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You cannot will yourself nor image yourself into awakening.
You cannot make believe yourself into awakening. You cannot will yourself nor image yourself into awakening. For the self that awakens is a figment of your dreams. The true Self neither awakens nor sleeps. It is neither discovered nor lost. It is eternal shining light of Being/Awareness, invisible…
Being a personal self requires effort and maintenance.
Being a personal self requires effort and maintenance. When you contemplate your true nature, you realize the effortlessness of Being Awareness and you find yourself 'resting as That' effortlessly, as One, as everyone and everything. This 'resting' is a natural consequence of your contemplation…
As long as you are cultivating images of yourself and others, you remain an unhappy limited separate self impression. No matter how hard you work on improving your bundle of images, you remain incomplete and the True Meaning and True Purpose escape you. Awakening to the Self is your inevitable…
DO NOT SEARCH, THE EYE CANNOT SEE ITSELF ~~ Friend: Some teachers say: Just be still and do not search for the Self for this would be like your eye trying to see itself. ~~ This comment is limited to the phenomenal eye. The physical eye cannot see itself, but that does not apply to consciousness.…
Dive within Only this deepening is your heart's desire Cease dwelling on the surface forms They do not fulfill you They do not reveal the absolute. For so long you have been in love And yet, you have acted as a child Chasing imaginary dreams As an imaginary form. Your love has remained unfulfilled.…
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…
The search for truth, the inquiry into the truth and reality of consciousness is not about improving anything. It is not about improving the imaginary life of the imaginary character. It is about awakening from the dream illusion of separation. Awakening from the unhappy dream of an interior self…
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…
Comment from a friend and a reply:
Friend: "You can keep the conversations smooth at the mental level, however at times it is difficult to keep up the contemplation and inquiry. Seen from the mind it is hell at times. As soon as the level of bodily contractions is entered it is a whole different ball game, a whole different…
A few words about enlightenment. ~~~. Enlightenment, as a glimpse in the Self is not an experience since the mind is not present. The mind comes after the fact to take the glory that it has not earned. And yet, the mind gets altered by this non-event as the Humpty Dumpty egg gets cracked, allowing…
There is nothing to realize – is a pointer that is incomplete
There is nothing to realize - is a pointer that is incomplete. When such a pointer is taken out of a wider teaching context, it may be misleading. The realization of the Self is not nothing. It is the revelation of the truth that IS. The nothing state is empty and void of the perfume of the Self.…
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.
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