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last obstacle
When you sit quiet and watch yourself, all kinds of things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don'
t react to them; as they have come so will they go, by themselves. All that matters is mindfulness, total awareness
of oneself or rather, of one's mind.
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Q.:Can Meditation lead to Enlightenment? If not, why not?
P.:Meditation is a mental activity. There is a subject, the meditator, who is manipulating or organising objects
which are thoughts. Both the subject and the objects have to disappear for Enlightenment to take place. Meditation
just prolongs their existence.
Papaji
Q.:Many people have spent years successfully making an effort to quieten their mind.
Is this bringing them any nearer to Enlightenment or are they merely increasing their powers of concentration?
P.:People who successfully make efforts to quieten their minds are concentrating intensively on a object of thought
called 'silence'. This is not the silence of no thoughts. It is the experiencing of a mental state by intense effort,
when both the effort and the thoughts cease, Enlightenment occurs.
Papaji
Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature... But one cannot reach it without effort, the effort of
deliberate meditation.
Ramana Maharshi
When you try to stop activity to achieve passivity
your very effort fills you with activity.
As long as you remain in one extreme or the other,
you will never know Oneness.
Hsin Hsin Ming
...these Nondual traditions do not necessarily abandon emotions, or thoughts, or desires, or inclinations. The
task is simply to see the Emptiness of all Form, not to actually get rid of all Form. An so Forms continue to arise,
and you learn to surf.
The liberation is in the Emptiness, never in the Form, but Emptiness embraces all forms as a mirror all its obiects.
Ken Wilber
Q.:There are many paths to Enlightenment, including a path that uses union with a partner as a way to the Divine.
Some people have experienced, when making love with their partner, a feeling of oneness with existence. Do you
believe it is possible to achieve true liberation in such a way?
P.:Physical activities can only produce physical results. Mental activities produce mental results. Sexual activity
produces babies. Enlightenment is not produced by any of them.
Papaji:
Our being here is our eternal being. Many people imagine here to have creaturely being, and divine being to be
yonder. It is a popular delusion.
Eckhart
Disciple: How can I keep from regressing?
Bankei: Abide in the Unborn Buddha Mind. When you do, you won't need to bother about advancing or regressing. In
fact, when you abide in the Unborn, trying to advance is to instantly regress from the place of the Unborn.
The Buddha Mind, unborn and marvellously illuminating is like a bright mirror. A mirror reflects whatever is in
front of it. It's not deliberately trying to reflect things...Likewise, when the object being reflected is removed,
the mirror isn't trying not to reflect it, but when it's taken away it doesn't appear in the mirror. The Unborn
Buddha Mind is just like this.
Bankei
Stopping the Internal Dialog
Stopping our description of the world; breaking the barrier of perception. Stopping the internal dialog is the
key to the sorcerers' world. The rest of the activities are only props to accelerate the effect.
Controlled Folly
Since a man of knowledge 'sees' and he knows that nothing is more important than anything else then nothing matters
to him, he has only his controlled folly, acting as if it mattered even though he knows it does not.
The Tonal and the Nagual
The tonal is but a reflection of that indescribable unknown filled with order; the nagual is but a reflection of
that indescribable void that contains everything.
The Dreamer and the Dreamed
The secret of the dreamer and the dreamed is that the dreamed dreams the dreamer, just as the dreamer dreams the
dreamed.
The Secret of the Luminous Beings
The secret of the luminous beings is that we are perceivers, we are an awareness without solidity or bounds. The
world we think we see is only a description of world told to us by our internal dialog, a description that has
been taught to us by others. We are trapped inside that bubble of perception and what we witness on its walls is
a reflection of our world view, our description.
Bubble of Perception
The bubble of perception is the cluster of feelings that have been assembled in the nagual and bound together by
the force of life.
Carlos Castaneda
Q: Devotees who live around a great Master often think that they are the elect.
MM: Everyone here thinks that he or she is special. But to be special you have to know you are nothing.
Q: How can I realize 'Who am I?'
MM: Give up that 'I' and you will know.
Q: What daily discipline helps us realize the Divine?
MM: Remember the Divine in everything you do. If you have time, meditate. Offer everything to the Divine, everything
good or bad, pure or impure. This is the best and quickest way.
Mother Meera
Q.Do you give up completely?
U.G.You see, giving up something in the hope of getting somehing else in its place is not really giving up. The
very idea of giving up, the very idea of denying certain things to yourself, is in the hope of getting something
else.
Q.We keep hoping.
U.G.
