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The Self is all of it. Awareness belongs to the Self. Sentience belongs to the Self. Insentience belongs to the Self. All is the Self. Believing that the Self depends on the body mind is ignorance and the cause of your unhappiness. Believing that consciousness belongs to the body mind leads to the…
No need to clutter what is already pristine and free. Look within and listen carefully. All is well. The words of the sages are eternal. They have a true resonance that is not limited by time and space. You can release the old crouched positions and belief structures that you have maintained for so…
In ignorance we complain about various situations and conditions. In wisdom, we use various situations and events as opportunities to contemplate the source. Notice that whenever you assume a me-position, whenever you choose to perceive according to the belief 'I-am-a-man' or 'I-am-a-woman', you…
Belief is the death of intelligence
Yes, "belief is the death of intelligence" . and yet, most everyone believes in an internal personal self and in an external physical reality. They see their perception of a tree and they go: There is a tree out there! They perceive a bodily sensation and they go: There is a body out there! They…
The invitation from the guru is to realize the Self, to see/be the undivided wholeness that you are. The guru is not a person and does not perceive persons. Truth/Reality is one seamless whole. You can call it love, freedom, joy, beauty. It is the experience of causeless peace and happiness that is…
A comfort zone is often a hiding place
A comfort zone is often a hiding place for the imagined separate self you mis-take yourself to be. Maintaining the crouched position does not bring you into the light . does not reveal the light and freedom that you inherently are. Lisa T: Please explain comfort zone Magdi! Magdi: Lisa, Comfort…
The dismantling of the old ~~~ ~~~ There is only one old . that is second to none: the belief that consciousness is limited and personal. The belief that I am a mortal body mind structure. Once this old is seen to be the hoax-impression that it is, all other impressions of limitation follow in…
As you continue to contemplate that you are the open space of awareness, unmoved and undisturbed by the images that appear on the screen, the belief structures that define you as a limited mortal body mind weaken and eventually dissolve. revealing causeless peace, freedom and happiness. the…
About struggle and struggling. ~~~ What is it to struggle? Who/what is it that struggles? What is the reality of struggle? Struggle refers to someone wanting something for their person, for their personal convenience, according to their personal conditions. Wanting things to be different. For whom?…
About thought and the absence of thought ~~~ ~~~ Is thought disturbing? Thought causes no real disturbance. Nothing disturbs the Self. Rather (the impression of) disturbance is is the result of the belief that I, consciousness, am limited, personal and mortal. Such a belief leads to unhappiness and…
Dear friend, I understand and hear you that it is not your experience that the individual entity goes away. I also understand and hear you that if it is not one's experience that the individual entity has dissolved, then stating that the individual entity dissolves is just a belief and not a direct…
About belief and ignorance ~~~ You don't need any belief system to get out of the way of an oncoming truck. Body intelligence is innate to the body and the organismic system knows how to feed and shelter itself. By belief, the teachings refer to the belief that consciousness is mortal, limited and…
The mind does not want to know
The mind asks questions. All sorts of questions. Sometimes the most ridiculous question. For the mind, it does not matter if the question is ridiculous, nonsensical or not. As long as there is a separate me, the personal mind impression remains on board and maintains itself. In fact, the separate…
Question: What is thought? Is this where separation occurs? Reply: Separation is the belief that I, consciousness, am limited to a particular form, to a particular body mind. Separation occurs at the mental level, meaning at the thought level as well as at the feeling level meaning at the body…
The dreamer is beyond all dreams
Indeed, dreaming that I am a person does not turn the dreamer into a person. All dreams are mind impressions. The dreamer is beyond all dreams. Although the dreamer is the reality of all dreams, reality remains undefined by the dreams, no matter what they may be. In ignorance, the dream characters…
What I truly am cannot be threatened
What I truly am cannot be threatened. Whenever I feel threatened, there is a tendency to defend, attack, justify, flee, wish things were different. But it is possible to be present, silently present to what is going on and wonder: 'Is there really a threat? And what is being threatened? ' Feeling…