Weekend Zen, December 9-10

Once you realize that the road is 

the goal and that you are always

on the road, not to reach a goal,

but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom,

life ceases to be a task and becomes 

natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, November 18-19

See what you are.

Don't ask others,

don't let others tell

you about yourself.

Look within and see.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, June 8

Now keep quiet.

Do nothing more,

just keep quiet.

Stop, be silent.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, February 11-12

There is nothing to do. 

Just be. Do nothing. Be. 

No climbing mountains

and sitting in caves. 

I do not even say: 

"be yourself," since you

do not know yourself. 

Just be.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, October 1-2

There is nothing to do. 

Just be. Do nothing. 

No climbing mountains and

sitting in caves. I do not

even say "be yourself," 

since you do not know

yourself. Just be.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, May 14-15

It is always the false that makes you suffer,

the false desires and fears, the false values and

ideas, the false relationships between people.

Abandon the false and you are free of pain; 

truth makes happy, truth liberates.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, June 19 - 20

Seek a clear mind and a clean heart.

All you need is to keep quietly alert,

enquiring into the real nature of yourself.

This is the only way to peace.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, May 1-2

See what you are.

Don't ask others,

don't let others tell you

about yourself.

Look within and see.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Monday, November 16

A quiet mind is all you need. 

All else will happen rightly, 

once your mind is quiet. As the sun 

on rising makes the world active, so does

self-awareness affect changes in the mind.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 28

There is nothing to do. Just be. Do nothing. Be.

No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. 

I do not even say: "be yourself," since you do

not know yourself. Just be. Having seen that 

you are neither the "outer" world of perceivables, 

nor the "inner" world of thinkables, that you 

are neither body nor mind --- just be.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 23

See what you are.

Don't ask others,

don't let others tell

you about yourself.

Look within and see.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Weekend Zen, August 24-25

You will receive everything

you need when you stop asking

for what you do not need.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Wednesday, July 24

Your love of others is the result

of self-knowledge, not its cause.

Without self-realization,

no virtue is genuine.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Monday, April 29

Once you realize that the road

is the goal and that you are

always on the road, not to 

reach a goal, but to enjoy its

beauty and its wisdom, life ceases

to be a task and becomes natural 

and simple, in itself an ecstasy. 

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, April 5

A quiet mind is all you need.

All else will happen rightly,

once your mind is quiet.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Friday, February 9

Between the banks of pain and pleasure 

the river of life flows. It is only when the 

mind refuses to flow with life, and gets

stuck at the banks, that it becomes a problem.

By flowing with life I mean acceptance—

letting come what comes and go what goes.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Wednesday, February 7

Remember, you cannot abandon 

what you do not know. 

To go beyond yourself,

you must know yourself.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Tuesday, September 26

Don't try to understand! It's enough

if you do not misunderstand.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Thursday, May 18

Mind creates the abyss,

the heart crosses it.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

Daily Zen - Friday, August 26

Wisdom tells me I am nothing.

Love tells me I am everything.

Between the two my life flows.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj