Wednesday, 25 January 2012

SIMILARITY BETWEEN EKHART TALLE AND RAMANA TEACHINGS

Eckhart Tolle quotes (showing 1-50 of 142)

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: education , inspirational , life , philosophy , truth , wisdom

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: change

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“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: gratitude

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“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: love

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“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: experience

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“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: life

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“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: realization

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“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose

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“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: dance

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“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: peace

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“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: death

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“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: spiritual

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“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“This, too, will pass.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: wisdom

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“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: artists

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“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: being-present , time

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“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“All the things that truly matter, beauty, love, creativity, joy and inner peace arise from beyond the mind.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“Living up to an image that you have of yourself or that other people have of you is inauthentic living.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: experience

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“Being must be felt. It can't be thought.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: surrender

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“If not now, when?”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of
ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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“Awareness is the greatest agent for change.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad. It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly. Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last. All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore. Life flows with ease.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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“If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality without.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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“...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: enlightenment , past-and-future

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“Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

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“Man made God in his own image...”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: inspirational

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“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.”
― Eckhart Tolle

tags: inspirational , life , time

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“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

tags: judgment , peace , wisdom

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“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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“...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.”
― Eckhart Tolle

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Sunday, 22 January 2012

ONE OF MIRACLES OF RAMANA MAHARISHI

Blossoms Of Grace

By: Priya Devi R

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Bhagavan was always the last resort for Gowri Ammal. He was her anchor when alarming times set in

Gowri Ammal came within the groove of Ramana when she was barely seven years of age. As it would have it that once one is in the orbit of the master's grace, the invisible link between the master and the devotee only strengthens even at times unaware by the latter. Her second visit was when she was twenty years of age. Gowri Ammal consciously became aware of the Master's grace when she was widowed at the age of thirty four. Hence forth her visits to Ramanashram took a regulated turn to frequenting it once a month.

The Master's grace manifested itself in the miracles that effortlessly erupted in the hour of the need. Once a severe attack of typhoid took over her daughter which subsided to Bhagavan's grace when she sought His intervention through a letter to Him.

Gowri Ammal's daughter Saroja was childless even after six years of marriage. She brought her daughter to Bhagavan's presence and urged her to sing a song propitious for the purpose. On her return back to her husband's house Saroja was impregnated with a baby. However complications arose during the delivery even after having her admitted in the best hospital. Gowri Ammal captured the situation in a letter with prayerful surrender to Bhagavan. As for Saroja, she clutched the locket of Bhagavan throughout the process of the delivery and gave birth to a male infant naturally much to the surprise of the doctors.

Bhagavan was the only solace for Gowri Ammal at the hour of crisis and her entreaties were acknowledged promptly. Her grandson born purely of Bhagavan's grace once developed a skin disease akin to eczema which spread from his feet up to his thigh accompanied by fever. It was a case of despair even for the doctors. Gowri Ammal once again surrendered the problem to Bhagavan's care and the boy got cured miraculously. In a similar instance her six year old nephew was rushed to the care of Bhagavan when he was bitten probably by a poisonous insect that caused his body turn blue. Just a caress from Bhagavan's hands brought new breath to the collapsing child.

Thus thorns of problems fructified into blossoms of miracles in the life of Gowri Ammal. The miracles portrayed Bhagavan as the divine physician of the roles He normally adorned to rush to the rescue of His devotees.

Chat With The Devotees Of Bhagwan Ramana Maharishi

Topics:miracles, priya devi r, ramana maharshi

Saturday, 7 January 2012

RAMESH BALSEKAR QUOTING RAMANA MAHARSHI

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HERMETIC - ESOTERIC - MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHIES

ACCEPTANCE AND SURRENDER

Story of a Sufi - Story of a Brahman - A Zen story - A metaphor by Chuang tzu

Ramesh says that acceptance is more of a jnana process, and surrender is more of a bhakti process, and that dispassion is another term for the same two processes. "They really mean living in the present moment without being attached to anything. He has many stories that illustrate this point.

Story of a Sufi

"There was a saintly man, a Sufi. He lived his life quietly in his own small house. Then one of the neighboring young women got pregnant and she gave birth to a child. Everyone wanted to know who the father was. She didn't want to give up the name of her lover, so she gave the name of the Sufi. The community then insisted that the Sufi bring up the child. They came to him and he said, ‘All right, leave the child’. He brought up the child with whatever means he had. Two or three years later, the mother relented and she was sorry. She and her lover got married and they confessed that the Sufi was not the father of the child. They went to the Sufi and said, ‘We are very sorry that we made this mistake. Please give us the child back.’ He said, ‘Take it’.

These two anecdotes of Ramana Maharshi's are examples of deep acceptance of whatever is going to occur.

