Wisdom Blended #28

Sri Ramana Maharishi

Misery is due to multifarious thoughts. If the thoughts are unified and centred on a single item there is no misery, but happiness is the result. Then, even the thought , ' I do something' is absent; nor will there be an eye on the fruit of action.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 338

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

....Let them stay with a Guru, watch him, think of him. Soon they will experience a kind of bliss, quite new, never experienced before, except, maybe, in childhood. The experience is so unmistakbly new, that it will attract their attention and create interest; once the interest is roused, orderly application will follow.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 322

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I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased.

-- Jessica Alba

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Wisdom Blended #27

Sri Ramana Maharishi

So long as false identification persists doubts will persist, questions will arise, there will be no end of them. Doubts will cease only when the non-self is put an end to. That will result in realization of the Self. There will remain no other there to doubt or ask. All these doubts should be solved within oneself. No amount of words will satisfy. Hold the thinker. Only when the thinker is not held do objects appear outside or doubts arise in the mind.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 200

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. In a way it is like having death under control. One begins with the lowest levels: social circumstances, customs and habits, physical surroundings, the posture and breathing of the body, the senses, their sensations and perceptions, the mind, its thoughts and feelings, until the entire mechanism of personality is grasped and firmly held. The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond the 'I-am-so-and-so', beyond 'so-I-am', beyond 'I-am-the-witness-only', beyond 'there-is', beyond all ideas into the impersonally prsonal pure being. But you must be energetic when you take to meditation. It is definitely not a part time occupation. Limit your interests and activities to what is needed for you and your dependents' barest needs. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 412

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I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.

-- Sadie Frost

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Wisdom Blended #26

Sri Ramana Maharishi

Illusion is itself illusory. Illusion must be seen by one beyond it. Can such a seer be subject to llusion ? Can he then speak of degrees of illusion ?

There are scenes floating on the screen in a cinema show. Fire appears to burn buildings to ashes. Water sems to wreck vessels. But the screen on which the pictures are projected remains unscorched and dry. Why ?

Because the pictures are unreal and the screen is real.

Again reflections pass through a mirror; but the mirror is not in anyway affected by the quality or quantity of the reflections on it.

So the world is a phenomenon on the single reality, which is not affected in any manner. Reality is only one.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 416

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

....If you are angry or in pain, separate yourself from anger and pain and watch them. Externalization is the first step to liberation. Step away and look. The physical events will go on happening, but by themselves they have no importance. It is the mind alone that matters....

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 247

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I did it for political, moral reasons, thinking that I was making this great sacrifice, but it was absolutely necessary; I was not going to contribute to the violence in the world anymore.

-- Alicia Silverstone

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Wisdom Blended #25

Sri Ramana Maharishi

Reality is one only. How can it be realized ? Realization is thus an illusion. Practice seems to be necessary. Who is to practice ? Looking for the doer, the act and the accessories disappear.

Moreover, if Realization is not present here and now, how can It, newly got, be of any use ? What is permanent must be eternally present. Can it be newly got and eternally present also ?

Realize what is present here and now. The sages did so before and still do that only. Hence they say that it looks as if newly got. Once veiled by ignorance and later revealed, Reality looks as if newly realized. But it is not new.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 410

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

What change do you expect ? When the film projection ends, all remains the same as when it started. The state before you were born was also the state after death, if you remember.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 418

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All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

-- Alec Baldwin

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Wisdom Blended #24

Sri Ramana Maharishi

The thoughts arise from the 'I' thought which in turn arises from the Self. Therefore the Self manifests as 'I' and other thoughts. What does it matter if there are thoughts or no thoughts ?

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 308

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

If you look into living process closely, you will find cruelty everywhere, for life feeds on life. This is a fact, but it does not make you feel guilty of being alive. You began a life of cruelty by giving your mother endless trouble. To the last day of your life you will compete for food, clothing, shelter, holding on to your body, fighting for its needs, wanting it to be secure, in a world of insecurity and death....

