This is simply about the energy of the ‘me’ totally disappearing or collapsing.
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And of course it doesn’t matter if that happens or not!
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Liberation simply and always already IS as EVERYTHING and NO-THING
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Non-duality
THE ‘ME’ IS A MOVEMENT
We could say that the ego or ‘me’ is an energetic movement. When the movement stops, the ‘me’ disappears. Just like a wave or whirlpool are both a movement of water, so when the water stops moving, the wave or whirlpool disappear.
LOVE IS A SIDE EFFECT OF LIBERATION
‘Liberation doesn’t care’ for being loving, caring and nice or being good and unegotistical. It’s just its nature to be like this, loving. You could say love and affection are mere side effects!
REAL MEANINGS
When it is said ‘all is full’ or ‘all is whole’,
All that is really meant is nothing is required for liberation.
When it is said ‘nothing is real’,
All that is really meant is nothing is required for liberation.
When it is said ‘nothing is required for liberation’,
What is meant is that there is no separate ‘me’ that could require anything.
…JUST THIS…
Too simple for words!
Ramana Maharshi – Deep Sleep and Self-Realisation
Questioner: Miseries appear in jagrat (waking sate). Why should they appear?
Ramana Maharshi: If you see your Self they will not appear.
Q: If I turn to look who I am I do not find anything.
RM: How did you remain in your sleep? There was no ‘I-thought’ there and you were happy. Whereas there are thoughts flowering in the wake of the root-thought ‘I’ in the jagrat and these hide the inherent happiness. Get rid of these thoughts which are the obstacles to happiness. Your natural state is one of happiness as was evident in your sleep.
Q: I do not know anything of my sleep experience.
RM: But you know that it was happiness. Otherwise you would not be saying “I slept happily”. When there is no thought, no ‘I’, and nothing In fact except yourself, you are happy. That is the whole Truth. This is exactly what is conveyed by the Mahavakya- Tatvamasi (You are That). Find your Self: and then “That” is known.
Q: How is that Brahman?
RM: Why do you want to know of Brahman apart from yourself? The scripture says “You are That”. The Self is intimate to you and you cannot indeed be without the Self. Realise it. That is the Realisation of Brahman also.
Q: But I am unable to do it. I am too weak to realise my Self.
RM: In that case surrender yourself unreservedly and the Higher Power will reveal Itself.
Q: What is unconditional surrender?
RM: If one surrenders oneself there will be no one to ask questions or to be thought of. Either the thoughts are eliminated by holding on to the root-thought ‘I’ or one surrenders oneself unconditionally to the Higher Power. These are the only two ways for Realisation.
Talk 321 – Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi
‘PATH’ TO LIBERATION
The appears to be a path, a process…
A path appears to be needed…
Many teachings and practices appear to be helpful…
And yet…
Nothing is needed!
Nothing is needed!
LOVE & SURRENDER
Never underestimate the importance of surrender or letting go of the ‘me’. It is the same as meditation or being still. It is something that is the natural result of insight into non-duality/no separation and is not something you have to necessarily do, although it may start off that way. It takes us to Love, total and ordinary Love. ❤
We could say that if you are doing surrender in order to become enlightened then that is more ‘me’ or egotism. It is totally fine to do this btw. However surrender naturally results when this ‘me’ and the control me neurotically tries to exert is seen/felt/realised to be totally unnecessary and therefore the ‘me’ is non-conceptually/non-verbally realised to be a waste of energy.
Many staunch non-dualists do not advocate surrender, as who or what is there to do the surrendering? I totally agree!
And yet never underestimate the value of surrender!
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When the heart is open, even slightly, it is easy to sense those teachers whose hearts are not fully open, whose hearts remain resistant to the naturally purifying effect of love, whose minds cling on to the ‘me’, and in whom the me energy (ie. egoic vasanas) continues despite their words saying otherwise.
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💥 ‘PATH’ TO ENLIGHTENMENT 💥
This is always fully known.
This is always full.
This IS always.
This IS.
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TRUTH!
None of my words are really true, and neither are any of your words either, not when it comes to ‘Non-duality’. This is not ultimately about having the right concepts or having an accurate description of the ways things ‘really’ are, thankfully.
It is much simpler than that, and from the vantage point of the dualistic mind, much more radical too.
There is just an energetic pointing to a total freedom which can never be encapsulated solely by words, but words may be used (apparently) nonetheless.
It simply is ‘what is’.
ON APPEARANCES
‘Things appear’…’This appearance’…
…Appearance is a descriptive term. This is how things appear to be. To say something ‘is’ or ‘is not’ is to stray into the domain of concepts and beliefs. No need to go there.
Tom Das 