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Every moment is a new birth in complete silence
EVERY MOMENT IS A NEW BIRTH IN COMPLETE SILENCE Remain in your freshness without past, without hope, without a tomorrow. Remain open, available as your nakedness and not loaded with preconceptions and memories. In such, every moment is a new birth in complete silence, in complete not-knowing that…
DIVINE INSPIRATION The contemplation of the Self Is done by the Self There is no other contemplation But the Self Divine inspiration Thinking that I am a personal self Is the birthplace of the I-thought Feeling that I am born Is the birthplace of the me-feeling These mind impressions are bound to…
“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…
How do I reach my full potential?
Friend: How do I reach my full potential? I find myself addicted to media and technology and unable to get beyond to reach my full potential. Reply: Personal potential is illusion as there is no personal self. When you look for the person, you only find images, thoughts and sensations, and no…
REMAIN AS YOU ARE Within thought, there is an imagined me, a personal self in an imaginary future. But not really. There is no time. Time is thought, mind impressions. Floating images in the open space of awareness that dreams all dreams without ever being affected by its infinite dreams. Remain as…
If you are unhappy and content with your unhappiness, then the teachings, direct or indirect are irrelevant to you. But if you are unhappy and seeking to understand the process underlying your unhappiness, then the teachings are very helpful and provide you with the understanding that may release…
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,…
Can the Self get out of the Self?
THE SELF CANNOT GET OUT OF THE SELF? Magdi I just heard a talk where the teacher is saying: 'the self cannot get out of self and that is not bad news. ' He was referring to the personal self. He claims that is all we need to understand. What is your opinion and take on this? ~~ Such a teaching (if…
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…
I have no words for you. I sit in you As you My heart is content. Diving into you Is an endless dive Of blissful silence And contemplation Of the wholeness of being awareness. infinite gratitude To the Self To the teaching To the teachers To my guru Who through his absence And absolute love Has…
RETURN TO THE SELF You cannot find happiness in the world. You only find happiness in the Self. Therefore reside in the Self. The Self is infinite invisible, unknown to the mind. All knowing. Knowingness itself. Closer than close, ever available as the invisible reality of being-awareness. All…
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…
The first discrimination is to realize that we are not our thoughts. Our thoughts do not know us. This discrimination may lead us to the understanding that ‘I am the knowingness and not the known’. Upon further inquiry, we realize the known and the knowingness are one and that I am this knowingness…
Friend: Morning Magdi, See if I'm on the mark. There is no one who is ignorant, there is only ignorance. Similarly, there is no one who awakens, there is only awakening. Even that seems not quite so true in that awkening is already awake! Reply: Ignorance refers to the belief in an…
THE PRIMARY DIVISION With the I-thought you divide yourself, you separate yourself from your inherent wholeness, the wholeness of Being-Awareness. Thus, a primary subject-object arises and the myriad names and forms follow. Reality is indivisible. Separation is an unhappy dream, the illusory dream…
What is the source of insecurity?
Question: What is the source of insecurity? Reply: The belief that I am born, the belief that I am mortal. The thorn of mortality is the cause of insecurity. Believing you are a man, a woman is a mistaken identity. Believing that I am a mortal body mind results in the unhappy impression of…
The Self is all of it. Awareness belongs to the Self. Sentience belongs to the Self. Insentience belongs to the Self. All is the Self. Believing that the Self depends on the body mind is ignorance and the cause of your unhappiness. Believing that consciousness belongs to the body mind leads to the…
Most of your choices are unnoticed
Whenever you cling to the mind, you postpone happiness. Whenever you opt for me-in-time, you reject I-as-eternity. Whenever you grasp forms, and seek happiness in relationships, situations or experiences, you become bound by their limitations and overlook the boundless(ness) of the formless self.…
As the one and only knower, You have never been a personal self, you have never left yourSelf for another self, you have never been separate. Like footprints on the sandy shore, all self impressions belong to you, consciousness. and do not divide you. Imagined unhappiness comes to an end in the…
Dictatorship and democracy belong at the mind level. As long as you remain at the mind level, you remain at the mind level . swinging between the illusory and unhappy impressions of good and bad. Why play good and bad when you can be happy celebrating the innate freedom and bliss of the Self? Of…
You are the shining light of the universe
You are the shining light of the universe. You are the formless source of all apparent forms. You are the reality of consciousness. Nothing is possible without you. Everything is revealed through you, everything refers to you. the formless reality that you are. The undeniable reality of…
You are the Self. Everything and everyone is the Self. When you are angry at someone, you are angry at yourself. When you are annoyed at someone, you are annoyed at yourself. When you are bored, you have separated yourself from yourself. When you are not happy, you have separated yourself from the…
Feelings of guilt, regret and doubt
Sometimes life circumstances trigger old feelings of guilt, regret, doubt, etc. Ancient me-thoughts and feelings are triggered. We feel unhappy. This is an important discernment. Noticing unhappiness and reading the sign posts that maintain the separate me impression allow you to navigate calmer…
This waking dream is an opportunity to contemplate and celebrate the Self.
This waking dream is an opportunity to contemplate and celebrate the Self. The me-impression, me in time and space veils the majesty and limitlessness of the Self. Through your contemplation the imagined edges and borders dissolve, the flow becomes peaceful, smooth and happy. You realize your…