Digest Number 930

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In a message dated 7/2/2003 7:20:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, Nisargadatta writes:

 

It seems to me... here is where real honesty comes in to play. This is not

about doing a "technique" as it is more to do with the the desire to know

the truth about *who* or *what* one is. Is that what you really want?

Thoughts come up and feelings too, and instead of being carried away by the

thought or feeling, see who does it appear to? If you still want a great

experience, then you will naturally be carried away by thoughts and feelings

in hope that that is where the quenching of your desire lies. You must

become fed up with experience---ALL experience is temporary, so you

naturally turn away from them and give attention ( bakti) to the *one is

witness* to it all. ALL thought is not you- watch it and thereby be not

attatched. If the thoughts are too many and too fast and you get carried

away by them then it is recommended that you use breathing and concentration

on the breath to calm the mind and then use the self-enquiry. Japa also

helps to concentrate.

You must want it bad!!! You must see how you are a bundle of memories and

learned behavior...an actor playing the part of "you" and yet have taken his

"part" too seriously! You can change parts anytime. You are always already

free, you are not the one you think yourself to be! The great seperation

between you and God is thought up, untrue! This desperado in search of

fulfillment is already whole and immagining otherwise. BEFORE you think

about it, you are fine, already happy, love itself. Your limitations are

merely believed in. You are free to stop and notice this at anytime and the

more often you notice, the more it is natural for you not to identify with

the body-mind.

Pondering over his words is a good thing, my friend. It will lead beyond.

Maharaj is with you.

 

)))))Shawn

 

 

Excellent, Shawn!

 

Gassho,

 

Pete