Sri Nisagadatta's clarity is astounding -- differentiating here between the 'real' and the 'unreal'

From I AM THAT - Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Questioner: Can we talk of witnessing the real?
Maharaj: How can we? We can talk only of the unreal, the illusory, the transient, the conditioned. To go beyond, we must pass through total negation of everything as having independent existence. All things depend.

Q: On what do they depend?
M: On consciousness. And consciousness depends on the witness.

Q: And the witness depends on the real?
M: The witness is the reflection of the real in all its purity. It depends on the condition of the mind. Where clarity and detachment predominate, the witness-consciousness comes into being. It is just like saying that where the water is clear and quiet, the image of the moon appears. Or like daylight that appears as sparkle in the diamond.

Q: Can there be consciousness without the witness?
M: Without the witness it becomes unconsciousness, just living. The witness is latent in every state of consciousness, just like light in every colour. There can be no knowledge without the knower and no knower without his witness. Not only you know, but you know that you know.

Q: If the unconditioned cannot be experienced, for all experience is conditioned, then why talk of it at all?
M: How can there be knowledge of the conditioned without the unconditioned? There must be a source from which all this flows, a foundation on which all stands. Self-realisation is primarily the knowledge of one's conditioning and the awareness that the infinite variety of conditions depends on our infinite ability to be conditioned and to give rise to variety. To the conditioned mind the unconditioned appears as the totality as well as the absence of everything. Neither can be directly experienced, but this does not make it not-existent. ~I AM THAT


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Plant only love...

This is a repost. I want to again share with you the first half of the poem 'Every Tree'. It is a translation of a Rumi poem by Coleman Barks from his book 'The Glance - Songs of Soul-Meeting'.


EVERY TREE

Every tree, every growing thing as it
grows, says this truth: You harvest what

you sow. With life as short as a half-
taken breath, don't plant anything but

love. The value of a human being can
be measured by what he or she most deeply

wants. Be free of possessing things.
Sit at an empty table. Be pleased with

water, the taste of being home. People
travel the world looking for the Friend,

But that one is always at home!


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The Law of Attraction - the bad and the good

Here's the skinny on the Law of Attraction:

- first the bad news:

Anger WILL beget anger
Fear WILL beget fear
Hatred WILL beget hatred

and on, and on, and on...


- and now the GOOD news:

LOVE WILL beget love
TRUST WILL beget trust
PEACE WILL beget peace

and on, and on, and on and on...


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The two big benefits of writing a 'gratitude journal'

If you're my relative, a friend, an acquaintance, a client, a co-traveller on the seat next to mine or anyone at all who spends more than a few minutes with me, I'm going to exhort you to write a 'gratitude journal' - five things that you were/could be grateful for during the day...write them down at the end of the day, before you go to sleep, in a nicely-bound journal. Just do it - to watch your life change before your very eyes!

Why, you ask?

Firstly, to break the pattern of negativity which we all succumb to. When we focus on things that are going wrong or badly we just keep attracting more and more of the same. By remembering to include into our focus, things that go right, we change the old pattern of negativity.

Secondly, since our emotions are the magnets that attract pleasant or unpleasant events into our life, it is worth the trouble to keep them as happy and upbeat as possible. Writing a gratitude journal keeps our emotions light, upbeat, pleasant and positive, helping us attract more positive events in our lives.


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The fear of suffering...

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering

is worse than the suffering itself. And that

no heart has ever suffered when it goes in

search of its dreams."

~ Paulo Coelho in 'the Alchemist'



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The Eternal Truth

The Eternal Truth, in tWO sentences :):

"I searched for God and found only myself.

I searched for myself and found only God."

-Sufi Proverb



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Creating our destiny

We have no control on the juggernaut called the Law of Attraction, but we can control what we attract. That is always up to us.

Keep your mind and thoughts uncluttered and focused upon what it is you'd like to attract - this is the most important thing of all!

My loving blessings to all!



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