"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Searching with the mind


Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj:

If you can grasp the significance of what I have said, you will cease looking at 'things' against the fixed background of time; you will cease searching for truth through the medium of your proud intellect. Indeed, you will realize that the very effort of searching is an obstruction, because the instrument with which you will be searching is a divided mind - a conceptual subject seeking a conceptual object.

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