The most beautiful experiences come and go. More fundamental, perhaps, than any experience is the undercurrent of peace that has never left me since then. Sometimes it is very strong, almost palpable, and others can feel it too. At other times, it is somewhere in the background, like a distant melody.
To become conscious of Being, you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind.
- This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey.
Understand the basic mechanics of the unconscious state
- Identification with the mind creates a false self – the ego – as a substitute for your true self rooted in Being.
- You become as a “branch cut off from the vine,” as Jesus puts it.
- Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.
Studying the complexities of the mind may make you a good psychologist, but doing so won’t take you beyond the mind.
- Just as the study of madness isn’t enough to create sanity.
Re-source: Recognize
Become present. Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be “the awakened one.”
- You have it already. You just can’t feel it because your mind is making too much noise.”
- Unless you learn to recognize the false as false – as not you – there can be no lasting transformation.
- You would always end up being drawn back into illusion and into some form of pain
- Transformation is through the body, not away from it.
- This is why no true master has ever advocated fighting or leaving the body, although their mind-based followers often have
- There is no need to go elsewhere for the truth.
- Go more deeply into what you already have.
- Death is a stripping away of all that is not you.
- The secret of life is to “die before you die” – and find that there is no death.
craving and resource from “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle
