As all living beings desire to be happy always, without misery and as happiness is the cause for love, 
in order to gain that unconflicted happiness which is one’s nature 
and which is experienced in the state of deep sleep, where there is no mind
one should know one’s nature. 

Buddhas don’t save buddhas. 
If you use your mind to look for a buddha, you won’t see a buddha.
As long as you look for a buddha somewhere else,
you’ll never see that your own mind is the buddha. 
Don’t use a buddha to worship a buddha. 
And don’t use the mind to invoke a buddha. 
Buddhas don’t recite sutras. 
Buddhas don’t keep precepts and buddhas don’t break precepts. 
Buddhas don’t keep or break anything. 
Buddhas don’t do good or evil. 
A buddha isn’t energetic or lazy. 
To find a buddha, you have to see your own nature. 
Whoever sees their own nature is a buddha. 
Invoking buddhas results in good karma, 
reciting sutras results in good memory, 
keeping the precepts results in a good rebirth 
and making offerings results in future blessings - but no buddha. 

If you don’t understand by yourself, you’ll have to find a teacher. 
But unless the teacher sees their nature, that person isn’t a teacher. 
People who recite a few sutras or the shastras and think it’s the
Dharma are fools. 
Unless you see your own mind, reciting so much prose is useless. 

To find a buddha all you have to do is see your nature.
The central teaching and direct path to liberation arises from lucid self-enquiry. 
Your nature is the buddha. 
And the buddha is the person who is free: free from plans, free from cares. 
The truth is that there is nothing to find. 
But to reach such an understanding most people need a teacher 
and need to struggle to make themselves understand. 
Life and death are important. 
Don’t suffer in vain. 
There is no advantage in deceiving yourself. 

The mind consists of thoughts. 
The ‘I’ thought is the first to arise in the mind. 
When the enquiry ‘ Who am I?’ is persistently pursued, 
all other thoughts get destroyed
and finally the ‘I’ thought itself vanishes 
leaving the supreme non-dual state alone. 
The false identification with the Self 
and with phenomena such as the body and mind thus ends
and there is illumination
The process of enquiry is not an easy one. 
As one enquires ‘Who am I?’, other thoughts will arise; 
but as these arise, one should not yield to them by following them,
on the contrary, one can ask ‘To whom do they arise ?’ 
In order to do this, one has to be extremely vigilant. 
Through constant enquiry one can make the mind stay in its source, 
without allowing it to wander away 
and get lost in the mazes of thought created by itself. 
All other disciplines such as breath-control and meditation on the forms of God
can be regarded as auxiliary practises. 
They are useful insofar as they help the mind become quiescent and one-pointed.

For the mind that has gained skill in concentration, 
Self-enquiry becomes comparatively easy. 
It is by ceaseless enquiry that thoughts are destroyed and realisation happens 
- the plenary Reality in which there is not even the ‘I’ thought, 
the experience which is referred to as Silence.

People who do not see their nature 
and imagine that they can practise thoughtlessness all the time 
are deluded fools, falling into endless space, 
like drunks who cannot tell good from evil. 
Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn’t exist. 
They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, 
committing evil isn’t wrong. 
Such people fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. 
If you intend to cultivate such practise, 
you have to see your nature before you can put an end to rational thought. 
Those who are wise hold no such conception.
To attain enlightenment without seeing your nature is impossible.  

Your nature is always present.
And this nature, through endless kalpas without beginning, has never varied. 
It has never lived or died, appeared or disappeared, increased or decreased.
It is not pure or impure, good or evil, past or future. 
It is not true or false, male or female, 
It does not appear as an elder or a novice, a sage or a fool, a spirit or a mortal.
It strives for no realisation and suffers no karma. 
It has no strength or form. 
It is like space. you cannot possess it and you can’t lose it.
It cannot be blocked by mountains, rivers or rock walls. 
Its unstoppable powers penetrate the mountain of form, feeling,
cognition, mental formations and consciousness
and cross the river of Samsara.
That you are.

… choicest blessings… your own Shantiji