All happiness comes from awareness. The more we are conscious the deeper the joy. Acceptance of pain, non-resistance, courage and endurance - these open deep and perennial sources of real happiness, true bliss.
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Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of cause and effect. Everything is its own cause.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes that the mind tends to seek explanations and reasons for events, asserting that everything has its own intrinsic cause.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj points out that the human mind has a tendency to explore the relationships between causes and effects. However, he challenges the conventional understanding by stating that nothing exists independently as a result of an external cause; rather, every phenomenon is an expression of its own nature and essence, inherently self-causing.
Themes
CauseEffectPhilosophyMindSelf-Causation
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about personal responsibility and the nature of reality, this quote can highlight the concept of self-causing events.
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