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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…
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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…
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,…
Identification clouds clarity. Although clarity is our natural state, our interest in improving and safeguarding the dream character which we mistake ourselves to be, overshadows the inherent peace and tranquility of our nature. Academic interest in the process does not remove the seeds of…
In fact, nothing separates reality, nothing divides wholeness. To be knowingly undivided is quite different from not knowing ones wholeness. We forget our wholeness whenever we identify with a form. A king is indeed a king, no matter what. But when the king believes he is a pauper he is in…
A serious student of the way lives the teaching 24/7 and not only during satsang on Sunday or Thursday afternoon. The teacher reminds you that the path is not of the mind, that you need to drop the mind, to drop the old patterns that maintain the illusion of a separate me. But it is up to you to…
A serious student of the way does not choose the mind over the teacher
A serious student of the way does not choose the mind over the teacher. By choosing the mind they remain in ignorance and in identification. They waste a golden opportunity that is given to them by God. They turn their attention away from God and choose the dream characters and world. How many more…
There is nothing to realize – is a pointer that is incomplete
There is nothing to realize - is a pointer that is incomplete. When such a pointer is taken out of a wider teaching context, it may be misleading. The realization of the Self is not nothing. It is the revelation of the truth that IS. The nothing state is empty and void of the perfume of the Self.…
All movement is mind. There is no movement when it comes to the Self. Impressions of movement in the waking state are similar to movement in the dream state except they are more convincing. The true dreamer dreams all dreams out of itSelf while remaining unmoved, untouched by the dream. The…
What can be lost and gained is ephemeral
What can be lost and gained is ephemeral, is not eternal and not what I am. When you regret the ephemeral, your regrets are misplaced and of no use. What you truly are cannot be added to nor diminished. I appear as all appearances, as each one of you, as all perceptions. Through perceptions, you…
As we continue to contemplate our unity and wholeness, the old patterns of ignorance, the negative emotions stored in the body mind may arise in full force. As long as you do not personalize them further, they arise only to dissolve and release out of the body mind structure. The tank is being…
Once we cease to resist and cease to imagine things needing to be different, we may find ourselves at peace and the images on the screen becoming sweeter and sweeter. The impressions of suffering are the expression of our resistance. We resist because we imagined ourselves to be in danger. This…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When your feelings or emotions are running the show, you are choosing that path. When you call for help and turn your attention to someone or something to help you, you are choosing that path.
The jnani does not perceive personal attacks and is not touched by criticism or debasing statements. He is rather somewhat curious about them, but not too curious. He recognizes ignorance without being part of it. When stones are thrown at him, he ducks and avoids them without engaging in combat.…
Identification and the death of the body
When we are identified with the body, we believe and feel that the death of the body is our death. Mental projections . . rooted in the body at the feeling level. Uprooting ignorance is the name of the spiritual game. Our true nature is transparent, unencumbered, uncluttered by the world, body…
True happiness does not depend on anything, on anyone. Does not depend on any situation or event. Does not depend on any experience or state. Does not depend on any relationship or condition. It is the realization of what already IS . aware presence. uncreated, unborn. The complete dissolution of…
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