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If separation was real, how could you read these words that I am writing? How could you perceive the cloudy sky? How could you know seeing, feeling, sensing, perceiving? The belief in a separate subject and object veils the clarity of our total intimacy and disregards the intimacy of experience.…
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness.
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness. We arise out of the same source to realize the wholeness of being/awareness that we are, that everything is. We play together. It is so lovely Except when we go back into our bubble. The me-you bubble. So we contemplate this process. We…
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness.
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness. We arise out of the same source to realize the wholeness of being/awareness that we are, that everything is. We play together. It is so lovely Except when we go back into our bubble. The me-you bubble. So we contemplate this process. We…
In the caves of the mind, you are happy when you discover a new cave. But you do not emerge in the light outside the cave 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…
From the perspective of the separate self, there is me and the other, there is personal responsibility, guilt and blame. From the perspective of truth, the perspective of god (one reality), there is no other and no good or bad. This realm which we refer to as humanity, is about awakening to truth,…
From the mind perspectiveThere is good and badAnd a personal selfAs well as others. From the perspective of presence/awarenessIt’s a unific field of peace and stillness. Contemplation of the basic assumptionsReveals that the bases are loadedWith the belief that I am mortalThat there is something at…
What you truly are is divine, not a mortal impression. By looking at yourself and the world through the prism of the personal self, by giving power to limited thought, you are overlooking your true nature and you are maintaining yourself in the spin of feelings and emotions, the duality of good and…
What you truly are is divine, not a mortal impression. By looking at yourself and the world through the prism of the personal self, by giving power to limited thought, you are overlooking your true nature and you are maintaining yourself in the spin of feelings and emotions, the duality of good and…
In ignorance, I am a mortal body mind
In ignorance, I have accepted that I am a mortal body mind, a person. Once that assumption is established and not questioned, thoughts arise all of which refer to this me, the body mind I feel I am. Judgmental thoughts. Blaming thoughts. Praising thoughts. Hopeful thoughts. Regretful thoughts.…
What if we hold no conditions?
What if we hold no conditions? ~~What is it that is impacted by the events which appear in your dream? To whom, to what does the dream refer? When there are personal preferences, when you hold tightly to personal conditions, then depending on the outcome, you are satisfied or disappointed. In such…
Like on a foggy day we cannot perceive the firmament, inside the dense bubble of thought we cannot perceive our true nature. Living the me-assumption, we are deluded in believing and feeling mortality, birth and death haunt us. Under the spell of personhood, the shining light of awareness eludes us…
There is only one perceiver, one reality.
There is only one perceiver. One reality. Once the belief in a personal perceiver completely dissolves, ignorance is gone, but the body mind functioning is not impaired. Quite the opposite. The contractions in the body are overall gone. One could say that the body is happier and the experience of…
We remain watchful not to cultivate a new persona, a new spiritual personal self and we continue to contemplate truth, being aware of the tendencies that arise here and there, we notice the tendency to judge, and the tendency to judge the judging. In time, the me sense arises less and less…
The conditions that arise to you are like the weather
The conditions that arise to you are like the weather. None of it is personal. What seems personal is meant as an invitation to look deeply into the reality of the person you believe and feel you are. It is not meant to punish you. There is no one to punish and no punisher. Punishment is made out…
Be watchful that you are not merely living according to your comfort zone.
Be watchful that you are not merely living according to your comfort zone. Oftentime challenging situations may arise in your life that will invite you to surrender and contemplate truth. Take advantage of such godsent opportunities and do not retreat into your personal mind and emotions. Allow the…
Acceptance and non acceptance are a myth. Upon closer scrutiny, it is revealed that there is no acceptor that chooses to accept or reject. Like Santa Claus does not choose when he leaves the North Pole, similarly you never choose anything. Either you recognize your choicelessness or you ignore your…
REMAIN AS YOU ARE Within thought, there is an imagined me, a personal self in an imaginary future. But not really. There is no time. Time is thought, mind impressions. Floating images in the open space of awareness that dreams all dreams without ever being affected by its infinite dreams. Remain as…
Expecting that the dream will satisfy you is like expecting Santa Claus to bring you the bicycle or doll you hope to get. Only by the contemplation of truth may you awaken to the fulfillment that you are, to the inherent bliss of the Self. All else is spin. The wheel of samsara. Namaste
The personal self is an add on
When you realize that the personal aspect is an add on that veils and spoils the breadth of impersonality, you drop it and you keep dropping it because it is stubbornly residing in your felling state resulting in the impression of a personal self. Then you realize that even this dropping is not an…
A seeming arising Like sunshine Thought arises Like breath Mentation seemingly appears Like mist A seeming arising The stirring of separation I am an object A mind impression arising In so called time and space Thought impression And so-called feeling That echoes a personal self Echoes And echoes…
The reality of consciousness is not a belief.
The reality of consciousness is not a belief. Fear of death, as well as all fears are due to the belief that consciousness depends on form and thus is mortal and personal. Once the thorn of identification and ignorance is removed, fears are left with no legs to stand on.
Before thought becomes an object which relates to a separate subject, thought is intimate and impersonal. Thought is cosmic, like the weather. The personal identification is an add-on that creates the unhappy illusion of a separate subject. From a conversation with a friend: What is thought? Is it…
The root cause of unhappiness is the belief that ‘I’ refers to a mortal body mind. As soon as you are identified as a person, you become an object among infinite objects and subject to myriad conditions that affect you. How happy is that? How desirable is that? As Bob Newhart so well said: Drop it!…
About ignorance, thought and action.
About ignorance, thought and action. ~~~ First, thought is a subtle object. And like all objects, it is known but it is not knowing. Second, ignorance refers to mistaking oneself to be an object of perception. Mistaking oneself to be a mortal body mind. Lastly, there is ignorant thought and…
Life is about happiness and our ‘mission’ is to awaken to causeless happiness
Life is about happiness and our 'mission' is to awaken to causeless happiness and go beyond the (so-called) happiness that depends on objects, that depends on relationships, that depends on experiences or situations. Only upon becoming free from all conditions are we able to celebrate causeless…