Guest guest Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 " Deep down you know that to look Withinwards is to look into Nothingness. There is Nothing. And that is scary, that frightens. At the very Core there is Nothingness. The wheel of all moves on that axle of Nothingness. So, afraid of the Inner Nothingness, we go on rushing into the World. The fear of one's own Non-Being takes you on a long, long Journey. You go on rushing into this direction, into that. You have to rush, because if you don't rush you will stumble upon your Nothingness WithIn you... and there is fear. You are frightened of that -- you don't want to see that you are Not. Your Being is Non-Being: you are not ready to look into it, to accept it. You are Death Living. Death is there, and at the very Core of your Being there is just Emptiness -- what Buddha calls Anatta. There is no Self, there is no Being, there is no 'I'. And somehow everybody knows it -- hence nobody goes Inwards, everybody goes Outwards. Outwards you can befool yourself, you can deceive yourself. You can create a many games, you can play with those games -- they are not going to help, but still you can pass your time with those games. You can become so engrossed in them that for those engrossed moments you can forget your Inner Nothingness. But this Inner Nothingness is not like an accident. It is not accidental, it is your very Being. So you cannot escape from it, do whatsoever you want to do. Nobody has been able to escape from it. You can go on postponing, you can go on delaying that experience, but one day or other, that experience has to be gone through. And that day is the day of Great Blessing, Great Rejoicing, when you come to know your Inner Non-Being, you have come Home. Because with that experience all Fear disappears. When you know you are Not, how can you be afraid -- of what? for what? And WHO can be afraid? When you know you are Not, where can Desire exist? with whom? for whom? from whom? When you are not, how can you become Somebody? Knowing one's Non-Being, there is great Rest. The Seeker has disappeared, the Desirer is no more, the Becomer has not been found. So the foundation has disappeared -- and the whole palace made of playing-cards simply shatters to the ground. The Real Death is when you come face to face with your Inner Non-Being, the Abyss. One gets frightened, one wants to go away from it. One wants to keep it at the back, one wants to fill it. That's what people go on doing. SANSARA, the World, is nothing but an effort to fill this Inner Vacuum. Fill it with Money, fill it with Women, fill it with Men, fill it with Power, fill it with anything -- big houses, fill it with fame -- but fill it. Go on throwing things into it -- so one day you can feel you are not just Nothing, you ARE Somebody, you ARE Something. But it never happens, it CANNOT happen. Because the Great Abyss is Bottomless --you can go on throwing things into it, they go on disappearing. Have you ever seen a man who is Satisfied? If you have ever seen a man who is Satisfied, then that will be the man who has accepted his Nothingness. That's what we mean by a Buddha. That's what we mean by Enlightenment -- whose Emptiness has become Luminous, Full of Light. He knows, 'It is me, it is my Being. This Non-Being is my Being.' And he has Accepted it. And now there is no effort to Destroy it, no effort to Fill it. It is Beautiful as it is. This understanding Transforms Life. Otherwise we go on rushing. Go into one Desire: what is the mechanism of the Desire? When you go into a Desire, great excitement comes into your Being, great thrill, adventure. You feel a great kick. Something is going to happen, you are on the verge of it. You will be having this big house, this big garden, this beautiful woman, this yacht, this car -- you are going to have this, and there is great excitement. And then you have the car, and you have the yacht, and you have the house, and you have the woman... then suddenly all becomes Meaningless again. Again you have to create another Desire, to escape from this yawning Abyss, from this Death that is waiting for you there. It can swallow you in a single Moment -- if you don't cling to something, it will swallow you. So you start again. You start thinking of other houses, of other women, of other places, of other towns.... That's how, from one Desire to another Desire, one goes on moving. That's how one remains a Beggar. From one Desire to another Desire, one goes knocking on a many, many doors. And nothing ever is Fulfilled. By Jim Brown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Now we're cookin weenies at the edge of the abyss! Phil In a message dated 3/6/2006 8:01:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, Nisargadatta writes: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:45:50 -0800 Pete S <pedsie5 To Cure Loquaciousness Read This " Deep down you know that to look Withinwards is to look into Nothingness. There is Nothing. And that is scary, that frightens. At the very Core there is Nothingness. The wheel of all moves on