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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.…
SHADOW HAPPINESS IS NOT REAL HAPPINESS
SHADOW HAPPINESS IS NOT REAL HAPPINESS The tendency to personalize is unhappy. Thought superimposes an imaginary personal self onto the limitless borderless universal Self. The recognition of this tendency is an important recognition. Via the I-thought and the me-feeling, personal concerns haunt us…
When you remain in the caves of the mind, you are happy when you discover a new cave. But you do not emerge in the light. Without the contemplation of the reality of consciousness, without the deep inquiry into ‘What am I truly? ’, you will continue to entertain thoughts and feelings that are…
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…
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…
Whatever you do that has a personal self within it will lead you deeper into the maze.
Whatever you do that has a personal self within it will lead you deeper into the maze. It will promise you all sorts of things, it will deliver more and more promises and will never 'deliver' you from your personal self. That is what haunts you but thoughts tell you lies and lead you astray as they…
Disillusion with being a good person
DISILLUSION WITH BEING A GOOD PERSON Friend: After many years of service and devotion, trying to be a good person, I have come to realize that this does not work and that it is no the highest path. Can you say more about that? Reply: Being a good person is an image that arises to you. This image is…
DIVINE INSPIRATION The contemplation of the Self Is done by the Self There is no other contemplation But the Self Divine inspiration Thinking that I am a personal self Is the birthplace of the I-thought Feeling that I am born Is the birthplace of the me-feeling These mind impressions are bound to…
How do I reach my full potential?
Friend: How do I reach my full potential? I find myself addicted to media and technology and unable to get beyond to reach my full potential. Reply: Personal potential is illusion as there is no personal self. When you look for the person, you only find images, thoughts and sensations, and no…
REMAIN AS YOU ARE Within thought, there is an imagined me, a personal self in an imaginary future. But not really. There is no time. Time is thought, mind impressions. Floating images in the open space of awareness that dreams all dreams without ever being affected by its infinite dreams. Remain as…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Do not be so concerned about your past thoughts and deeds. All is well and is meant to be as it is. What matters is for you to turn your attention to the reality that you are. And this reality is not a limited personal impression. Not a limited consciousness. No limited impression limits the…
Eternity does not belong to the me impression, does not belong to the body mind personal impression, does not belong to the identification. Reality does not belong to the dream. The dream comes and goes but that which knows all dreams does not come and go. It awaits your recognition. As long as you…
Belief is the death of intelligence
Yes, "belief is the death of intelligence" . and yet, most everyone believes in an internal personal self and in an external physical reality. They see their perception of a tree and they go: There is a tree out there! They perceive a bodily sensation and they go: There is a body out there! They…
In fact there is no robber that really appropriates consciousness. The imaginary separate me-impression cannot really hijack consciousness. How could the illusory hijack the real? You imagine yourself to be a person with personal concerns and ambition, but you fail to realize that you are the…
The invitation from the guru is to realize the Self, to see/be the undivided wholeness that you are. The guru is not a person and does not perceive persons. Truth/Reality is one seamless whole. You can call it love, freedom, joy, beauty. It is the experience of causeless peace and happiness that is…
There is a calling from beyond, from the divine. calling you to recognize your inherent freedom, to recognize the peace, to celebrate the joy, the happiness, the sense of awe and wonder! This call is often hijacked by the me, by this habitual imaginary identity that believes consciousness is…
True meditation is goal-less and meditator-less. Sometimes referred to as 'not-knowing' or complete innocence. It is as if a wave is taking hold of you and there is no personal choice about it. and thus no doing/doer. Until we reach true meditation, we are in the mind . dreaming of a me-meditating…
Awareness is our natural state
Although awareness is our natural state, we feel there are boundaries and imitations simply because we identify with the body mind. This identification is not imposed on us. In a way, it is our choice to buy into this mass neurosis and experience this sense of lack. Maybe we enjoy the hide and seek…