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LEFTOVER VASANAS You can fool so-called others, and you can even fool yourself but for only so long. Eventually, the leftover vasanas that are not being addressed, which remain veiled by the partial understanding that we hold on to, will start to decay and the foul smell of ignorance will rise. The…
There is nothing you perceive That is not you. How could there be anything else But you? Have you ever experienced anything else But you? Have you ever known anything else But you? Think about it. It is all you. Never anything apart. You try very hard to separate yourself. But it is in vain. It is…
THE FIRST AFTERTHOUGHT In love, there is no me and you. No concerns. The me and you is an afterthought. Time is an afterthought. 'Me and you in time', is an add on. It is the result of thinking and separating yourself as a subject experiencing external objects. The concerns, the fears are a result…
What is this separate self that haunts you?
What is this separate self that haunts you, this person that you believe you are? What is this me and you that separates that which is inseparable? In the absence of the I-thought and the You-thought, in the absence of the old story that divides us, in the absence of images that we identify with,…
What is the purpose of visual experience?
What is the purpose of visual experience? ~~~ Visual experience refers to the reality that perceives it. Like your night dreams refer to the reality of the dreamer. Upon waking up you realize that the pink flying elephant in your dream was not real and only you (the dreamer) is real. Appearances…
Consciousness knows itself without the mind. I know i am. So what? How is this helpful?
Comment: Consciousness knows itself without the mind. I know i am. So what? How is this helpful? ~~~ When you believe yourself to be the mind, when you define yourself by thoughts and sensations, by the mind, you are overlooking your Self-knowingness and you are relying on what you experience to…
IS IT OK TO COME BACK INTO THE RELATIVE?
IS IT OK TO COME BACK INTO THE RELATIVE? In your experience, is there such a thing as coming in and out of the 'relative'? Maybe thought is arising speaking about relative and absolute. Or maybe there is peace and stillness and the complete absence of duality, the complete absence of relative or…
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…
In the waking state, you mistake yourself to be the body mind sensations and perceptions.
In the waking state, you mistake yourself to be the body mind sensations and perceptions. They arise and dissolve. Inquire into the screen and not into the images. Inquire into the reality of consciousness that is undeniable. Recognize yourself. You are That which is beyond mind images and bodily…
RULES OF MEDITATION First rule of meditation: Treat others with fairness, compassion and wisdom. Second rule of meditation: Do not argue, neither with circumstances nor with others. Third rule of meditation: Contemplate the source: ‘What am I truly? ’, ‘What is the reality of experience? ’ Fourth…
Santa does not awaken from the dream for he dissolves upon your understanding of the reality of your experience. You, consciousness, do not awake either since consciousness is never not awake. Mistaking yourself to be Santa, a limited personal self, born in time and space, you seek for Santa to…
Beware of the ‘What’s next’ mind tendency
Beware of the ‘what’s next’ mind. Beware of the mind of dissatisfaction. Wining and complaining. Cultivate equanimity and even mindedness. Inner peace and clarity of mind and heart. Cultivate stillness and loving kindness. Gratitude and appreciation. As you contemplate the reality of your…
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 unperceived Perceiving is the reality of experience.
While the perceived comes and goes, the unperceived is eternal and unborn. Resting in/as the unperceived is the true rest that is unmoved by phenomenal events. Such resting is beyond the impressions of time and space. It is this alive universal stillness that takes the wondrous form of the world,…
What you truly are is not a coming or going.
When you take the human experience seriously you suffer. Think of it as a play and turn your attention to the realization of what is real. What is real does not come and go and does not appear or disappear. It is mind events and phenomenal events that come and go. What you truly are is not a coming…
The contemplation that matters
The contemplation that matters: ~~~ The contemplation and exploration that matters is the contemplation and exploration of the beliefs that you are a material form with an independent reality, living in a world of forms endowed with their own independent realities. As that is seen through, your…
Comings and goings are dream impressions as the Source is seamless, infinite and eternal.
Comings and goings are dream impressions as the Source is seamless, infinite and eternal. Magdi Badawy UNAWARE OF THE DREAM Most of us are dreaming. We are unaware that we are dreaming a world body mind that seems so real to us. . The human experience takes place at various levels of dream or…
LISTENING WITH YOUR ENTIRETY Reality, truth cannot be expressed in words. It can only be known experientially, directly, as your living experience. It is from this knowingness, that is not in time and space, that the inexpressible can be pointed to and expressed in the silence between the words.…
LISTENING WITH YOUR ENTIRETY Reality, truth cannot be expressed in words. It can only be known experientially, directly, as your living experience. It is from this knowingness, that is not in time and space, that the inexpressible can be pointed to and expressed in the silence between the words.…
Our true relationship, our true connection is not the realm of the perceived. The dream realm comes and goes. As you look for it you don’t find it, it’s gone. It is the infinite invisible that we refer to as awareness/consciousness, beingness that is our true realm. When you experience the world…
The answer is within the question
Friend: Are we not all different? Each one of us is unique and not any of us are the same. You speak of truth as one and my experience is so different. I don't experience this one but all different things. ~~ Indeed, the images on the screen are different, but the screen is one. Turn your attention…
BOUNDARIES Question: How do you see boundaries? Reply: When you believe thought that says you are a body mind and when feelings of limitations and unhappiness arise, you are experiencing boundaries, while in fact, there are none. ~~~ Question: Can you say that differently? Reply: You experience…