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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…
No matter how many orbits around the cosmic universe, I will continue to seek you. My body mind and heart are dedicated to you as there is no other love, no other passion, no other reality but your being. Although you grace me with your presence as my own, it is thy will which is. Ignorance of…
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…
It’s already quite a progress to realize that you are living in a bubble, that something is off and you don’t know what it is, but you can feel it. It’s much better than complete ignorance because ignorance is not bliss, ignorance is unhappiness, a sense of dullness and incompleteness. Once you…
THOUGHT AND IGNORANCE Does the arising of thought signify the arising of a separate self? Does it imply ignorance? ~~~Not necessarily. Thought requires a knowing of it but this knowing does not necessarily need to be separate from the thought that is known. Ignorance refers to the knowing being a…
Does the arising of thought signify the arising of a separate self?
THOUGHT AND IGNORANCE Does the arising of thought signify the arising of a separate self? Does it imply ignorance? ~~~Not necessarily. Thought requires a knowing of it but this knowing does not necessarily need to be separate from the thought that is known. Ignorance refers to the knowing being a…
In ignorance, I am a mortal body mind
In ignorance, I have accepted that I am a mortal body mind, a person. Once that assumption is established and not questioned, thoughts arise all of which refer to this me, the body mind I feel I am. Judgmental thoughts. Blaming thoughts. Praising thoughts. Hopeful thoughts. Regretful thoughts.…
Mistaking awareness to be mind is ignorance.
We associate awareness with I as awareness and not with me as a body mind appearance. Mistaking awareness to be mind is ignorance. Although the substance of mind is awareness, awareness is its own substance and is not known via the mind. You know the tree. The tree does not know itself nor does it…
Associate awareness with I as awareness and not with me as a body mind appearance. Mistaking awareness to be mind is ignorance. Although the substance of mind is awareness, awareness is its own substance and is not known via the mind. You know the tree. The tree does not know itself nor does it…
The reality of consciousness is not a belief.
The reality of consciousness is not a belief. Fear of death, as well as all fears are due to the belief that consciousness depends on form and thus is mortal and personal. Once the thorn of identification and ignorance is removed, fears are left with no legs to stand on.
About ignorance, thought and action.
About ignorance, thought and action. ~~~ First, thought is a subtle object. And like all objects, it is known but it is not knowing. Second, ignorance refers to mistaking oneself to be an object of perception. Mistaking oneself to be a mortal body mind. Lastly, there is ignorant thought and…
ABOUT THOUGHT Psychological thought refers to the me-thought. ** There is the subtle me-thought/feeling that is below the radar (We could refer to this as the me-feeling) ** There is the less subtle me-thought (We could refer to this as a negative emotion) that is the irritation of the me-feeling…
Psychological thought refers to the me-thought. ** There is the subtle me-thought/feeling that is below the radar (We could refer to this as the me-feeling) ** There is the less subtle me-thought (We could refer to this as a negative emotion) that is the irritation of the me-feeling (such as: This…
ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL Good and evil, better and worse are relative concepts that refer to the mind. Once we accept good and evil, they become our personal (relative) preferences. Good and evil will limit us and divide us. Our true nature is beyond the dichotomy of good and bad. The Self is…
Question: Would you say that the role that art plays is to point to beauty that perhaps, at least momentarily, stuns the mind into abeyance; a taste of the eternal? Is the spiritual journey one of discovery and discernment of how we sustain ignorance? I love that the root of ignorance is to ignore!…
In a timeless flash, we may realize the emptiness of our belief structures
We may have a glimpse of our true nature. Through this glimpse, in a timeless flash, we may realize the emptiness of our belief structures, the illusion of the personal self and the glorious wholeness of consciousness. In this glimpse, which is not in time, the mind is completely absent as it…
Every impression, every thought, every sensation. is awareness pointing to itself. Awareness points to itself, from itself, as itself. A joyous revelation that. when deeply comprehended, dissolves all dualistic impressions. Upon this understanding, what matters is to stabilize as the Self, as…
Just because you do not feel like a Buddha, does not mean you are not a Buddha.
Just because you do not feel like a Buddha, does not mean you are not a Buddha. For example in the night dreams you may not feel you are a man and you may feel you are a butterfly. Just because you feel you are a butterfly does not mean you are not a man. Relying on feelings and relying on thoughts…
Before any arising is the effortlessly-all-welcoming Self.
Observation from a friend: If I deem someone or something unwelcome, the discomfort arises not from where I assume - that which I’ve condemned - but from my very own state of unwelcomeness. Welcome precedes unwelcome. Resolution is relinquishing only what’s been added. I am only ever the problem,…
Just because you do not feel like a Buddha, does not mean you are not a Buddha.
Just because you do not feel like a Buddha, does not mean you are not a Buddha. For example in the night dreams you may not feel you are a man and you may feel you are a butterfly. Just because you feel you are a butterfly does not mean you are not a man. Relying on feelings and relying on thoughts…
Whatever is given, is given through you and not by you
Through you it is given. By you it is hoarded. The I-thoughts and me-feelings form the bottleneck of greed and fear which is one of Maya’s veils: Blindness to taking without giving. If you do not transcend the veils of ignorance and greed, the Self remains hidden in plain sight and unhappiness will…
The prison, the impression of limitation is ignorance: Ignorance of our true Self, our true nature. Ignorance of truth. Ignorance of truth is the belief that what I truly am is a person, a man/woman, a body/mind; the belief that consciousness is personal and limited to a mortal body mind. The…
In ignorance thoughts refer to an imagined limited body mind. The impression is that of lack and insufficiency. Thinking is imagined to be the salvation. As you separate yourself from the wholeness of being, as a separate self, you experience a sense of limitation that goes against your innate…
Whatever you do that has a personal self within it will lead you deeper into the maze.
Whatever you do that has a personal self within it will lead you deeper into the maze. It will promise you all sorts of things, it will deliver more and more promises and will never 'deliver' you from your personal self. That is what haunts you but thoughts tell you lies and lead you astray as they…
WHAT AM I TRULY? In/as consciousness, there is no one resisting/seeking and there is no one going or coming. From the perspective of ignorance, the mind is infected with the belief in separation. The impression is that consciousness depends on the body mind and thus the body mind is lord. From that…
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