that axle of Nothingness. So, afraid of the Inner Nothingness, we go on rushing into the World. The fear of one's own Non-Being takes you on a long, long Journey. You go on rushing into this direction, into that. You have to rush, because if you don't rush you will stumble upon your Nothingness WithIn you... and there is fear. You are frightened of that -- you don't want to see that you are Not. Your Being is Non-Being: you are not ready to look into it, to accept it. You are Death Living. Death is there, and at the very Core of your Being there is just Emptiness -- what Buddha calls Anatta. There is no Self, there is no Being, there is no 'I'. And somehow everybody knows it -- hence nobody goes Inwards, everybody goes Outwards. Outwards you can befool yourself, you can deceive yourself. You can create a many games, you can play with those games -- they are not going to help, but still you can pass your time with those games. You can become so engrossed in them that for those engrossed moments you can forget your Inner Nothingness. But this Inner Nothingness is not like an accident. It is not accidental, it is your very Being. So you cannot escape from it, do whatsoever you want to do. Nobody has been able to escape from it. You can go on postponing, you can go on delaying that experience, but one day or other, that experience has to be gone through. And that day is the day of Great Blessing, Great Rejoicing, when you come to know your Inner Non-Being, you have come Home. Because with that experience all Fear disappears. When you know you are Not, how can you be afraid -- of what? for what? And WHO can be afraid? When you know you are Not, where can Desire exist? with whom? for whom? from whom? When you are not, how can you become Somebody? Knowing one's Non-Being, there is great Rest. The Seeker has disappeared, the Desirer is no more, the Becomer has not been found. So the foundation has disappeared -- and the whole palace made of playing-cards simply shatters to the ground. The Real Death is when you come face to face with your Inner Non-Being, the Abyss. One gets frightened, one wants to go away from it. One wants to keep it at the back, one wants to fill it. That's what people go on doing. SANSARA, the World, is nothing but an effort to fill this Inner Vacuum. Fill it with Money, fill it with Women, fill it with Men, fill it with Power, fill it with anything -- big houses, fill it with fame -- but fill it. Go on throwing things into it -- so one day you can feel you are not just Nothing, you ARE Somebody, you ARE Something. But it never happens, it CANNOT happen. Because the Great Abyss is Bottomless --you can go on throwing things into it, they go on disappearing. Have you ever seen a man who is Satisfied? If you have ever seen a man who is Satisfied, then that will be the man who has accepted his Nothingness. That's what we mean by a Buddha. That's what we mean by Enlightenment -- whose Emptiness has become Luminous, Full of Light. He knows, 'It is me, it is my Being. This Non-Being is my Being.' And he has Accepted it. And now there is no effort to Destroy it, no effort to Fill it. It is Beautiful as it is. This understanding Transforms Life. Otherwise we go on rushing. Go into one Desire: what is the mechanism of the Desire? When you go into a Desire, great excitement comes into your Being, great thrill, adventure. You feel a great kick. Something is going to happen, you are on the verge of it. You will be having this big house, this big garden, this beautiful woman, this yacht, this car -- you are going to have this, and there is great excitement. And then you have the car, and you have the yacht, and you have the house, and you have the woman... then suddenly all becomes Meaningless again. Again you have to create another Desire, to escape from this yawning Abyss, from this Death that is waiting for you there. It can swallow you in a single Moment -- if you don't cling to something, it will swallow you. So you start again. You start thinking of other houses, of other women, of other places, of other towns.... That's how, from one Desire to another Desire, one goes on moving. That's how one remains a Beggar. From one Desire to another Desire, one goes knocking on a many, many doors. And nothing ever is Fulfilled. By Jim Brown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Nisargadatta , ADHHUB wrote: > > > Now we're cookin weenies at the edge of the abyss! > > Phil ********** Roasting, Phil. Sheesh. Not cooking. Lol. " Silver " > > > > > In a message dated 3/6/2006 8:01:22 AM Pacific Standard Time, > Nisargadatta writes: > > Mon, 6 Mar 2006 07:45:50 -0800 > Pete S <pedsie5 > To Cure Loquaciousness Read This > > " Deep down you know that to look Withinwards is to > look into Nothingness. There is Nothing. And that is > scary, that frightens. > > At the very Core there is Nothingness. The wheel of > all moves on that axle of Nothingness. So, afraid of > the Inner Nothingness, we go on rushing into the > World. The fear of one's own Non-Being takes you on a > long, long Journey. You go on