Sundeep That was good - taste of things is beyond words. Just the other day,I was trying to describe a Mehdi Hassan ghazal "kaise Chupaunu raz-e gham in words...
... Indeed! ... You are seeking to find why's, I see. Good luck with your quest :-) "What is" doesn't provide why's, which exist only for the causally-focused...
... Only this, as is, without any existence or nonexistence. There is no easy or difficult, as nothing to add or subtract. Prior to experience, not even the...
El: (snip) ... Yes -- the absence of presence, and the absence of absence, and the absence of the absence of absence ... ... Pretty good! ... Indeed. How true...
I was looking for other stories of meeting Maharaj and a devotee of Ammachi (Mata Amritanandamayi) brought Swami Paramatmananda's book to my attention. In his...
hello tomcarr1.... the only place where true change can occur, and where the past can be dissolved, is NOW. there is no salvation in time, you can not be ...
Watch your mind. Discover yourself as the watcher. Discover yourself as the light behind the watcher. Go to the dark behind the light and abide there....
"I felt fully satisfied and peaceful and thought that I could not possibly receive anything more than Maharaj had told me. I thought of going back to...
Observe yourself early in the morning when you are still half asleep. The attention shift from 'deep sleep' to dreaming to semi-wakefulness and back again is...
Meditation is a movement in attention. Attention is not an achievement, for it is not personal. Attention has no border, no frontier to cross; attention is ...
Meditation is from moment to moment. The eyes see, the ears hear. The organs function. There is no interiorisation, no concentration, no introversion, no...
My trip to Tiruvanamalai, 1974 Arunachala The time had come for the trip to Arunachala and the ashram of Ramana Maharshi. I discussed this with Lynne. I had...
Yes, Hur, Øne More Time! "Until you leave your body, may you have full ... from below.) Guru with a capital G, is not a person, not a personality, not even a...
Hi there, I thought i'd share my morning meditation with you all. I got up at 4;50 AM and did some Hatha Yoga, nice and slowly for a change, then I sat to...
Thanks El for the pointer. What i really liked about Swami Paramatmananda's devotional account is that how Maharaj gives him a fruit and takes a huge pair of...
Hi Mario, On a related note, I read this post by "easy" on the Advaita.org message board: I've got a story that Jack Kornfield told me in '93 while lounging on...
Hi Bill, I have a friend who was transformed after his visit to the ashram of Ramana last year. Did you ever read the book by David Godman called "The Power...
Hur, If you ever stood eyeball to eyball for just one moment, with an American guru, the caliber of Maharaj, whatever the "dog and pony show", or absence of...
Even closer than eyeball to eyeball -- Who is looking into this, right now, from the "other side of your eyeball?" Who this is, on the other side of your...
Whenever someone asks me who was my guru I always say, "it is a toss up between Maharaj and my wolf dog Rudolph". (I created them both. And burried them both.)...
Hello Hur, Jack was well versed in both Buddhism and Advaita, yet he chose Buddhism!? I say this from the number of books on Buddhism that he has written. Any...
When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will come to you uninvited and...
If somebody insults or hurts me, I want to immediately lash out, hurt back ... tit for tat. Wouldn't it be better if I took a deep breadth and let the hurt...
Hurg, A bit more of that meeting. I had heard from some of the people that had been there when Jack first met Maharaj and that he should be back soon. One...
Hi Jan, I don't know Jack Kornfield other than what I read about him or watched on the Nisargadatta video. He seems like a very kind and loving person. On an...