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 158

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Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

 -- Amber Tamblyn

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Wisdom Blended #23

Sri Ramana Maharishi

So long as you consider yourself as an individual, a Guru is necessary to show you that you are not bound by limitations and that your nature is to be free from limitations.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 507

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The mind must learn that beyond the moving mind there is the background of awareness, which does not change. The mind must come to know the true self and respect it and cease covering it up, like the moon which obscures the sun during solar eclipse. Just realize that nothing observable, or experienceable is you, or binds you. Take no notice of what is not yourself.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 220

Inspired Vegetarians

Would you kill your pet dog or cat to eat it? How about an animal you're not emotionally attached to? Is the thought of slaughtering a cow or chicken or pig with your own hands too much to handle? Instead, would hiring a hit-man to do the job give you enough distance from the emotional discomfort? What animal did you put a contract out on for your supper last night? Did you at least make sure that none went to waste and to take a moment to be grateful for its sacrifice?

-- Anonymous

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Wisdom Blended #22

Sri Ramana Maharishi

Does preaching consist in mounting a platform and haranguing to the people around ? Preaching is simple communication of knowledge. It may be done in Silence too.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 243

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Pleasure is easily accepted, while all the powers of the self reject pain. As the acceptance of pain is the denial of the self, and the self stands in the way of true happiness, the whole-hearted acceptance of pain releases the spring of happiness.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 278

Inspired Vegetarians

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

-- Vaslav Nijinsky

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Wisdom Blended #21

Sri Ramana Maharishi

There is only one way and that consists in not losing sight of one's Self under any circumstances.

To enquire 'Who am I ?' is the only remedy for all the ills of the world. It is also perfect bliss.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 512

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

....You are right, there can be experience beyond consciousness. Yet there is the experience of just being. There is a state beyond consciousness, which is not unconscious. Some call it super-consciousness, or pure consciousness, or supreme consciousness. It is pure awareness free from the subject-object nexus.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 310

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

 -- Albert Einstein

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Wisdom Blended #20

Sri Ramana Maharishi

If atma-vichara (self-investigation) ceases, loka-vichara (world-investigation) takes its place.

Engage in Self-investigation, then the non-self will disappear. The Self will be left over. This is self-investigation of the Self. The one word Self is equivalent to the mind, body, man, individual, the Supreme and all else.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 192

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When the mind is kept away from its pre-occupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find that it is permeated with a light and love you have never known; and yet you recognize it at once as your own nature. Once you have passed through this experience, you will never be the same man again; the unruly mind may break its peace and obliterate its vision; but it is bound to return, provided the effort is sustained; until one day when all bonds are broken, delusions and attachments end and life becomes supremely concentrated in the present.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 308

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Think of me tonite

For that which you savor

Did it give you something real,

or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor?

 -- Wayne K. Tolson, from "Food Forethought"

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Wisdom Blended #19

Sri Ramana Maharishi

After the rise of the 'I' thought there is the false identification of the 'I' with the body, the senses, the mind, etc. 'I' is wrongly associated with them and the true 'I' is lost sight of. In order to shift the pure 'I' from the contaminated 'I' this discarding is mentioned. But it does not mean exactly discarding of the non-self, but it means finding of the real Self.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 222

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is nothing to gain. Abandon all imaginings and know yourself as you are. Self-knowledge. All craving is due to a sense of insufficiency. When you know that you lack nothing, that all there is, is you and yours, desire ceases.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 94

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I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives:  fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants.  But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender:  meat, milk, and cheese.

 -- Author Unknown

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Wisdom Blended #18

Sri Ramana Maharishi

....The happiness of solitude is not found in retreats. It may be had even in busy centres. Happiness is not be sought in solitude or busy centres. It is in the Self.

-- Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi, from the classic, 'Talks', p 435

 

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You imagine being and doing as identical. It is not so. The mind and the body move and change and cause other bodies to move and change and that is called doing, action. I see that it is in the nature of action to create further action, like fire that continues by burning. I neither act nor cause others to act; I am timelessly aware of what is going on.

-- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from the classic 'I am That', p 398

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A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen:  "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times.  Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing.  They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive.  I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones.  They're all the same.  If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it.  But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything."

 -- Slaughterhouse 1997

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