Truely present?

The 'past' is a memory,The 'future' is a supposition,The 'present' is passed before we can apprehend it. The processes of perception and conception are complicated and require a lapse of time for their completion.

The only 'present' therefore is presence and it is what we are.Such presence, then, is inevitably outside and beyond time. As time and space are both mutually interdependent the "Presence" is beyond both time and space!

The seeker is the found,

The found is the seeker,

As soon as it is perceived

There is no Time!

THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought,

andTHAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking.

As soon as it is perceived
There is no Time!

There is neither Creation nor Destruction,

Neither Destiny nor Free-will,

Neither Path nor Achievement;

As soon as it is perceived

There is no Time!

This is the final Truth.

All things arise and pass away

World arises whenever we try to resist the life flow and try to cling to fixed forms which are all "maya", whether they are things, events, people or ideas. The idea of ego, or separate self, is also maya.

Crystal clear

For a person who has made investigation, who has a mind with its movements stilling, who is giving up thinking and imagination, who is giving up visible objects, who is perceiving the seer and not the seen, who is wakeful while living in the highest truth, who is asleep to the world of dense ignorance, who is indifferent to objects of enjoyment and without desire then, the inherent nature of the person clears up through the power of knowledge as water clears up on condensation.

Growth and Enlightenment

Every material calamity is bound to bring spiritual growth! Until this is understood material calamity will bring great distress! With the distress and pain comes understanding. With understanding comes great awareness. With awareness comes great spiritual growth. With great spiritual growth comes enlightenment!

"Calamities can bring growth and Enlightenment,"said the Master.
And he explained it thus:
"Each day a bird would shelter in the withered branches of a tree that stood in the middle of a vast deserted plain.One day a whirlwind uprooted the tree, forcing the poor bird to fly a hundred miles in search of shelter till it finally came to a forest of fruit-laden trees."
And he concluded:"If the withered tree had survived,nothing would have induced the bird to give up its security and fly."

Listening to Silence?

Silence is not just silence of sound! It is silence of your mind that we are talking about, so its more inner than the outer. Outer noise is only a reflection of inner noise, so make the inner silent first.

Silence

Said a traveler to one of the disciples,"I have traveled a great distance to listen to the Master,but I find his words quite ordinary."
"Don't listen to his words.Listen to his message."
"How does one do that?"
"Take hold of a sentence that he says.Shake it well till all the words drop off.What is left will set your heart on fire."

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"Every word, every image used for God
is a distortion more than a description."
"Then how does one speak of God?"
"Through Silence."
"Why, then, do you speak in words?"
At that the Master laughed uproariously.
He said, "When I speak,
you mustn't listen to the words, my dear.
Listen to the Silence."

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"Are there ways for gauging one's spiritual strength?"
"Many."
"Give us one."
"Find out how often you lose your silence

and become disturbed in the course of a single day."

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Believing is not enough you must know!

You are!

Look back and see what all you believe. Investigate if all that you believe are true. You will end up knowing that nothing is true! You will know that you are the truth and nothing of this so called world is true! You know that ‘you are’ in this world, without this world do you know that you are? ........................

You are!

How can limitedness know unlimitedness, how can mind know the self? If the object of awareness ceases the world ceases, awareness remains and object perishes. When the world ceases for you; you truly are! But then you are not of this world! When you always desire something of this world how can you get something beyond this world? Stop the cycle right now. Stop reading this right now, there is nothing to know.

You are!