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The stablity of the transformation depends entirely upon remaining resolutely in the unknown, never to return again. What does that mean? It means ever abiding in that mysterious place where the mind has no foothold whatsoever.
Andrew Cohen [ Write a comment ]
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The foundation of my teaching is what I call 'Clarity of Intention'. It is the irrevocable, unshakeable commitment to attaining spiritual freedom, above all else, here and now, in this life. Being clear about one's intention to be free means that one is ready and willing to do anything that one has to do in order to succeed.
Andrew Cohen [ Write a comment ]
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The perennial refrain of the ego in the face of the call from the Absolute is, "I'm not ready yet. I need more time."
And it always sounds so reasonable...
This is what the spiritual drama is all about - the dynamic tension between the ego's endless excuses and the call for unconditional submission from the Absolute.
Andrew Cohen [ Write a comment ]
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The result is a state of BEING...That there is nothing which can be attained is not idle talk; it is the truth.
Huang Po [ Write a comment ]
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People think, Enlightenment is over here and I’m going to grab it. But it’s formless; it’s a cloud, a miasma. When the willingness is total and complete, then it happens on its own, in a ten thousandth of a second. It doesn’t require effort, it doesn’t require agony, it doesn’t require penance. Consciousness of its own seeks the realization of all that it is.
David Hawkins [ Write a comment ]
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The more I investigate, the more convinced I become that iconoclastic mystics like Blake and Jiddu Krishnamurti were right in asserting that the very idea of a spiritual path is necessarily self-defeating, because it does the one thing that has to be undone if there is to be awakening to eternity: it concentrates attention firmly on “futurity.”
John Wren-Lewis [ Write a comment ]
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We must withdraw every thing and thought from the mind except this single thought of trying to achieve the absence of what is not the Absolute. This is called Gnana Yoga: "Neti, Neti" (It is not this), as Sankara called it. And he must go on with this negative elimination until he reaches the stage where a great Void envelops him. If he can succeed in holding resolutely to this Void in sustained concentration -- and he will discover it is one of the hardest things in the world to do so -- he will abruptly find that it is not a mere mental abstraction but something real, not a dream but the most concrete thing in his experience. Then and then only can he declare positively, "It is This." For he has found the Overself.
Paul Brunton [ Write a comment ]
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