Showing posts with label ramana maharshi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ramana maharshi. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2013
It's Okay to Abandon Everything
You're never stuck.
See, stuck is a state of mind only. So is attachment. In fact, they are both the same thing.
We fear leaving our job, because we fear losing our house or our wives and husbands or our status or our career.
Yet we always have the choice to simplify our lives. We can begin to shed more and more of the outside needs and wants, and get down to the absolute essentials.
I know a young man who left behind his frozen and stuck lifestyle and gave away all of his things. He kept only what fits in a backpack, a small backpack.
His items included only 2 changes of clothes, thin and easy to roll-up and pack. He walks the Earth at this very moment, and has done so for years, living as a nomad, doing minor computer work as he roams about the planet.
He's happy. He could have remained in one place, and he'd still be happy, so long as he kept only what fits into a backpack.
None of us are stuck. But people who imagine that they are stuck sometimes end up taking their own lives, because they believe what they imagine and see no way out of it.
If you think you are stuck, let go of whatever it is that you think makes you stuck. Let go of the thought, first. Let go of the need to fit in. Let go of the society. Let go of the rules. Let go of approval from your parents. Let go of having to please others and lovers and friends. Let go of the fear of being free like a dignified animal of nature.
And just go. Go in, and move outward. Be with yourself. If you are afraid to be alone, then go off on your own into the forest for a month or two alone. If you are afraid of death, then do as Ramana Maharshi, and lay still on the ground, and think about death for the whole day. Feel your body dying. Face the psychological fears surrounding the avoidance of squarely facing your own inevitable demise.
It's too short, this life. Might as well enjoy it. Oddly enough, this is the greatest gift you can give to the world. Equally odd is the fact that only those who have simplified and released their attachments can see that this is so.
Attachments are blinders. Release them and see. Life is an adventure, and like it or not, you are an adventurer.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Knowing is Being
It's really difficult for most to accept that the deepest form of knowing is simply being, which continues to be despite whether or not thought is going on.
What this means is that the intellect isn't even necessary to understand what reality is. Being reality is the only way. Reality will never be separate.
To take an imaginary step out of reality, in other words, to create a separate identity and also a "world" out there for this identity to look at, this is the illusion.
Ramana Maharshi said that knowing is being. It can be really frustrating to ease the investment in a mental self/world in order to experience the always already present reality beneath, within, as all there is.
This is why we are thankful to the ego. In the end the ego is the source of our pain and suffering to such a degree that we are guided back again and again to giving up thought-identity. We relax. We come full-stop in the mind. And here we are.
Rest as this beingness. If there has to be a practice of any sort, it might as well be this.
Monday, June 3, 2013
BEST Site for Pointers, Hands Down!
PointerPointer.com is the absolute best site for pointers. I hope all of the nonduality friends find their way to this absolutely amazing site:
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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Two Free Ramana Maharshi e-books
Here are two fantastic and simple books filled with enlightening talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi. The books are in epub format, and can be converted to any other format using the free ebook file converter called Calibre.
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