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The intimacy of being/awareness. Although the ‘content’ of awareness is limited, awareness is not. In fact, awareness has no ‘content’. That is simply a way of speaking. Awareness does not have a door and windows. Does not have an inside or outside. Awareness is the undeniable reality of experience…
About being here. Here is not a place. Here is being. Being is not being somebody; it is being being, being presence, being the nameless wordless totality. The love, the beauty, the sweet not-knowingness of presence, of awareness. Being here as absence is seamless presence. Resting as being, there…
You never leave yourself. You never cease to experience yourself. The content of your experience is intimate with your very self, which you never leave, which you are. Our shared dream is precipitated from the same universal field of knowingness which we are. Like in a dream, we dream ourself. We…
No matter how many orbits around the cosmic universe, I will continue to seek you. My body mind and heart are dedicated to you as there is no other love, no other passion, no other reality but your being. Although you grace me with your presence as my own, it is thy will which is. Ignorance of…
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…
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…
All rivers flow to the ocean. Each according to its condition. At the heart of every drop of water is love of the ocean. Aranachula represents the ocean within our heart. Nourishing, acknowledging, honoring this love makes it bloom into full fledged bliss of being and selfless dedication to the…
All rivers flow to the ocean. Each according to its condition. At the heart of every drop of water is love of the ocean. Aranachula represents the ocean within our heart. Nourishing, acknowledging, honoring this love makes it bloom into full fledged bliss of being and selfless dedication to the…
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…
The peace of being is independent of whatever it is you are experiencing. Knowing yourself to be borderless aware presence invites you into the heart of stillness and beyond the mind impressions of time and space. Keep returning to the eternal now, to the timelessness of presence and the impression…
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…
THE GUEST HOUSE This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness,some momentary awareness comesas an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,who violently sweep your houseempty of its furniture,still,…
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…
In god's eyes, everything is holy. Everywhere you are is holiness. Contemplate the wholeness of being without any differentiation. Being/awareness is your true nature, the reality of experience, independent of time and space. Do not interrupt your inquiry and meditation as thinking attempts to lead…
You are the oppressor today and the oppressed tomorrow
You are the oppressor today, but for many subsequent lifetimes, you will be the oppressed. That is how the wheel of samsara spins. If we do not take this life as an opportunity to rise above the ego, if we do not contemplate the wholeness of being and live it, we will experience numerous lifetimes…
Everything you perceive refers to you
Everything you perceive, every thought that arises to you, every experience you have. all of it refers to you. This you, this I is aware presence that has no name, no age, no gender, no location. The transparency of being. Once we overlook that I refers to aware presence, we identify with mortality…
The innate peace of being/awareness
Everything that appears to you refers to the innate peace of being/awareness. The mind that looks outwardly overlooks the Self, overlooks the transparency of being/awareness which is the knowing spaciousness of being. When you contemplate the true I that I refers to, you will come to realize…
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…
You are not what you imagine yourself to be
You are not what you imagine yourself to be. It is what you truly are that imagines itself to be what you think and feel you are. Therefore, you and your experience are its imagination. Your sense of personal being as well as the world you perceive are via its imagination. Via the contemplation of…
I am with you. I am within you. I am you. We are never apart. One I. One truth. One being. One reality. I speak to you as if to another. But I know you as my very self. I guide you as if guiding another. But I know you as my very self. I listen to your intimate sharing as if listening to another.…
When you are hunting for something or someone, thinking and feeling are engaged in the hunt and the open space of awareness is temporarily narrowed as hunter and prey. This initial duality maintains itself as long as you remain in your personal interest. You may succeed or fail in your hunt but…
I am with you. I am within you. I am you. We are never apart. One I. One truth. One being. One reality. I speak to you as if to another. But I know you as my very self. I guide you as if guiding another. But I know you as my very self. I listen to your intimate sharing as if listening to another.…
You are not what you imagine yourself to be
You are not what you imagine yourself to be. It is what you truly are that imagines itself to be what you think and feel you are. Therefore, you and your experience are its imagination. Your sense of personal being as well as the world you perceive are via its imagination. Via the contemplation of…
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…
It is much more challenging to feel whole, to be whole than to understand wholeness. Somehow, we have to dive below thinking and deeply into the realm of feelings. The tendency to remain at the surface of feelings does not reveal their empty true nature. Once we approach feelings with silence,…