There Is Nothing To Think About

Beneath the surface of this world, in my gut, lurks an uneasy feeling that I'm not truly at home. The emptiness of my existence reveals itself again and again.

There is a certain urgency to make the best of my days before my time runs out.

Who am I? What is the world? How I came to be? There are no answers, except those I'm ready to give myself. I cannot solve this ultimate mystery of existence so tonight I re-read Ramana Maharshi and his teaching.

He said, there is no need for answers, there are no answers. I have to Be as I am, without thoughts. That is all that is required for self-realization.

When a man realizes the Self, what will he see?

Ramana answered: "There is no seeing. Seeing is only being. The state of Self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been. All that is needed is that you give up your realization of the not-true as true. All of us are regarding as real that which is not real. We have only to give up this practice on our part. Then we shall realize the Self as the Self; in other words, Be the Self."

There is nothing to be understood!

In the world we have to see the false as false and that is the whole understanding of truth. When we look our mind, we should not consider that as something that projects thoughts, our mind is our outside world.

There is nothing that wee need to think about. All plans and expectations with respect to the future must be cut off. In the present we don't need to grasp or entertain thoughts that arise but allow the mind to remain in a state like the sky - empty, clear and aware.

There is nothing to be grasped or understood. We must start being what we already are - clear and empty keeping intent and attention without falling under spell of of hopes and fears, our "I AM" sense should be kept free from everything. Know that sorrow and happiness are different only due to our attention. The mind is strong and free by being and remaining in its own original natural condition which is without any thought.

Really, there is nothing we need to think about because there is nothing to be understood.