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Since the veils of dualism have obscured the view, you need asanas. Since you are overlooking your Self as That which you are, you need to practice the stillness and study the scriptures. In time, you will start recollecting yourself. Initially this recollection will be sporadic and irregular but…
ABSOLUTE STILLNESS In the relative realm everything is relative including your happiness. The relative reveals the absolute only when you are still. When you are relatively still, you are relatively happy. It’s when you are absolutely still that you are absolutely happy. Absolute stillness is not…
LISTENING I listen to the body without knowing. I notice a burning sensation in the belly. It could be the late breakfast. But it doesn’t matter what the mind says. It is a deepening listening, sensing, feeling, without knowing, openly, freely. I am interested. An ever deepening intimacy. Intimacy…
LEFTOVER VASANAS You can fool so-called others, and you can even fool yourself but for only so long. Eventually, the leftover vasanas that are not being addressed, which remain veiled by the partial understanding that we hold on to, will start to decay and the foul smell of ignorance will rise. The…
FEAR What is it? What am I? What is happening? I want to know. What for? To know what? What is there to know? What is it to know? Wanting a story Wanting a narrative That I can flip and flip As it flips me I want thought and more thought So I can remain on the roller coaster Of the winds of thought…
The clarity of Self recognition
ABIDING IN THE CLARITY OF SELF RECOGNITION I read somewhere that in abiding in the clarity of self recognition, dysfunction is seen,and the truest version of myself is continuously revealed. What is this truest version of myself that is continuously revealed? ~~~ I have no idea. I don't perceive…
When you are arguing, you have assumed yourself and the other. Assuming yourself is empty and void of reality. Whatever you assume is fiction. Thus your unhappy argumentation is empty and unreal. Why get so worked out? Instead, can you see through the charade? Can you remain still and in this…
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!…
IS IT OK TO COME BACK INTO THE RELATIVE?
IS IT OK TO COME BACK INTO THE RELATIVE? In your experience, is there such a thing as coming in and out of the 'relative'? Maybe thought is arising speaking about relative and absolute. Or maybe there is peace and stillness and the complete absence of duality, the complete absence of relative or…
DYING COMPLETELY EACH MOMENT Dying completely each moment, dying to everything that arises leaves no traces of any arising, no traces of anything dying and no traces of anything doing any activity. Because this ongoing dying has no beginning and no ending and has no one in it that is dying or doing…
You imagine yourself without realizing that the self that you imagine yourself to be is image and not the real you. Whatever you imagine is not the real, so you can stop following that wrong spinning path and remain still. The real, the non-imagined Self resides in and as the stillness that arises…
When you are distracted by thoughts and feelings, you do not awaken
When you are distracted by thoughts and feelings, you do not awaken and you remain entangled in the phenomenal realm. Behind every thought and feeling is the separate I-thought and me-feeling that is dormant. Remaining still and contemplating: ‘What am I truly? ’ ‘What is the reality of my…
All gods refer to One God, One Reality
Friend: Do you believe all gods like Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha and Mother Divine Mother Reply: All gods refer to One God, One Reality. Manifesting as all forms and referring to the one reality that is beyond all forms. As your contemplation deepens, you enter the vast cave of inner silence where the…
The realization of the Self permeates the entire life and transforms it completely.
It is not merely an understanding that one expresses from a high intellectual non-dual pedestal. The true teaching is expressed in silence. Words flow from the silence and express the silent understanding. It is not a forced, learned or simulated silence. It is not a silence that comes from…
THE SPACIOUSNESS OF AWARENESS Awareness is real. What could deny it? Awareness is like the wide open sky ever inviting you to the revelation that there is no form that is beyond awareness. The wide open sky being formless and undivided cannot conceive of separation, cannot conceive of this and…
The realization of the Self permeates the entire life and transforms it completely
The realization of the Self permeates the entire life and transforms it completely. It is not merely an understanding that one expresses from a high intellectual non-dual pedestal. The true teaching is expressed in silence. Words flow from the silence and express the silent understanding. …
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 bamboo gets uprooted from the root
The bamboo gets uprooted from the root. To simply be concerned about the stalk and leaves will not do. The mind needs to sink into the heart. Language needs to sink into silence, that is its source and destination. The pristine presence that you are is unperturbed and eternal. The mind cannot…
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and feelings and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is…
In the contemplation of the Dharma, we are very diligent
In the contemplation of the Dharma, we are very diligent in remaining as the source, returning every arising to its original stillness. Self knowingness is all knowingness and our contemplation is on behalf of everyone. The student of the Way who is dedicated to truth is grateful for every…
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is tainted by…
Notice that the mind is thoughts, sensations and perceptions.
Notice that the mind is thoughts, sensations and perceptions. Notice that you are the formless silent witness of thoughts, sensations and perceptions. Notice that when you see a Cedar tree, you are not the tree, you are not defined by the tree you witness. Similarly, you are not defined by the…
Beware of the ‘What’s next’ mind tendency
Beware of the ‘what’s next’ mind. Beware of the mind of dissatisfaction. Wining and complaining. Cultivate equanimity and even mindedness. Inner peace and clarity of mind and heart. Cultivate stillness and loving kindness. Gratitude and appreciation. As you contemplate the reality of your…
WHAT AM I TRULY? Am I what thought says I am or am I what rains says I am? Am I what feelings say I am or am I what the bird song says I am? What am I truly? Am I the butterfly, the gentle breeze and the still presence of Being? Am I the roar of the waterfall, the babble of the baby and the inner…
The unperceived Perceiving is the reality of experience.
While the perceived comes and goes, the unperceived is eternal and unborn. Resting in/as the unperceived is the true rest that is unmoved by phenomenal events. Such resting is beyond the impressions of time and space. It is this alive universal stillness that takes the wondrous form of the world,…