'Non-duality is the recognition that underlying the multiplicity and diversity of experience there is a single, infinite and indivisible reality, whose nature is pure consciousness, from which all objects and selves derive their apparently independent existence. The recognition of this reality is not only the source of lasting happiness within all people; it is the foundation of peace between individuals, communities and nations, and it must be the basis for any sustainable relationship with the environment.'
R.Spira
'This perpetual longing for happiness—which can, by definition, never be fulfilled because that very search itself denies the happiness that is present in our own being now—condemns us to an endless search in the future and thus perpetuates unhappiness. It is for this reason that the poet said, ‘Most men lead lives of quiet desperation’.
Consider this – what you are depends on the range of the observer. At several feet you appear human. At closer ranges you are cells, molecules, particles… At greater ranges you are a city perhaps, a country, the planet, the star, the galaxy…
But what are you at the zero distance? In other words, what are you really?
I’ve had the honour of spending years working with hundreds of conscious beings, and I’ve noticed a few common factors: when we recognise our True Nature as Awareness and release the contracted feelings, your whole world shifts around you.
Born Venkataraman Iyer, Ramana is probably the most well known sage of 20th century India – who had a spontaneous awakening at 16, in his home in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. This awakening was in the form of a “death experience,” triggered by the thought that he was going to die. Even though fear overtook him, but instead of panic, he decided to investigate death:
What dies and what survives?
'The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it'.
'in the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am — unbound'..
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/172897.Nisargadatta_Maharaj
'Like it or not, you are what you are looking for. And, I'm telling you, your head does not like it. It would much rather become what you are, than be what you are.
We're hyper-conscious of the mental states that seem to forget that we are conscious.
There are five gates: seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, and touching; and then there's the sixth gate that dominates it all. Which gate is dominating it all? The mental gate.
The hearing of thoughts is overriding the seeing, the feeling, the tasting, the touching, and the smelling, all day. We're hyper-conscious of the mental states that seem to forget that we are conscious.
Don Oakley won the New England High School Swimming Championship in the 100-yard butterfly; dropped out of Princeton University five months before graduating; traveled overland across Asia when Muslims still liked Americans; hitch-hiked through Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji; paddled 600 miles down the Kazan River to the Arctic Circle; studied architecture in Boston; spent three years at an ashram in India; consulted as a licensed Civil Engineer and built affordable houses in Oregon; and worked as a full-time volunteer for Adyashanti’s Open Gate Sangha organization for two years and now serves as one of its Directors. Since, 2029, he and his wife, Patty Bottari, have served as creators, managers and caretakers of Well Being Retreat Center in rural northeast Tennessee.
'Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it'.
Do we really live in a fundamentally physical universe? Are we essentially material beings? Essentia Foundation is a new force in the cultural dialogue about the nature of reality.
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