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A comment about fate. Whose fate? Fate is on behalf of someone, on behalf of a separate person. Fate falls under the impression of me in time and space. Past and future which are both the product of thinking and feeling. Consciousness is reality and does not exist in time and space. There is no…
From the personal self perspective, it is not possible to speak about consciousness with any authority. Why so? Because, as a personal self, we are starting with the unexamined belief that consciousness is limited and personal. This belief gets in the way and veils (infects) our capacity to…
This entire realm is dream like
This entire realm is dream like. It’s gone in a flash. Why trouble yourself pursuing dream objects? Contemplate the Self, the reality of consciousness and profit from this opportunity to awaken to truth. Truth is what IS, that which you ARE and not what appears or what you seem to be. That which is…
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…
Personal love as a state is temporal and is not true since behind such a love hides the separate self with all its conditions, demands, judgements and expectations. Love is eternal, all embracing, unconditional and unwavering. It is our true nature. States are coloring of mind and represent Shiva’s…
Beyond the mental understanding
A truth lover is well served by being careful not to remain with the mental understanding. It is one thing to know about the ocean and it is another thing to be the ocean. Once ignorance is removed, and Self/Awareness is revealed, it does not matter whether mind exists or not because the mind is an…
For the separate self, memory refers to events in time. Both the events as well as time are believed and felt to be real. The separate self gets the impression via memory that there was something real that has occurred which is/was made out of people, things and experiences. In ignorance the…
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…
There is no mind. What we call mind is thought. God is the creator of all thoughts. The creator of the wind, the breath, the oceans and galaxies. Problems are due to the belief that I am a mortal form. A separate self. A mortal reality. This belief overlooks the eternal and universal reality of…
There is no separate thinker of thought. All events, including thought are universal events. Like the galaxies and their gravitational fields, like the weather. Impersonal cosmic events. When you take a close look at the thinker, you only find consciousness without any borders, without any actual…
Happiness, (and there is only one happiness) is absolute and knows no opposite. As long as we remain with the sense of separation, no matter how well hidden it is under the rug, happiness evades us and we toggle between brief moments of peace in the midst of a vast realm of confusion and…
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…
There are a lot of things you know. But do you know your true self? You are not the bubble of your mind and feelings. You are not defined by anything you dream or imagine. You are not defined by your projections. Suffering is your lighthouse. It advises you that you have given reality to the…
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…
There are a lot of things you know. But do you know your true self? You are not the bubble of your mind and feelings. You are not defined by anything you dream or imagine. You are not defined by your projections. Suffering is your lighthouse. It advises you that you have given reality to the…
Truth is one. Self standing, self knowing, self being. The mirage is that there is something other than truth. Given only truth is. we are led beyond isness and not-isness which refer to duality. Thus truth neither is nor is-not This realization is beyond mind and beyond language. Without this…
Desire for an object refers to a separate self which is desiring a separate object. Such desire maintains the sense of separation and the sense of lack. Desire for truth, desire for freedom, for love and beauty is different in that such a desire is not for an object. It is desire for the end of…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
It’s that same consciousness that takes on this form, that takes on all forms. We all know ourself as I. Then we add a story which is mind. But at the core of all stories, the nature of all minds is that same I. I aware presence. Self knowing, all knowing. The peace of being. The transparency of…
Once you know the self, you’re no longer going anywhere. You’re always here as presence. There isn’t seeking or avoiding. You are no longer prey to desire. Time collapses into the eternity of aware presence. You are no longer an object, a form. You are formless and without borders. This requires…
The separate self~~~Notice the subtle movement within your being towards and away from any object, experience or feeling. Notice within yourself the tendency, no matter how faint towards an image or a feeling. The very subtle sense of lack and incompleteness that hides beneath and within thinking…