Attention…excludes nothing

Submitted by sudeepg on Sat, 2007-12-01 11:07.
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Attention is not the same thing as concentration. Concentration is exclusion; attention, which is total awareness, excludes nothing. It seems to me that most of us are not aware, not only of what we are talking about but of our environment, the colours around us, the people, the shape of the trees, the clouds, the movement of water. Perhaps it is because we are so concerned with ourselves, with our own petty little problems, our own ideas, our own pleasures, pursuits and ambitions that we are not objectively aware. And yet we talk a great deal about awareness.


A man who pursues virtue consciously is unvirtuous

Submitted by sudeepg on Mon, 2007-08-13 06:11.
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I am only conscious of this activity of the ‘me’ when I am opposing, when consciousness is thwarted, when the ‘me’ is desirous of achieving a result. The ‘me’ is active, or I am conscious of that centre, when pleasure comes to an end and I want to have more of that pleasure; then there is resistance, and there is a purposive shaping of the mind to a particular end which will give me a delight, a satisfaction. I am aware of myself


If you listen completely, there is no listener

Submitted by sudeepg on Mon, 2007-08-13 06:06.
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Listen to those crows. Do listen. If you listen completely, is there a centre from which you are listening?


Try to reflect qualities of mirror

Submitted by Cindrella on Tue, 2007-04-17 10:26.
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Mirror is the one that cannot afford attachment. Once you are standing before the mirror: you are being reflected, reflected totally. The mirror is joyous in reflecting you; the mirror celebrates you, your presence. But the moment you are gone, you are gone. The mirror does not cling to your picture. The mirror does not create a memory of you; the mirror never thinks of you. The mirror will never have any nostalgia, the mirror will never think, “How beautiful a person was!


What is meditation?

Submitted by siddhananda on Sun, 2007-04-08 18:01.
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There are various schools, in India and further East, where they teach methods of meditation—it is really most appalling. It means training the mind mechanically; it therefore ceases to be free and does not understand the problem.


Breath life of body; Meditation life of soul

Submitted by Cindrella on Thu, 2007-04-05 11:35.
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Meditation is just like breathe; the way breathing is a continuous process, in the very same way meditation is a continuous process. You breathe while you walk, talk, sleep, eat, you breathe for twenty hours a day. You can not breathe for one hour and then put it aside for twenty-three hours. In the very same way, it is not possible to be meditative for one hour. If you are doing that, that means your meditation is false. Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.


There are many doors for Salvation but the key is one

Submitted by Cindrella on Tue, 2007-04-03 09:08.
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There are many doors to the temple of God like peace, love, compassion. All these doors bring bliss, a tremendous understanding of other people, forgiveness, a great humility, humbleness, egolessness, truthfulness, sincerity, authenticity with them. But at every door you will need the same key to unlock it – and that is meditation, that is awareness.


Mind is a beautiful instrument, often used unwisely

Submitted by siddhananda on Thu, 2007-03-22 19:34.
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Mind is a beautiful instrument. It is the cause of all our happiness and cause of all our miseries. We think that we are mind, we are thoughts, but that is not true. Just as we cannot say that we are our bodies, we are also not our mind. Mind is an instrument in our hand.


If you are in that state of choiceless observation, then you will perceive the whole process of creating a habit

Submitted by siddhananda on Fri, 2007-03-16 23:18.
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Awareness is the process of awakening intelligence, not creating new habits to fight the old ones. So, you must become conscious of your habits of thought, but do not try to develop opposite qualities or habits. If you are fully aware, if you are in that state of choiceless observation, then you will perceive the whole process of creating a habit and also the opposite process of overcoming it. This discernment awakens intelligence, which does away with all habits of thought. We are eager to get rid of those habits which give us pain or which we have found to be worthless, by creating other habits of thought and assertions.


Conflict is in relationship

Submitted by richard on Mon, 2007-03-05 10:24.
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Our conflict is in relationship…and the understanding of this relationship…is the only real problem that each one has.

Self-knowledge is not a thing to be bought in books, nor is it the outcome of a long painful practice and discipline, but it is awareness, from moment to moment, of every thought and feeling as it arises in relationship. Relationship is not on an abstract, ideological level but an actuality—the relationship with property, with people, and with ideas. Relationship implies existence and, as nothing can live in isolation, to be is to be related.


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