MY OPINION IS THIS: AS LONG AS THE "POD-PEOPLE" (GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES) HAVE GUNS, THE CITIZENS .......WHO MIGHT SOMEDAY IN THE FUTURE FINALLY GET FED UP AND FIGHT TO REGAIN THEIR FREEDOMS FROM THE SCHWARZENEGGER-TYPE PUPPETS...... BETTER ARM THEMSELVES.
THEY'LL NEVER WIN UNLESS THE BRAINWASHED MILITARY TURNS ON THEIR OWN GOV'T; BUT AT LEAST THEY CAN TAKE OUT A FEW OF THE PODS.
As the US gets more and more f*cked up; a little ADVAITA is a good antidote, some stuff from Nisargadatta.
Was there ever a world without troubles? Your being as a person depends on violence to others. Your very body is a battlefield, full of the dead and dying. Existence implies violence. There is little of non-violence in nature. Do you realize that, as long as you have a self to defend, you must be violent? (507)
Punishment is but legalized crime. In a society built on prevention, rather than retaliation, there would be very little crime. The few exceptions will be treated medically, as an unsound mind and body. (512)
The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it. (504)
Causes and results are infinite in number and variety. Everything affects everything. In this universe, when one thing changes, everything changes. Hence the great power of man in changing the world by changing himself. My world has changed completely. Yours remains the same, for you have not changed. [You didn't notice this change] because there was no communion between us. Do not consider yourself as separate from me and we shall at once share in the common state. (490)
Death, Suicide, Reincarnation.
* Death *
It is in the nature of consciousness to survive its vehicles. It is like fire. It burns up the fuel, but not itself. Just like a fire can outlast a mountain of fuel, so does consciousness survive innumerable bodies. (327)
You make yourself mortal by taking yourself to be the body. (363)
You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom. (362)
I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past, or imagine the future. Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desires andfear? With desirelessness comes timelessness. I am safe, because what is not cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe, because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerable and needs protection. But not you. Once you realize your own unassailable being, you will be at peace. (260)
What is birth and death but the beginning and the ending of a stream of events in consciousness? (147)
[When an ordinary man dies] according to his belief it happens. As life before death is but imagination, so is life after. The dream continues. The gnani does not die because he was never born. (261)
When somebody dies, nothing happens. Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains. (91)
Only the dead can die, not the living. That which is alive in you is immortal. (407)
It is the changing that dies. The immutable neither lives nor dies; it is the timeless witness of life and death. You cannot call it dead, for it is aware. Nor can you call it alive, for it does not change. (433)
Nothing dies. The body is just imagined. There is no such thing. (361)
In reality there is no killing and no dying. The real does not die, the unreal never lived. (234)
I am told I was born. I do not remember. I am told I shall die. I do not expect it. You tell me I have forgotten or I lack imagination. But I just cannot remember what never happened, nor expect the patently impossible. Bodies are born and bodies die, but what is it to me? Bodies come and go in consciousness, and consciousness itself has its roots in me. I am life, and mine are mind and body. (94)
You can't help surviving! The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death. And the body will survive as long as it is needed. It is not important that it should live long. A full life is better than a long life. (315)
Misery is to be born, not to die. (181)
I do not look at death as a calamity, as I do not rejoyce a the birth of a child. The child is out for trouble, while the dead is out of it. Attachment to life is attachment to sorrow. We love what gives pain. Such is our nature. (418)
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