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There is one reality. It is neither mind nor world. It is neither this nor that. Neither movement nor non movement. Beyond opposites. It is itself, complete onto itself. The reality of I. The reality of minds and universes. Like water is the reality of both steam and ice. I/reality/consciousness is…
The belief that reality cannot exist without mind assumes mind to be larger than reality itself. As if there are two realities: the reality of consciousness and the larger reality of mind.Upon contemplation, we realize that mind (thoughts, sensations and perceptions) is an appearance within…
A comment about fate. Whose fate? Fate is on behalf of someone, on behalf of a separate person. Fate falls under the impression of me in time and space. Past and future which are both the product of thinking and feeling. Consciousness is reality and does not exist in time and space. There is no…
From the personal self perspective, it is not possible to speak about consciousness with any authority. Why so? Because, as a personal self, we are starting with the unexamined belief that consciousness is limited and personal. This belief gets in the way and veils (infects) our capacity to…
Surrender goes hand in hand with the recognition that there is one reality. I/consciousness. In this understanding it may become clear that resistance and seeking is an overlooking of truth, an overlooking of the reality of infinite and eternal consciousness. That is why it is said: There is no one…
This entire realm is dream like
This entire realm is dream like. It’s gone in a flash. Why trouble yourself pursuing dream objects? Contemplate the Self, the reality of consciousness and profit from this opportunity to awaken to truth. Truth is what IS, that which you ARE and not what appears or what you seem to be. That which is…
Sometimes the word awareness can lead us into confusion as to what we mean by it. If I may propose:Rather than the word awareness, we can turn our attention to the word reality. Via contemplation, inquiry, reflection and reasoning, we can come to the understanding of the undeniable reality of…
Is experience the cause of suffering?
Is experience the cause of suffering? Perceiving a butterfly is an experience. Drinking a glass of water or recollecting my sweet cat is also an experience. There is no suffering there. Suffering is the sense of separation, which is the belief and feeling that there is a separate personal…
How come I perceive San Francisco but not Paris?
How come I perceive San Francisco and not Paris? From the perspective that I am Joe/John/Mary, I cannot perceive Paris since I live in San Francisco. From the perspective of consciousness, I perceive Paris, I perceive San Francisco. There is only one perceiver, one reality. the reality of…
You seem to refer to a body as something existing with its own 'individual reality', so to speak. In fact, all we know of a 'body' is the content of our mind. Meaning, we know bodily sensations, images, feelings, perceptions, all of which are 'internal'. In other words our experience does not…
In your comment, you seem to refer to a body as something existing with its own 'individual reality', so to speak. In fact, all we know of a 'body' is the content of our mind. Meaning, we know bodily sensations, images, feelings, perceptions, all of which are 'internal'. In other words our…
For the separate self, memory refers to events in time. Both the events as well as time are believed and felt to be real. The separate self gets the impression via memory that there was something real that has occurred which is/was made out of people, things and experiences. In ignorance the…
Turning your attention to being aware
Whenever you turn your attention to 'being aware', whether you are turning your attention to being aware of belief or to simply being aware of being aware, you are visiting your true nature, so to speak. It is like going to the cleaners. These visits to the laundromat have the effect of making old…
The merging of Shiva and Shakti
In spite of the understanding that 'I' does not refer to a separate self, which many of us may have understood, the sense of self (the me-feeling) remains, slightly altered, but not completely dead. Although we may be clear that 'I' refers to consciousness, the me-feeling as well as the tendency to…
That which gives the impression that 'I am machine' is the belief in matter, the belief in a physical reality. Believing that there is a reality called matter, leads to the impression of physicality and has yet to be established by scientist who are looking for 'matter'. When the body is perceived…
There is no separate thinker of thought. All events, including thought are universal events. Like the galaxies and their gravitational fields, like the weather. Impersonal cosmic events. When you take a close look at the thinker, you only find consciousness without any borders, without any actual…
I do agree that clarity is helpful for a more harmonious living. When we confuse the content of our experience (which is constantly changing) with the changeless reality of experience, we are missing the core of the teaching. The non dual teaching does speak of the principle of non-doing (non…
Sensations appear to us, which we refer to as body. Perceptions appear to us, which we refer to as world. Mentation appears to us, thinking, feeling, sensing, imagining, which we refer to as mind. Contemplation reveals that consciousness/awareness, which we know as I, is the reality of…
Consciousness stands prior to mind
Consciousness stands ‘prior’ to mind, like the dreamer stands ‘prior’ to its dreams. To assume a human or non human reality is mind. There is no such thing as personal consciousness. Whatever appears in your dreams, no matter how real it may seem, is dream stuff. To assume that consciousness abides…
Is a stone conscious? Is everything conscious?
About: is a stone conscious? Is everything conscious? Is a bird or a cat conscious? ~~~ Consciousness refers to the knowingness that I am and the knowingness that I am aware. Namely, I know I am and I know I am aware. Whatever it is that knows I am and that I am aware is ever present, meaning it is…
Freedom from personal concern is not possible as long as you consider yourself a person living in time and space. When we make real that which is illusory, when we give reality to that Which is impermanent, we overlook the reality of being/awareness, we overlook the totality of being, and we suffer…
Yes, all manifestation is impermanent. But I/consciousness is not. ~~~ As long as we remain at the body mind level, we overlook awareness/consciousness which is transparent and the reality of our experience. It is not sufficient to live in presence. We also need to contemplate the reality of our…
As soon as we adopt the perspective of being a separate self, a subject, there is a tendency to objectify our experience. That is how the process of thinking operates once it is infected with the belief in separation. Therefore we tend to objectify reality, consciousness, god, truth. Unknowingly,…
It does not matter what arises on the screen. What matters is how and as what you meet what appears.
It does not matter what arises on the screen. What matters is how and as what you meet what appears. When a personal self, when a separate entity meets what arises on the screen of awareness, you experience a contracted mind with concern and feelings of insufficiency and incompleteness. As…
What the mind calls the physical world, God calls my dream. From the point of view of the imagined character that I believe and feel I am, there is an objective world and body as well as a subtle objective mind. From the point of view of consciousness, there is just aware presence taking on the…