JESUS OF INDIA
Quotes

Quotes by Maury Lee

We are the grapes of consciousness being refined into the wine drunk by God.

When God looks in the mirror, he sees you.

Maury Lee

The Law of Readiness

"When the student is ready, the Teacher will come." No matter how good a reputation a metaphysical or esoteric organization has, its only value to you is when the subjects or activities mean something to you, at that "given time." This has nothing to do with the competence or incompetence of the organization or teacher."

Dr. June G. Bletzer,
Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary.

I want to tell others what I feel so particularly keen about, namely what is called non-resistance, but what is essentially nothing other than the teaching of love undistorted by false interpretations…This law has been proclaimed by all the world's sages, Indian, Chinese, Jewish, Greek, and Roman. I think it has been expressed most clearly of all by Christ…

Leo Tolstoy to Mohandas K. Gandhi,
September 7, 1910

“A mystical move within is a powerful move without.” Nicholas Berdyaev

"Nihilism is an act of pride. You are so secure in rational or intellectual analysis, beginning with the death of God and descending to the last detail of one's wretched biology--that you arrogate to yourself powers of judgment that you don't really have..."

Saul Bellow, Nobel prize for literature

My favorite quote about mysticism:

"The difference between a mystic and a schizophrenic is that a mystic knows when to keep his mouth shut."

author unknown

The awareness that looks through my eyes, and yours, and everyone's eyes, is that which we really are. These bodies are just psychosomatic routers, with conditioned paths and filters that block out most of what is. The router only knows what it's programmed to see, takes direction, but does not know from whom the directions come.

You know this.

Maury Lee

Every teacher, book, writer, practitioner, sage, guru or peanut vendor, by whatever name, title or label they go by, is an aspect of the Awareness ( Identity ) "we" are.

We take the book from the shelf most likely to render a specific service at a given moment. Exactly so, we have appeared to go to the philosophy, teacher, church, friend, stranger or peanut vendor that has unfolded as sufficient for the moment--but that philosophy, teacher, church, friend or stranger is WITHIN the awareness WE are. So is the peanut vendor. We are forever looking at our Self.

A quote from William Samuel

SAMUEL, WILLIAM LEVEY, 1924-1996?

Army officer, businessman, educator. Born: Sept. 2, 1924, at St. Paul, Minn. Parents: Bert H. and Lena May (Hosier) Levey.

Married: Ruby Palmer in 1946. Married: Rachel Knight in 1977. Children: Four. Education: Gulf Coast Military Academy; attended Birmingham Southern College. Officer in Infantry of World War II and Korean War; self-employed in business; lecturer; teacher.

Author of:

The Awareness of Self-discovery: How to Live the Real Identity. Mountain Brook, Ala.: Mountain Brook Pub. Co., 1970.

A Guide to Awareness and Tranquility: a Practical Blueprint for Immediate Peace of Mind and Sufficiency.
Mountain Brook, Ala.: Mountain Brook Pub. Co., 1967.

The Melody of the Woodcutter and the King: an Account of an Awakening .
Palo Alto, Calif.: Seed Center, 1976.

2 + 2 Reality: the Point Blank Solution to Personal Problems.
Mountain Brook, Ala.: Mountain Brook Pub. Co., 1969.

(see links page for web sites)

"Beauty is eternity gazing
at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and
you are the mirror."

Kahlil Gibran

"When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner...then shall you enter the Kingdom."

Jesus - The Gospel of Thomas

The following was written by Kenneth Lloyd Russell. A teacher I met over the Internet, but have never met. He introduced me to Nisargadatta Maharaj.

I must add that the Internet is a great boon to mystics, for we are often alone, living an inner life, unknown to others. The Internet offers us a way to communicate across all boundaries. All the world is light. Communicating through optical fibers is quite a coincidence, isn't it?

"Enlightenment" -- Medium, Message, or Method?

There are three major kinds of paths, or levels of
activity that can be followed in pursuing what might be called a "spiritual" search.

1. The MEDIUM. One of the most common, and perhaps reflecting the most primitive level of development, is that of focusing attention on the "medium" -- that is, some presumed purveyor of higher truth, a "guru", or personal spiritual guide. Or, the larger body of an organized church of some sort, in which it may be hoped that membership alone bestows spiritual credits, and protection from the pits and perils of everyday life -- like the Catholic church, or Jehovah's Witnesses.

Particularly in India, though, and some parts of the
Western world, too, it's a common idea that "enlightenment" will come about as a result of loving, adoring, and totally submitting to an individual holy man, or guru.

