Stay in the State of Neutrality

"As you move about during the day, stay in the state of neutrality.
Just be in the neutral place. It is not difficult for you.
You don’t have to be suppressing the senses or steering them in some way.
You didn’t wake up this morning and turn on perception.
Just perception is happening by itself, spontaneously.
Without You, the light of consciousness, perception has no meaning,
the functioning of the senses has no meaning.
You don’t have to cultivate this; it’s a very natural thing.
Avoid going into the story of the person, the egoic identity.
It is the most corrosive and keeps a heaviness in the form.
The ego sense is heavier than any mountain.
It takes a lot of energy to support the expression of egoic identity.
It takes no energy to be the Self.
The Self is not something that has to be kept up.
There is something inside you that knows this to be true.
Try to grasp this. Move in that neutrality more and more.
Become increasingly familiar with the state of emptiness."
The Sage from Sahaja - Mooji

Cotidiano do Amor

“Cotidiano do Amor”

          Talvez que, do ponto de vista de alguém que nos observasse

          desde muito, muito alto,

pudéssemos ser chamados de “devoradores de cotidiano”!

Assim como o corpo necessita de sucessivas refeições,

também nós, a Alma, necessitamos

da refeição espiritual do cotidiano.

A Alma se nutre com elementos do cotidiano presente,

mas, se intoxica e debilita com elementos do cotidiano passado.

A Alma possui seu próprio tempo.

Este constante “comer o presente” se transforma em saber,

se tomado com discriminação.

Quando não selecionamos os alimentos, porém,

segue-se terrível indigestão!

Assim, devemos nos servir do dia-a-dia, com parcimônia e harmonia,

para que a Alma não se intoxique, em demasia.

Mas, para que a Alma se liberte da sucessão  do dia-a-dia,

é preciso que se alimente, apenas, com os elementos nutritivos

que lhe reforcem a natureza, força, pureza, luz e beleza!

A Alma muitas vezes não sabe que, no mundo, o cotidiano habitual

é como um grande depósito de lixo.

A existência só se torna primorosa, frutífera,

ao compreendermos que não é este presente fenomenal

que nos fortalece as fibras do coração

e nos traz vontade espiritual.

Escolhendo os elementos mais primorosos,

e selecionando a constituição de um tal cardápio,

encontramos em nossa própria Alma

a fortaleza necessária para também renunciar

a este condicionamento;

ah!...necessitar tanto deste tipo de alimento

que nos faz baixar das mais inóspitas alturas,

a estas paragens luxuriantes onde pululam

os temperos agridoces, contrastantes,

que satisfazem o paladar especialista das almas que se vestem

com a roupa desta insólita conquista,

na sucessão natural, mas ilusória,

dos dias que se multiplicam e experiências que se renovam,

afastando a Alma- e o Ser- do caminho definitivo da vitória!

 (Um Sábio dos Altos Montes)

True Awakening is...

"I am here to meet you, but not superficially.

The invitation is for a much deeper meeting.
The true meeting is where you yourself, as a person, disappear.
It happens often, naturally, but you don’t remember.
Even throughout a single day it occurs;
when you are without self-reference,
when you are in the pure state, the natural, primal mind
—but not being conscious of it.
The opportunity here is to wake up,
to be free from the influence of the psychological mind,
free from the confusion or doubt as to your true nature.
And not merely as an intellectual conviction!
Awakening is a good term for this,
because then you will see that we have been sleeping.
Eyes wide open, limbs moving, mouth speaking, mind thinking
—but still sleeping, and not aware of your true nature.
How rare it is in the human kingdom
that beings are aware of that silence,
that space that is unmoving, that does not age,
it does not grow, it doesn’t expand or contract,
and yet everything that moves, that appears or disappears,
take their birth from Here.
Your calling is to discover this consciously, powerfully.
Only then will you be able to face the storms
that come from the body-mind identity,
and the psychological noise that comes from personhood.
You will see through all of these things.
They will not overwhelm you anymore.
I want to remind you that it is possible to be free of such states.
It is not difficult to awaken to the True.
What seems difficult is to overcome the reflex
to go back into the old regime of identity
—that will happen for a time.
The tendency to want to protect our projections and attachments
will in fact create this feeling of separation
and will slow you down."

