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DEPRESSION Friend: How does one do the contemplation when I am depressed? Reply: I am not a psychotherapist and I can only share the non dual understanding as it may be of help, or maybe not. There are professionals that deal with crisis levels of emotions. Contemplate the following non dual…
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze river on a reed.
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze river on a reed. ~~~ A step forward A step backward And you are haunted by the ten thousand things. At the edgeless edge Where night meets day In the infinite realm of Being Awareness I cross the Yangtze Not a step is taken The Yangtze flows through Nowhere have I…
Speaking about the unspeakable Is different from speaking the unspeakable Speaking the unspeakable Is spoken by the unspeakable Reality of Being/Awareness The limited cannot know the limitless The mind cannot speak the infinite eternal Only the infinite Self Can truly express the Self Whatever…
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,…
What you truly are is not a coming or going.
When you take the human experience seriously you suffer. Think of it as a play and turn your attention to the realization of what is real. What is real does not come and go and does not appear or disappear. It is mind events and phenomenal events that come and go. What you truly are is not a coming…
When you remain in the caves of the mind, you are happy when you discover a new cave. But you do not emerge in the light. Without the contemplation of the reality of consciousness, without the deep inquiry into ‘What am I truly? ’, you will continue to entertain thoughts and feelings that are…
Innate nature is peace and happiness. Sat-Chit-Ananda Transparent Being Awareness. Impersonal, universal. The shining light of Being. The I-thought misleads you into perceiving a separate self and an external world. This unhappy impression of separation is like the canary in the coal mine that…
Inquiry into Truth and not into mind impressions
We are inquiring into Truth Not into mind impressions Mind impressions are like clouds Dream impressions One after another First we search outwardly As the mind points towards the senses Towards what is perceived Towards thoughts and feelings Towards the world body mind But what is perceived Does…
First we search outwardly As the mind points towards the senses In time we realize That we are searching for the searcher We are seeking the seeker The revelation is that the True seeker Is not a seeker There is no seeker All along It was a dream seeker Seeking itSelf? Only the Self is real And…
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…
There is no external reality to consciousness
THERE IS NO EXTERNAL REALITY TO CONSCIOUSNESS. ~~~ Friend: Try running into a door. ., Reply: The body running into a door and bleeding is not evidence that there is a reality external to consciousness. Of course the body running into a door is ample evidence that outside the body there is a…
Joel Goldsmith: The inner world
By Joel Goldsmith “This spiritual kingdom, this inner world, is as real as the world we see, hear, taste, touch, and smell—if anything, more real. What we become aware of through the senses eventually changes and disappears, but this inner world, these spiritual glories that are revealed to us,…
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.…
IS EVERYTHING SAMADHI? ~~ It depends what you mean by everything and what you mean by samadhi. By everything we usually refer to the world body mind, to what appears and disappears, to the apparent, the impermanent, the phenomenal. By samadhi we usually refer to the ultimate, to the absolute…
ABOUT CALLING OFF THE SEARCH ~~ You do not call off the search. The search dissolves as the separate entity is no longer active and you have returned to the source. The separate character that was imagined is no longer imagined. Then all is love, all is grace and Thou Are That. Until this…
That which arises and dissolves does so out of the vastness of being that neither arises nor dissolves. Passing impressions are the dreams of the Self-eternal That I AM. Contemplation of the Self, the source of all impressions, releases the hold of the unhappy me-mind and reveals the eternity and…
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…
‘I’ refers to the true creator
The contemplation of the source reveals the true I, the true Self. From this revelation, it is said that: I am the one and only true creator/listener . not defined by any particular body mind. Undefined by any phenomenal event. "I", refers to the true creator/definer of all phenomenal events . the…
The contemplation that matters
The contemplation that matters: ~~~ The contemplation and exploration that matters is the contemplation and exploration of the beliefs that you are a material form with an independent reality, living in a world of forms endowed with their own independent realities. As that is seen through, your…
Sri Ramana Maharshi Teachings. श्री रमण महर्षि के उपदेश Q: In the early stages would it not be a help to a man to seek solitude and give up his outer duties in life? Sri Ramana Maharshi : Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to forests or solitary places or giving up one's duties.…
How do you know that there is a world outside of you?
How do you know that there is a world outside of you? All you know of the world is your perception. But is your perception outside of you? All you know is the thought, the belief that there is a world outside of you. But that thought/belief is not outside of you. Is it? It is intimately within you…
If your happiness is contingent on paying bills
If your happiness is contingent on paying bills, on health and wealth, on situations and events. . you are doomed (to unhappiness). Conditional happiness is not the real deal. The revelation of unconditional happiness, the revelation of THAT that is untouched by world body mind events is the path…
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…
There is but one ocean One infinite sky One vast presence One infinite reality Whichever way you turn It turns Whichever way you go It goes Whichever way you trend It trends And yet it is beyond going Beyond turning Beyond returning beyond trending So are you The one and only So are you Beyond…
There is no mind. What we call mind is though. God is the creator of all . The creator of the wind, the breath, the oceans and galaxies. Problems are due to the belief that i am a mortal form. A separate Self. A mortal reality. This belief overlooks the eternal and universal reality of…