Tuesday, August 18, 2015

April 15

If they have nothing to fear or hate, they will soon rise to the transcendental state of consciousness, beyond the pairs of opposites, and attain liberation!

April 16

For, in all conditions he is firmly established in self knowledge....Thus when both notions of "I do" and "I experience" have ceased, there remains only peace; when that peace is firmly grounded, there is liberation.

April 17

I was naturally enquiring of myself in myself, and rested just for a moment without any notions of being or non-being, of acquisition or rejection. I have attained self knowledge now.

April 18

No, nothing whatsoever is gained with the help of God or guru or wealth or other means, but only by self-effort at a complete mastery of the mind. What cannot be attained by the resolute practice of self mastery coupled with uncoloredness (freedom from every form of self-conditioning) cannot be attained by any other means in the three worlds.

April 19

Get up and meditate intensely for ten years.

April 20

When the hub's motion is stopped, the wheel does not revolve: when the mind is stilled, illusion ceases.

April 21

Live in the present, with your consciousness externalized momentarily but without any effort: when the mind stops linking itself to the past and the future, it becomes no-mind. If from moment to moment your mind dwells on what is and drops it effortlessly at once [choiceless awareness], the mind becomes no-mind, full of purity.