#I am that

[4dkellysworld]

Keep Quiet and Watch

The problem is excessive interest, leading to self-identification. Whatever you are engrossed in you take to be real. Just see the person you imagine yourself to be as a part of the world you perceive within your mind and look at the mind from the outside, for you are not the mind. After all, your only problem is the eager self-identification with whatever you perceive. Give up this habit, remember that you are not what you perceive, use your power of alert aloofness. See yourself in all that lives and your behaviour will express your vision. You have to learn to think and feel on these lines, or you will remain indefinitely on the personal level of desire and fear, gaining and losing, growing and decaying. A personal problem cannot be solved on its own level. Keep very quiet and watch what comes to the surface of the mind. Reject the known, welcome the so far unknown and reject it in its turn. Thus you come to a state in which there is no knowledge, only being, in which being itself is knowledge. To know by being is direct knowledge. It is based on the identity of the seer and the seen. Indirect knowledge is based on sensation and memory, on proximity of the perceiver and his percept, confined with the contrast between the two. The same with happiness. Usually you have to be sad to know gladness and glad to know sadness. True happiness is uncaused and this cannot disappear from lack of stimulation. It is not the opposite of sorrow, it includes all sorrow and suffering.

from I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj

[filmcentury]

But the Magician knows that the pure Will of every man and every woman is already in perfect harmony with the divine Will; in fact, they are one and the same.

Lon Milo DuQuette, The Magick of Aleister Crowley: A Handbook of the Rituals of Thelema (1994)

[misespinas]

Maharaj: True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the self and can be found in the self only. Find your real self (svarupa) and all else will come with it.

Questioner: If my real self is peace and love, why is it so restless?

Maharaj: It is not your real being that is restless, but its reflection in the mind appears restless because the mind is restless. It is just like the reflection of the moon in the water stirred by the wind.

—Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

[ndbookstudy]

i am that, nisargardatta maharaj, ch. 9.

Questioner: Some say the universe was created. Others say that it always existed and is for ever undergoing transformation. Some say it is subject to eternal laws. Others deny even causality. Some say the world is real. Others -- that it has no being whatsoever.

Maharaj: Which world are you enquiring about?

Q: The world of my perceptions, of course.

M: The world you can perceive is a very small world indeed. And it is entirely private. Take it to be a dream and be done with it.

Q: How can I take it to be a dream? A dream does not last.

M: How long will your own world last?

Q: After all, my little world is but a part of the total.

M: Is not the idea of a total world a part of your personal world? The universe does not come to tell you that you are a part of it. It is you who have invented a totality to contain you as a part. In fact all you know is your own private world, however well you have furnished it with your imaginations and expectations.

Q: Surely, perception is not imagination!

M: What else? Perception is recognition, is it not? Something entirely unfamiliar can be sensed, but cannot be perceived. Perception involves memory.

Q: Granted, but memory does not make it illusion.

M: Perception, imagination, expectation, anticipation, illusion -- all are based on memory. There are hardly any border lines between them. They just merge into each other. All are responses of memory

Q: Still, memory is there to prove the reality of my world.

M: How much do you remember? Try to write down from memory what you were thinking, saying and doing on the 30th of the last month.

Q: Yes, there is a blank.

M: It is not so bad. You do remember a lot -- unconscious memory makes the world in which you live so familiar.

Q: Admitted that the world in which I live is subjective and partial. What about you? In what kind of world do you live?

M: My world is just like yours. I see, I hear, I feel, I think, I speak and act in a world I perceive, just like you. But with you it is all, with me it is nothing. Knowing the world to be a part of myself, I pay it no more attention than you pay to the food you have eaten. While being prepared and eaten, the food is separate from you and your mind is on it; once swallowed, you become totally unconscious of it. I have eaten up the world and I need not think of it any more.

Q: Don’t you become completely irresponsible?

M: How could I? How can I hurt something which is one with me. On the contrary, without thinking of the world, whatever I do will be of benefit to it. Just as the body sets itself right unconsciously, so am I ceaselessly active in setting the world right.

Q: Nevertheless, you are aware of the immense suffering of the world?

M: Of course I am, much more than you are.

Q: Then what do you do?

M: I look at it through the eyes of God and find that all is well.

Q: How can you say that all is well? Look at the wars, the exploitation, the cruel strife between the citizen and the state.

M: All these sufferings are man-made and it is within man's power to put an end to them. God helps by facing man with the results of his actions and demanding that the balance should be restored. Karma is the law that works for righteousness; it is the healing hand of God.

