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Conversations with God
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"it's crap."
conv. w. god is the most crappiest signpost you could ever come across.
recommendation posted on Tue, September 12, 2006 - 12:32 PM
Understand
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[J. Krishnamurti had the following dialogue with students at one of his schools in India.]
[Krishnamurti:] Do you know anything about meditation?
Student: No, Sir.
Krishnamurti: But the older people do not know either. They sit in a corne...
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Personality
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Nisargadatta : There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. You think you know yourself when you know what you are. But you never know who you are. The person merely ap...
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Pain and pleasure
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Question: If what I am, as I am, the person I take myself to be, cannot be happy, then what am I to do?
Nisargadatta: You can only cease to be -- as you seem to be now. There is nothing cruel in what I say. To wake up a man from a nightmare is ...
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Mind
(blog entry)
Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands; misunderstading is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy.
- Nisargadatta
[J. Krishnamurti had the following dialogue with students at one of his schools in India.]
[Krishnamurti:] Do you know anything about meditation?
Student: No, Sir.
Krishnamurti: But the older people do not know either. They sit in a corner, close their eyes and concentrate, like school boys trying to concentrate on a book. That is not meditation. Meditation is something extraordinary, if you know how to do it. I am going to talk a little about it.
First of all, sit very quietly; do...
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Nisargadatta : There is no such thing as a person. There are only restrictions and limitations. The sum total of these defines the person. You think you know yourself when you know what you are. But you never know who you are. The person merely appears to be, like the space within the pot appears to have the shape and volume and smell of the pot. See that you are not what you believe yourself to be. Fight with all the strength at your disposal against the idea that you are nameable and descri...
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Question: If what I am, as I am, the person I take myself to be, cannot be happy, then what am I to do?
Nisargadatta: You can only cease to be -- as you seem to be now. There is nothing cruel in what I say. To wake up a man from a nightmare is compassion. You came here because you are in pain, and all I say is: wake up, know yourself, be yourself. The end of pain lies not in pleasure. When you realise that you are beyond both pain and pleasure, aloof and unassailable, then the pursuit of h...
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Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. The mind misunderstands; misunderstading is its very nature. Right understanding is the only remedy.
- Nisargadatta
Tue, July 18, 2006 - 9:40 AM
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"When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and unexpected." Nisargadatta
Fri, July 14, 2006 - 1:02 PM
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