Quotes of UG
Nature does not use anything as a model. It is only interested in perfecting the species. It is trying to create perfect species and not perfect beings.
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We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.
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It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences, new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.
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The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.
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The only way for anyone who is interested in finding out what this is all about is to watch how this separation is occurring, how you are separating yourself from the things that are happening around you and inside you.
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When you are no longer caught up in the dichotomy of right and wrong or good and bad, you can never do anything wrong. As long as you are caught up in this duality, the danger is that you will always do wrong. In nature there is no death or destruction at all. What occurs is the reshuffling of atoms. If there is a need or necessity to maintain the balance of ‘energy’ in this universe, death occurs.
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To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a ‘Natural Man’.
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It is an act of futility to relate my description to the way you are functioning. When you stop all this comparison, what is there is your Natural State. Then you will not listen to anybody.
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The body is not interested in anything you are interested in. And that is the battle that is going on all the time.
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An artist is a craftsman like any other craftsman. He uses that tool to express himself. All art is a pleasure movement. The ‘Natural State’ is acausal; it just happens.
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The so called self-realization is the discovery for yourself and by yourself that there is no self to discover. That will be a very shocking thing because it's going to blast every nerve, every cell, even the cells in the marrow of your bones.
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Consciousness is so pure that whatever you are doing in the direction of purifying that consciousness is adding impurity to it. Thought is something dead and can never touch anything living. It cannot capture life, contain it, and give expression to it. The moment it tries to touch life, it is destroyed by the quality of life.
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All the political ideologies and even the legal structures are the warty outgrowths of the religious thinking of man.
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All that is necessary for the survival of this living organism is already there. All the intelligence that we have gathered and acquired through our intellect is no match for the tremendous intelligence of the body.
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The human organism is not interested in your wonderful religious ideas – peace, bliss, beatitude or any such thing. Its only interest is survival. What society has placed before us as the goal to reach and attain is the enemy of this living organism.
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Knowledge creates experience and experience strengthens the knowledge. This is a vicious circle.
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There is no such thing as ‘knowledge’ for the sake of knowledge. Knowledge is power. “I know. You don't know”. This body doesn't want to learn anything. Left to itself it has tremendous intelligence.
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As a human body, it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being, he is rotten because of the culture.
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God is the figment of man's fertile imagination. You are more useful to the Nature dead than alive.
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Religions have promised roses but you end up with only thorns.
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Anything you want to be free from for whatever reason is the very thing that can free you.
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Anything you experience based on knowledge is an illusion.
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A normal person lives in his illusions. A mad cap lives in his hallucinations. A man in the ‘natural state’ has neither of them. The body has no independent existence. You are a squatter there.
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You are not one thing and the life another. It is one unitary movement. Anything I say about it is misleading and confusing.
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The mystique of enlightenment is based upon the idea of transforming yourself. I maintain that there is nothing to change or transform.
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There has been no qualitative change in man's thinking; we feel about our neighbours just as the frightened caveman felt towards his. The only thing that has changed is our ability to destroy our neighbour and his property. What I am trying to say is that you must discover something for yourself. But do not be misled into thinking that what you find will be of use to society, that it can be used to change the world. You are finished with society, that is all.
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The body does not exist except as thought. There is one thought. Everything exists in relationship to that one thought. That thought is ‘me’. Anything you experience based on thought is illusion. The day man experienced the consciousness that made him feel separate and superior to the other forms of life, at that moment he began sowing the seeds of his own destruction.
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All I am saying is that the peace you are seeking is already inside you, in the harmonious functioning of the body.
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You can't come into your own uniqueness unless the whole of human experience is thrown out of your system. It cannot be done through any volition or the help of anything.
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Spirituality is the invention of the mind, and the mind is a myth.
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Your highly-praised inventiveness springs from your thinking, which is essentially a protective mechanism. The mind has invented both religion and dynamite to protect what it regards as its best interests. My interest is not to knock off what others have said [that is too easy], but to knock off what I am saying. More precisely, I am trying to stop what you are making out of what I am saying. My mission, if there is any, should be, from now on, to debunk every statement I have made. If you take seriously and try to use or apply what I have said, you will be in danger.
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It is a little easier to talk to those who have attempted thought control – who have done some sadhana – because they experience the futility of it and can see where they are hung up.
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Forget the rosaries, the scriptures, the ashes on your forehead. When you see for yourself the absurdity of your search, the whole culture is reduced to ashes inside you. The burning up inside you of everything you want is the meaning of ashes.
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When you know nothing, you say a lot. When you know something, there is nothing to say.
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I am not recommending anything; doing or not doing leads to the same end: misery. So doing nothing is no different from doing something.
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Robert Carr, The End of All Beginnings
