Tao Te Ching

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I Am That

By Nisargadatta Maharaj

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“Anyone who imagines actions will bring about realization is deluded.”

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“Every existence is my existence, every consciousness if my consciousness, every sorrow is my sorrow and every joy is my joy”

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“For a seeker of reality, there is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. To be free from thoughts is itself meditation.”

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“Give up all questions except one: 'Who am I?'... Discover all that you are not... understand that on the level of mind, you can only be described in negative terms”

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Themes: Know Yourself

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“Ignorance is the cause of inevitability. You look around without understanding and take appearances for reality... There is no way you can help the world more than putting an end to ignorance.”

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Themes: Ignorance

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“Question everything, don’t believe anything.”

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Themes: Belief

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“Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.”

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Themes: Reality

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“The saints and Yogis, by immense efforts and sacrifices, acquire many miraculous powers [yet] it is not a way to reality, but merely an enrichment of the false.”

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Themes: Golden Chains

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“The world is like a sheet of paper on which something is typed. The reading and the meaning will vary with the reader but the paper is the common factor, always present, rarely perceived.”

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“There is no birth there is no death… it’s all a concept, it’s all an illusion.”

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“There is no coming there is no going”

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Themes: Competition

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“There is trouble only when you cling to something. When you hold on to nothing, no trouble arises... Give up all and you gain all.”

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Themes: Letting Go

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“True teaching can be on an individual basis only. The same medicine cannot be prescribed for all.”

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“Whatever you say it is, it isn’t.”

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Themes: Emptiness

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“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that’s wisdom. When I look outside and see that I am everything, that’s love. Between these two my life turns.”

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Themes: Middle Way

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“Without desire you are dead. But with low desires you are a ghost. Shun not desire; see only that it flows into the right channels.”

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Themes: Desire

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“You are looking for a cure while I am concerned with prevention. As long as their are causes, there must also be results... If you want peace and harmony in the world, you must first have peace and harmony in your hearts and minds.”

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