Guest guest Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 When you look at a tree or flower and perceive the stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. Family, friends, workplace, society, seva and satsangs are opporunities provided by the life to find the oneness. Marriage too is an opportunity,  given by the society for two people to come together and find that oneness. What prevents that opportunity is the conditioned mind. Mind wants to hang on to traditional expectation that appears to provide comforts (desires) and freedom from fear to the body-mind relationship. All thoughts are based on desires and fear.  Traditional rules convinced by myness of ritual promoters cause obstacles in realizing that oneness. True Love is the power of oneness. It is like the blue sky that pervades everything in the universe. Clouds cover up the sky. Similarly thoughts, traditions, conditioning and perceptions clutter our minds and thus limit our access to the oneness. They limit our access to the Stillness (awareness) within us. The Art of Living teachers provide us a key to realize our essential nature. Stillness is our essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself and you lose touch with the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. You are that awareness, disguised as a person. The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. Whenever there is some silence around you, listen to it. That means just notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence. See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not thinking. You are aware, but not thinking. When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning. Look at a tree, a flower. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself. You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness. Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness. Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is no matter what form it takes you are still, you are at peace. Pay attention to the gap the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the inbreath and out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something†becomes just awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form. True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself the underlying consciousness out of which every form is born. And how could that be separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out of that and is being sustained by it. It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and all other forms. Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world. When you look at a tree or a human being in stillness, who is looking? Something deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking at its creation. Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time? But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. (Based On Eckhart Tolle's book THE POWER OF NOW) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 Nisargadatta , vvs@a... wrote: > > When you look at a tree or flower and perceive the stillness, you become > still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness > with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness > of yourself with all things is true love. > > Family, friends, workplace, society, seva and satsangs are opporunities > provided by the life to find the oneness. Marriage too is an opportunity,  given > by the society for two people to come together and find that oneness. What > prevents that opportunity is the conditioned mind. Mind wants to hang on to > traditional expectation that appears to provide comforts (desires) and freedom from > fear to the body-mind relationship. All thoughts are based on desires and > fear. >  > Traditional rules convinced by myness of ritual promoters cause obstacles in > realizing that oneness. True Love is the power of oneness. It is like the blue > sky that pervades everything in the universe. Clouds cover up the sky. > Similarly thoughts, traditions, conditioning and perceptions clutter our minds and > thus limit our access to the oneness. They limit our access to the Stillness > (awareness) within us. The Art of Living teachers provide us a key to realize > our essential nature. > > Stillness is our essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or > awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. > Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. > > When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself and > you lose touch with the world. > > Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. > This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. You are that awareness, > disguised as a person. > > The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The > equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. > > Whenever there is some silence around you, listen to it. That means just > notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of > stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be > aware of silence. > > See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not > thinking. You are aware, but not thinking. When you become aware of silence, > immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have > stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning. > > Look at a tree, a flower. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they > are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. > > When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still > yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever > you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all > things is true love. > > Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even > when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of > the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure > awareness, consciousness itself. > > You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense > perceptions. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness. > > Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your > inner resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also > takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness. > > Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is no matter what form it takes > you are still, you are at peace. > > Pay attention to the gap the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent > space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or > the gap between the inbreath and out-breath. > > When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something†becomes just > awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you > and replaces identification with form. > > True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and > solutions to problems are found. Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? > No, it is intelligence itself the underlying consciousness out of which every > form is born. > > And how could that be separate from who you are? The form that you think you > are came out of that and is being sustained by it. It is the essence of all > galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and all other forms. > > > Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is > not really a thing, and it is not of this world. When you look at a tree or a > human being in stillness, who is looking? Something deeper than the person. > Consciousness is looking at its creation. > > Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or > faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom > that humanity needs most at this time? > > But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability > to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, > looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let > stillness direct your words and actions. > > (Based On Eckhart Tolle's book THE POWER OF NOW) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 Thanks ! vvs [vvs] Monday, December 20, 2004 9:29 PM Nisargadatta ONENESS is the season's best greeting When you look at a tree or flower and perceive the stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. Family, friends, workplace, society, seva and satsangs are opporunities provided by the life to find the oneness. Marriage too is an opportunity, given by the society for two people to come together and find that oneness. What prevents that opportunity is the conditioned mind. Mind wants to hang on to traditional expectation that appears to provide comforts (desires) and freedom from fear to the body-mind relationship. All thoughts are based on desires and fear. Traditional rules convinced by myness of ritual promoters cause obstacles in realizing that oneness. True Love is the power of oneness. It is like the blue sky that pervades everything in the universe. Clouds cover up the sky. Similarly thoughts, traditions, conditioning and perceptions clutter our minds and thus limit our access to the oneness. They limit our access to the Stillness (awareness) within us. The Art of Living teachers provide us a key to realize our essential nature. Stillness is our essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself and you lose touch with the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form. You are that awareness, disguised as a person. The equivalent of external noise is the inner noise of thinking. The equivalent of external silence is inner stillness. Whenever there is some silence around you, listen to it. That means just notice it. Pay attention to it. Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence. See that in the moment of noticing the silence around you, you are not thinking. You are aware, but not thinking. When you become aware of silence, immediately there is that state of inner still alertness. You are present. You have stepped out of thousands of years of collective human conditioning. Look at a tree, a flower. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in Being. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself. You connect with it at a very deep level. You feel a oneness with whatever you perceive in and through stillness. Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love. Silence is helpful, but you don’t need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself. You can become aware of awareness as the background to all your sense perceptions. Becoming aware of awareness is the arising of inner stillness. Any disturbing noise can be as helpful as silence. How? By dropping your inner resistance to the noise, by allowing it to be as it is, this acceptance also takes you into that realm of inner peace that is stillness. Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is no matter what form it takes you are still, you are at peace. Pay attention to the gap the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the inbreath and out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of “something†becomes just awareness. The formless dimension of pure consciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form. True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found. Is stillness just the absence of noise and content? No, it is intelligence itself the underlying consciousness out of which every form is born. And how could that be separate from who you are? The form that you think you are came out of that and is being sustained by it. It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of grass; of all flowers, trees, birds, and all other forms. Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world. When you look at a tree or a human being in stillness, who is looking? Something deeper than the person. Consciousness is looking at its creation. Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time? But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. (Based On Eckhart Tolle's book THE POWER OF NOW) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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