The Sage from Mte. Sahaja - Shiva

Permanecer em Silêncio não é uma Prática....

Quando eu falo de quietude
quando eu lhe digo para ficar quieto (permanecer em silêncio)
não é algo que todos possam seguir facilmente.

A maioria das pessoas aqui
são de diferentes origens, práticas, sadhanas;
e, portanto, elas sentem que precisam fazer alguma coisa,
colocar algo em prática.

Quando eu digo: "Fique quieto". não é uma prática.
Não há nada a ser feito e nada a ser desfeito.
Isto não pode ser seguido.
Não há nada em que pensar,
Não há necessidade de fazer qualquer tipo de esforço.
Esta é uma indicação da quietude que estou falando.
A Verdade existe sempre. Existência por si só é.
Ela é chamado de Satyam.

Nós falamos sobre iluminação,
mas primeiro nós criamos a escravidão.
Escravidão não existe.

Como você pode remover o que não existe?

Primeiro, os professores impõem um conceito de escravidão
e, em seguida, várias práticas são prescritas.

Podem existir milhões de livros em todo o mundo,
outros milhares são publicados todos os dias.
Em nenhum lugar diz: "Fique quieto". (Permaneça em silêncio)
Quando você diz simplesmente "Fique quieto",
sobre o quê é o resto do livro?

Não há ignorância;
há apenas existência - há apenas Satyam.
Se você simplesmente ficar quieto
você irá saber que somente Isto existe.

Sri Harilal Poon

ja - Papaji

Do You See How we Support our Internal Conspiracy?

"

Do you see how we support our internal conspiracy?

There is something within us which wants us to fail; which is our own enemy and we support it. I think it was on your facebook page that I read the story about the two wolves. Which wolf wins? The one we feed. Do you see, how we keep feeding the wrong wolf most of the times? In fact, there is one thing I am gaining clarity on, that there is nothing called as ‘ignorance’. We all fully well know. We all fully well know why we are hiding at the back; why we refuse to come in the front.

You closed the matter by saying that you know it since class two that the ones who are the back-benchers, they are back-benchers precisely because they want to avoid the teacher. Now, in school you have a certain compulsion; here, you are ostensibly coming by your free-will. Did you see what kind of misnomer this thing called free-will is? On one hand, you are coming there; on the other hand, you are committed not to come.

And again, just to relate it to the thing we were talking of, all so that you aren’t dislodged from your comfortable cushions. And when you fear that, you already have an image of the resultant happening in mind; and you already have a fear associated with that happening. If I come close, this may happen, and if that happens, I may suffer a lot. And, what is suffering? Something very bad! So, all that entire inner story is already on; and we don’t even know whether that story has any factualness to it.

And you know what is common in all these stories? One thing, you know what is common? “I am not strong enough to bear the pain. I am not strong enough.” Have you ever tested how strong you really are? Yes, your assumption that some loss may come to you may indeed be factual. Your assumption may come true. But, next to this assumption, sits another assumption; that assumption is: “If I bear loss, then I will crumble.”

Have you ever tested that assumption? Yes, loss you will bear. Will that necessarily be the end of you? I keep saying, test that, you will find it a false assumption.

The loss will hurt, but you will emerge a survivor, you will live through it.

It will pinch, grind, wrinkle, but not finish you.

Mind you, not finish you.

Nothing can finish you off.

Why must this simple statement be so hard to accept? I don’t know. If you are convinced that you won’t be finished off, then why will you avoid sorrow so much?"

Acharya Sri Prashant