Bodhicitta777 on Nostr: GM. Embrace the chaos of change to recognize what is changeless! 🌹”Take a look ...
GM. Embrace the chaos of change to recognize what is changeless!
🌹”Take a look at your life. Think of the things that are so important to you Think of the things that annoy you That disturb you Think of the things that make you happy ... As long as you're dealing with things, they must change. They will never be the same. Nothing is ever the same. Everything must change.
Why should you chase after things that change? Don't you see the folly in this? You're wasting your precious life. Then you come back again and again, until you refuse to any longer get involved with this world and you become free!"
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
🌹”Finding the changeless through the changing: "This sutra says that everything is change: "HERE IS THE SPHERE OF CHANGE..." On this sutra Buddha's whole philosophy stands. Buddha says that everything is a flux, changing, non-permanent, and that one should know this. Buddha's emphasis is so much on this point. His whole standpoint is based on it. He says, "change, change, change: remember this continuously." Why? If you can remember change, detachment will happen. How can you be attached when everything is changing and impermanent.
Forms change, while the formless, aware presence in which they appear is forever changeless—and, you are That.
When you become lost in the world of forms, you forget your true formlessness.
The mind becomes hypnotized by the coming and going of the objects it perceives, all while overlooking and forgetting the underlying changeless source of consciousness in which they arise.
Remember again and again, the state of the Wise who remain untouched by the external changes, because of their absorption in the changeless Self.
Anyone who is centered on someone else - whoever that someone else is - will become frustrated in the end. Become more and more free of others.
The more attention given to the transient things of the world the less attention is given to the eternal changeless nature of one’s own spirit, resulting in less peace and more attachment to things that cannot last, further blurring the clarity needed to remain fully awake to what is real.
"If an ant can separate a grain of sugar from the heap of sand, why can't you separate your changeless nature from the changing experiences?"-OSHO
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🌹”Take a look at your life. Think of the things that are so important to you Think of the things that annoy you That disturb you Think of the things that make you happy ... As long as you're dealing with things, they must change. They will never be the same. Nothing is ever the same. Everything must change.
Why should you chase after things that change? Don't you see the folly in this? You're wasting your precious life. Then you come back again and again, until you refuse to any longer get involved with this world and you become free!"
~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)
🌹”Finding the changeless through the changing: "This sutra says that everything is change: "HERE IS THE SPHERE OF CHANGE..." On this sutra Buddha's whole philosophy stands. Buddha says that everything is a flux, changing, non-permanent, and that one should know this. Buddha's emphasis is so much on this point. His whole standpoint is based on it. He says, "change, change, change: remember this continuously." Why? If you can remember change, detachment will happen. How can you be attached when everything is changing and impermanent.
Forms change, while the formless, aware presence in which they appear is forever changeless—and, you are That.
When you become lost in the world of forms, you forget your true formlessness.
The mind becomes hypnotized by the coming and going of the objects it perceives, all while overlooking and forgetting the underlying changeless source of consciousness in which they arise.
Remember again and again, the state of the Wise who remain untouched by the external changes, because of their absorption in the changeless Self.
Anyone who is centered on someone else - whoever that someone else is - will become frustrated in the end. Become more and more free of others.
The more attention given to the transient things of the world the less attention is given to the eternal changeless nature of one’s own spirit, resulting in less peace and more attachment to things that cannot last, further blurring the clarity needed to remain fully awake to what is real.
"If an ant can separate a grain of sugar from the heap of sand, why can't you separate your changeless nature from the changing experiences?"-OSHO
🙏💙💙