May 23, 2018 at 6:13 PM
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“this teaching keeps emphasizing just being there,
LAO TZU…:
“Nature does not hurry but everything is accomplished.”
simply being vulnerable to and present with immediacy of feeling. At some point that [practice of] not doing reveals its power. That power is not just that we refrain from taking action, but that we experience the presence of total stillness. This is the essence of non-doing which is peace. Stillness leads to insight. In order to recognize true liberation you must have this capacity for stillness or peacefulness, because liberation is so fleeting. As you develop and appreciate the stillness you allow a state of restfulness that leads to intuition, to insight. Stillness allows our life to take new form void of the reactive self based on the past. We are free in such a condition, born anew each moment. 1
May 23, 2018 at 6:13 PM
essential truth = the apprehending of the immediate reality of the moment. This immediate reality is presence - the quality of beingness. When you really see that the nature of the personality is reactivity, a cycle of ego activity based on hope, desire, and rejection, it is possible that the activity will cease, and peace and stillness will arise. Then it is possible to understand what Being is. You might actually be engaged in some activity, but where you are, coming from your fundamental attitude of stillness, is that there is no reaction to anything, no rejection of anything. If you allow this to happen, then it is possible to know what Being is. “The deeper the words come out of the silence
Without Trust We Can’t Let Ourselves Be Still Accept and trust the silence, the stillness, the Beingness.” A.H. Almaas
of your innermost core, the further they will go - like an arrow - into the listener’s heart.”
A Forced Stillness Is Not Silence ”When you cannot be silent, then your words are meaningless, then they are very ordinary, there is no poetry. Have you ever watched it? Jesus speaks the same words that you speak, Buddha uses the same words that you use - then what is the difference? The same words, and theirs have tremendous significance, so burningly alive, aflame with vitality. From where do they come? They come from silence. Jesus went into silence again and again. He had exhausted his silence by speaking, the silence was spent in words - now he had to go back to become full again, to be full of silence. Then he would be full of poetry, song, his words would not be ordinary, they would be full of luminosity. Remember, words go to exactly the same depth from which they come.” Osho
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