Wednesday, April 29, 2020

you need no change



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Words indicate, but do not explain.
What I teach is the ancient and simple way of liberation through understanding. 
 
 Understand your own mind and its hold on you will snap. 
 The mind misunderstands, misunderstanding is its very nature. 
 Right understanding is the only remedy, whatever name you give it.
 It is the earliest and also the latest, for it deals with the mind as it is.

Nothing you do will change you, for you need no change. 
 You may change your mind or your body, but it is always something external
 to you that has changed, not yourself. Why bother at all to change?
 
 Realize once and for all that neither your body nor your mind, 
nor even your consciousness is yourself and stand alone in your true nature
 beyond consciousness and unconsciousness. No effort can take you there,
 only the clarity of understanding. Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them,
 that is all.
 
 There is nothing to seek and find,
 for there is nothing lost.
 Relax and watch the 'I am'. 
 Reality is just behind it.
 Keep quiet, keep silent; 
it will emerge,
 or, rather,
 it will take you in.




~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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