Meditation leads to the source, the same source of energy, that allows the mind to think and the intellect to discriminate. It is from that source – which is the unknown, the Self – that everything arises. All waves arise from the ocean of the unknown. […]
Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā “Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone beyond beyond. Awakened! You get to the other shore, then you go beyond the other shore, then you go beyond the beyond. While you are going to the other shore you are still in duality, still in the mind. You contemplate your direction, your destination, [...]
Papaji parla del suo amore verso Buddha durante la Celebrazione di Buddha Purnima a Lucknow nel 1994. Papaji speaks about his love for Buddha during the celebration of Buddha Purnima in Lucknow in 1994.
Meditation is to remain in a state without choices, without interpretations, without desire, and this is the only way that meditation happens. And as long as there is a “choice,” there is desire and freedom cannot manifest. Having choices implies a conflict that blocks the understanding of what is. […]
Excerpt of the Dvd of H.W.L. Poonj“Death and Eternity" vol 12.
Meditation is the neutral awareness that does not interfere and that reveals itself when there is total freedom from interpretation, from mental narrative, from desire. Meditation cannot happen without this freedom, which is the knowledge of what we really are. […]
The main impediment is that we fall victim to the forces of attraction and aversion. Desire consumes a lot of energy. We are attracted to what our mind considers “nice” and we reject the ‘undesirable’. Meditation leads to that calm presence free from any mental current. […]
In the early days of the Ashram when the water well was yet to be fully excavated, devotees had placed a dried tree stump in the ground at the centre of the spring in order to support themselves when gathering water with buckets. One day, a crow went to sit just on that stump. Three [...]
In that infinite inner space there is no more need for effort, no need to try to control the mind or seek silence and peace. It is already here. That source of joy, of bliss, has always been here, but because we are busy with other things we have never been [...]
Excerpt of the Dvd of H.W.L. Poonj“Death and Eternity" vol 12
