Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The Purpose of Meditation

Q:   What is the purpose of meditation?
M:  Seeing the false as the false, is meditation. This must go on all the time.

--- Nisargdatta Maharaj ---

Friday, March 9, 2012

The person

The person is a very small thing. Actually it is a composite, it cannot be said to exist by itself. Unperceived, it is just not there. It is but the shadow of the mind, the sum total of memories. Pure being is reflected in the mirror of the mind, as knowing. What is known takes the shape of a person, based on memory and habit. It is but a shadow, or a projection of the knower onto the screen of the mind.   ---  Nisargadatta Maharaj  ---

Friday, March 2, 2012

Fibers

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

--- Henry Melvill ---