Heart^mind fasting
(dissolve preoccupations and the I)
Unify your will. Don’t listen with your ears, listen with your mind – don’t listen with your mind, listen with your qi. The ears are limited to listening; the mind is limited to sorting. But the qi, all empty, it awaits things. The Dao gathers in emptiness – emptiness: that is
the fasting of the mind.
The goal of fasting is inner unity. This means hearing, but not with the ear; hearing, but not with the understanding; hearing with the spirit, with your whole being… The hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty, to the ear, or to the mind. Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens.
There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind. Fasting of the heart empties the faculties, frees you from limitation and from preoccupation. Fasting of the heart begets unity and freedom.
- Confucius
[let] stillness come on its own
your eyes have to be unclouded. Thoughts are your clouds. Meditation is nothing but brushing away your thoughts, keeping your consciousness clean and reflective.
mind is the instrument for outside inquiry; no-mind is the opening of the door of your inner world. You are not just the body and you are not just the mind. You are much more, you are a mystery that can never be reduced to any language.
The obvious has no appeal for the mind. On the contrary, the obvious is the danger; it is the death of the mind and its desires and longings. You are the obvious. That’s why mind never looks inwards. It is so simple, it is already there
your essential existence. Mind will never become interested in going inwards, because there awaits its death. There is no function for it, there is nobody to conquer. Just a pure space, a silence.
Take everything as it is, without any judgment about its reality or unreality. But don't wobble under any circumstances [...] Just see things straight as they are
- OSHO
Inner stillness of being
the moment you are utterly still, not even a thought moving inside you, that is the moment of illumination. For the first time you have a glimpse of truth - not the idea of truth, but truth itself
- OSHO
the 3 dimensions of stillness
there are three dimensions of stillness: silence as soundlessness, silence as no movement of the mind, silence as egolessness. Start with any one and the other two will follow, by and by. Or, you can start working on all three, then the whole work will be speeded up. But don't go on thinking, because thinking is a movement, thinking is a noise, thinking is a process of the ego. Stop thinking and start doing. Only doing helps, only doing can make you existential. Only through doing is the jump and the explosion.
- OSHO
Search within, meditate
find the heartbeat of existence
Search within for what is there [...] this consciousness, this life in me [...] Taste yourself - it is the closest place, within yourself - taste your consciousness in silence & peace [...] in meditation words have to be dropped & you have to learn to remain wordless, even for small moments. But in those small moments so much blessing descends. From those small gaps the whole universe starts pouring upon you [...] The meditator comes to know - feels reality throbbing within himself - the heartbeat of existence. & then there is a thankfulness that is without any motive, a gratitude to nobody in particular, simply a gratitude for all, for all that is [...] a love affair, authentic, without any motive. It is just a thank-you, not addressing anybody in particular, addressed to the whole.
- OSHO
Thích Nhất Hạnh on Stillness
Sadhguru on the power of Stillness
Zazen
doing nothing, sit and look into yourself
za (sit doing nothing) zen (fall upon yourself, encounter yourself, see yourself)
Behind everything is your essential being
Reach to that point of your essential being-hood, to the very ground of being
once you have reached the watcher, your watchfulness, everything is dropped & there is no need for Zazen
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VIPASSANA
Watch your breath as is
Breathing has only to be used as a device to watch because it is a constant phenomenon in you
Simply watch it, it is the most subtle phenomenon
If you can watch your breath then it will be easy for you to watch your thoughts
Breathing & thinking are deeply related. Breathing is the bodily part of thinking & thinking is the psychological part of breathing. They are not separate, they are two aspects of the same coin.
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Shiva's 112 techniques
