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DEAR I DEAR EVERYONE DEAR ONE. We are this one ocean. The ocean of love and bliss. The ocean of love and kindness. The ocean of sweetness and gentleness. The creativity, the amazing wonder of creating/creation. Being Awareness May we awaken to grace. To honor it, to care for it, to die into it. all…
Can the perceiver be perceived? Can the seer be seen?
Can the perceiver be perceived? Can the seer be seen? ~~~ The perceiver is the Self. Meaning it is You (I) that perceives, whatever that You (I) is. You (I) perceive perceptions, thoughts, sensations. Those are phenomenal events that appear to You (I). But that (I) which perceives is not phenomenal…
When you are arguing, you have assumed yourself and the other. Assuming yourself is empty and void of reality. Whatever you assume is fiction. Thus your unhappy argumentation is empty and unreal. Why get so worked out? Instead, can you see through the charade? Can you remain still and in this…
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…
The personal self is an experience you are having and not what you are.
The personal self is an experience you are having and not what you are. In fact there is no personal self. It is just a bundle of thoughts and feelings. Like your night dreams. Except in the waking state (waking dream), there is a tendency to identify. In the night dream the tendency to identify is…
When you are distracted by thoughts and feelings, you do not awaken
When you are distracted by thoughts and feelings, you do not awaken and you remain entangled in the phenomenal realm. Behind every thought and feeling is the separate I-thought and me-feeling that is dormant. Remaining still and contemplating: ‘What am I truly? ’ ‘What is the reality of my…
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…
BEING KNOWINGLY CONSCIOUSNESS IS BEYOND THE MIND
BEING KNOWINGLY CONSCIOUSNESS IS BEYOND THE MIND Being knowingly consciousness is a sort of absence where everything that is happening is nothing happening and your knowingness is effortless as That which does not waver and does not move, remaining uninterrupted. This knowingness is within itself…
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…
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…
At times, the moon eclipses the sun.
At times, the moon eclipses the sun. Similarly, the ego seems to eclipse the Self. The contemplation of the Dharma will reveal that the Self is eternal, all knowing beyond all mind impressions. When you know something, it is you, the Self that knows it. You mistake yourself to be the mind, to be…
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,…
One negative thought can trigger the emotions and infect the natural peace of the mind.
One negative thought can trigger the emotions and infect the natural peace of the mind. We get entangled in greed, anger, fear jealousy, self loathing, blame. time and space become our preoccupation like a loop and the more we struggle, the tighter it get. Purification of the mind is required.…
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…
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 Ground of Being is causeless peace and happiness
The Ground of Being is causeless peace and happiness untouched by the hopes and disappointments of the mind. The labyrinth of thoughts and feelings projects an unhappy illusionary realm of personal self and external world. The illusory veil of separation. You are not what thoughts and feelings say…
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…
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze river on a reed.
Bodhidharma crossing the Yangtze river on a reed. ~~~ A step forward A step backward And you are haunted by the ten thousand things. At the edgeless edge Where night meets day In the infinite realm of Being Awareness I cross the Yangtze Not a step is taken The Yangtze flows through Nowhere have I…
Speaking about the unspeakable Is different from speaking the unspeakable Speaking the unspeakable Is spoken by the unspeakable Reality of Being/Awareness The limited cannot know the limitless The mind cannot speak the infinite eternal Only the infinite Self Can truly express the Self Whatever…
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…
That which arises and dissolves does so out of the vastness of being that neither arises nor dissolves. Passing impressions are the dreams of the Self-eternal That I AM. Contemplation of the Self, the source of all impressions, releases the hold of the unhappy me-mind and reveals the eternity and…
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…