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But the real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. - K

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3y-f-1qp8&feature=related

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX8D0yU0pMc&feature=related

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCInjQ4omlA&feature=related

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVjcoh12UuU

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On September 30th, I posted an entry which goes like this, "I am not the body; I'm the Self. So is everybody. Nothing is beyond the Self. It's all pervading. All consuming." Mind repeats these at times.I feel that instead of just directing this to myself, I should direct this to everybody and everything I see. While contemplating on this, I'm reminded of the following:When Adisankara asked

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"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free

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The whole world is worshipping success. You hear stories of how the poor boy studied at night and eventually became a judge, or how he began by selling newspapers and ended up a multi-millionaire. You are fed on the glorification of success. There is also great sorrow; but most of us are caught up in the desire to achieve, and success is much more important to us than the understanding and

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Vengence is a pitiful emotion. Sadness is the overwhelming sentiment. - Peter Roebuck

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You have changed your ideas, you have changed your thought, but thought is always conditioned. Whether it is the thought of Jesus, Buddha, X, Y, or Z, it is still thought, and therefore one thought can be in opposition to another thought; and when there is opposition, a conflict between two thoughts, the result is a modified continuity of thought. In other words, the change is still within the

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"I am not the body; I'm the Self. So is everybody. Nothing is beyond the Self. It's all pervading. All consuming." Mind repeats these at times. It also pursues actions identified with the perception "I'm the body". While the realisation I'm the Self is impersonal, individualistic pursuit may be preferred most of the time as I am presently under the spell of the perception 'I am the body'. And

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A religious mind is free of all authority. And it is extremely difficult to be free from authority not only the authority imposed by another but also the authority of the experience that one has gathered, which is of the past, which is tradition. And the religious mind has no beliefs; it has no dogmas; it moves from fact to fact. A religious mind is concerned with the totality not with a

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One of the principal questions which one has to put to oneself is this: how far or to what depth can the mind penetrate into itself? That is the quality of seriousness because it implies awareness of the whole structure of one's own psychological being, with its urges, its compulsions, its desire to fulfill, and its frustrations, its miseries, strains and anxieties, its struggles, sorrows, and

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It is important for one who is established in his Self to see that he does not swerve in the least from his absorption. The excellence of practice lies in not giving room for even a single mental concept. - Bhagavan Ramana

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How can cessation of activity and peace of mind be attained in the midst of household duties which are of the nature of constant activity? As the activities of the wise man exist only in the eyes of others and not in his own, although he may be accomplishing immense tasks, he really does nothing. Therefore his activities do not stand in the way of ego-less action and peace of mind. For he knows

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If everything happens according to karma (prarabdha: the result of one's act in the past), how is one to overcome the obstacles to meditation? Prarabdha concerns only the out-turned, not the in-turned mind. One who seeks his real Self will not be afraid of any obstacles. - Bhagavan Ramana

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Doership pertains to the body; but you are not the body, so you are not the doer. Man is moved by another Power but he thinks he moves himself. He should make no effort either to work or to renounce work. That effort itself is bondage. The remedy is not inactivity, which is not possible to man, but ego-less activity. It is not doing that has to be abjured but only the illusion that you are the

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See the Self in everything - Bhagavan Ramana

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Our life is full of abstracts; may be, we live most of the time in our abstract world. Physical world is the real world which we can touch and feel. There are physical occurrences all the time; abstracts are used to deal (?) with these physical occurrences; we quite easily slip into this abstract domain and get fully engrossed in that.We are not directed by physical happenings alone; our life's

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I wonder if you have ever walked along a crowded street, or a lonely road, and just looked at things without thought? There is a state of observation without the interference of thought. Though you are aware of everything about you, and you recognize the person, the mountain, the tree, or the oncoming car, yet the mind is not functioning in the usual pattern of thought. I don't know, if this has

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'Thought is never new and can never be new, and living now, everyday, is something which is the active present; it is always active, in the present. Therefore when you try to understand activity in the present, with the past, which is thought, then you don't understand it at all; then there is fragmentation, and life becomes a conflict. So, can you live so completely that there is only the active

