Ever-present,
Always here,
No-thing.
One with All [phenomenal appearances],
Ever-Unaffected [by phenomenal appearances],
Naturally Still.
Movement,
And Stillness
Matter Not.
Love,
Beyond Love,
These words [concepts] disappear.
spirit
Do not consider yourself to be limited
THE ROOT CAUSE OF SUFFERING
The search to end suffering, to gain spiritual knowledge, to attain true spiritual experience and to end confusion is all due to believing you are the body-mind.
The belief ‘I am the body-mind’ is the ignorance that causes all the trouble. This belief is also known as egotism, maya, illusion, duality, separation and samsara. It is a fiction.
In essence you are not the body-mind.
You are in essence That which is Infinite, Eternal, beyond words and speech and concepts.
This is known intuitively already. It is not more conceptual knowledge for the body-mind which is just more ignorance.The words are indicators and are not meant to be more beliefs for the body-mind.
You are That which was before the body-mind was born and will be when the body-mind has gone. You are That which is in deep dreamless sleep. Again this is already intuitively known without thought or words.
There is therefore nothing to seek, nothing to know, nothing to attain, no experience required.
🕉 You are That! 🕉
🕉 Tat Tvam Asi! 🕉
🕉 Be what you are! 🕉
Laugh and be happy!
Happy Easter/ In Christ I Trust
In Christ I Trust
He is with me
Always
Always with me
My Constant Companion
Love Abound
Gazing at me
With constant Loving Gaze
Watching over me
Guiding me
My Counsellor
In times of need
A Joyous Reminder
In times of joy
My Love
My Life
My God
Everywhere
Everything
Divine Oneness
Divine Presence
My love to You
My love to You
My adorations to You
How I love You so
How I love You
My Gratitude to You
Forevermore.
Amen.
God and Guru are outdated
Following my recent post: ‘Do real gurus use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, have websites and advertise?’, I received a few comments stating that words like ‘God’ and ‘Guru’ are outdated. And in many ways I agree. Both these words conjure up images of a patriarchal authoritarian culture of religion that is based in blind faith and superstition. However, here was my response to some of those comments:
Tom: I’ve noticed that words are very individual in how one relates to them. Some people are positively allergic to words like God and Guru, others revel in them, and many are somewhere in between.
No matter what words we use or do not use, some people will resonate, some people will not. In my view, we give ourselves the best chance to awaken when we see past the superficiality of the words used and look instead to what they point to.
When I was seeking, I gobbled up all the teachings I could find: theistic, non-theist, new-age, faith-based, understanding-based, practices, no practices – you name it, I was there, looking beyond the words, attempting to discover the substance beneath it.
What do you think? How do you seek (if you seek)? What resonates with you?
Peace to you all
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Ramana Maharshi: Silent power
Ramana Maharshi rarely left Arunachala for over 50 years and did not seek crowds of people to teach. One time someone asked him:
Question: Why does not Bhagavan [Ramana Maharshi] go about and preach the Truth to the people at large?
Ramana Maharshi: How do you know I am not doing it?*
Another time Ramana was asked:
Question: How can silence be so powerful?
Ramana Maharshi: A realised one sends out waves of spiritual influence, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence. We may listen to lectures upon truth and come away with hardly any grasp of the subject, but to come into contact with a realised one, though he speaks nothing, will give much more grasp of the subject. He never needs to go out among the public. If necessary he can use others as instruments.**
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*quote taken from Maharshi’s gospel
**quote taken from Conscious Immortality
The importance of suffering and seeking
So many people cling to beliefs, either knowingly or unknowingly, caught up in confusion, sometimes teaching it to others.
If you really want truth, would you accept a belief, a concept, an idea? Would you accept second-hand words, teachings and phrases uttered by others? Would you worry about what others think and get preoccupied in puerile semantic debate?
Or would you continue to seek, genuinely investigate, until you have genuinely found, in your own direct experience, the end to your suffering, an end to your seeking?
Non-duality – doesn’t talking about it ruin it?
Structured teaching 6.1
Tom Das 