The spiritual longings of the heart, and intimations of higher levels of functioning that stem from a person's deeper inner self (or No-self) are projected out upon this guru. The result can often be such hysterical absurdities as Jim Jones of Jonestown fame, Kuresh of Waco Texas, Da Free John, Rajneesh, and other "spiritual" montebanks. (Or the semi-religious frenzy of Hitler worship.) For some, though, it can function as a necessary life-stabilizing influence, preparatory to doing deeper inner work.

2. The MESSAGE. Another common emphasis is on the acquisition of doctrinaire, or esoteric KNOWLEDGE. Fundamentalists find reassurance in the attempt to believe in the "word of God", as revealed in some holy writ, or official dogma. Great emphasis is placed by such people on the sacredness of "tradition."

Those with more intellectual sophistication, on the other hand, find solace and hope in the attempt to master the more esoteric "knowledge" contained in detailed descriptions and explanations of how the cosmos is put together, the purpose of life, and the various "levels" of spiritual attainment, as described by Madame Blavatsky (and her "Great White Brotherhood"), or revealed in the wisdom of the pyramids, the secrets of Atlantis, the writings of Rudolph Steiner, or even the most sophisticated and brilliant paradigms of all -- those of Ken Wilber. (The latter also, though, seemed at one time to also believe in the magical powers of a guru, and his "message," as indicated by his amazing plug for the wisdom and virtues of Da Free John!)

Since the human intellect is capable of formulating an infinite number of paradigms, models of the universe, or mental constructions for describing and explaining anything, and everything, it's simply a matter of personal preference as to what a person chooses to "believe" in.

But such knowledge has nothing at all to do with the direct EXPERIENCE of enlightenment. In fact, it inevitably points, and focuses a person's attention, AWAY FROM where it needs to be directed, if the individual is ever to have an immediate experience of the GROUND of his/her Being.

Metaphysical "knowledge" can sometimes be fun, if not taken seriously, and recognized for the mind game it is. However, those rare individuals who experience genuine enlightenment seldom seem to show much interest in this kind of sport.

3. The METHOD. Even at the level of an emphasis on method, a bewildering variety is offered, including -- strict vegetarianism, counting one's breaths, sitting in a certain posture, reciting a mantra over and over, trying to make the mind a blank, visualizing a particular guru or god (or goddess), trying to be a "good person", holding love in the heart, eradicating "selfishness" by giving to others, narrowing attention and concentrating, for example, while walking, on thoughts like, "Right foot lifting up. Foot going down, crunching gravel. Left foot going up."

The most powerful and hopeful method of all, though, is what might be called the meditation of NON-SELECTIVE ATTENTION. It's consists of simply sitting quietly, usually with the eyes closed, and carefully observing, and watching, watching, watching all that passes across the screen of experience (sensations, feelings, ideas) -- without effort, resistance, judgment, or follow-up. If no effort is made to either avoid, battle, or cling to them, all experiences pass quickly on.

There is no attempt to achieve a state of quiescence, a "blank mind", or to get rid of anything, whatever the content. Quite the contrary. Oneness reveals itself gloriously in all its forms, pulsing with life, without the mental clouds that formerly obscured its (your, our) true nature. Method and techniques are the training wheels of the ride.

The purpose of this kind of diffuse-attention,
or non-focused-attention meditation is to clarify how
consciousness functions, and to reveal the disturbing and distorting nature of thoughts -- until they are finally realized to be JUST thoughts. And feelings to be JUST feelings, and sensations merely sensations (even those of physical pain). Direct SEEING of this sort is quite different from starting out with the idea that thoughts are bad for you, and then vainly struggling to avoid having them. The same with feelings, and sensations.

Another result of this method of meditation is that it provides glimpses of the eternal ground from which, and upon which ALL cognizing takes place. Until finally one day, usually suddenly, unexpectedly, and all-at-once, a total shift occurs in the point from which experience takes place. A figure-ground reversal happens, and the experienced center of Being re-aligns itself -- revealing AWARENESS, itself, as the one and only, ever-present, universal, unconditioned reality. The concept of a personal ME is seen to be simply a mental distortion of the ubiquitous sense of transpersonal "I"-ness.

It results in a perspective (for want of a better term) that lasts, and is unchanging, unlike those that result from merely substituting a pattern of "good" thoughts to replace those that are distressing and disruptive.

Sensations, feelings, and thoughts continue to occur, in the same way that clouds, breathing, hunger, the law of gravity, and the other phenomena of nature do. But the person's RELATIONSHIP to them is radically altered so that they are no longer taken personally and seriously, or as being of vitally crucial, or ultimate significance. They may briefly occur (against a background that is unchanging), but the person isn't "bothered" by them. Things simply are the way they are, in all their glory and wonder, and the questions and quibbles that formerly nagged no longer do.

The question of Grace versus Practice? Grace is the longing that draws the One to know itself; practice is the step by step path along the road.

Jesus of India

by Maury Lee

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