"Perhaps even more relevant and pertinent, and I would say shocking in modern times, is the answer given by Ramana Maharshi to a query put to him by a sincere young seeker. The seeker said, ‘I am carried away by the sight of the breasts of a young woman neighbor and I am afraid of committing adultery with her’. He implored Ramana Maharshi, ‘Please tell me what I should do’. The answer given by Ramana was amazingly straightforward. He said, ‘You are always pure. It is your senses and body which tempt you, and which you confuse with your real self. So first know who is tempted and who is there to tempt. But even if adultery does take place, do not think about it afterwards because you yourself are always pure. You need not feel guilty. You are not the sinner’.

"Some robbers came into Ramana Maharshi's place and beat up many people including Ramana Maharshi. His comment was. ‘You all worship me with flowers; they worship me with a stick. That is also a form of worship. If I accept yours, should I not accept theirs as well?’

The Brahmin

The following stories continue the illustration of acceptance of the nature of things.

‘A Brahmin was having his bath in the river. Then he noticed a scorpion almost drowning. So he lifted the scorpion and put it on the ground. But before he could put it on the ground, the scorpion bit his hand. Many people were sitting around and some said to him, ‘What have you achieved? You have spared him only to get yourself bitten’. His answer was, ‘I did what I had to do according to my nature. The scorpion did what it had to do according to its nature’.

‘A rabbi who had the Understanding lived in a tiny room with no stools to sit on and a desk which served as his bed at night. Anybody who came to see him had to sit on the ground or stand to talk. One of his visitors said, ‘Rabbi, where is your furniture?’ The rabbi said, ‘Where is yours?’ The visitor replied, ‘I am only passing through.’ The rabbi replied, ‘So am I.’

Zen story

This is a famous Zen story which Ramesh frequently quotes.

‘A farmer lived in the days when fighting was going on between small kingdoms in China. This farmer had a son. His son, with the aid of the horse, was tilling a small field. One day the horse ran away. The neighbors came and said, 'It's a very bad thing. You have such bad luck.’ The farmer said, ‘Maybe.’ So the next day the horse came back with half a dozen other wild horses. The neighbors came again and they said, ‘What tremendous luck.’ So he said, ‘Maybe.’ On the third day the son, while trying to ride one of the wild horses, fell and broke his leg. Again, the neighbors came and said what bad luck it was, and the farmer said, ‘Maybe.’ The next day the king's people came to recruit strong healthy farmers into the army. When they found this farmer's son with a broken leg they left him alone. So, again, the neighbors came and said it wasn't such bad luck after all and that everything had turned out well. The farmer said, again, ‘Maybe.’’

Mandala by Rahul Gajjar

This metaphor is by Chuang Tzu, and is called ‘The Empty Boat.’

"He who rules men lives in confusion. He who is ruled by men lives in sorrow. The Tao therefore desires neither to influence others nor to be influenced by them. The way to get clear of confusion and free of sorrow is to live with Tao in the land of the great void. If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own skiff, even though he be a bad-tempered man, he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat he will shout at him to steer clear. If the shout is not heard, he will shout again and yet again, and begin cursing. Yet, if the boat were empty he would not be shouting and not angry. If you can empty your own boat, crossing the river of the world, no one will oppose you. No one will seek to harm you. He who can free himself from achievement and from pain descends and is lost amid the masses of men. He will flow like Tao, unseen. He will go about like life itself, with no name and no home. Simple is he without destination. To all appearances he is a fool. His steps leave no trace. He has no power. He achieves nothing. He has no reputation. Since he judges no one, no one judges him. Such is the perfect man. His boat is empty."

‘Being unattached is quite different than being an ascetic’ - Ramesh says about the following story.
‘King Janaka still worked as a king after enlightenment happened. He did all his kingly duties, including the pleasures and the entertainment that came with his role. Once a guru had a disciple with a great deal of understanding, but who put a great deal of importance in asceticism. The guru sent the disciple to King Janaka. The disciple arrived at King Janaka's court in the evening and he found the king enjoying his usual entertainment. There was a feast going on, girls dancing, and everything that was expected of a king. So this disciple said, ‘Why has my guru sent me here? This is just entertainment. King Janaka is enjoying all this just like a rich man. ‘King Janaka said to him, ‘Go and rest for the night. In the morning at six o'clock I'll pick you up and we'll go for a walk in the garden and talk about things which your guru has asked you to discuss with me. So the next morning King Janaka picked up this disciple. As they started walking the disciple noticed a big fire in the quarters where he had spent the night. He said to the king, ‘Your Majesty, there's a fire there.’ The king said, ‘Yes, yes, yes. Let's go on and talk. They go a little further and the disciple says again, ‘There is a fire there!’ And the king says, ‘Yes, yes. Let's talk.’ The disciple takes a few more steps and then he couldn't wait any longer. So he said, ‘Your majesty, you may have many clothes, but my only other loincloth is in there, hanging on a string and drying.’

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Ramesh Balsekar

An Excerpt from the Unique Teaching of Ramesh S. Balsekar "It So Happened That". Edited by Mary Ciofalo

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