This moment is enough ~ Watch, Listen and Relax
This moment is enough ~ Watch, Listen and Relax
Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra on how to achieve Supreme realisation
‘When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold’
Breath is the first action ~ but it is not Your action ~ Osho
And then the ninth, the last, arises: the need for spiritual activity – meditation, SAMADHI. And this is the beauty of the whole phenomenon – that the ninth is again the first, because the ninth again pays attention to breath. The circle is complete. First is breath, ninth is again breath; that’s why no spiritual…
Is it possible to Meditate without any technique? ~ Osho
But what are you going to do with your mind? Your mind will create a thousand and one difficulties. Those techniques are needed to remove the mind from the way, to create a space in which the mind becomes quiet, silent, almost absent.
Meditation is life’s ultimate luxury ~ Osho
Meditation is life’s ultimate luxury Osho
Vijnana Bhairava Tantra on focusing awareness between breaths
Oh Bhairavi, by focusing one’s awareness on the two voids (at the end) of the internal and external breath, thereby the glorious form of Bhairava is revealed through Bhairavi. ~ Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
Our essential nature is 🌺pure consciousness. It Just Is ~ Billy Doyle
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The life I am trying to grasp is the ME that is trying to grasp it ~ RD Laing
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao ~ Tao Te Ching
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. ~ Tao Te Ching
You should feel no guilt about where you are on your Spiritual path ~ Ram Dass
You should feel no guilt about where you are on your Spiritual path ~ Ram Dass
Select quotations on Self Enquiry and Centering Awareness from the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra
When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold. ~ Verse 62 One should concentrate on the state when sleep has not yet come, but the external awareness has disappeared (between waking and sleep)—there the…
Leave everything undefined, including yourself ~ Jeff foster
Leave everything undefined, including yourself ~ Jeff foster
Look for the mysterious in life ~ Osho
Look for the mysterious in life. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it ~ Osho
We’re all just walking each other home ~ Ram Dass
We’re all just walking each other home ~ Ram Dass
Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle
It is Ignorance to know the diversity of the whole world and never to have asked, Who is the Knower ? ~ Billy Doyle
Krishnamurti ~ In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind
In the gap between the Subject and the Object lies the entire misery of humankind ~ Krishnamurti
Li Po ~ Witnessing ~ Until only the Mountain remains
“The birds have vanished down the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.” Li Po
Osho on how to live your life
“The best way to miss life is to have a certain attitude towards it. The attitudes originate in the mind, and life is beyond mind. The attitudes are our fabrications, our prejudices, our inventions. Life is not our fabrication; on the contrary we are just ripples in the lake of life” Osho
Osho on seeing things just as they are
“Start seeing things without naming them, without labeling them, without saying good or bad, without dividing them. Just see and allow the fact to be there in your presence without any judgement, condemnation, appreciation, whatsoever ~ Osho
“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!” ― Ram Dass, Be Here Now
“I can do nothing for you but work on myself…you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!” ― Ram Dass, Be Here Now
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone ~ Alan Watts
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone ~ Alan Watts
Ram Dass ~ Spreading Light
“The more conscious a being becomes, the more he can use any occupation as a vehicle for spreading light.” – Ram Dass
Ram Dass ~ Wisdom
“Each of us finds his unique vehicles for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.” – Ram Dass
Ram Dass ~ Surrender the heart
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.” – Ram Dass
Ram Dass ~ Hear
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear” – Ram Dass
Ram Dass ~ Walking Home
“We are all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass
Quick Meditation ~ Blankness
In a state of sincerity, Try to reverse think about all the thoughts that you have had in the past half hour. Keep going backwards until you reach a state of blankness, Stay with it and repeat it – The Blank state will keep becoming longer.
Quick Meditation ~ Observe
Lift your Hand calmly. Now observe the Hand. And try to reach the ultimate observer who is observing everything.
Quick Meditation ~ Who am I?
Ask yourself in a state of relaxation and sincerity, Am I the Body? Am I the Thoughts/Emotions/Feelings? Am I the Brain? Who Am I?
Quick Meditation ~ Ultimate Observer
Whenever you remember, try asking yourself – Who is noticing that? who is noticing that? Try to reach the ultimate observer of whatsoevers happening.
Quick Meditation ~ Noticing
Ask yourself, what can I notice without words or what can I notice without any labels to it, Just pure noticing.
