Omkaradatta's blog

I'm posting this article after reading another recent posting about spirituality and the brain, as I think something might need clarified.

I'll start this by saying it's likely you've already transcended the body, despite the fact you may believe you are it at times, identify with it.

So many folks (particularly spiritual people) want to 'fix the world', help relieve the world's suffering, without first fixing themselves.

Here's a continuation of a recent series of postings from my guru, Nisargadatta Maharaj. This excerpt is from "I Am That", chapter 51.

I am sitting by myself right now, 'myself' being the computer and whatever I believe to be 'out there'... and reading these words.

I just thought I'd bring you this from my Guru.

The next time you run into someone who has waited too long to take a shower, try one of these statements:

(A) You stink!

(B) Your body stinks.

In spirituality, we're looking to see what we are, what is ours and what belongs to us. Part of this 'looking' is to consider -- what am I, really?

What is Self-realization? This term may look confusing to some. Isn't spirituality about losing the self? It is, yet it is also about gaining yourself.

I've heard ego-loss described before as "life without a center", and some folks seem to have the notion that enlightenment is a case of a 'missing me', the disappearance of our sense of presence.