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One day, the father of a very wealthy family took hisson on a trip to the country with the express purposeof showing him how poor people live.They spent a couple of days and nights on the farmof what would be considered a very poor family.On their return from their trip, the father asked hisson, "How was the trip?""It was great, Dad.""Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked."Oh yeah,

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'Thought is never new and can never be new, and living now, everyday, is something which is the active present; it is always active, in the present. Therefore when you try to understand activity in the present, with the past, which is thought, then you don't understand it at all; then there is fragmentation, and life becomes a conflict. So, can you live so completely that there is only the active

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Can't I look out of silence, which is non-verbal, without the thinking machinery of pleasure and time being in operation? Can't I just look? I think that's the crux of the whole matter, not to approach from the periphery, which only complicates life tremendously, but to look at life, with all its complex problems of livelihood, sex, death, misery, sorrow, the agony of being tremendously alone -

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Either you see the whole thing, the whole beauty of the sunset, of the tree, and the whole beauty of this meditation, completely and at once, and therefore flow with it, or you do not see at all. - K

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The Essential Alan WattsOn FAITHFaith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and

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Alan Watts discusses viewing work as a dance, and how life is spontaneous, instead of driven by external forces.http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3552105127182647832#

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Alan Watts: A Conversation with Myselfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aufuwMiKmE

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Life is full of events which do not happen as per our wish or preference. Even our feelings arise from nowhere. Without any provocation, suddenly we act aggressively. Is it because our life is part of larger pattern that it flows in its unique way and defies comprehension? There seems to be many cosmic forces acting with their unique characteristics, making things happen, in tune with the whole.

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J. Krishnamurti - The Sage of Our Timehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1J_qPa72S0

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Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi rare video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-OS8LU6JW8

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The Promise by The Martins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkHbYLHkUuk&feature=related

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J. Krishnamurti - Freedomhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cjoOIWi9U&feature=related

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Jiddu Krishnamurti - Be a light to yourselfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GULCx8Jpw_s&NR=1

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The girl who silenced the world at the U.N. for 5 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1I6ljzaY9k&feature=related

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The Martins - The PromiseI never said that I would give you silver or goldOr that you would never feel the fire or shiver in the coldBut I did say you'd never walk thru this world aloneAnd I did say don't make this world your homeI never said that fear wouldn't find you in the nightOr that loneliness was something you'd never have to fightBut I did say I'd be right there by your sideAnd I did say

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Self dwells in the Heart of every being. Consciousness is the character of this Self. Manifold is its form indeed Like ornamental forms of gold. There crops up something called ego-self Which is nothing but an incessant thought-movement, A creation of the conscious force. Formed of Prana and manas It is born and rooted in forms of mind. World exists as a form But its separate

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‘My biggest dream is no child goes hungry’ The World Food Programme chief has lamented the severity of world hunger and said her biggest dream is to see no child goes hungry. Worldwide, 1.02 billion people or one in six of the world’s total population are suffering from hunger and a child dies of hunger in every six seconds. “Every child deserves at least one humble cup of food a day,” said

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We work and produce. If shortfall in cash flow is causing unemployment, nothing wrong with our product or our workers, there is something wrong with money. Money is created through lending. That is how money comes into being. And this money circulates through production cycle and should be squared off. Money can be availed again through the same mechanism. It should not be hoarded or taken away

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In 1854, the United States Government offered to buy two million acres of Indian land in the Northwest. Below is a tranlation of Chief Sealth's (Seattle) reply to President Franklin Pierce in December of that year. It has been described as the most beautiful and prophetic statement on the environment ever made.The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. The Great

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Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something decisive to meet the increasing complexity of their society. They held a meeting and finally decided to organize a school.The curriculum consisted of running, climbing, swimming and flying. Since these were the basic behaviors of most animals they decided that all students should take all the subjects.The duck provided to be excellent at

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Every being has its place.Nothing happens in isolation.Whether it is pleasure or pain, everything is meant to be experienced.Difficult to accept but these are what we see in real life.It appears that our very presence itself is the purpose of our life.No being, except human, does anything other than being present in the sustaining process.Looking to achieve, we missed celebration of peace and

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