Who knows?

Who knows the path
to enlightenment?
It could be Buddha,
maybe Rumi.

I search and search
for the one who knows.
I've tried them all
but can't decide.

I've looked at the great
Krishnamurti and Belsakar,
at Nisargadatta and Dalai Lama
but don't know who to follow.

Jesus Christ seems like
a good contender.
Or maybe Tolle
or Yogananda. 

After all these
futile attempts,
it dawns on me.

All I need is this
precious moment.



 

Remember who you are

As you walk on Mother Earth
remember who you are -
the entirety of every things birth.

When the universe was created
you were born -
and light was added .

All the stars,
all the planets
and even tiny quasars.

The surf,
the wind,
all the glorious turf.

You are begat
with a lot of this
and a lot of that. 

The love and glory
that's in your soul
will be for ever more .

Universal Energy

The energy that runs through your body is not imaginary or an illusion.  It is as real as sunlight, as true as sound, and as natural as the wind.  Do not underestimate the healing power or magnitude of that energy.

The third chapter of the Yoga Sutras speaks extensively on how energy is important for enhancing power and potency in the human body.  The Vedas calls energy the "responsive energy," the "life force," the "prana" which runs through the body and holds it together.  This force consists of both the physical (paramanus) and the non-physical (akasha) components of all things.

The Upanishads stress that in both the universe and the individual human being there is a power that never changes.  That power is something that is greater and grander than either the universe or the human being.  "It is a power that never changes."   

The Bhagavad Gita (7:4-5) mentions the life-force that extends throughout the universe and is beyond earth, water, fire, wind, space, mind, understanding, and individuality.  The life-force is the energy that pervades all living and non-living entities everywhere.

The person who gets in touch with this never changing energy and can feel its presence flowing through his/her very being will never cease to exist. 

 

Who said

"When you know yourself, then you will be known, and you will realize that you and the father are one?"
a. Jesus                             c.. Sri Nisargadatta
b. Muhammad                   d.  Ramacharaka

"Whoever finds himself is superior to the world?"
a. Jesus                             c. Sri Nisargadatta
b. Muhammad                   d. Ramacharaka 

"Is it not written in your law,  I said, Ye are all gods?"
a. Jesus                             c. Sri Nisargadatta
b. Muhammad                   d. Ramacharaka

"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
a. Jesus                             c. Sri Nisargadatta
b. Muhammad                   d. Ramacharaka

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They are all quotes from Jesus.

The Old Man and the Quarter

There was an old man who worked in a bar cleaning the floors and the bathrooms.  The owner of the pub didn't pay him much but allowed him to drink as much beer as he wanted and sleep in the back room  He seemed congenial enough and everyone liked him but he never said much.  He would usually speak only when spoken to.

Patrons of the bar would play a game with the old man by showing him a bright shiny quarter and an old paper dollar and ask him which one he wanted.  He always wanted the bright shiny quarter.  He would smile and put the quarter in his pocket, they would laugh and snicker, and he would go about his cleaning. The quarter and dollar game went on for years.  One day the owner of the bar asked the old man why he always picked the quarter.  The old man explained to the owner that if he ever picked the dollar the game would be over.

Misery and Suffering

You must look beyond your self
if you ever want to get out of
misery and suffering. 

The self is the body and the mind.
It is all the beliefs that have accumulated
over the many, many years of life.

It is your values of what is good
and what is bad.
It is your feelings and emotions.

The self is nothing more than
an illusion created out of fear of
death and desperation of living.

It is time to stop the madness.
It is time to look beyond the self
and allow it to dissolve.

Where the self goes
so goes the ego.
They are inseparable.

To eliminate misery
and sufferring
you must rise above both.

Do not try to understand
by thinking.
Understand by not thinking.

The Self is universal.
It is the only reality.
It is beyond misery and suffering.

Concepts, beliefs, identity
are nothing but illusions -
mainstays of the ego-self.

You are eternal presence - now,
before birth and
after death.

When you discover
presence you will
discover Self.

Attachment to body,
to mind, to consciousness
is very strong.

Release their hold.
Allow presence
to fully appear.

The self and the ego
can be the source
of all misery and suffering.

They can also be
the source for all
love and compassion.

Meditate
in order to know
the Self.

Meditate
in order to know
reality.

The sense of "I"
is temporary.
"I Am" is constant.

There is no doer,
no achiever, or
individual.

Misery and suffering
lie within the ego,
within the self.

The ego-self
is the individual doer -
the individual achiever.

Rest in the Self.
Allow ego-self to be
passive and uninvolved.

Meditate on "I Am."
Meditate on the Self.
Meditate on spaciousness. 

When there is nothing
you still are.
You are the Absolute.

The ego believes
it is the self,
the doer, the thinker.

You know you are not
the self, the doer,
the thinker.

You are - - - - - - - - -

Results of the Experiential Method

There were eighty five (85) hits on the last post, "The Experiential Method," but only two (2) people made comments.  And those comments had nothing to do with the experiential method. 

I am at a lose.  Was it too difficult to understand?  Was it too much reading?  Maybe it wasn't entertaining enough.  Maybe the subject of investigation (the mind) isn't important enouth. 

Can anybody help me out?