Choice and suffering

Sometimes, out of the blue, regret hits you.

Regret over past actions.

Regret over bad choices.

Truly, having to make choices is to live in misery.

Choice = suffering

To eliminate suffering, eliminate choices.
Realize that things are exactly as they are supposed to be.

Make peace with all your choices, even the pathetic ones!

The possibility of making the wrong choice and the assumption of having made one are the two factors capable of causing enormous mental agony.

To cope with this, one has to stick to one's choices which have already been made.

Avoid being in a position where you have to choose.

Ultimately, there is neither a right nor a wrong choice.

Free will and choice are causes of great suffering.

Accept your position in life.

Accept your circumstances in life.

Accept all the 'wrong' choices you made.

Create a routine. This reduces restlessness.

Ultimately, in truth, there is no 'choice' to be made.

A desire

All that I now desire is this:

To have a permanent solitary place to meditate.

Without having to bother about what to do, where to go, whom to meet etc.

A fixed dwelling place until the body dies.

No more traveling to different places. No more jumping jobs and careers.


No more anxieties about the future.

No more restlessness of mind.

Enough of all the comings and goings.

All that I now care about is to have a permanent solitary dwelling place. Nothing else matters.

Spiritual addiction

Ultimately, one realizes the futility of all external teachings. They are helpful until a point. Once that point is crossed, they can become a source of attachment and therefore a hindrance.

Spiritual addiction is as bad as material addiction. Too much poring over spiritual literature is also a form of ignorance.

It has been said that no enquiry is possible into the self.

Ultimately, the Self remains as itself at all times.

There is no one there to realize this.

 

Self inherence

As you progress in life, you realize that ultimately, only one thing matters.

Inhereing in the Self.

Realization

The activities of life prevent the realization of a central fact.

That this world is not real.

Give up clinging to your tasks and activities.

You will realize the great void that lies at the heart of exixtence.

Clinging to activities and relationships is merely to take our attention away from this fact.

Deep within this void, the one lies awake and unseen.

To realize this one is to end suffering once and for all.
 

The One

In it, there is no body.

In it, there is no food.

In it, there is no sex.

In it, there is no sleep.

In it, there are no dreams.

In it, there is no work.

In it, there is no desire.

In it, there is no inertia.

In it, there are no worlds.

In it, there is no relationship.

In it, there are no causes.

In it, there is no sound.

In it, there is no thought.

In it, there is no universe.

In it, there is no God.

In it, there is no activity.

In it, there is no knowledge.

In it, there is no money.

In it, there is no mother.

In it, there is no father.

In it, there is no fear.

In it, there is no cause.

In it, there is no other.

In it, there is no person.

In it, there is no 'I'.

One alone Is.

Purification

Your body is what you eat.

Your spirit is what you think.

Give up therefore all unclean food and unclean thought.

Reduce consumption of dead meats. Give up all red meat.

Reduce intake of chicken and fish.

Unclean thoughts are thoughts of malice.

Give up therefore all malicous thoughts.

Desire ill for none.

Bless all.

Clean food and clean thoughts are most important to purify the body and mind.

Only a pure mind and body is capable of peace.

Impure thoughts will never result in peace.

Once thought is purified, body also follows suit.