let arise what will

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let arise what will

let there be pure happening

like a fresh breath

there is no doer

there is no seer there to see anything

relax and feel how you are carried

cease all efforting

what effort does it take to just be here now?

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the waves of your mind will settle

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Look at this world and your life as patterns of waves in the One Substance. As these waves intersect they combine in most wondrous ways into forms. This is what we call ‘the world’, or ‘creation’, or ‘existence’ – and we are an integral part of it.

great equanimity

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Mental calmness, composure, and evenness of temper, especially in a difficult situation is what the dictionary says. Similar words are composure, calm, level-headedness, self-possession, coolheadedness and presence of mind. Han Shan, the poet-hermit from Cold Mountain, says:

If heaven and earth shift, let them shift.

I shall be sitting happy among the rocks.

busy or quiet doesn’t matter ~ Nisargadatta

You are not the mind. If you know you are not the mind, then what difference does it make if it’s busy or quiet?

You are not the mind

~Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Ecstasy, Happiness and Realization – Ramana

Q: So one should not try to perpetuate blissful or ecstatic states?

Ramana: The final obstacle in meditation is ecstasy; you feel great bliss and happiness and want to stay in that ecstasy. Do not yield to it but pass on to the next stage which is great calm. The calm is higher than ecstasy and it merges into samadhi. Successful samadhi causes a waking sleep state to supervene. In that state you know that you are always consciousness, for consciousness is your nature. Actually, one is always in samadhi but one does not know it. To know it all one has to do is to remove the obstacles.

ecstasy and calm

The final obstacle in meditation is ecstasy;

you feel great bliss and happiness

and want to stay in that ecstasy.

Do not yield to it but pass on

to the next stage which is great calm.

The calm is higher than ecstasy

and it merges into samadhi.

~Ramana Maharshi

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Calm

When I am calm I am understanding. When I am calm I am patient. When I am calm I am compassionate. When I am calm I am forgiving. When I am calm I am peaceful. When I am calm I am fulfilled. Most problems are solved more easily when I am calm. Be calm.