"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

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Remember Facts, Forget Opinions.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Q. How does it happen that each man creates his own world?
M. When a number of people are asleep, each dreams his own dream. Only on awakening the question of many different dreams arises and dissolved when they are all seen as dreams, as something imagined.

Q. Even dreams have a foundation.
M. In memory. Even then, what is remembered, is but another dream. The memory of the false cannot but give rise to the false. There is nothing wrong with memory as such. What is false is its content. Remember facts, forget opinions.

Q. What is a fact?
M. What is perceived in pure awareness, unaffected by desire.

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