#I am that

[4dkellysworld]

I Am That remix: Only hold on to 'I AM'

Don’t you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable? If you want to make real progress, you must give up all ideas of personal attainment. Your burden is of false self-identification – abandon them all. All that is needed is to purify the mind so that it can realize its identity with the Self. When the mind merges in the Self, the body presents no problems. Try it this way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither seeking, nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which ‘I am’ is timelessly present. Just look away from all that happens in your mind and bring it to the feeling ‘I am’. Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought ‘I am’. Just keep in mind the feeling ‘I am’, merge in it, till your mind and feeling become one. Separate consistently and perseveringly the ‘I am’ from ‘this’ or ‘that’ and try to feel what it means to be, just to ‘be’, without being ‘this’ or ‘that’. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be. Stop making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing thoroughly, that is all. The best is the simple feeling ‘I am’. Dwell on it patiently. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance, it will yield and keep quiet. Here patience is wisdom; don’t think of failure. There can be no failure in this undertaking. By repeated attempts you will stumble on the right balance of attention and affection and your mind will be firmly established in the thought-feeling ‘I am’. When this mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new light and vibrates with new knowledge. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part. Once you realize that all happens by itself (call it destiny or the will of God or mere accident), you remain as witness only, understanding and enjoying, but not perturbed. Whatever you think, say or do, this sense of immutable and affectionate being remains as the ever-present background of the mind. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is will also show you your own face (Self). The thought ‘I am’ is the polishing cloth. Use it. Give your heart and mind to it, think of nothing else.

All the glories will come with mere dwelling on the feeling ‘I am’. It is the simple that is certain, not the complicated. Somehow, people do not trust the simple, the easy, the always available. Why not give an honest trial to what I say? It may look very small and insignificant, but it is like a seed that grows into a mighty tree. Give yourself a chance.

If you want to know your true nature, you must have your Self in mind all the time, until the secret of your being stands revealed. Soon you will realize that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels that disturbs. All will happen by itself. You need not do anything, only don’t prevent it. It all comes spontaneously; you need only to hold on to the ‘I am’. It is very much like digging a well. You reject all that is not water, till you reach the life-giving spring.

from I Am That (mashup of selected quotes from 1 to 79 of "The complete ‘I Am’ quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj")

[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

[crystaldust]

Highlights from Hold on to “I am”

[chapter 25 of ‘I Am That’ by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj]

[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]

Keep the Mind Silent & You shall Discover

Here are some of my favourite extracts and highlights from Chapter 87. Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover of I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q: What can take me beyond the person? How to go beyond consciousness? M: Words and questions come from the mind and hold you there. To go beyond the mind, you must be silent and quiet. Peace and silence, silence and peace — this is the way beyond. Stop asking questions. Q: Once I give up asking questions, what am I to do? M: What can you do but wait and watch? Q: What am I to wait for? M: For the centre of your being to emerge into consciousness. The three states — sleeping, dreaming and waking are all in consciousness, the manifested; what you call unconsciousness will also be manifested — in time; beyond consciousness altogether lies the unmanifested. And beyond all, and pervading all, is the heart of being which beats steadily — manifested-unmanifested; manifested-unmanifested (saguna-nirguna). Q: On the verbal level it sounds all right. I can visualise myself as the seed of being, a point in consciousness, with my sense ‘I am’ pulsating, appearing and disappearing alternately. But what am I to do to realise it as a fact, to go beyond into the changeless, wordless Reality? M: You can do nothing. What time has brought about, time will take away. Q: Why then all these exhortations to practice Yoga and seek reality? They make me feel empowered and responsible, while in fact it is time that does all. M: This is the end of Yoga — to realise independence. All that happens, happens in and to the mind, not to the source of the ‘I am’. Once you realise that all happens by itself, (call it destiny, or the will of God or mere accident), you remain as witness only, understanding and enjoying, but not perturbed.

M: The mind shapes the language and the language shapes the mind. Both are tools, use them but don’t misuse them. Words can bring you only unto their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only. Q: How can I? The world disturbs me greatly. M: It is because you think yourself big enough to be affected by the world. It is not so. You are so small that nothing can pin you down. It is your mind that gets caught, not you. Know yourself as you are — a mere point in consciousness, dimensionless and timeless. You are like the point of the pencil — by mere contact with you the mind draws its picture of the world. You are single and simple — the picture is complex and extensive. Don’t be misled by the picture — remain aware of the tiny point — which is everywhere in the picture. What is, can cease to be; what is not, can come to be; but what neither is nor is not, but on which being and non-being depend, is unassailable; know yourself to be the cause of desire and fear, itself free from both. Q: How am I the cause of fear? M: All depends on you. It is by your consent that the world exists. Withdraw your belief in its reality and it will dissolve like a dream. Time can bring down mountains; much more you, who are the timeless source of time. For without memory and expectation there can be no time. Q: Is the ‘I am’ the Ultimate? M: Before you can say: ‘I am’, you must be there to say it. Being need not be self-conscious. You need not know to be, but you must be to know.

[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

[everrgreenn12]

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

[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