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| | Selected quotes from
"Human Buddha"
by Aziz Kristof
Motilal Banarsidass © 2000 |
"Only clear attention allows you to transcend the mind. Pure attention represents your real 'I.' Only when you reach your real 'I' can you relax into non-I, which is the vastness of Beingness, the timeless space of the Absolute."
Page 6
"As you sit, you experience yourself. You cannot escape from it. The only thing that you experience is yourself, plus the environment. The way you experience yourself is your only reality. It is precisely this experience of yourself we are deepening."
Page 6
"So, what you are trying to do is to create stability in the way you experience yourself, a certain inner solidity. When the solidity is there, you are simply resting in a state which is comfortable, which has continuity from moment to moment. There is the continuity of your I Am, which means you have an abiding place beyond the mind, an inner refuge.
Everyone wants to escape from the mind; everyone wants to disidentify with the mind, but where to go? To go beyond the mind does not mean to stop the mind but to find a new location within your existence. This new location is called I Am. From the viewpoint of I Am, it does not matter if you think or not think. Here, you are beyond thinking by your very presence."
Page 7
"For the first time, you have a real centre, a stable sense of identity. For the first time, you can say 'I Am.' You can say, 'I am not the mind but this very presence which makes the mind conscious.'"
Page 18
"The inner state, the I Am represents the complete, holistic experience of who you are before any thought, before any emotion, before any perception"
Page 40
"Paradoxically, the gateway to the experience of Oneness, of unity with Creation, is this very 'I.' "
Page 40
"the 'witness.' It has been given various names like: awareness free from thoughts, the centre of consciousness, self-attention or the State of Presence"
Page 41
"What you need to renounce is forgetfulness! You need to be dedicated from moment to moment to the task of remembering the Self; this is the only true renunciation. "
Page 107
"The antidote against fear is trust. On some level, it is your choice…you make a decision to trust, for to trust is to take a risk. You may simply trust without being conscious of the risk involved. But in such a case, it is not trust anymore but rather a letting go to allow things to be as they are."
Page 109
"The experience of unity refers to the situation where the subject or Me, energetically experiences her own existence, the perceived and the act of perceiving as one movement."
Page 114
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