

(acceptable) and unpleasant (unacceptable) and then opposes anything it

deems unacceptable as a " problem " that needs solving! Thus, any problem

can only be solved at its source, which is the intellect that conceived the

problem as a problem in the first place. "

- Balsekar.

 

Because it has been man's conditioning that it is only effort which could

bring him anything in life, it is extremely difficult for an ordinary man to

grasp the fact that nothing more than a deep understanding of one's true

nature is necessary for the total transformation of awakening to take place.

- Balsekar

 

Experience, however sublime, is not the real thing. By its very nature it

comes and goes. Self-realization is not an acquisition. It is more of the

nature of understanding. Once arrived at, it cannot be lost.

- Nisargadatta

 

Break the bonds of memory and self-identification and the shell [of the

person] will break by itself. There is a centre that imparts reality to

whatever it perceives. All you need is to UNDERSTAND that you are the

source of reality, that you give reality instead of getting it, that you

need no support and no confirmation. Things are as they are because you

accept them as they are. Stop accepting them and they will dissolve.

Whatever you think about with desire or fear appears before you as real.

Look at it without desire or fear and it does lose substance. Pleasure and

pain are momentary. It is simpler and easier to disregard them than to act

on them.

- Nisargadatta