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Post by humphrey on May 31, 2013 9:05:28 GMT -8
Are you suggesting then, that in the history of humankind there have never been enlightened persons?UG: No I’m not for a moment saying that there is no such thing as an enlightened being. We have plenty of them. I question the very demand to be enlightened. To me there is no such thing as enlightenment at all. Enlightenment is in the future. It is the time that has invented the thing in the future…. Enlightenment is part of the knowledge that is passed on to us from these great teachers who claim to be enlightened people. And it is the past that is in operation here projecting into the future a thing called enlightenment. First of all is there any such thing as the present? I say there is no such thing as the present. There is no such thing as now. There is no such thing as the moment here. If you say this is the moment, this is the present, this is the now, you have already brought into this picture the past. In the past I was not enlightened, so I am going to be enlightened tomorrow. But what about now? So am I enlightened or am I not enlightened What is it that tells me that enlightened or not enlightened. That I am free or I am not free. It is the knowledge that tells me that I am free that I am not free, that I am enlightened, that I am not enlightened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXyLbU1GGqU Mystique of Enlightenment
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Post by Reefs on Jun 16, 2013 5:54:39 GMT -8
Real Silence
UG: Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual seekers think. This is volcanic in its nature; it's bubbling all the time - the energy, the life that is its quality.
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Post by Reefs on Jun 16, 2013 6:06:20 GMT -8
True Courage
UG: You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody. You cannot free yourself of that burden by trying to develop that courage. If you are freed from the entire burden of the entire past of mankind, then what is left there is the courage.
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Post by Reefs on Jun 17, 2013 3:51:40 GMT -8
The Questioner
UG: The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
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Post by Reefs on Jun 17, 2013 4:07:27 GMT -8
Self-centered Activities
UG: All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centered. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centered activity.
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Post by silence on Jun 18, 2013 16:37:43 GMT -8
"The body can live on sawdust and glue. You should shoot all these nutritionists on sight and at sight!"
-UG
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Post by humphrey on Jun 19, 2013 7:37:02 GMT -8
"It is terror, not love, not brotherhood that will help us to live together. Until this message percolates to the level of human consciousness, I don't think there is any hope."
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Post by humphrey on Jun 19, 2013 7:40:12 GMT -8
"My interest is not to knock off what others have said [that is too easy], but to knock off what I am saying. More precisely, I am trying to stop what you are making out of what I am saying."
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Post by humphrey on Jun 19, 2013 8:40:02 GMT -8
"It is nice of you to come here, but you have come to the wrong place -- because you want an answer, and you think that my answer will be your answer. But that is not so. I may have found my answer, but that is not your answer. You have to find out for yourself and by yourself the way in which you are functioning in this world, and that will be your answer."
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Post by humphrey on Jun 20, 2013 5:23:39 GMT -8
Understanding is dualism. If that division is not there, there is nothing to understand. So the instrument which you are using to understand something is the only instrument you have. There is no other instrument. You can talk of intuition, you can talk
of a thousand other things. They are all sensitized thoughts.
Intuition is nothing but a sensitized thought -- but still it is a thought. So, anything you understand through the help of that instrument has not helped you to understand anything. That is not the instrument, and there is no other instrument. If that
is the case, is there anything to understand? Your understanding of anything is only for the purpose of changing what is there. Whatever is there, you want to change. You want to bring about a change in the structure of your thinking. So, you begin to think
differently, and you begin to experience differently. But basically there is no change there.
So, your wanting to understand anything is only for the purpose of bringing about a change there, and at the same time you do not want the change. That has created the neurotic situation in man, wanting two things, change and no change. That is the conflict that is there all the time.
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Post by Reefs on Sept 10, 2013 22:39:50 GMT -8
The certainty that blasts everything
"The certainty that dawned upon me is something which cannot be transmitted. It does not mean that I am superior, a chosen one, one in whom all the virtues are rolled into one. Not at all. I am just an ordinary man and have nothing to do with it. This certainly blasts everything, including the claims of the so-called enlightened ones selling things in the marketplace."
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