Nisargadatta ~ 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 ~ Advaita

This is a selection of key pointers from Nisargadatta taken from the texts "I am That" and "The Nisargadatta Gita" - intended as a guided meditation. It is a shorter, edited version of the longer one that you can find here: • Nisargadatta Maharaj -...
Original text of "I am That" edited and compiled by Maurice Frydman. The Nisargadatta Gita edited by Pradeep Apte.
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[@Dharmapagan]

It may just be semantics, but aren’t these instructions caught in delusion? Use of “you are the knower” and “mind and feelings become one” seem to be the precise delusion the Buddha taught liberation from. Ajahn Dtun talks about realizing the emptiness of all five khandas, and how an Anagami still takes the subtle knowing “I am” to be his/herself. But the arahat goes beyond this last fetter to “the mind that does not depend on consciousness as its cause.” The place where all the Buddha’s contemporaries caught caught was in identifying with sensory consciousness (vinyana) and/or with the conceit “I am,” which is clearly a mental fabrication. When the unborn mind gets caught here, final liberation is not possible because sensory consciousness and the “I am” feeling are dependently arisen phenomena. They belong to the khandas and are dukkha itself. I may be misunderstanding but these directions seem to be asking us to identity with these last subtle fetters.

[@SamaneriJayasara]

@@Dharmapagan You would need to understand and study the depth and breadth of Nisargadatta's teachings to appreciate what he is pointing to here and why he is encouraging people to rest in the "I am" sense or state of pure presence. On the surface, and from a Theravadin Buddhist perspective (and languaging) it may seem to be contrary to the teachings of the Buddha, but it is not. Nisargadatta teaches that the "I am" is the first and last delusion or ignorance to be seen through and overcome. We must go beyond and see and understand with direct insight the builder of this house. But we can only do it through pure Awareness, mindfulness, insight, pure presence, Wisdom - whatever you want to call it. These are the gates to the Deathless Reality. He called it the "I am" and taught people to recognise it and abide in it as a portal to going beyond to the Absolute Truth. He recognised that Truth cannot be understood through the intellect or reason; and one must put down all conceptual constructs, dogmas, systems of understanding, and so on in order to see directly with insight wisdom. Words (and our conditioned judgements and preferences) are the great barriers here to understanding the profundity of what he realised and is pointing to. As you know, they can never "be" the Truth but only a proximation of the Truth. Here is a recording that specifically addresses going beyond the "I am" that you might find helpful: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ppSVm6Non9uNoLM&ab_channel=SamaneriJayas%C4%81ra-WisdomoftheMasters

[@Dharmapagan]

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[@Dharmapagan]

@@SamaneriJayasara my own disillusion from that “I am” feeling/sensation/thought revealed that the self is the shadow of desire. I noticed that the sense of I-me-my would arise along with the arising of desire and cease along with the cessation of desire. Additionally I have seen that the sense of a continuous self is stored as tension in the body, which is craving itself. The stronger the sense of self, the greater the tension in the body. The weaker the sense of self, the lighter the body feels. Even knowing this clearly, my own sense of self still persists because I haven’t gone beyond craving, though I recognize its rise and fall in conjunction with craving. I have a significantly weaker identification with this process but know that only overcoming craving entirely will dissolve that shadow of desire

[@Light-dz5jp]

Thank you for reading this in such a slow , spaceous way , without music, allowing one to really feel the depth of the Heart and Silence. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Namaste!

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He speaks and then there is a pause between each statement and this technique draws you in to what is being explained. This is exactly how my master used to convey his wisdom to the disciples who had been accepted into his ashram.

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[@stoicafanel]

That's the how Nisargadatta be read ! Thank you ! I felt it to the bones and more,,,,,,

[@dme6997]

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The long pauses in this one are beautiful

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You will never ever find the answer in the mind ,it's the wrong instrument ,full stop choiceless awareness avoid the constant dialogue you have and start by just witnessing the thoughts that arise , true mediation is the absolute refusal to harbour thought, namaste ❤

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[@tyanite1]

The most straightforward instructions I have ever heard. Thanks very kindly for sharing this. My problem is how does one get enough distance between themselves and their thoughts to observe them dispassionately. Seven years and counting. No luck yet.

[@collettewhiteman]

Just don’t be interested in your thoughts. Do fight with them, just be bored by them. Be more interested in the I AM ness 😊that in which the thoughts arise.

