The "untethered soul" book learnings

Thanks to my Milwaukee colleague who recommended this book

• We do only two things in life: cling and resist

• Living life with the mentality of dying any moment will make you more accommodating of people, more patient with circumstances and more soft and pliable. In other words - death teaches us how to live.

• Who are you that is lost and trying to find yourself? The concept of you and your world and your clinging and your resistance was created by you out of nothing. You created the dark clouds (thoughts) around and now trying to find who exactly are you in those clouds?

• Do your dharma (duties) well and then it will clear you from your karma

• The inner room mate is always there trying to tell you something, it doesn't let you stay quiet. Surrender to His will and stay so, The "quiet" will come.

• We end up meeting our destiny in the path we take to avoid it (this line is from Kung Fu Panda actually).

• Everything is predetermined. Its an illusion to think you are under control. You can will what you wish, but can you will what you must wish?

• Use the circumstances offered by life to free yourself by staying as the subject. Do not ever try to identify yourself with the objects

• Sometimes when the ego is watching the object, it suffers or enjoys, becomes the possessor or loser, owns or disowns. So both the subject and the object are the creations of the mind only.

• First the one became two, and then more vrittis followed. Know that the moment you name/give a sound/form for something, you have switched from nonduality to duality.

• Lack of inner resources leads to laziness and boredom.

• All the states that you want to attain in life are already present in the mind.

• That emptiness is the fullness of everything. Say loudly "Siva's will be done" and stay quietly.

Im not the doer

As days progress it is becoming increasingly easier for me to realize the fact that I'm not the doer. I am making a consistent and honest genuine effort to be clear at all times that I'm not the doer. Master oogway says this to master shifu very beautifully in kung fu panda

The panda will not realize his destiny nor will you realize yours until you let go of the illusion of control.

Accepting things as they are

Off late, the fiery passion I had for spiritual progress has suddenly gone down, maybe due to the influence of the buddhist book which I read called "the zen mind, beginners mind".

Something about the book made me feel that even the desire for enlightenment must be given up. Life and it's expression is very simple but the mind makes us complicated. We must unlearn more in spirituality than learn. We must 'be' than do. We must enjoy the journey than imagining a future enlightenment which is yet to be attained. How can you become that when you are already that. Any idea of enlightenment is a self created principle, a projection of the mind. A deviation from the now.

All that's needed in Buddhist meditation is accept the fact that there is no goal,  because you are already that which you seek,  the search is always in the wrong way.
The desire has fallen down after reading this. To desire what? That which I am!? If I am seeking a state, then I would be in the mind in duality. The seer can never see himself, all he can do and must do is to be quiet and allow the infinity to express itself.

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