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Post by withinsilence on May 4, 2012 20:41:47 GMT
Gurth, I say thank you for your unwavering, balanced, honest views on this site. You have helped me to see life in an unconditionally accepting view which, is the place that offers unending peace.
"a purposeful self inquiry" nice popee, as that's where it all begins!
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Post by popee on May 5, 2012 19:44:30 GMT
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Post by gurthbruins on May 6, 2012 20:07:32 GMT
ws, I hear what you say, I accept it with thanks to the One and All.
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Post by withinsilence on May 8, 2012 0:37:11 GMT
Verse 71 of ......you guessed it!
Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First, realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician. She has healed herself of all knowing. Thus, she is truly whole.
This passage is profound, spoken with such eloquence, and enlightening simplicity!
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Post by withinsilence on May 9, 2012 19:11:15 GMT
The sage is not sick because she is sick of sickness.
The world is sick because it believes that it is well.
Those who believe they're not lost, found they cannot be.
Equanimity is what lies behind the wall of thoughts, awareness is the ladder one climbs to reveal it and acceptance is the hammer that removes it completely.
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Post by popee on May 14, 2012 15:06:01 GMT
there is only one problem (but its a big one ... lol) ...
willful diversions from the present moment
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Post by withinsilence on May 14, 2012 23:57:51 GMT
Everytime I just about make it to the present moment, my mind wanders off into thoughts of the past rembering that I'm supposed to be in the present moment. So then I projected a thought that one day in the future I will be in the present moment but when I think about it, its already in the past. Hhhmmmmmm...This stuff is so hard, I think I'll just sit here in silence and listen real hard to see if I can hear what the present moment sounds like without any thoughts about it. Hummm...this is so nice and peaceful, I don't hear or see any thoughts at all. Boy do I hope that one day when I find the present moment that it will be as peaceful as this! Here it is again in a different way: In a cinema hall, you look at the screen, you never look at the back - the projector is at the back. The film is not there really on the screen; it is just a projection of shadow and light. The film exists just at the back, but you never look at that. And the projector is there. Your mind is at the back of the whole thing, and the mind is the projector. But you always look at the other, because the other is the screen. When you are in love the person seems beautiful, no comparison. When you hate, the same person seems the ugliest, and you never become aware of how the same person can be the ugliest and the same person can be the most beautiful.... So the only way to reach to truth is to learn how to be immediate in your vision, how to drop the help of the mind. This agency of the mind is the problem, because mind can create only dreams.... Through your excitement the dream starts looking like reality. If you are too excited then you are intoxicated, then you are not in your senses. Then whatsoever you see is just your projection. And there are as many worlds as there are minds, because every mind lives in his own world. Osho
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