Rupert Spira - Consciousness

“Consciousness never goes anywhere.
Consciousness never becomes anything.
There is only Consciousness, there is only Being,
which simultaneously creates, witnesses,
expresses and experiences itself 

in every experience we have.”

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Reverend Safire Rose - She Let Go

She let go. Without a thought or a word, she let go. She let go of fear. She let go of the judgments.  She let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around her head. She let go of the committee of indecision within her. She let go of all the ‘right’ reasons. Wholly and completely,  without hesitation or worry, she just let go. She didn’t ask anyone for advice. She didn’t read a  book on how to let go… She didn’t search the scriptures. She just let go. She let go of all of the memories that held her back.  She let go of all of the anxiety that kept her from moving forward.  She let go of the planning and all of the calculations about how to do it just right. She didn’t promise to let go.  She didn’t journal about it.  She didn’t write the projected date in her day-timer. She made no public announcement and put no ad in the paper.  She didn’t check the weather report or read her daily horoscope.  She just let go. She didn’t analyse whether she should let go.  She didn’t call her friends to discuss the matter.  She didn’t do a five-step Spiritual Mind Treatment.  She didn’t call the prayer line.  She didn’t utter one word. She just let go. No one was around when it happened.  There was no applause or congratulations.  No one thanked her or praised her.  No one noticed a thing.  Like a leaf falling from a tree, she just let go. There was no effort. There was no struggle.  It wasn’t good and it wasn’t bad.  It was what it was, and it is just that. In the space of letting go, she let it all be.  A small smile came over her face.  A light breeze blew through her. And the sun and the moon shone forevermore.

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Eja - Karma Blues

Stuck in samsara with the karma blues
I wonder if Buddha ever felt this way
This bardo state has really got me down
But why cling to a body that will decay
Nothing to gain
Nothing to attain
Let it all roll down the dharma drain

No concepts, no words
Only direct seeing
Let your ego melt
In the great ocean of being
Nothing to gain
Nothing to attain
Let it all roll down the dharma drain

-Eja
(Eamon Zicker)

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Fred LaMotte - To Let It Go

To let it go, just
to drop it, requires
no work, expends
no energy. Yet this
is the subtlest of all
skills. When you
practice such
effortless discipline,
you bless the planet
with grace, you acquire
the sky in a rush
of invisible light
without even taking
a breath, you feel
vast relief, softer
than a morning rose,
opening your chest.
No mystic ever tasted
sweeter ecstasy
than you will enjoy
by simply letting go
of your opinion.
This is the mother
of all oblations.

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Ramana Maharshi - The tiger has clamped its jaws!

Enlightenment means there is no “me” with a sense of personal doership. 

“I” can do nothing. Everything that happens is God’s Will. 

 One-hundred percent acceptance of that - 

which is surrender to God’s will - IS enlightenment. 

That does not lead to enlightenment, that IS itself enlightenment. 

Do you have any questions left? - No?
Is everything clear and transparent? - Yes?
Do you have any expectations at all? - No?
Whatever happens, does it matter? - No?
Then “you” have been annihilated -
The tiger has clamped its jaws!

Ramesh S. Balsekar, “Your Head in the Tiger’s Mouth 

 

 

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Meher Baba - The greatest romance

The greatest romance possible in life 

is to discover this Eternal Reality in the midst of infinite change. 

Once one has experienced this, one sees oneself in everything that lives, 

one recognises all of life as his life, everybody’s interests as his own. 

One is no longer bound by habits of the past, 
no longer swayed by the hopes of the future 

 One lives in and enjoys each present moment to the full. 

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

Nazir Akbarabadi - The performance of Your will

I am a lump of gold,
Melt me in the fire,
Whenever You wish.
At Thy pleasure
I will dance to any tune You play.
Test me,
Reveal my hidden purposes,
My only happiness
Lies in the performance of Your Will.
Cover me,
If it pleases You,
With love and tenderness,
Or draw your sword,
And cut me limb from limb.
Defend and sustain me,
or take my life,
It is all One to me.
I am a fakir,
A lover,
This is my refrain.
My only happiness
Is the performance of Your will.
Whether it leads to happiness or pain,
I am content.
Keep me at your door
Or dismiss me,
I shall be satisfied.
I am a lover,
What care I where I sit.
Lift me to heaven
Or make the dust my bed,
My only happiness
Is the performance of Your will.
Whether it leads to happiness or pain,
I am content.