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Can we drop the label ‘separation’?
Can we drop the label 'separation'? How can there be a 'separate I' when I am I? How can I be separate from I? Can you separate the rose from the rose or your nose from your nose? If there is separation, then it can only be an impression and not truth. The impression of separation. Thus, we are not…
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…
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…
There is no mind. What we call mind is thought. God is the creator of all thoughts. The creator of the wind, the breath, the oceans and galaxies. Problems are due to the belief that I am a mortal form. A separate self. A mortal reality. This belief overlooks the eternal and universal reality of…
Wanting to share and looking for validation and support seem natural. Insights into our true nature have a profound effect. Sometimes the effect of a glimpse are noticeable sooner and at times later. It is like an irreversible crack in the shell of separation. The mind is altered and recognizes a…
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…
When you are identified as a person, as a mortal body mind, you are experiencing yourself as a separate self, as a dream character and you are not knowingly yourself.Like in your night dream, you may imagine yourself to be a 6 year old boy having all sorts of adventures with friends and making all…
Praying to god. When you pray to god, do not pray from a distance. When you pray to god from a distance, you are not heard. You are only hearing yourself. To pray to god, you have to get very close and closer than close. So close that there is no distance left between you and god. That is how you…
When you drop the critical mind
When you drop the critical mind, when you do not maintain the judgemental mind and remain as you are, the wholeness of being/awareness may be available to you. There is no separation in gods eyes. You need to uproot the old tendencies of differentiation and nurture the love that unites us all. The…
This realm is an opportunity to realize the reality of divine presence and to realize the true emptiness of form which seems so real and pressing. We come into existence endowed with love for truth and happiness. As a separate self, we travel astray to distant lands that reveal ‘not here’, ‘not…
You are the light of being, transparent presence. In spite of the mind impressions that mislead you into separation, nothing is really in the way of the wholeness of being which is awaiting your realization. Contemplate your experience directly without mediating it via thinking and feeling. Thus…
Whenever we live from the sense of separation, we are overlooking the holiness/wholeness of love and we are misguided by the monkey mind and the negative emotions. The challenges and the unhappiness we perceive and feel are meant to remind us that we are walking in the wrong direction. God's…
Happiness, (and there is only one happiness) is absolute and knows no opposite. As long as we remain with the sense of separation, no matter how well hidden it is under the rug, happiness evades us and we toggle between brief moments of peace in the midst of a vast realm of confusion and…
While still (on and off) under the influence of the sense of separation, as best you can, and whichever way you can, act in accordance with the principles of universal love and honor while continuing to engage in the study, contemplation and meditation of truth. It is your contemplation, inquiry…
It is not wise to hold on to that which passes.
It is not wise to hold on to that which passes. It’s an unhappy setup you impose onto yourself. Live gracefully, lightly, freshly and contemplate the eternal. You are the light of being shining through everything and everyone. What appears disappears. Live embracing this understanding without…
Desire for an object refers to a separate self which is desiring a separate object. Such desire maintains the sense of separation and the sense of lack. Desire for truth, desire for freedom, for love and beauty is different in that such a desire is not for an object. It is desire for the end of…
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,…
The realization of the source does not mean the end of the contemplation, revelation and celebration. It simply means the end of doubt and unhappiness. The end of the sense of separation. It's what our true nature is. It is not some magical attainment that makes you special. It is a return to…
Mostly when we say I, we are referring to the me-feeling. Meaning the sense of being an individual entity. Upon knowing oneself, we refer to I as the ultimate reality of being awareness. Although there is no separate self, we are not knowing of our true nature, until we are. The waking state is our…
The separate self~~~Notice the subtle movement within your being towards and away from any object, experience or feeling. Notice within yourself the tendency, no matter how faint towards an image or a feeling. The very subtle sense of lack and incompleteness that hides beneath and within thinking…
Although on the absolute level, nothing matters, although on the absolute level there is no separate self, on the relative level, we live as if everyone and everything matters. It matters because it is manifesting and all manifestations refer directly or indirectly to divine grace. Happy…
Agitation and the sense of lack
Agitation is a tendency to want (desire) something else than our current experience and/or to not-want (resist) part of or the totality of our current experience. This agitation consists of thinking and feeling. Thinking something is wrong or missing and feeling it. ~~The sense of lack is inherent…
Not to define ourselves. Not to struggle.
Not to define ourselves. Not to struggle. Is it possible to remain as one is? This pure space of awareness that is at rest? Seeking nothing. Being everything without ever separating itself. Dreaming all dreams without ever leaving itself. In a way, our argumentation is for naught. Of no use. The…
The revelation that there is no one and that the seeker is not real brings the seeking mind to a new understanding. But. This new understanding does not reveal the full experiential embodiment of being/awareness. It is at the feeling level that the echoes of the separate self reside. To be…
If separation was real, how could you read these words that I am writing? How could you perceive the cloudy sky? How could you know seeing, feeling, sensing, perceiving? The belief in a separate subject and object veils the clarity of our total intimacy and disregards the intimacy of experience.…