Spiritual practice / sri niz

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, " upadesa " <maunna wrote:

>

> For those who didn't guess who wrote this.

> ...

>

> When I met my Guru, he told me: " You are not what you take yourself

> to be. Find out what you are. Watch the sense 'I am', find your real

> Self. " I obeyed him, because I trusted him. I did as he told me. All

> my spare time I would spend looking at myself in silence. And what a

> difference it made, and how soon!

>

> My teacher told me to hold on to the sense 'I am' tenaciously and

not

> to swerve from it even for a moment. I did my best to follow his

> advice and in a comparatively short time I realized within myself

the

> truth of his teaching. All I did was to remember his teaching, his

> face, his words constantly. This brought an end to the mind; in the

> stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am -- unbound.

>

> I simply followed (my teacher's) instruction which was to focus the

> mind on pure being 'I am', and stay in it. I used to sit for hours

> together, with nothing but the 'I am' in my mind and soon peace and

> joy and a deep all-embracing love became my normal state. In it all

> disappeared -- myself, my Guru, the life I lived, the world around

> me. Only peace remained and unfathomable silence.

>

> Nisargadatta Maharaj

>

 

 

 

 

 

thank you, mouna... i did not guess

the particular name and form. of course,

it figures. oh, old niz! jai!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The sage...

 

His name and form,

Her apparent mind and identity,

Is merely

A peephole

In the wall of the seeming

separation,

Which appears as the world, the creation...

 

The sage is

A see-through window

Behind which there is nothing else

But the inexplicable and incomparable,

Ever pristine, whole and eternal

Boundless and indefinable,

Truth/self/god.

The real.

 

The sage is, simply

Pure grace in manifestation!

 

 

 

gratefully,

yosy