Screen ~ Rupert Spira
“In other words, in reality, there are not two things—one, the screen and two, the document or image. There is just the screen.” – Rupert Spira
Knowing of our own Being ~ Rupert Spira
“However, love, peace and happiness are inherent in the knowing of our own being. In fact, they are the knowing of being. They are simply” – Rupert Spira
Self Knowing ~ Rupert Spira
“And this ‘knowing’ is our self, aware presence. In other words, all that is ever experienced is our self knowing itself, awareness aware of awareness.” – Rupert Spira
Unreal and Real ~ Rupert Spira
“We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.” – Rupert Spira
Suffering ~ Ram Dass
“Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.”Ram Dass
The Me in You ~ Ram Dass
“Only that in you, which is me can hear what I’m saying.” – Ram Dass
Expect Nothing ~ Ram Dass
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.” – Ram Dass
Be Love ~ Ram Dass
“I’m not interested in being a ‘lover.’ I’m interested in only being love.” – Ram Dass
Love without an object ~ Ram Dass
“Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an…
We meet in Silence ~ Ram Dass
“We’re fascinated by the words, but where we meet is in the silence behind them.” – Ram Dass
Starve your Ego ~ Unknown
“Starve your Ego, Feed your soul” – Unknown.
Ultimate aim of Ego ~ Muhammad Iqbal
“The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.” – Muhammad Iqbal
Ego is always looking ~ Marianne Williamson
“The ego is always looking to find something; the spirit sees what’s already there.” -Marianne Williamson
`Playfulness kills Ego ~ Osho
“Nothing kills the ego like playfulness, like laughter. When you start taking life as fun, the ego has to die, it cannot exist anymore.” -Osho
Complaining strengthens ego ~ Eckhart Tolle
“The ego loves to strengthen itself by complaining—either in thoughts or words—about other people, the situation you find yourself in, something that is happening right now but “shouldn’t be,” and even about yourself.” –Eckhart Tolle
Acceptance ~ Osho
“Accept whatsoever you are. In that very acceptance you will accept others, too.” – Osho
Self-Transformation ~ Osho
“My teaching is not for self-control, self-discipline. My teaching is for self-awareness, self-transformation.” – Osho
Opinion creates ego ~ Osho
“It is others’ opinion about you that creates the ego.” – Osho
Start Meditating ~ Osho
“Start meditating. Start putting off the constant chattering of the head. Slowly, the mind becomes quiet. Get into things where the mind is not needed—for example, dancing. Dance, and dance to abandon, because in dance the mind is not needed. You can lose yourself in a dance. In losing yourself in a dance, the heart…
Go inward and Inquire ~ Osho
“Go inward and inquire, and you will see that all your miseries exist because you support them. Without your support nothing can exist. Because you give it energy, it exists; if you don’t give it energy it cannot exist.” – Osho
Befriend Sadness ~ Osho
“You are feeling sad? Befriend it. Have compassion for it. Sadness also has a being. Allow it, embrace it, sit with it, hold hands with it. Be friendly. Be in love with it. Sadness is beautiful! Nothing is wrong with it. Who told you that something is wrong in being sad? In fact, only sadness…
Accept challenges of life ~ Osho
The only problem with sadness, desperation, anger, hopelessness, anxiety, anguish, misery, is that you want to get rid of them. That’s the only barrier. You will have to live with them. You cannot just escape. They are the very situation in which life has to integrate and grow. They are the challenges of life. Accept…
Turmoil ~ Osho
“What are your thoughts except ripples on a lake? What are your emotions, your moods, your sentiments? What is your whole mind? – just a turmoil. And because of this turmoil you cannot see your own nature. You go on missing yourself.” -Osho
Meet yourself ~ Osho
“You meet everybody in the world and you never meet yourself.” – Osho
Natural Purity ~ Babuji
The mind is extremely pure and therefore throws out all the thoughts – Divine or worldly which arise and try to disturb its natural purity – Babuji
God can not be defined ~ Babuji
God has been defined in many ways. But none of them are correct. If god can be defined, He’s not god at all. – Babuji
Ultimate Consciousness ~ Babuji
Only ultimate consciousness can change the character of a man. – Babuji
Experience of reality ~ Babuji
People ask for an experience of reality, but they don’t understand it -Babuji
I’m a Listener ~ Babuji
I’m not a speaker, But a listener – Babuji
Contentment ~ Kamlesh Patel
“The way meditation regulates the mind is by orienting it toward the ultimate Source of contentment.” ― Kamlesh Patel Daaji
No creativity without peace ~ Kamlesh Patel
“Without peace, we cannot be creative.” ― Kamlesh Patel Daaji
Divinity ~ Kamlesh Patel
“Divinity flows through heart to heart.