[bearlytolerant]

accidentally drunk on a Saturday afternoon and yk what my first thought was??? *gotta tell bear I'm OBSESSED with them*

I am, bro. you're cool as fuck. love you

I don’t know what Saturday this was but I’m glad drunk you was thinking of me! Clearly I am an easy subject to obsess over *flips hair*

I KID you know I LOVE YOU BESTIE! And you’re the funniest, most talented person I know!

Also thank you! *bows then trips off the stage*

[junebug1213]

High school girls be like: I am perfectly normal

And then read smut at 8am before the school day.

[topnotchquark]

I think I have a thesis brewing about how Pecco expresses love to his bike and how Bezz does the same. The difference between those two. Hmmmm. Want to write about it for the audience of 2 people exactly (of which I am one)

[ticklishturtlett]

You know, I saw this reel the other day on Instagram. This guy, whose name I've forgotten, made a really great point about finding love. He was giving a lecture to these women, instructing them to write down everything they wanted in a man. Once they were done writing down what they wanted, he told them to read that list to themselves. He challenged them, telling them to become what they wanted in a man. So, if you want your future man to be healthy and physically fit, become it. If you want a man who makes a certain amount of money each year, get a job that has that pays that amount. Become your man.

I personally love this. I used to look at finding a man as just finding someone to take care of me. He was going to be my security blanket. Then, after my last relationship ended suddenly, I realized I wasn't going to get that security blanket from someone else. I realized that I wasn't living a strong, independent, healthy life. I was sitting in my own tower and waiting for my Prince to save me. My last ex - bless his heart - had seen so much potential in me and made me feel so great about myself. For it to end between us, it completely tore me apart, but even after the break up, he still saw me in a way that I was too blind to see. And now, I want my future man to see me the same way, but this time, I want him to see me living my potential. I want him to see me making my own money, living a healthy lifestyle, and loving every part of me. I want to reassure myself that I can take care of me. I want to make myself feel secure instead of relying on someone else to do it for me. I want him to want that for me and to be so proud that I'm doing that. I want to be the woman who knows her worth and lives it every day.

And I've already started that journey. I'm going back to school and am going to pursue a degree in Radiology. I'm saving money instead of spending it on things I don't need. I'm eating healthier meals and exercising. I scheduled a job interview tomorrow to hopefully have a more stable income while I go to school. I'm the person I want to spend the rest of my life. I'm not becoming them, I already am them. That is the difference, and that is what is inspiring me to move forward.

[melissa-titanium]

what if im.a thief of hope   .

[megaweapon]

”Stay with my ‘till my talk gets strange Stay with me ‘till my eyes get low and heavy I know this, and this only as myself, I’ll sing that melody when I’m good and ready I don’t know if it’s divine, But I know that it’s mine.”

[4dkellysworld]

Stop It and Just Be

Q: If I am beyond the mind, how can I change myself? M: Where is the need of changing anything? The mind is changing anyhow all the time. Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it and just be. If you give it rest, it will settle down and recover its purity and strength. Constant thinking makes it decay. Q: If my true being is always with me, how is it that I am ignorant of it? M: Because it is very subtle and your mind is gross, full of gross thoughts and feelings. Calm and clarify your mind and you will know yourself as you are. Q: Do I need the mind to know myself? M: You are beyond the mind, but you know with your mind. It is obvious that the extent, depth and character of knowledge depend on what instrument you use. Improve your instrument and your knowledge will improve. Q: To know perfectly I need a perfect mind. M: A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part. Q: You mean to say that the greatest work is done by not working? M: Exactly. Do understand that you are destined for enlightenment. Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don’t thwart it. Allow it to fulfil itself. All you have to do is to give attention to the obstacles created by the foolish mind.

from I Am That, Nisargadatta Maharaj

[everrgreenn12]

Idk if tumblr cares for videos but i thought id post it 😭😭

[misespinas]

“[T]he desire for bliss creates pain. Thus bliss becomes the seed of pain. The entire universe of pain is born of desire. Give up the desire for pleasure and you will not even know what pain is.”

–Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, I Am That

[philosohappy]

Saṁyutta Nikāya: Ananda Sutta

SN 22.83

Thus, friend Ananda, any form whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: every form is to be seen as it actually is with right discernment as: "This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am.”

Any feeling whatsoever...

Any perception whatsoever...

Any fabrications whatsoever...

Any consciousness whatsoever that is past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle; common or sublime; far or near: every consciousness is to be seen as it actually is with right discernment as: "This is not mine. This is not my self. This is not what I am."

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu

[alexthegreatyeet]

I am best boyfriend mwahahaha