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Re: today's Nisargadatta

 

Nisargadatta , " dan330033 " <dan330033 wrote:

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> Nisargadatta , " Tim G. " <fewtch@> wrote:

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> > Nisargadatta: On what business have you come here?

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> > Questioner: On my old business of making myself safe and happy. I confess I

have not been too successful. I am neither safe nor happy. Therefore, you find

me here. This place is new to me, but my reason for coming here is old: the

search for safe happiness, happy safety. So far I did not find it. Can you help

me?

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> > NM: What was never lost can never be found. Your very search for safety and

joy keeps you away from them. Stop searching, cease losing. The disease is

simple and the remedy equally simple. It is your mind only that makes you

insecure and unhappy. Anticipation makes you insecure, memory -- unhappy. Stop

misusing your mind and all will be well with you. You need not set it right --

it will set itself right, as soon as you give up all concern with the past and

the future and live entirely in the now.

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> > Q: But the now has no dimension. I shall become a nobody, a nothing !

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> > NM: Exactly. As nothing and nobody you are safe and happy.

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> Nice quote - thanks for posting it.

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> It's simple clear words like this, presumably, that were the inspiration for

Hur in creating this group.

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Well, it seems it's for mindless flaming now.

 

But there are presumably some folks still reading that may be interested in

Nisargadatta, and what he said.

 

> Nisargadatta points to clear being, which is being nothing.

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> And " safety, happiness " ... as in: nothing to attack, to prove, to assert or

force, and nothing to avoid or get away from.

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Yup yip.

 

 

 

as in:

 

" nothing to attack, to prove, to assert or force..

 

and nothing to avoid or get away from. " ..

 

for whom?

 

yippee!

 

hahahahahaha!

 

..b b.b.