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Over and over you are told to be still, to rest as Being Awareness, not to move towards forms and objects and yet you continue to chase experiences, relationship and situation and thus, the sense of lack and incompleteness continues to haunt you. Come into the light and wisdom of the Dharma that…
Breathing, shared breath. Containing everything, embracing everything. One breath. Feels like no breath. And yet, yes there is breath and strangely, simultaneously there is no breath. Such intimacy, such mystery! We call it breath. What is it we are calling breath? What is it? The mind is satisfied…
COMPLETE CERTAINTY The brain, the world, sense organs, light enters, light exists. Is this really what is going on? Could be. What would the snail or the chameleon say? What is it that we can be absolutely certain of? What is it that we can point to beyond any doubt whatsoever? I cannot name it. Or…
The clarity of Self recognition
ABIDING IN THE CLARITY OF SELF RECOGNITION I read somewhere that in abiding in the clarity of self recognition, dysfunction is seen,and the truest version of myself is continuously revealed. What is this truest version of myself that is continuously revealed? ~~~ I have no idea. I don't perceive…
The Self is beyond all realms whether they are material, mental, rational or emotional. While the Self is the source of all impressions, it is not downstream of its impressions. It remains its own source, its own reality standing on its own as the one and only reality. The reality of…
THOUGHT AND AWARENESS The thought that says ‘my mind and your mind’ does not establish any real separation. ‘Here and there’, ‘mine and yours’ appear as thought but does not alter the open space of awareness which remains whole, undivided and untouched by thought. Awareness is unalterable and…
The spinning of the mind only leads to more spin
The spinning of the mind only leads to more spin and does not reveal the peace and immutable light of Being/Awareness. Your interest in the myriad forms and in all sorts of arisings keeps you bound to that which arises and dissolves, leaving you dissatisfied and unfulfilled. A clarity of mind and a…
Do you believe in the existence of a soul?
DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF A SOUL? Whatever one believes does not matter since it does not reveal what is real. What matters is to know what is real and not to hold on to beliefs which vary from tribe to tribe. If 'soul' is real, then 'soul' would be real right now, in this very instant…
YOU ARE THE LOVE THAT YOU SEEK
Upon the dissolution of personal identification, upon the revelation that you are universal love and the vastness of awareness, the light shines through you onto everyone and everything. You are the love that you seek and thus there is no need for you to seek it in objects. You are the love that…
Friend: what is it to know oneself? Reply: It is knowing oneself as not-knowing. An open field of knowing not-knowing. An ever deepening and expanding not knowing that has no borders, no target and nothing to attain. First, you let go of all your old knowledge. Your beliefs and opinions are seen to…
THE SPACIOUSNESS OF AWARENESS Awareness is real. What could deny it? Awareness is like the wide open sky ever inviting you to the revelation that there is no form that is beyond awareness. The wide open sky being formless and undivided cannot conceive of separation, cannot conceive of this and…
You cannot will yourself nor image yourself into awakening.
You cannot make believe yourself into awakening. You cannot will yourself nor image yourself into awakening. For the self that awakens is a figment of your dreams. The true Self neither awakens nor sleeps. It is neither discovered nor lost. It is eternal shining light of Being/Awareness, invisible…
Whatever conditions you impose on the other or onto yourself limit you and limit the other
Whatever conditions you impose on the other or onto yourself limit you and limit the other. That is unhappy, leading to expectations and disappointments. Even when your expectations are fulfilled, the next condition quickly arises. Such is the mind, a stream of cacophonic thoughts and feelings…
Everything arises in the silence, as the silence
Everything arises in the silence, as the silence, refers to the silence out of which it arises and the silence that perceives it. To contrast the silence with movement, creates the impression of duality. Duality is chimeric. Illusory. Like a cloud that has the shape of an angel or dragon. Silence…
Love: The spaciousness of Awareness Everything arises in you, as you, out of you and is made out of you. There is no separation, no separate self, no separate other. Like in your night dreams, all the images, all the dreams are intimate with you, the dreamer. Similarly in the waking state,…
Refrain from giving voice to criticism
Although the tendency may arise, refrain from giving voice to criticism of yourself or others. These opportunities are being given to you in order to weaken the tendency to separate yourself from the Wholeness of Being Awareness that is the true Self. If you do not take advantage of such…
Being a personal self requires effort and maintenance.
Being a personal self requires effort and maintenance. When you contemplate your true nature, you realize the effortlessness of Being Awareness and you find yourself 'resting as That' effortlessly, as One, as everyone and everything. This 'resting' is a natural consequence of your contemplation…
Every impression, every thought, every sensation. is awareness pointing to itself. Awareness points to itself, from itself, as itself. A joyous revelation that. when deeply comprehended, dissolves all dualistic impressions. Upon this understanding, what matters is to stabilize as the Self, as…
Before any arising is the effortlessly-all-welcoming Self.
Observation from a friend: If I deem someone or something unwelcome, the discomfort arises not from where I assume - that which I’ve condemned - but from my very own state of unwelcomeness. Welcome precedes unwelcome. Resolution is relinquishing only what’s been added. I am only ever the problem,…
Over and over you are told to be still, to rest as Being Awareness, not to move towards forms and objects and yet you continue to chase experiences, relationship and situation and thus, the sense of lack and incompleteness continues to haunt you. Come into the light and wisdom of the Dharma that…
DEFINING YOURSELF When you define yourself, you are incorrectly perceiving yourself as a form, as a bundle of images that is arising in Awareness and you are overlooking the formless Awareness that you are. You are not the images that you perceive. Mistaking yourself to be an arising causes a sense…
The I AM universal Being Awareness is the absolute certainty of the Self. Beyond the mind. It is felt as causeless and undisturbable peace. Sat-Chit-Ananda The personal self appropriates this peace and says: 'I am peaceful because. ’ The personal self is the arising of the I-thought and the world.…
DEFINING YOURSELF When you define yourself, you are incorrectly perceiving yourself as a form, as a bundle of images that is arising in Awareness and you are overlooking the formless Awareness that you are. You are not the images that you perceive. Mistaking yourself to be an arising causes a sense…
In the contemplation of truth, you come to the realization that there is no external reality outside of the reality of consciousness. This revelation will lead you to the understanding that awareness and consciousness are thus one and the same. I am this aware space, this aware presence. Sat-chit…
WHAT AM I TRULY? Am I what thought says I am or am I what rains says I am? Am I what feelings say I am or am I what the bird song says I am? What am I truly? Am I the butterfly, the gentle breeze and the still presence of Being? Am I the roar of the waterfall, the babble of the baby and the inner…