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THE SPACIOUSNESS OF AWARENESS Awareness is real. What could deny it? Awareness is like the wide open sky ever inviting you to the revelation that there is no form that is beyond awareness. The wide open sky being formless and undivided cannot conceive of separation, cannot conceive of this and…
The realization of the Self permeates the entire life and transforms it completely
The realization of the Self permeates the entire life and transforms it completely. It is not merely an understanding that one expresses from a high intellectual non-dual pedestal. The true teaching is expressed in silence. Words flow from the silence and express the silent understanding. …
Everything arises in the silence, as the silence
Everything arises in the silence, as the silence, refers to the silence out of which it arises and the silence that perceives it. To contrast the silence with movement, creates the impression of duality. Duality is chimeric. Illusory. Like a cloud that has the shape of an angel or dragon. Silence…
All subject-object impressions are dream impression that do not divide the indivisible reality of consciousness. Nothing stands apart from the Self, from the one universal reality of consciousness that is seamless and non-dual. Thou are That. When you perceive forms, trace the perception back to…
The bamboo gets uprooted from the root
The bamboo gets uprooted from the root. To simply be concerned about the stalk and leaves will not do. The mind needs to sink into the heart. Language needs to sink into silence, that is its source and destination. The pristine presence that you are is unperturbed and eternal. The mind cannot…
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and feelings and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is…
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is tainted by…
Notice that the mind is thoughts, sensations and perceptions.
Notice that the mind is thoughts, sensations and perceptions. Notice that you are the formless silent witness of thoughts, sensations and perceptions. Notice that when you see a Cedar tree, you are not the tree, you are not defined by the tree you witness. Similarly, you are not defined by the…
DEFINING YOURSELF When you define yourself, you are incorrectly perceiving yourself as a form, as a bundle of images that is arising in Awareness and you are overlooking the formless Awareness that you are. You are not the images that you perceive. Mistaking yourself to be an arising causes a sense…
DEFINING YOURSELF When you define yourself, you are incorrectly perceiving yourself as a form, as a bundle of images that is arising in Awareness and you are overlooking the formless Awareness that you are. You are not the images that you perceive. Mistaking yourself to be an arising causes a sense…
In love there are not two. Love is the dissolution of the me and you. It is the end of the impression of separation. You never fall in love with another. You fall in love with love. Love falling in love with itself, recognizing and celebrating itself through body minds. When you perceive another…
The unperceived Perceiving is the reality of experience.
While the perceived comes and goes, the unperceived is eternal and unborn. Resting in/as the unperceived is the true rest that is unmoved by phenomenal events. Such resting is beyond the impressions of time and space. It is this alive universal stillness that takes the wondrous form of the world,…
Innate nature is peace and happiness. Sat-Chit-Ananda Transparent Being Awareness. Impersonal, universal. The shining light of Being. The I-thought misleads you into perceiving a separate self and an external world. This unhappy impression of separation is like the canary in the coal mine that…
Inquiry into Truth and not into mind impressions
We are inquiring into Truth Not into mind impressions Mind impressions are like clouds Dream impressions One after another First we search outwardly As the mind points towards the senses Towards what is perceived Towards thoughts and feelings Towards the world body mind But what is perceived Does…
How do you know that there is a world outside of you?
How do you know that there is a world outside of you? All you know of the world is your perception. But is your perception outside of you? All you know is the thought, the belief that there is a world outside of you. But that thought/belief is not outside of you. Is it? It is intimately within you…
Disillusion with being a good person
DISILLUSION WITH BEING A GOOD PERSON Friend: After many years of service and devotion, trying to be a good person, I have come to realize that this does not work and that it is no the highest path. Can you say more about that? Reply: Being a good person is an image that arises to you. This image is…
Our true relationship, our true connection is not the realm of the perceived. The dream realm comes and goes. As you look for it you don’t find it, it’s gone. It is the infinite invisible that we refer to as awareness/consciousness, beingness that is our true realm. When you experience the world…
When you ask: What am I truly", You are coming to the Self. It's the formless reality that perceives right now. This beingness, this Isness is aware. It is scintillating with awareness. It's like a psychedelic Isness, a knowing beingness. It's a substanceless beingness which glows with…
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…
You cannot know that you are timeless and eternal via the mind.
You cannot know that you are timeless and eternal via the mind. The mind is intermittent. It is made out of discrete events and cannot reveal that which is not discrete, that which is eternal, that which perceives it. That which knows all discrete events is not discrete. It is the I of I am, the I…
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 mind is known. The power does not lie with what is known. Rather, it resides at a higher level. You are not the mind. You are not the dreams you dream. Your reality and the reality of all impressions resides beyond the dream impressions. The reality of consciousness is not dependent on mind…
Awareness does not come and go
Only awareness is aware. It is awareness, the light of perception. that perceives. It is awareness, the light of sensation. that senses. It is awareness, the light of all impressions. that speaks and dances. It dances all dances! It is awareness, the light of Joy. that rejoices! How it loves!…
I am not the tree that I perceive
I am not the tree that I perceive nor am I the imagined me that I imagine myself to be. What I truly am is beyond all mind imaginations and beyond the seemingly phenomenal world body mind that have their roots in me. Know yourself and know God.
The siddhas say that the one who leaves his body behind as a corpse cannot attain mukti. They are reborn. Only those whose bodies dissolve in space, in light or away from sight, attain liberation. From "Talks" by Ramana Maharshi ~~~ . The jiva perceives a body mind where the jnani perceive none.