Behind My Hand

Q. :  How to control the mind? A. :  Mind is intangible. In fact, it does not exist. The surest way of control is to seek it. Then its activities cease. from a conversation with Ramana Maharshi recorded by Paul Brunton and first published in "The Mountain Path" V0l. 21 No. I

Q. :  Should one keep a goal before one's eyes? M. :  What goal is there? The thing you conceive of as being the goal exists even prior to the ego's own existence. If we conceive ourselves as ego, or body or mind, then we are those things. But if we do not conceive ourselves as such then we are our real nature. It is the thinking which gives rise to such troubles. The very thought that there is such a thing as ego is wrong because ego is 'I'-thought and we are ourselves the real 'I'. The thought-less state is itself Realisation. from "The Ultimate As the Truth, Sri Bhagavan's Teaching" recorded by Paul Brunton and found in The Mountain Path Magazine, Vol. 20 No. II April 1983.

Dogen instructed: Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately. Just focus your mind on one thing, absorb the old examples, study the actions of former Zen Masters, and penetrate deeply into a single form of practice. Do not think of yourself as someone's teacher or as someone's predecessor. Dogen's " A Primer of Soto Zen ", 1978, 8

Christ is the ego. The Cross is the body. When the ego is crucified, and it perishes, what survives is the Absolute Being (God), (cf. "I and my Father are one") and this glorious survival is called Resurrection. Talks with Ramana Maharshi, (Talk no. 86) 6th November, 1935.

“ Fixing the mind on the mind is the Supreme Yoga. ”   (Uddhava Gita, Ch. 18; v. 46, last line)

Sad Vidya - 20. God is none other than the Self. To see the Self, having destroyed the ego, is to see God; all else is but a vision of the mind. - Ramana Maharshi

Everything, in the three worlds, moving and fixed, arises from omkāra. Dhyānabindu Upaniṣad v. 16 Trans. MWright (cf. Bhagavad Gita 11.7)