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Seems it's to realize that we are not our thoughts ❤

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[@adriandeasy8810]

Om Sri baghavate nisagadatta maharaj like om Sri baghavate ramana maharshi and om Sri baghavate pounjaji papaji make it so simple, simple yet so profound in this simplicity in leaving everything aside and just remaining as what remains make everything more beautiful, when I'm out in nature I like to leave all labels like tree birds river and see as it simply is beyond words idea's ,and see it with intuitive looking there is no separateness it makes life more beautiful in this simplicity, let there be peace let there be love for all life universal namaste om 🕉 namah shivaya om 🕉 shanti shanti shanti, thank you thank you thank you to the great sages of all time, shi va means that wich is not physical wich is consciousness therefore everything is shiva ,ramana himself said this also everything is shiva om namah shivaya means I bow to the auspicious one it can also mean I bow to the devine with the auspicious one is the self ,just wanted to share this be well beautiful souls ❤️

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[@sarvadamanbanerji6325]

Real peace is total attention to mind n body,how can u experience it.when u r not silence is.

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[@lindaflory2260]

Beautiful. Can anyone please shine some light on what it means when she says “focus on the I Am”

[@mareknot706]

You just have to be without thought. It's hard at the beginning, because your mind will tell you that it's pointless, but persevere in this state as long as possible. Just be. Don't think, be. Thoughts are of culture, being is of nature. There is complete silence in being, you are nothing special there. You just are. While in this state, the spontaneous recognition of who or what you really are will begin.

[@Light-dz5jp]

Just allow yourself to Feel , to Sense what is beneath the noise of your thoughts and allow yourself to rest in that sweet , nourishing Silence of your Heart of hearts, deeply rest. That works for me to feel the sense of I- am-ness / homecoming / Presence of something that is way beyond words and thinking. Hope this helps

[@KelleyBlewster-er2ep]

I find Eckhart Tolle’s concept of the inner body very helpful here. It is the sense of aliveness that enlivens each cell. If you get quiet and tune in to your body, beyond the sensory perceptions, you can sense that inner energy field. Aliveness without concept. Tolle calls it “beingness” or stillness. He links it to the “I am” feeling by pointing out that “being” and “I am” are simply two different grammatical constructions for the same phenomenon. (As 16:07 always, words are somewhat inadequate.) Feel the inner body. It is your portal to the life we all share as one.

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What else does one need?

[@priortokaraew7569]

absolutely nothing.

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Omgosh, what am I doing

[@TheWayofFairness]

I am not. Let it all go. My mind was the problem. I got rid of it. I practice mindlessness.

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[@frantisek_heca]

After many years involved in hundred hours of teachings and tens hours of meditation I am still puzzled by this basic thing. It's always stressed by numerous teachers how "there is nothing to do" and yet they are using words (like in this speach) "turn away from fear/thought", "cease being interested in....", "hold on...", "cling...", "keep in mind 'i am'" My mind is right away, always puzzled "should I do actually anything?", "what is this 'turning way'" I am very logical person.. I would like to understand this deeply in a logical way. Otherwise my mind is just visibly seeing the holes in these words' logic. Does anyone struggle with these also? What is it that is actually being done or not-done in the meditation. Is observation "doing" or not? Is it act of deliberate choice, should my mind be repeatedly returned to the act of observation?

[@SamaneriJayasara]

Let your logical mind die. That is all. Then you will understand the Dhamma, or Truth.

[@priortokaraew7569]

'''nothing to..." is the larger context. the others are tactical on the path to it.

[@slime1592]

May I ask what you see yourself to be doing when in meditation?

[@priortokaraew7569]

@@slime1592 how can one see themselves? if you must, look at the seeing.

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[@sabdulnasir1]

Great Meditation...! Please correct the right english subtitles because they are wrongly placed with the audio.

[@williampaul8556]

Allow. Observe.

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[@tyanite1]

As an American, I'm not sure if I can understand the "I am" without equating it to pure, selfish ego. Please explain, if you will, what is meant by I and "I am" in this context. I'm certain it is much different than my rather unconscious assumptions about I and "I am".

[@DilbagSingh-sp2yp]

I hope rupert spira might be helpful to explain it, check him out on yt.

[@KelleyBlewster-er2ep]

Don’t focus on the *concept* of you as an individual with all your mind-made stuff, ie, your ego. In this context, “I am” is the *feeling* of aliveness that lies beyond or behind thought/concepts/ego. You can sense it in your body if you get quiet and tune in.

[@andybrown3016]

I am is unconditioned awareness. It is the empty space of alert presence in which thoughts appear and disappear. Always remember any thought is the ego, the conditioned mind. I am is silence, space, stillness.

[@nicholasfurtado9443]

We are Human animal and we are Spirit Being. This Consciousness is a Divine living Being manifest as this physical universe. I Am is the first person of the verb to be. Our very living Being.

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TAT TVAM ASI

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