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Friend: If perhaps appearance is all there is. What need is there for anything more? Reply: One could say: 'appearance is all there is'. The question which follows would be: What is saying that? Appearance does not say anything. Appearance does not say: 'Appearance is all there is. 'Something is…
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…
Examine your suffering closely
The gardens of Versailles belong to the Republique of France. ~~At the core of your experience, there is silence and stillness which permeates your entire experience and yet, this silent stillness is overlooked. And whenever the silent stillness is felt, it is not clear that this silent presence is…
When we are looking from the mind, meaning via the senses and via thinking, there are numerous forms, numerous options, preferences, as well as numerous impressions. The senses and thinking can be misleading. One may perceive an orange only to find later on that it is a persimmon. One may also…
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…
The key thing in contemplation is the contemplation of reality. Who cares about anything that is not real? What is the point of having all sorts of theories and discussions about that which is not real? It makes sense to stick with reality because reality is absolute. You will be wasting your…
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…
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…
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…
It’s already quite a progress to realize that you are living in a bubble, that something is off and you don’t know what it is, but you can feel it. It’s much better than complete ignorance because ignorance is not bliss, ignorance is unhappiness, a sense of dullness and incompleteness. Once you…
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…
The unfolding pathThe spiritual journey is an inquiry into truth which starts with the bubble of personhood whereby we believe that I refers to a physical form. The perception is that of an internal self and an external world. The feeling state is that of isolation and separation. Then we realize…
Experiencing from your globality. As a separate self we perceive from within a bubble. We move from perception to perception within the bubble. This bubble is the feeling of being a person, a limited self. We experience this bubble as unhappiness, as the sense of lack and incompleteness. At some…
The heart of the matter. I have never in fact, encountered a thought. I know I am supposed to and yet, in my experience, I am unable to find a thought. Wherever and whenever I look, I only find I. I awarenessI presenceI-II beingness When I consider the thought: I love cardinalsI cannot find this…
Being with the other as a separate other, I overlook my true nature and I am not knowingly myself. Being with the other as my very self, I am knowingly myself and do not leave myself. The one and only Self. Knowing myself as universal being awareness, I recognize everyone and everything as myself.…
When you contemplate your direct experience
When you contemplate your direct experience, you may notice that there are no borders and that you permeate the entire field of perception. In other words, the entire field of perception is your very self. You are everywhere. You are not any thing and yet everything is your very self. You are not…
What you truly are before, during and after thought, sensation or perception is the wide open screen of awareness. Borderless presence/knowingness. Infinite and eternal. Thought, sensation or perception is your intimate dream. Arising out of yourself as thought, perception or sensation, you do not…
The activity of thinking, sensing and perceiving veils the wide open empty screen of being/awareness. Within thinking hides the belief in a separate thinker, within sensing the belief in a separate sensor and within perceiving the belief in a separate perceiver. Beyond thought, beyond mind…
From the perspective of the dream character and the content of its mind, thought and perception appear as time and space. Given the separate self's activity is thinking, sensing and perceiving, it experiences a body and world in time and space and has no access to the eternity and infinity of God's…
I does not refer to an object of perception.
I does not refer to an object of perception. I/awareness is not defined by thinking, feeling, sensing. Appearance refers to me while I remain undefined by appearance. I am beyond any reference as I am eternally self-referent. I am the transparent spaciousness of awareness. The transparency of…
Speaking of appearances: Being knowingly the transparency of being/awareness is void of subject/object and yet it is not an empty emptiness. Although being/awareness is no thing and can be said to be empty, this emptiness/nothingness is simultaneously fullness/everythingness. Thinking, feeling,…
God is a mighty magician. She is the sole creator and the sole reality. When we ask her about her creation, she replies: Hey, I am you! Why are you asking me? ;) I create and experience my creation via and out of myself. I conceive/create/perceive out of myself/yourself. There are no external…
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.…
Being identified via thinking, feeling, perceiving, which are the activities of the separate self, creates the impression that I am inside a bubble: The unhappy me-bubble that seems to exist in time and space. 'I' seems to be dependent on time and space, on circumstances, on situations, on the…
Do not overlay your own script onto God’s silence
When you overlay onto God's voice your own voice, when you overlay onto God's form your own for, when you overlay over God's silence your own script, you are no longer able to hear her or perceive her. She is the eternal light shining as everything and everyone but you look at her via your own…