rushing into this > direction, into that. You have to rush, because if you > don't rush you will stumble upon your Nothingness > WithIn you... and there is fear. You are frightened of > that -- you don't want to see that you are Not. > > Your Being is Non-Being: you are not ready to look > into it, to accept it. You are Death Living. Death is > there, and at the very Core of your Being there is > just Emptiness -- what Buddha calls Anatta. There is > no Self, there is no Being, there is no 'I'. And > somehow everybody knows it -- hence nobody goes > Inwards, everybody goes Outwards. Outwards you can > befool yourself, you can deceive yourself. You can > create a many games, you can play with those games -- > they are not going to help, but still you can pass > your time with those games. You can become so > engrossed in them that for those engrossed moments you > can forget your Inner Nothingness. > > But this Inner Nothingness is not like an accident. It > is not accidental, it is your very Being. So you > cannot escape from it, do whatsoever you want to do. > Nobody has been able to escape from it. You can go on > postponing, you can go on delaying that experience, > but one day or other, that experience has to be gone > through. > > And that day is the day of Great Blessing, Great > Rejoicing, when you come to know your Inner Non-Being, > you have come Home. Because with that experience all > Fear disappears. When you know you are Not, how can > you be afraid -- of what? for what? And WHO can be > afraid? When you know you are Not, where can Desire > exist? with whom? for whom? from whom? > > When you are not, how can you become Somebody? Knowing > one's Non-Being, there is great Rest. The Seeker has > disappeared, the Desirer is no more, the Becomer has > not been found. So the foundation has disappeared -- > and the whole palace made of playing-cards simply > shatters to the ground. > > The Real Death is when you come face to face with your > Inner Non-Being, the Abyss. One gets frightened, one > wants to go away from it. One wants to keep it at the > back, one wants to fill it. That's what people go on > doing. SANSARA, the World, is nothing but an effort > to fill this Inner Vacuum. Fill it with Money, fill it > with Women, fill it with Men, fill it with Power, fill > it with anything -- big houses, fill it with fame -- > but fill it. Go on throwing things into it -- so one > day you can feel you are not just Nothing, you ARE > Somebody, you ARE Something. But it never happens, it > CANNOT happen. Because the Great Abyss is Bottomless > --you can go on throwing things into it, they go on > disappearing. > > Have you ever seen a man who is Satisfied? If you have > ever seen a man who is Satisfied, then that will be > the man who has accepted his Nothingness. That's what > we mean by a Buddha. That's what we mean by > Enlightenment -- whose Emptiness has become Luminous, > Full of Light. He knows, 'It is me, it is my Being. > This Non-Being is my Being.' And he has Accepted it. > And now there is no effort to Destroy it, no effort to > Fill it. It is Beautiful as it is. > > This understanding Transforms Life. Otherwise we go on > rushing. Go into one Desire: what is the mechanism of > the Desire? When you go into a Desire, great > excitement comes into your Being, great thrill, > adventure. You feel a great kick. Something is going > to happen, you are on the verge of it. You will be > having this big house, this big garden, this beautiful > woman, this yacht, this car -- you are going to have > this, and there is great excitement. And then you have > the car, and you have the yacht, and you have the > house, and you have the woman... then suddenly all > becomes Meaningless again. > > > Again you have to create another Desire, to escape > from this yawning Abyss, from this Death that is > waiting for you there. It can swallow you in a single > Moment -- if you don't cling to something, it will > swallow you. So you start again. You start thinking of > other houses, of other women, of other places, of > other towns.... That's how, from one Desire to another > Desire, one goes on moving. That's how one remains a > Beggar. From one Desire to another Desire, one goes > knocking on a many, many doors. And nothing ever is > Fulfilled. > > By Jim Brown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 In a message dated 3/7/2006 2:36:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, Nisargadatta writes: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:51:12 -0000 " s_i_l_v_e_r1069 " <silver-1069 Re: To Cure Loquaciousness Read This Nisargadatta , ADHHUB wrote: > > > Now we're cookin weenies at the edge of the abyss! > > Phil ********** Roasting, Phil. Sheesh. Not cooking. Lol. " Silver " Okay, okay, it was a failed attempt to be witty with a cliche. There's an expression, " Now we're cookin with gas " , meaning, 'now we're talking'. It's a stupid expression to begin with. Hehe. Roasting.....got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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