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BEING KNOWINGLY CONSCIOUSNESS IS BEYOND THE MIND
BEING KNOWINGLY CONSCIOUSNESS IS BEYOND THE MIND Being knowingly consciousness is a sort of absence where everything that is happening is nothing happening and your knowingness is effortless as That which does not waver and does not move, remaining uninterrupted. This knowingness is within itself…
This waking dream is about waking up from the belief that I am the body mind
This waking dream is about waking up from the belief that I am the body mind. If we do not wake up, we continue to believe and feel that we are a bundle of personal thoughts and feelings. Without awakening, the dream of personal body mind continues and we continue the unhappy pursuit of forms. The…
You are the Self. Is it not via the Self that you know the Self? Are you not already the Self? What else are you if not the Self, the reality of consciousness? There is nothing that is not already the Self. What is it that says you are the body mind? What is it that says the world is external? Is…
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. …
In the waking state, you mistake yourself to be the body mind sensations and perceptions.
In the waking state, you mistake yourself to be the body mind sensations and perceptions. They arise and dissolve. Inquire into the screen and not into the images. Inquire into the reality of consciousness that is undeniable. Recognize yourself. You are That which is beyond mind images and bodily…
You do not need to awaken by exploring the dream images
You do not need to awaken by exploring the dream images and content of your night dreams or daydreams. You cannot know yourself via your thoughts, nor via images that arise to you, whether the images arise in the waking state or in the dream state. You know yourself directly by going directly to…
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…
Magdi Badawy Non duality is truth. The one and only reality. The true Self. The true I. ~~ In ignorance we are under the impression of many separate realities divided in internal and external. We suffer from the impression that the body mind is real and we become attached to impermanent forms that…
Whatever conditions you impose on the other or onto yourself limit you and limit the other
Whatever conditions you impose on the other or onto yourself limit you and limit the other. That is unhappy, leading to expectations and disappointments. Even when your expectations are fulfilled, the next condition quickly arises. Such is the mind, a stream of cacophonic thoughts and feelings…
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…
When you are traveling through rough terrain and heavy turbulence, it is God that is calling you
When you are traveling through rough terrain and heavy turbulence, it is God that is calling you. Behind everything that unfolds, is the voice of God. This apparent journey is a dream journey. You imagine it to be real out of your freedom and out of your love for the game. Every now and then, you…
All subject-object impressions are dream impression that do not divide the indivisible reality of consciousness. Nothing stands apart from the Self, from the one universal reality of consciousness that is seamless and non-dual. Thou are That. When you perceive forms, trace the perception back to…
Love: The spaciousness of Awareness Everything arises in you, as you, out of you and is made out of you. There is no separation, no separate self, no separate other. Like in your night dreams, all the images, all the dreams are intimate with you, the dreamer. Similarly in the waking state,…
RULES OF MEDITATION First rule of meditation: Treat others with fairness, compassion and wisdom. Second rule of meditation: Do not argue, neither with circumstances nor with others. Third rule of meditation: Contemplate the source: ‘What am I truly? ’, ‘What is the reality of experience? ’ Fourth…
Santa does not awaken from the dream for he dissolves upon your understanding of the reality of your experience. You, consciousness, do not awake either since consciousness is never not awake. Mistaking yourself to be Santa, a limited personal self, born in time and space, you seek for Santa to…
What are feelings? Can you say something about how they arise and what is their significance? Feelings are phenomenal events. Meaning they are appearances that arise and dissolve in awareness, in the aware presence that knows them. The I am That I am. These phenomenal events, feelings, arise as…
Refrain from giving voice to criticism
Although the tendency may arise, refrain from giving voice to criticism of yourself or others. These opportunities are being given to you in order to weaken the tendency to separate yourself from the Wholeness of Being Awareness that is the true Self. If you do not take advantage of such…
Wanting, desire has to do with an object and a subject.
Wanting, desire has to do with an object and a subject. You imagine a subject/object and that is desire. So desire is imagining and it is time and it is space. It is a mutual arising, but not a real arising. Time and space dissolve when you listen openly. They both come into the listening and they…
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…
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…
The innate reality and freedom of the Self
Contemplation reveals That that is prior to any arising, Prior to feelings Prior to what appears Prior to thought. The mind's concerns about feelings, thoughts and events is a loopy spin. Contemplate That that is prior to any arising, prior to mind. Thus you will recognize the innate reality and…
At times, the moon eclipses the sun.
At times, the moon eclipses the sun. Similarly, the ego seems to eclipse the Self. The contemplation of the Dharma will reveal that the Self is eternal, all knowing beyond all mind impressions. When you know something, it is you, the Self that knows it. You mistake yourself to be the mind, to be…
Direct or indirect contemplation
You are contemplating truth directly or indirectly. Indirectly, your contemplation is worldly via thoughts and feelings and will disappoint you. Pursuing the contemplation via the senses maintains the separation and the sense of lack. Pursuit and avoidance are deeply rooted in the indirect…
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…
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…