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body-mind thought person
...the sense of being any sort of ... Witness or Self vanishes altogether. You don't look at the sky, you are the
sky. You can taste the sky. It's not out there... There is just pure seeing. Consciousness and its display are
not two.
While you are resting in that state and 'sensing' this Witness as a great expanse, if you then look at say a mountain
you might begin to notice that the sensation of the Witness and the sensation of the mountain are the same sensation.
When you 'feel' your pure Self and you 'feel' the mountain they are absolutely the same feeling.
In other words, the real world is not given to you twice - one out there, one in here. That 'twiceness' is exactly
the meaning of 'duality '.
K. Wilber
Emptiness here, Emptiness there,
but the infinite universe stands
always before your eyes.
Hsin Hsin Ming
...consciousness itself is the only tool we have to examine consciousness. As such, we are locked into an endless
dilemma - a mirror infinitely reflecting a mirror situation, from which there is no escape.
Michael Talbot
It now seems highly plausible that the 'seat of consciousness' will never be found by a neurosurgeon because it
appears to involve not so much an organ, or organs, but the interaction of energy fields within the brain. These
patterns of energy would be disrupted by surgical intervention, and have long since disappeared in cadavers. Neurophysiologists
will not likely find what they are looking for outside their own consciousness, for that which they are looking
for is that which is looking.
Keith Floyd
Is it not important to you to know whether you are a mere body or something else? Or maybe nothing at all? Don't
you see that all your problems are your body's problems food, clothing, shelter, family, friends, name, fame, security,
survival all these lose their meaning the moment you realize you may not be a mere body.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Man is in appearance a derivative of the world, and intrinsically the origin of the world.
Rumi
The nagual is the unspeakable. All the possible feelings and beings and selves float in it like barges, peaceful,
unaltered, forever. Then the glue of life binds some of them together and a being is created. That being loses
the sense of its true nature and becomes blinded by the glare and clamor of the tonal, where all unified organizations
exist. That cluster is the bubble of perception. The secret of the double is in the bubble of perception. Through
the nagual, the cluster of feelings can be rearranged to any form and made to assemble instantly anywhere. In other
words, one can perceive the here and the there at once. The nagual is witnessed by 'wiIl', and the tonal by 'reason'.
Carlos Castaneda
Q.: What kind of reincarnation comes next if one commits suicide?
P.: 'Sui' means "self". The real suicide is to extinguish the life of this 'self' that you think yourself
to be. If you can manage to do this, there will be no more rebirths or deaths. If you just kill the body, you will
soon find a new one to continue your suffering in.
Papaji
Since we are already the Self, suffering arises only when we think ' I 'm the body ',or ' There is a Self which
I have to attain'.
Ramana Maharshi
Q.: Please tell us a method to destroy the mind.
R. :Find out who has the mind. If the mind is still there after you succeed, you may then look for a method to
destroy it.
...The ajnani is like the man who only looks at the names and forms that appear on the cinema screen. The jnani
on the other hand, is always aware of the screen on which the names and forms appear.
Ramana Maharshi
Death -
Q.:What happens when a Self Realised person leaves his body? If there is no need for them to reincarnate, where
do they go?
P.:There is no such thing as a Self realised person. When there is no 'person' the Self is realised. When there
is no 'person' the question of coming and going cannot arise. The body is an appearance in the Self. When the body
disappears the Self remains as it always was and is. Realisation is the understanding 'I am not this body which
comes and goes, I am that permanent, unchanging reality in which the body and all else appears'.
Papaji
Infinitely large and infinitely small;
no difference, for definitions have vanished
and no boundaries are seen.
So too with Being and non Being.
Waste no time in doubts and arguments
that have nothing to do with this.
Hsin Hsin Ming
