Sunday, November 04, 2007

Round the clock ecstacy


You want something like around-the-clock ecstasy. Ecstasies come and go, necessarily, for the human brain cannot stand the tension for a long time. A prolonged ecstasy will burn out your brain, unless it is extremely pure and subtle... When I say: "Remember 'I am' all the time," I mean: "Come back to it repeatedly." No particular thought can be the mind's natural state, only silence... When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels
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