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When you are going with the flow
When you are going with the flow, there is no one resisting and there is no one going with the flow. There is just flow and no one and nothing flowing. Sounds loco doesn't it? It is only loco from the perspective of the mind that perceives external and internal objects, minds and worlds. From the…
Experience without the personal subject
Whatever is experienced without adding a personal subject is unspoiled and simply delightful. Habitually, thought adds the me (personal subject) and the entire matter becomes a me-matter. That is what a contraction amounts to: a me-situation that is felt in the body, in the belly, in the chest, in…
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.…
As long as the me impression remains, the mind carries baggage and is in the velcro business holding on to every particle of dust. The mind of a sage is like the wide open sky, like a gurgling stream. When clouds appear, there is nothing that holds on to them and nothing that re-members them.
Turn your attention to the looking rather than to the looked
To notice the openness and borderlessness of Being, we need to turn our attention to the looking rather than to the looked. If you look at the looked, then you need to trace the looked back. Back to the looking. It is in tracing the looking back to itself that the openness of being is revealed to…
Although the perceived impression appears limited in time and space, perception is not. There is a reality to your experience. This reality is not in the perceived and is not subject to the time/space limitations of the perceived. The perceived is like a blinking firefly at night. The reality of…
The impression of personal definition
The main impression we suffer from is the impression of personal definition, location and isolation. In the night dream, your sense of definition takes on other forms, even the form of pink flying elephants and in the deep sleep state, definition, location and isolation are non existent and…
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.
There is no lasting happiness in the world body mind
No matter what thought says, there is no lasting happiness in the world body mind. Happiness is the revelation of the source that dissolves all impressions of separation and selfhood. The revelation of the source is complete fulfillment. You cannot have your beliefs in selfhood as well as the…
Resignation is not realization
Resignation is not realization. ~~~ Without the perfume of freedom, beauty, love and happiness life is either pursuit and resistance or resignation. The Self is glorious and magnificent and is not the roller coaster ride of the mind. Settling for less than the full revelation, settling for less…
Dear friend, I understand and hear you that it is not your experience that the individual entity goes away. I also understand and hear you that if it is not one's experience that the individual entity has dissolved, then stating that the individual entity dissolves is just a belief and not a direct…
A realization that happens for an individual consciousness and not for the neighbor next door is not what I refer to as realization since an individual consciousness remains. Meaning a sense of limitation remains. Separation remains. Realization, as I use the term, refers to the revelation that I…
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…
The seeming movements of the mind return to the source from which they arise, the stillness, pristine presence. that is unmoving and unmovable. Behind the image impressions, the peace of your true nature awaits you, awaits your recognition. As long as you remain occupied and preoccupied with the…
About belief and ignorance ~~~ You don't need any belief system to get out of the way of an oncoming truck. Body intelligence is innate to the body and the organismic system knows how to feed and shelter itself. By belief, the teachings refer to the belief that consciousness is mortal, limited and…
About consciousness and awareness
A note about the terms consciousness and awareness: ~~~ It should be noted that while Nisargadatta uses the term consciousness and awareness to make a distinction between mind (he uses the term consciousness)and the absolute (he uses the term awareness), in certain languages (such a French), only…
You are not limited by the forms you perceive
If you experience a limited form, this does not mean that whatever experiences this limited form is itself limited. What is perceived, albeit it is limited, does not establish that what knows it, is limited. Only a direct revelation of consciousness, a direct knowingness of consciousness reveals…
When the seeking mind is focused on worldly objects, you receive limited impermanent worldly objects that do not fulfill you. You can turn the mind towards the divine and surrender it to the infinite not knowingness. A complete abandon to presence that is not defeatist nor resigned, dissolves the…
Whatever perceives a thought is not a thought.
Whatever perceives a thought is not a thought. Whatever perceives an image, an impression, a perception is not an image, not a perception, not an impression. This supreme knowing is not subject to the known. It is the highest order that knows all subordinate orders. The ultimate is what knows and…
What the mind refers to as a personal body is an impression arising in the borderless, limitless, universal cosmic body. As the limited personal impression fades in your contemplation, the borderless universal quality of consciousness is revealed. The impression of separation is maintained via your…
All states appear and disappear out of and in the openness of Awareness. Awareness refers to the knowingness and not to any particular known. All mind events, all states are known. Feelings, thoughts, sensations, experiences are known. Awareness/consciousness is the 'ultimate' non-dual knower.…
Mind events are dreams inside the me-dream. The initial dream is the dream character, the me-impression that requires your collaboration with thought. Once you withdraw your collaboration from the separate mind impression, appearance and disappearance, disappears. Innocence is revealed in the…
In my book, the term spirituality refers to perceiving the unperceived hand of god. This requires grace to gift you a revelation from and of beyond the form, revealing its universal and infinite nature. From the perspective of the conditioned mind, the impression of materialism veils this…
Beware of half cooked teachings
Beware of half cooked teachings. They impress imagined limitations upon the limitless. The notion that consciousness requires a body mind to know itself is the root of ignorance. Giving any sort of limitation to the divine, arises from ignorance and not from wisdom. The body mind is known. It is…
The Yes that is not from the mind
There is a way of saying yes that is not concerned about where this yes takes you. This yes is not from the mind, Rather it is a heart yes. A yes that comes from our shared love for truth, for the divine that shines through all of us, from the heart. The mind is confusing with its convoluted…