RE: [Nisargadatta frustration and lust

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I can feel frustration when not in control of certain

situations that I hold dear in my heart. Thinking that

I am right, wanting fairness, justice, It gives me a

panicky feeling

to be confronted to a wall, to something that has

self-preserving interest instead of the common good. I

would like to be King kong, and destroy what hurts, be

really sassy and quick-witted so I could defeat

injustice throught my words but.I am not a gorilla nor

a quick witted fast deliverie word maniac.

I also know intimately that I can`t be part of the

politics of this world, they are a painful game, and I

AM NOT FROM HERE. I know that. Yet, if the light can

have expression, it will meet many obstacles and have

to face them and solve them,and many time be

(apparently) defeated???

and lust..maybe lust does fade away when one carries a

new longing, a new desire; that takes the earnestness

Mr Niz wishes us so much.

---Patricia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nisargadatta , OConnor Patricia <gdtige>

wrote:

>

> I can feel frustration when not in control of certain

> situations that I hold dear in my heart. Thinking that

> I am right, wanting fairness, justice, It gives me a

> panicky feeling

> to be confronted to a wall, to something that has

> self-preserving interest instead of the common good. I

> would like to be King kong, and destroy what hurts, be

> really sassy and quick-witted so I could defeat

> injustice throught my words but.I am not a gorilla nor

> a quick witted fast deliverie word maniac.

> I also know intimately that I can`t be part of the

> politics of this world, they are a painful game, and I

> AM NOT FROM HERE. I know that. Yet, if the light can

> have expression, it will meet many obstacles and have

> to face them and solve them,and many time be

> (apparently) defeated???

> and lust..maybe lust does fade away when one carries a

> new longing, a new desire; that takes the earnestness

> Mr Niz wishes us so much.

> ---Patricia

 

Earnestness, yes!

 

Niz said, " Earnestness is not a yearning for the fruits of one's

endeavours. It is an expression of an inner shift of interest away

from the false, the unessential, the personal. "

 

" Weak desires can be removed by introspection and meditation, but

strong, deep-rooted ones must be fulfilled and their fruits, sweet or

bitter, tasted. "

 

" As long as you are interested in your present way of living, you

will not abandon it. Discovery cannot come as long as you cling to

the familiar. It is only when you realize fully the immense sorrow of

your life and revolt against it that a way out can be found. "

 

" Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is " try " . Allow enough

time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond

the personality with its addictions and obsessions. Don't ask how, it

cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you succeed. If

you persevere, there can be no failure. What matters supremely is

sincerity, earnestness; you must really have had surfeit of being the

person you are; now see the urgent need of being free of this

unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits.

This steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of

success. "

 

" Refuse attention [to things], let things come and go. Desires and

thoughts are also things. Disregard them. Since immemorial time, the

dust of events was covering the clear mirror of your mind, so that

only memories you could see. Brush off the dust before it has time to

settle; this will lay bare the old layers until the true nature of

your mind is discovered. It is all very simple and comparatively

easy; be earnest and patient, that is all. Dispassion, detachment,

freedom from desire and fear, from all self-concern, mere awareness,

free from memory and expectation, this is the state of mind to which

discovery can happen. After all, liberation is but the freedom to

discover. "

 

" We discover it by being earnest, by searching, inquiring,

questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery. "

 

" See your world as it is, not as you imagine it to be.

Discrimination will lead to detachment; detachment will ensure right

action, right action will build the inner bridge to your real being.

Action is proof of earnestness. Do what you are told diligently and

faithfully and all obstacles will disolve. "

 

" Whatever name you give it: will, or steady purpose, or one

pointedness of mind, you come back to earnestness, sincerity,

honesty. When you are in dead earnest, you bend every incident,

every second of your life to your purpose. You do not waste time and

energy on other things. You are totally dedicated, call it will, or

love, or plain honesty. We are complex beings, at war within

and without. We contradict ourselves all the time, undoing today the

work of yesterday. No wonder we are stuck. A little of integrity

would make a lot of difference. "

 

" Nothing can block you so effectively as compromise, for it shows

lack of earnestness, without which nothing can be done. "

 

" It is easy, if you are earnest. "

 

Quotations taken from:

 

http://www.mpeters.de/nisargadatta/index.cfm

 

&

 

http://uarelove1.tripod.com/NISARGADATTA_QUOTES.htm

 

" Silver "