![]() “You have put so much energy into building a prison for yourself. “You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. ![]() When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. “The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj Only something as vast and deep as your real Self can make you truly and lastingly happy.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj To imagine that some little thing food, sex, power, fame - will make you happy is to deceive oneself. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. Basically, you wish yourself well …desire by itself is not wrong. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. “In order to let go of something, you must first know what it is.” ― Nisargadatta Maharaj “Let it be still, and it will gradually become clear.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching You can use it any way you want.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching “The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds. “When there is no desire, all things are at peace.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching If you want to be given everything, give everything up.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching If you want to be reborn, let yourself die. If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to become straight, let yourself be crooked. “If you want to become whole, let yourself be partial. “Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching In family life, be completely present.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching “To understand the limitation of things, desire them.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching One only needs to see, and be reminded of what they already know, but have forgotten. ![]() But anguish is not needed to be reminded of true wisdom. Usually suffering, pain and death bring us the eyes to see what is always there. The one we seem to trip over, in a clumsy manor on our worst days. To most of us, it’s the invisible thread that is rarely seen. It’s the thread of complete surrender and unconditional love. As you read the quotes, feel the finely balanced infinitesimal thread they dance upon. They both communicated something beyond words in a way that is supreme.īelow I will list quotes by both Nisargadatta and Lao Tzu (also spelled Laozi and LaoTze). Even though one is from the 6th century BC, written by a sage - and the other is from the 1970s, written by a beedis (leaf-rolled cigarettes) shop keeper - they both speak similarly to the same unspeakable truth. They instantly answer any problem, any confusion, and any disharmony I could ever have. When I teach mediation, I reference them, or when I want to be reminded of what I know to be true, they both bring me to clarity and balance. There are two approaches, or two views, you can even say two books, that sum up what I innately know Tao Te Ching and I Am That, or you can say the views of Lao Tzu and Nisargadatta Maharaj.
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