nirvana
by Mickey Patel · updated 1mo ago
nirvana
by Mickey Patel · updated 1mo ago
There’s no deeper happiness than wanting nothing. Desire is the opposite of peace.
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Making memories is the most important thing you can do with your life. The more memories you create, the longer and richer your life feels. Making memories is how to live.
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Choosing pain makes it bearable. It loses its power to hurt you. You become its master, not victim. Pain is coming anyway. Don’t get a shield. Get a saddle. Tame it.
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Your final act of generosity is your absence. It leaves a void for others to step into.
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If you ever want to have peace in your life, you have to move beyond good and evil. Nature has no concept of happiness or unhappiness. Nature follows unbroken mathematical laws and a chain of cause and effect from the Big Bang to now. Everything is perfect exactly the way it is. It is only in our particular minds we are unhappy or not happy, and th
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If you think about something as you are looking at it, you will not have truly seen it. Thought stands as a barrier between You and The Experience. When one Experiences, there is no thought. When there is no thought, there is no mind. When there is no mind, there is Atmamun.
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That happiness cannot be made permanent, in the sense in which we use that word. But, our mind is seeking permanent happiness, something that will last, that will continue. That very desire for continuity is corruption.
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If our aim remains fixed upon cultivating Atmamun, we will become observers of our feelings rather than “fixers” of them. We will be constantly vigilant of our observation and documentation of what feelings are arising within us, rather than allowing ourselves to react. Thus neither controlling the reaction nor refining it. For reactions arise from
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Its more about observing rather than fixing.
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