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You are the Self. Is it not via the Self that you know the Self? Are you not already the Self? What else are you if not the Self, the reality of consciousness? There is nothing that is not already the Self. What is it that says you are the body mind? What is it that says the world is external? Is…
Magdi Badawy Non duality is truth. The one and only reality. The true Self. The true I. ~~ In ignorance we are under the impression of many separate realities divided in internal and external. We suffer from the impression that the body mind is real and we become attached to impermanent forms that…
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…
Direct or indirect contemplation
You are contemplating truth directly or indirectly. Indirectly, your contemplation is worldly via thoughts and feelings and will disappoint you. Pursuing the contemplation via the senses maintains the separation and the sense of lack. Pursuit and avoidance are deeply rooted in the indirect…
The journey from unhappiness to happiness cannot be bypassed without the ending of the illusion of separation and the death of the personal self. A teacher who serves you the empty dish of: ‘there is no one and there is nothing to realize’ does not reveal the causeless happiness and the peace that…
In love there are not two. Love is the dissolution of the me and you. It is the end of the impression of separation. You never fall in love with another. You fall in love with love. Love falling in love with itself, recognizing and celebrating itself through body minds. When you perceive another…
Innate nature is peace and happiness. Sat-Chit-Ananda Transparent Being Awareness. Impersonal, universal. The shining light of Being. The I-thought misleads you into perceiving a separate self and an external world. This unhappy impression of separation is like the canary in the coal mine that…
IS EVERYTHING SAMADHI? ~~ It depends what you mean by everything and what you mean by samadhi. By everything we usually refer to the world body mind, to what appears and disappears, to the apparent, the impermanent, the phenomenal. By samadhi we usually refer to the ultimate, to the absolute…
ABOUT CALLING OFF THE SEARCH ~~ You do not call off the search. The search dissolves as the separate entity is no longer active and you have returned to the source. The separate character that was imagined is no longer imagined. Then all is love, all is grace and Thou Are That. Until this…
You perpetuate the illusion of separation
When you are attached to your body, when you are attached to the world, you perpetuate the illusion of separation. In the dream, be as light as a feather. You are the unaffected aware presence that takes on all forms while remaining completely free. Attachment is a psychological contraction void of…
In ignorance thoughts refer to an imagined limited body mind. The impression is that of lack and insufficiency. Thinking is imagined to be the salvation. As you separate yourself from the wholeness of being, as a separate self, you experience a sense of limitation that goes against your innate…
There is no mind. What we call mind is though. God is the creator of all . The creator of the wind, the breath, the oceans and galaxies. Problems are due to the belief that i am a mortal form. A separate Self. A mortal reality. This belief overlooks the eternal and universal reality of…
Can the Self get out of the Self?
THE SELF CANNOT GET OUT OF THE SELF? Magdi I just heard a talk where the teacher is saying: 'the self cannot get out of self and that is not bad news. ' He was referring to the personal self. He claims that is all we need to understand. What is your opinion and take on this? ~~ Such a teaching (if…
THE WAY OF SILENCE. The way of silence is a deep listening, a sort of absence that blooms out of your deep contemplation of truth. This silence, is spaciousness, the spaciousness of awareness, of stillness, of being-love as one. In this absence, there is no person, no separate field of awareness,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You are the Self. Everything and everyone is the Self. When you are angry at someone, you are angry at yourself. When you are annoyed at someone, you are annoyed at yourself. When you are bored, you have separated yourself from yourself. When you are not happy, you have separated yourself from the…
Feelings of guilt, regret and doubt
Sometimes life circumstances trigger old feelings of guilt, regret, doubt, etc. Ancient me-thoughts and feelings are triggered. We feel unhappy. This is an important discernment. Noticing unhappiness and reading the sign posts that maintain the separate me impression allow you to navigate calmer…
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…
In true understanding, there is no separate understander as all sense of separation dissolves in the understanding. It is a magical non-moment. A magical non-moment that reveals our true nature and dissolves the false . In this magical non-moment, the reality of consciousness is revealed to be…