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by
Kapil Gupta
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December 11 - December 20, 2022
Nature lives in a state of equilibrium. It does not consider a storm as bad and sunshine as good. It does not categorize. Or judge. Or take sides.
To understand the fundamental nature of the mind allows one to transcend it. And once the mind is transcended, its powers become available to the human being to use as he pleases. This is man’s fundamental nature. This is true freedom. This is Atmamun.
The mind can go anywhere it wishes. You need not go With It. The mind can entertain any thoughts that it wishes. They have nothing to do with you. For you are not the mind.
Man will take any opportunity to avoid that which is most immediate in his life. He will do anything but the task at hand. He will look at anything besides that which stands inches from his face.
Anything of great value has a great price. If you are asking for no less than God himself, you must give no less than your Entire Self.
The life that you are currently living is not your real life. Because you are living through the Sheath known as Mind.
again: The greatest freedom that we have is the freedom to walk away from ourselves.
The single greatest obstacle to Atmamun is the presence of your manufactured self. The person that you call “myself” is the source of all your miseries. Remove this manufactured self, and you will be as free as a living God.
If there is one truth that I have learned, it is that unless you find it inside of Today, you will never find it inside of Tomorrow.
Life is simply a joke. An absurdity. A non-linear, haphazard, and unpredictable trail that is fertile for the imagination of hallucinatory human beings.
My friend, there was a day that you were not here. And there will soon be a day when you are no longer here. And once you realize this, you will understand that all there is left to do is play.
The man who is in love with his trade is not a worker. He is an artist. Whether he makes a million dollars or a thousand, he is living in accordance with his nature. And thus his days are filled with joy.
The unbiased honest truth is this: Wealth, success, and luxury do not harm a man. What harms a man is the Attachment to these things.
Human beings tend to become the norm that they are exposed to. This is the astonishing power of environment.
You become your surroundings!
Whether something is possible or impossible is not your business. Success and failure are ideas that will only serve as a burden to your quest. Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.
And when you reach this point you will discover who you are. When your thoughts feel like imposters. And your ideas seem like noise. And your preferences fail to move you. And your pride is easily dropped. You will experience the state of No-Mind.
truth: The Mind Cannot Be Calmed Or Tamed. It Can Only Be Transcended! And it is transcended Not through activities. It is transcended through Understanding.
The greatest thing that you can give to the world is peace in your very own life.
Anger is not a form of self-defense. It is a manifestation of inner conflict. And understand this: ALL Conflict Is Self-Conflict.

