Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did. They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.
MOOJIActually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.
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Let the mind come as it wants; just you don’t go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don’t buy.
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The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.
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No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.
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If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.
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The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.
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You need nothing to be happy – you need something to be sad.
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Attention pays attention to a lot of things, but when attention pays attention to attention, then there is a stillness, and that stillness introduces you to your Self.
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Your heart is the light of this world. Don’t cover it with your mind.
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Don’t be too quick to interpret the moment. Just keep quiet. My encouragement would always be: never think anything is against you, everything is blessing. Why should it be different? Just be quiet. Let it all work itself out.
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You already are, the peace you are looking for. Be still and know that.
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Some people know they are dreaming when they are asleep. You must also know you are dreaming when you wake-up. When you know you are dreaming when you wake up, then you are really waking up.
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Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death. Because this death releases you into real life. You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.
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You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river’s flow!
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It’s not what the mind says. It’s how seriously it is taken.
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Mind is there, in front of you. Don’t log in.
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Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.
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If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.
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If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.
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Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.
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We are the space in which thoughts appear, play, and dissolve like clouds drifting in the infinite sky.
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If you could look inside the Heart of any and every single human being, you would fall in love with them completely. If you see the inside as it really Is and not as your mind projects it to be, you would be so purely in love with the whole thing.
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Don’t try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.
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There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.
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If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don’t identify with anything. Be completely empty – no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.
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The mind is like the wind. You’re trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?
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Your mantra is thank you. Just keep saying thank you. Don’t explain. Don’t complain. Just say thank you. Say thank you to existence.
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