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When we feel good and things are unfolding according to the way we wish things to be, we think and feel all is well. And when things are not unfolding as we wish things to be, we are not feeling good and we think things are not going good, and we feel all is not well. Such is the gogo mind, such is…
Be like a lion ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche “When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. But if, instead, you look at where your thoughts are coming from, you will see that each thought arises and dissolves within the space 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…
RETURN TO THE SELF You cannot find happiness in the world. You only find happiness in the Self. Therefore reside in the Self. The Self is infinite invisible, unknown to the mind. All knowing. Knowingness itself. Closer than close, ever available as the invisible reality of being-awareness. All…
Our true nature is like an innocent child
Our true nature is like an innocent child, Open and pure like a newborn. Our true nature is free, It is before even the concept of freedom. . It is beyond opposites and thoughts: Absolute freedom. We already are this freedom and That we seek to attain. It is so simple. No need to think. No…
The path to God is an ever deepening falling into love, into presence, infinite surrender and dying to the past. In such death is revealed the pure light of being-awareness. In the absence of the universal light of being, nothing is illumined. Self recognition is the recognition of this vast…
When you ask: What am I truly", You are coming to the Self. It's the formless reality that perceives right now. This beingness, this Isness is aware. It is scintillating with awareness. It's like a psychedelic Isness, a knowing beingness. It's a substanceless beingness which glows with…
The answer is within the question
Friend: Are we not all different? Each one of us is unique and not any of us are the same. You speak of truth as one and my experience is so different. I don't experience this one but all different things. ~~ Indeed, the images on the screen are different, but the screen is one. Turn your attention…
The first discrimination is to realize that we are not our thoughts. Our thoughts do not know us. This discrimination may lead us to the understanding that ‘I am the knowingness and not the known’. Upon further inquiry, we realize the known and the knowingness are one and that I am this knowingness…
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…
THE PRIMARY DIVISION With the I-thought you divide yourself, you separate yourself from your inherent wholeness, the wholeness of Being-Awareness. Thus, a primary subject-object arises and the myriad names and forms follow. Reality is indivisible. Separation is an unhappy dream, the illusory dream…
What is the source of insecurity?
Question: What is the source of insecurity? Reply: The belief that I am born, the belief that I am mortal. The thorn of mortality is the cause of insecurity. Believing you are a man, a woman is a mistaken identity. Believing that I am a mortal body mind results in the unhappy impression of…
BOUNDARIES Question: How do you see boundaries? Reply: When you believe thought that says you are a body mind and when feelings of limitations and unhappiness arise, you are experiencing boundaries, while in fact, there are none. ~~~ Question: Can you say that differently? Reply: You experience…
The Self is all of it. Awareness belongs to the Self. Sentience belongs to the Self. Insentience belongs to the Self. All is the Self. Believing that the Self depends on the body mind is ignorance and the cause of your unhappiness. Believing that consciousness belongs to the body mind leads to the…
The waking dream is for your enjoyment, to marvel at, to celebrate. not to bind you and limit you. The waking dream is also the final stretch home. Your opportunity to play the final act. The return to the source that you are and have never left. What you truly are is eternal and infinite. ~~ You…
Operate from stillness, from presence. Once you have a taste of freedom, do not park this timeless revelation in your memory bank, do not turn it into a dismal me-story. Show your appreciation for this divine gift with your complete body mind surrender to the revelation, by your willingness to dive…
Most of your choices are unnoticed
Whenever you cling to the mind, you postpone happiness. Whenever you opt for me-in-time, you reject I-as-eternity. Whenever you grasp forms, and seek happiness in relationships, situations or experiences, you become bound by their limitations and overlook the boundless(ness) of the formless self.…
As the one and only knower, You have never been a personal self, you have never left yourSelf for another self, you have never been separate. Like footprints on the sandy shore, all self impressions belong to you, consciousness. and do not divide you. Imagined unhappiness comes to an end in the…
No need to clutter what is already pristine and free. Look within and listen carefully. All is well. The words of the sages are eternal. They have a true resonance that is not limited by time and space. You can release the old crouched positions and belief structures that you have maintained for so…
Comment from a friend and a reply:
Friend: "You can keep the conversations smooth at the mental level, however at times it is difficult to keep up the contemplation and inquiry. Seen from the mind it is hell at times. As soon as the level of bodily contractions is entered it is a whole different ball game, a whole different…
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…
You are the shining light of the universe
You are the shining light of the universe. You are the formless source of all apparent forms. You are the reality of consciousness. Nothing is possible without you. Everything is revealed through you, everything refers to you. the formless reality that you are. The undeniable reality of…
In ignorance we complain about various situations and conditions. In wisdom, we use various situations and events as opportunities to contemplate the source. Notice that whenever you assume a me-position, whenever you choose to perceive according to the belief 'I-am-a-man' or 'I-am-a-woman', you…
Our true nature is love, inherent love, innocence, wonder. Oneness. The stream of sorrow and ignorance is an unhappy add on. The personal identification is an unhappy add-on. What is added-on via the me-identification is the unhappy sense of isolation that inhabits our chest, our belly, our throat,…
Question everything. Question the sky, question the trees, question the breath, question everything. Question questioning, but continue questioning. Remain in the questioning. You are everything, you're the sky, the ocean, the trees, the birds, you are everything. Everything is yourself, you're…