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Big snowstorm here.
Taking the weekend off.
LOVE!
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You were never born. Therefore, you can never die.
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Check it out:

Michael James - www.happinessofbeing.com said...

Anyone who is interested in the teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana and the practice of self-enquiry, may be interested to know about my new website, which is dedicated to exploring in depth the philosophy and practice of his teachings.

At present the main content of this site is a PDF version of my new book, Happiness and the Art of Being, which is intended to serve both as a layman's introduction to the philosophy and practice of Bhagavan's teachings and as a very detailed and in-depth exploration of the core elements of his teachings.

If it is Bhagavan's will, I hope to continue adding more content to this site in the form of more e-books, articles, and translations and explanations of all the original writings of Sri Bhagavan.

If you know anyone whom you think might interested to know about this new website, please inform them about it.

Warm regards,

Michael
www.HappinessOfBeing.com

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Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas (or at least, a wonderful Monday)!
LOVE!
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Merry Christmas to All, And Thanks for all your wisdom and compassion... LOVE! Dan
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"The illusion of Samsara is due solely to an illusory notion and is not an absolute reality."

Sankara
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The English translation for the other day's post:

"For we are in a world, so very strange
that to live is just to dream.
Experience has taught me that each man who lives,
until he awakens, dreams what he is."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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"The one major problem facing the world today and every day since the beginning of this human experience is the false sense of self, which is called the ego. This puffed-up, pride-driven, false sense of self is the reason the world is in the state that it's in today."

Tommy Chong
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"Pues estamos en mundo tan singular,
que el vivir solo es sonar;
y la experiencia me ensena
que el hombre que vive, suena
lo que es, hasta despertar."

Pedro Calderon de la Barca




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And in the end, if you believe yourself to be any thing at all, whether that thing be the smallest, most limited, most insignificant, hopeless, useless thing in all of creation, or that thing be eternal, infinite, shining radiant Consciousness Itself, the ground and origin of all creation, or that thing be any thing in between, you will suffer and strive to protect and to enhance or diminish the story of yourself.

In the end, truth is all that matters, and the truth of you is ever-present, undeniable, and instantly available to you in all times and circumstances whatsoever. Just look at yourself in this moment and you will see.

John Sherman

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"When Heaven wants to deliver a person from harm, it grants him compassion as a protective charm."

Tao Te Ching
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I never did have any idea, so I'm taking the weekend off...
See you when I get back.

(Maybe Blogger will have this comment problem that seems to be going around fixed by the time I get back...)

LOVE!
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I have no idea.
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"To think that I have choice or to state that I have no choice are both simply concepts in the mind completely devoid of any reality. The truth cannot be held within any concepts."

Adyashanti
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"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."

Glenn Gould
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"That which, taken as causal or dependent, is the process of being born and passing away, is, taken non-causally and beyond all dependence, declared to be nirvana."

Nagarjuna, Buddhist


"As long as one persists in the belief in causality she will find the working of cause and effect. But when attachment to causality vanishes, cause and effect become nonexistent."

Gaudapada, Advaitin
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"Not ever could you have actually suffered for a reason that was true --only through an imagination, good, bad, indifferent.
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"...we really shouldn't forget that we are pretending, that we are making up the content of our experience; we are making up the little dramas of our lives. We are making up whether we need to hold on or surrender or have karma cleansed --it's all a thought. We just collude in this ridiculous charade of an illusion pretending that it's real, only to reveal that it's not. There is no karma. There is nothing really to purify. There's no problem. There is only what you create and believe to be so. And if you like it that way, have at it!
"But we cannot continue this absolute farce indefinitely. We cannot continue to pretend this game we play, indefinitely. It's impossible. Everything comes back to nothing.
"And then it's a bit harder to hold a straight face consistently for the rest of your life."

Adyashanti
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"You should know that neither phenomena nor mind has location and that intellect and phenomena are both false; they are neither manifested by causes or conditions, nor are they self-existent."

Surangama Sutra
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"No man has lived in the past, and none will ever live in the future."

Schopenhauer
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"There is every indication that the I exists; yet, under investigation, you cannot find it."

The Dalai Lama
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"Throughout beginningless aeons you have lived believing the body to be the self."

Kusan Sunim
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"Maybe we believe our own story of past pain, injustice, hurt. We believe our victimness defines us. Who would we be without all the stories of the past to examine and re-examine, add to and perpetuate? We believe they give us meaning and context.
"What if our past was just that--past, gone? The reality is it's not here right now. In order to bring the pain, torment and hurt forward, you have to choose to welcome them into your present awareness, then you have to feed the flame of that pain, add fuel to the fire, using your thoughts to enhance and heighten a pain that is not even here as part of the present moment."

Brandon Bays
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"Real meditation is to abide in this sense of being."

Nisargadatta Maharaj
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"Is it not, rather, ignorance to know all else without knowing oneself, the knower? As soon as one knows the Self, which is the substratum of knowledge and ignorance, knowledge and ignorance perish."

Ramana Maharshi
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"If we examine the origin of anything in all the universe, we find that it is but a manifestation of some primal essence."

Surangama Sutra
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"Buddhas speak of empty phenomena in order to destroy views, but if you are in turn attached to emptiness [as a view], you are even more mistaken. At the point of the arising of all existence, only emptiness arises."

from The Bodhidharma Anthology
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