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There is one reality. It is neither mind nor world. It is neither this nor that. Neither movement nor non movement. Beyond opposites. It is itself, complete onto itself. The reality of I. The reality of minds and universes. Like water is the reality of both steam and ice. I/reality/consciousness is…
The belief that reality cannot exist without mind assumes mind to be larger than reality itself. As if there are two realities: the reality of consciousness and the larger reality of mind.Upon contemplation, we realize that mind (thoughts, sensations and perceptions) is an appearance within…
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…
The mind is always doing something
The mind will always be doing something. Meaning the activities of thinking and feeling may go on. Sometimes sweet and gentle. other times thunderous and loud. That is how thinking feeling operate. When we remain as we are, meaning when we are not defining ourselves via the activity of thinking and…
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…
Is experience the cause of suffering?
Is experience the cause of suffering? Perceiving a butterfly is an experience. Drinking a glass of water or recollecting my sweet cat is also an experience. There is no suffering there. Suffering is the sense of separation, which is the belief and feeling that there is a separate personal…
Throughout all experience, I am there. The light of awareness. Irrespective of what has been my experience, painful or not, I have been present throughout all aspects of my experience. Present as awareness, as presence. Even when I believed and felt that I am a person, happy or unhappy, I was there…
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…
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…
You seem to refer to a body as something existing with its own 'individual reality', so to speak. In fact, all we know of a 'body' is the content of our mind. Meaning, we know bodily sensations, images, feelings, perceptions, all of which are 'internal'. In other words our experience does not…
In your comment, you seem to refer to a body as something existing with its own 'individual reality', so to speak. In fact, all we know of a 'body' is the content of our mind. Meaning, we know bodily sensations, images, feelings, perceptions, all of which are 'internal'. In other words our…
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…
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…
I, awareness permeates the entire experience
When the mind is silent as well when the mind is active, I/Aware presence permeates the entire experience. One could say that when the mind is silent, I/aware presence permeates experience knowingly. When the mind is active, although I/aware presence does permeate the entire experience, the…
I do agree that clarity is helpful for a more harmonious living. When we confuse the content of our experience (which is constantly changing) with the changeless reality of experience, we are missing the core of the teaching. The non dual teaching does speak of the principle of non-doing (non…
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…
Depending on the conditioned mind
When you depend on your conditioned mind, you experience the false. You experience time and space as well as birth and death, both of which are false. You have to go to the source in order to free yourself from ignorance, misery and confusion. You have to go to that which is real. The light of…
Yes, all manifestation is impermanent. But I/consciousness is not. ~~~ As long as we remain at the body mind level, we overlook awareness/consciousness which is transparent and the reality of our experience. It is not sufficient to live in presence. We also need to contemplate the reality of our…
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,…
It does not matter what arises on the screen. What matters is how and as what you meet what appears.
It does not matter what arises on the screen. What matters is how and as what you meet what appears. When a personal self, when a separate entity meets what arises on the screen of awareness, you experience a contracted mind with concern and feelings of insufficiency and incompleteness. As…
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…
Post enlightenment. Although we may understand that I refers to consciousness and not the body form, although we may understand that I am not the feelings nor the thoughts that are appearing, we may still experience resistance and seeking. We may still experience aversion and a sense of lack…