Spiritualize Everything ~ Kamlesh Patel
“Everything you do, spiritualise it. Your heart will guide you.” ― Kamlesh Patel Daaji
Existence through meditation ~ Kamlesh Patel
Heartfulness is about expansion of consciousness and divinization of existence through meditation.― Kamlesh Patel Daaji
You are not it ~ Adyashanti
“Whatever you think you are, that’s not it.” ― Adyashanti
Hiding Emptiness ~ Adyashanti
“Whatever the image of yourself, it’s a mask and it’s hiding emptiness.” ― Adyashanti
The greatest dream ~ Adyashanti
“The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.” ― Adyashanti
Delusions ~ Adyashanti
All delusions begin in the mind. All delusions are based on various ways we’re talking to ourselves and then believing what we are saying.” ― Adyashanti
Suffer ~ Adyashanti
“When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.” ― Adyashanti
Awareness ~ Adyashanti
“Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.” ― Adyashanti
The Truth Itself ~ Adyashanti
“As long as you are trying to become, trying to get somewhere, trying to attain something, you are quite literally moving away from the Truth itself.” ― Adyashanti
Give yourself to silence ~ Adyashanti
“In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.” ― Adyashanti
Love unconditionally ~ Adyashanti
“As I often tell my students, the person you’ll have the hardest time opening to and truly loving without reserve is yourself. Once you can do that, you can love the whole universe unconditionally.” ― Adyashanti
Let go of all ideas ~ Adyashanti
“Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?” ― Adyashanti
Enlightenment ~ Adyashanti
“Enlightenment is nothing more than the complete absence of resistance to what is. End of story.” ― Adyashanti
Truth has no agenda ~ Adyashanti
“The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda.” ― Adyashanti
Awake ~ Adyashanti
“My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.” ― Adyashanti
Awaken silence ~ Adyashanti
“All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.” ― Adyashanti
Truth ~ Adyashanti
“The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.” – Adyashanti
Consciousness has no religion ~ Jeff Foster
“Consciousness has no religion and no nationality.” – Jeff Foster
Spirituality is about celebration ~ Jeff Foster
“Spirituality is about celebration of the uniqueness of who you are and recognizing our underlying shared essence.” – Jeff Foster
Deeply Allowed ~ Jeff Foster
“Can this moment be deeply allowed? and if it can’t can that be allowed too?” – Jeff Foster
True Spirituality ~ Jeff Foster
“True spirituality is not a comfort – it is a furnace, burning up your cherished homes and dreams, your outdated beliefs about life, the universe and everything.” – Jeff Foster
This Moment ~ Jeff Foster
“My guru is this moment. My lineage is this moment. My spiritual path is this moment. And my home is this moment.” – Jeff Foster
Awareness ~ Jeff Foster
“Just as the ocean allows every wave, Awareness allows every thought and feeling.” – Jeff Foster
Embrace of Helplessness ~ Jeff Foster
“The most unexpectedly beautiful gifts can come from a deep and total embrace of helplessness.” – Jeff Foster
Breathe in the moment ~ Jeff Foster
“Breathe in the moment, exactly as it is. Love changes everything, by leaving everything unchanged.” – Jeff Foster
The Pathless Path ~ Jeff Foster
“Accept your non-acceptance. Forgive your inability to forgive. Surrender to your lack of surrender. This is the pathless path!” – Jeff Foster
Understanding Depression ~ Jeff Foster
“The word “depressed” is spoken phonetically as “deep rest”. We can view depression not as a mental illness, but on a deeper level, as a profound state of deep rest, entered into when we are completely exhausted by the weight of our own identity.” – Jeff Foster
True happiness ~ Jeff Foster
“True happiness has no opposite, for it embraces all. It is your nature, not some far-off utopia. It is you, before you were named, before you learned to doubt yourself.” – Jeff Foster
Illusions ~ Jeff Foster
“One of the biggest illusions: something outside of myself is going to bring me home.” – Jeff Foster
We are not in control ~ Jeff Foster
“We are not in control. Everything is dying from the moment it is born, as the Buddha taught. Everything is made of crystal. And therein lies our greatest sorrow and deepest depression, but also our greatest potential for joy and liberation.” – Jeff Foster
Core Fears ~ Jeff Foster
“There are two core fears: losing what you have, and not getting what you want. There is one solution: Falling in love with where you are.” – Jeff Foster
Discover your natural happiness ~ Jeff Foster
“Stop waiting for others to make you happy. You’ll be waiting forever. Discover your natural happiness. The in-built contentment that doesn’t depend on content.” – Jeff Foster
‘Nothing’ can make you happy ~ Jeff Foster
“Nothing can make you happy until Nothing can make you happy.” – Jeff Foster
Self that loves ~ Jeff Foster
“Stop trying to love yourself. Simply be the self that loves.” – Jeff Foster
Love is the answer ~ Jeff Foster
“Love is the answer. The question is unimportant.” – Jeff Foster
Find how vast you are ~ Jeff Foster
“Life is just a constant invitation to find out how vast you are.” – Jeff Foster