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SEEKING PERSONAL RECOGNITION. .Wanting to fill and maintain the illusory container of the personal self. Dream characters seeking dream rewards. We often overlook that this dream is about waking up from the dream and not about managing the dream character we mistakenly believe we are. Rather than…
It is so easy to confuse sentimentality and emotivity with the awaken heart
It is so easy to confuse sentimentality and emotivity with the awaken heart. In sentimentality there is still the sense of separation experienced as a subject and an object, a me and the other. The awaken heart expresses itself as wholeness, as the universal shining light that shines beyond any…
Everything arises in the silence, as the silence
Everything arises in the silence, as the silence, refers to the silence out of which it arises and the silence that perceives it. To contrast the silence with movement, creates the impression of duality. Duality is chimeric. Illusory. Like a cloud that has the shape of an angel or dragon. Silence…
The journey from unhappiness to happiness cannot be bypassed without the ending of the illusion of separation and the death of the personal self. A teacher who serves you the empty dish of: ‘there is no one and there is nothing to realize’ does not reveal the causeless happiness and the peace that…
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 Ground of Being is causeless peace and happiness
The Ground of Being is causeless peace and happiness untouched by the hopes and disappointments of the mind. The labyrinth of thoughts and feelings projects an unhappy illusionary realm of personal self and external world. The illusory veil of separation. You are not what thoughts and feelings say…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Beware of the imagined future It is thought Concern and hope Imagined me in time and space Thought/image But not really truth. Thought reverberating throughout the innocence of being That is complete freedom From the impression of past and future. Why diminish this wonder? This formless wonder of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A serious student of the way lives the teaching 24/7 and not only during satsang on Sunday or Thursday afternoon. The teacher reminds you that the path is not of the mind, that you need to drop the mind, to drop the old patterns that maintain the illusion of a separate me. But it is up to you to…
There is a dark night of the soul, where the encouragement: 'Hold steadily since the light will appear again' . cannot even be heard. For some, such a dark night of the soul burns, sears the remaining me-impressions, while for others it is an essential step on the path to the eventual freedom from…
You contaminate pristine clarity with the me-mind and various desires. but it is important to ask: 'What is, in fact, being contaminated? ' If you pursue this question unceasingly, you arrive at the pristine source and realize there never was, after all, any real contamination. The Self is…
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.…
About nobody and negation. ~~~ In non-duality, 'nobody' is often misunderstood to refer to void and to an empty emptiness. Sometimes, one arrives at the following understanding: 'nothing is real, there is nothing to do, all there is is this and whoever is seeking truth is in illusion'. I refer to…
All you experience is yourself
All you experience is yourself. Nothing separate. Nothing outside or inside. One seamless reality. There is no mind to know it. It is self knowing. But even that is mind fodder. You go nowhere. You do not come from anywhere. The entire limited you is a dream illusion as separation is imagination.…
A glimpse in the Self is a non event since the mind is not privy to it. Whatever the mind comments about the glimpse in the Self is an illusory dream comment whose sole purpose is to maintain the impression of selfhood. It is the thief claiming he owns the house.
Sharing with love. From love to love. From no one to no one. Sharing the one heart. The love that we are. ~~~ Until the cloud of ignorance lifted, I was not aware there was a cloud. In a flash, I realized the infinity and glory of consciousness. The illusion of selfhood perished. Thirty years…
A question from a friend about sex
Friend: Hi. I have a personal question. When you have sex with the person you love and you say you are making love, is this really true? Is sex part of the illusion? Is that the separate self?