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You do not need to awaken by exploring the dream images
You do not need to awaken by exploring the dream images and content of your night dreams or daydreams. You cannot know yourself via your thoughts, nor via images that arise to you, whether the images arise in the waking state or in the dream state. You know yourself directly by going directly to…
Whatever conditions you impose on the other or onto yourself limit you and limit the other
Whatever conditions you impose on the other or onto yourself limit you and limit the other. That is unhappy, leading to expectations and disappointments. Even when your expectations are fulfilled, the next condition quickly arises. Such is the mind, a stream of cacophonic thoughts and feelings…
The bamboo gets uprooted from the root
The bamboo gets uprooted from the root. To simply be concerned about the stalk and leaves will not do. The mind needs to sink into the heart. Language needs to sink into silence, that is its source and destination. The pristine presence that you are is unperturbed and eternal. The mind cannot…
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and feelings and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is…
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is tainted by…
WHAT AM I TRULY? Am I what thought says I am or am I what rains says I am? Am I what feelings say I am or am I what the bird song says I am? What am I truly? Am I the butterfly, the gentle breeze and the still presence of Being? Am I the roar of the waterfall, the babble of the baby and the inner…
There is but one ocean One infinite sky One vast presence One infinite reality Whichever way you turn It turns Whichever way you go It goes Whichever way you trend It trends And yet it is beyond going Beyond turning Beyond returning beyond trending So are you The one and only So are you Beyond…
Before being a man, a woman, I AM
Before being a man or a woman, I AM. Before being a father or mother, I AM. Before being any thing, I AM. I AM is undefined and non descript. Yet, nothing can be without I AM. Like gold takes the form of a necklace, ring or bracelet, the I AM, while remaining infinite, eternal and formless aware…
A CONTEMPLATION AND AN INVITATION Whatever arises does not disturb me, does not define me and does not refer to what I AM truly. How can any appearance, any thought, any feeling know That That I AM? Only I know. Only I am the knowingness. That I AM KNOWINGNESS is not something that can be…
The path to God is an ever deepening falling into love, into presence, infinite surrender and dying to the past. In such death is revealed the pure light of being-awareness. In the absence of the universal light of being, nothing is illumined. Self recognition is the recognition of this vast…
Operate from stillness, from presence. Once you have a taste of freedom, do not park this timeless revelation in your memory bank, do not turn it into a dismal me-story. Show your appreciation for this divine gift with your complete body mind surrender to the revelation, by your willingness to dive…
You cannot know that you are timeless and eternal via the mind.
You cannot know that you are timeless and eternal via the mind. The mind is intermittent. It is made out of discrete events and cannot reveal that which is not discrete, that which is eternal, that which perceives it. That which knows all discrete events is not discrete. It is the I of I am, the I…
You are the borderless aware presence, inherent freedom, bliss, peace and happiness.
If you do love truth and the revelation of what is real, then you must commit yourself to letting go of the me story no matter how deeply you feel it. It is easier to contemplate that I am the borderless aware presence than to feel that I am that. So what? Feel what you feel without stirring,…
Do not mistake yourself to be the body mind
In the waking state, do not mistake yourself to be the body mind sensations and perceptions. Recognize yourself to be beyond the mind images and bodily sensations. When you rely on the images and sensations to define you, you have defined yourself according to what is transient and impermanent and…
In fact there is no robber that really appropriates consciousness. The imaginary separate me-impression cannot really hijack consciousness. How could the illusory hijack the real? You imagine yourself to be a person with personal concerns and ambition, but you fail to realize that you are the…
The open space of listening ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ The open space of listening is key in any relationship whether it is with a partner, at work or in the marketplace. The open space of listening, is a sacred space . It is not demanding. It imposes no conditions. It has no agenda. It is not limiting. . It is…
What do you mean by consciousness?
Question: By consciousness, do you mean the absence of thought? What do you mean by consciousness when you use the term? ~~~ ~~~ No, by consciousness I do not mean the absence of thought. Consciousness is not contingent on the presence or absence of thought. Nor is it contingent on the presence or…
About deep sleep and awareness
Deep sleep is not nothing. If it was nothing, we would not be speaking of it and there would be no word for it. We know deep sleep is not nothing. We also know deep sleep is absent of mind (no thoughts, no body sensations, no perceptions). Could be thus be open to the contemplation that deep sleep…
All is well. All is ever well. It is no other way when you celebrate whatever unfolds by meeting everything with your acceptance and grace. You might not right away recognize the gift that is being offered and that is OK. As you remain in your acceptance, which is not resignation, you feed the love…
The world is a conceptual structure
The world is a conceptual structure. What appears refers to its source. . that does not appear. Once you take a closer step towards what appears, it disappears. But due to your stubbornness and insistence, it reappears, moment by moment, instant by instant. Worldly appearance and disappearance will…
When you are going with the flow
When you are going with the flow, there is no one resisting and there is no one going with the flow. There is just flow and no one and nothing flowing. Sounds loco doesn't it? It is only loco from the perspective of the mind that perceives external and internal objects, minds and worlds. From the…
Although the perceived impression appears limited in time and space, perception is not. There is a reality to your experience. This reality is not in the perceived and is not subject to the time/space limitations of the perceived. The perceived is like a blinking firefly at night. The reality of…
The impression of personal definition
The main impression we suffer from is the impression of personal definition, location and isolation. In the night dream, your sense of definition takes on other forms, even the form of pink flying elephants and in the deep sleep state, definition, location and isolation are non existent and…
The seeming movements of the mind return to the source from which they arise, the stillness, pristine presence. that is unmoving and unmovable. Behind the image impressions, the peace of your true nature awaits you, awaits your recognition. As long as you remain occupied and preoccupied with the…
Whatever perceives a thought is not a thought.
Whatever perceives a thought is not a thought. Whatever perceives an image, an impression, a perception is not an image, not a perception, not an impression. This supreme knowing is not subject to the known. It is the highest order that knows all subordinate orders. The ultimate is what knows and…