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The world of form Appears Thus it is an appearance Like all appearances It disappears What is the substance of that which appears and disappears? Like all night dreams Like the weather The substance of the world body mind Is its dreamer. We have never known a world Outside of ourself. The home of…
You know yourself without the aid of the mind
YOU KNOW YOURSELF DIRECTLY WITHOUT THE AID OF THE MIND You know yourself without the aid of the mind. You known yourself directly. This knowingness is a non phenomenal knowingness which is referred to as an apperception. In the absence of thought, in the absence of perception and sensation, I know…
COMPLETE CERTAINTY The brain, the world, sense organs, light enters, light exists. Is this really what is going on? Could be. What would the snail or the chameleon say? What is it that we can be absolutely certain of? What is it that we can point to beyond any doubt whatsoever? I cannot name it. Or…
Until we realize the Self, we are seekers in one way or another. We start the journey seeking peace and happiness in objects, in relationships and in worldly situations. Eventually, via grace, we turn inward and start to contemplate causeless peace and happiness. It's a long journey from here to…
Maintain your gaze onto the divine
Maintain your gaze onto the divine and you will be guided to her. Do not rest, do not celebrate too early as you will be cutting yourself short. Do not be content with intermediary stages that compromise the absolute. Remain on the path until you are completely unmoved by the world body mind.
The worldly path of samsara and the senses keep you in the illusion and you do not get off the roller coaster ride of mind impressions. As long as you do not actively engage in the contemplation of the Self, the Self will continue to elude you and you remain entangled in the phenomenal world body…
COMPLETE CERTAINTY The brain, the world, sense organs, light enters, light exists. Is this really what is going on? Could be. What would the snail or the chameleon say? What is it that we can be absolutely certain of? What is it that we can point to beyond any doubt whatsoever? I cannot name it. Or…
As long as you are interested in the world body mind, you get the roller coaster ride.
Yes. As long as you are interested in the world body mind, you get the roller coaster ride. There is no way around it. Up and down you go. Then you get off the ride and get on another one, like in the amusement park. There is no way out as long as your interest is in what appears. You have tasted…
There is a return to the source
Once you realize the separate self to be a dream character, the world to be dream images and the body dream sensations, the mind becomes quiet. Everything and everyone points to the Self and merges in the Self. There is a return to the source, whereby the world, the mind, the body dissolve into the…
Direct or indirect contemplation
You are contemplating truth directly or indirectly. Indirectly, your contemplation is worldly via thoughts and feelings and will disappoint you. Pursuing the contemplation via the senses maintains the separation and the sense of lack. Pursuit and avoidance are deeply rooted in the indirect…
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze river on a reed.
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze river on a reed. ~~~ A step forward A step backward And you are haunted by the ten thousand things. At the edgeless edge Where night meets day In the infinite realm of Being Awareness I cross the Yangtze Not a step is taken The Yangtze flows through Nowhere have I…
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,…
Joel Goldsmith: The inner world
By Joel Goldsmith “This spiritual kingdom, this inner world, is as real as the world we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell—if anything, more real. What we become aware of through the senses eventually changes and disappears, but this inner world, these spiritual glories that are revealed to us,…
IS EVERYTHING SAMADHI? ~~ It depends what you mean by everything and what you mean by samadhi. By everything we usually refer to the world body mind, to what appears and disappears, to the apparent, the impermanent, the phenomenal. By samadhi we usually refer to the ultimate, to the absolute…
You perpetuate the illusion of separation
When you are attached to your body, when you are attached to the world, you perpetuate the illusion of separation. In the dream, be as light as a feather. You are the unaffected aware presence that takes on all forms while remaining completely free. Attachment is a psychological contraction void of…
The contemplation that matters
The contemplation that matters: ~~~ The contemplation and exploration that matters is the contemplation and exploration of the beliefs that you are a material form with an independent reality, living in a world of forms endowed with their own independent realities. As that is seen through, your…
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…
If your happiness is contingent on paying bills
If your happiness is contingent on paying bills, on health and wealth, on situations and events. . you are doomed (to unhappiness). Conditional happiness is not the real deal. The revelation of unconditional happiness, the revelation of THAT that is untouched by world body mind events is the path…
What we truly are does not sleep
What we truly are does not sleep . as it is not worldly. When the body is tired . out of love, we invite it to rest. The dream, in all its forms, is a divine expression, an offering from the absolute . meant to be celebrated and honored and not burdened with false identification.
“How do we investigate the nature of mind and the root of samsaric delusion? The very root of delusion is the thought of ‘I’, the habit of clinging to the notion of ‘self’. This notion is simply due to a failure to investigate. There is no such thing as a truly existing, autonomous self. We…
The Self is unmoved,unmovable and unmoving
The Self is unmoved, unmovable and unmoving. All impressions of movement are the dream of Maya and serve to remind you of the Self eternal. That is how the world body mind fulfills its function . serving as a gateway to the Gateless. Revealing your seamless joyfully-free nature. Wherever you look,…
Before being a man, a woman, I AM
Before being a man or a woman, I AM. Before being a father or mother, I AM. Before being any thing, I AM. I AM is undefined and non descript. Yet, nothing can be without I AM. Like gold takes the form of a necklace, ring or bracelet, the I AM, while remaining infinite, eternal and formless aware…
A CONTEMPLATION AND AN INVITATION Whatever arises does not disturb me, does not define me and does not refer to what I AM truly. How can any appearance, any thought, any feeling know That That I AM? Only I know. Only I am the knowingness. That I AM KNOWINGNESS is not something that can be…
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 we feel good and things are unfolding according to the way we wish things to be, we think and feel all is well. And when things are not unfolding as we wish things to be, we are not feeling good and we think things are not going good, and we feel all is not well. Such is the gogo mind, such is…