- ALL
- Absolute
- Attachment
- Awakening
- Awareness
- Beauty
- Being
- Belief
- Body
- Consciousness
- Dream
- Duality
- Ego
- Emptiness
- Experience
- Freedom
- God
- Happiness
- Identity
- Ignorance
- Illusion
- Knowledge
- Love
- Maya
- Meditation
- Mind
- Noticing
- Peace
- Perception
- Person
- Presence
- Reality
- Self
- Separation
- Silence
- Suffering
- Surrender
- Truth
- Uncategorized
- Universe
- Vasanas
- Witnessing
- World
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing
The tendency to base our life onto thoughts and feelings prevents us from rejoicing as the inner stillness, as the transparent Aware Beingness of Consciousness. We remain in the bubble of thoughts and are unable to perceive beyond them. The sense of separation persists. Perception is tainted by…
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…
Our body mind experiences do not define us, do not define what we truly are.
Our body mind experiences do not define us, do not define what we truly are. Like our night dreams do not define the dreamer that dreams them. All body mind experiences are meant for the contemplation of the reality of consciousness and the celebration of its infinite creativity and elegance.…
The contemplation of the source reveals the true I, the true Self.
The contemplation of the source reveals the true I, the true Self. From this revelation, it is said that: I am the one and only true creator/listener . not defined by any particular body mind. Undefined by any phenomenal event. "I", refers to the true creator/definer of all phenomenal events . the…
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…
DEPRESSION Friend: How does one do the contemplation when I am depressed? Reply: I am not a psychotherapist and I can only share the non dual understanding as it may be of help, or maybe not. There are professionals that deal with crisis levels of emotions. Contemplate the following non dual…
As long as you are cultivating images of yourself and others, you remain an unhappy limited separate self impression. No matter how hard you work on improving your bundle of images, you remain incomplete and the True Meaning and True Purpose escape you. Awakening to the Self is your inevitable…
There is no external reality to consciousness
THERE IS NO EXTERNAL REALITY TO CONSCIOUSNESS. ~~~ Friend: Try running into a door. ., Reply: The body running into a door and bleeding is not evidence that there is a reality external to consciousness. Of course the body running into a door is ample evidence that outside the body there is a…
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…
‘I’ refers to the true creator
The contemplation of the source reveals the true I, the true Self. From this revelation, it is said that: I am the one and only true creator/listener . not defined by any particular body mind. Undefined by any phenomenal event. "I", refers to the true creator/definer of all phenomenal events . the…
Sri Ramana Maharshi Teachings. श्री रमण महर्षि के उपदेश Q: In the early stages would it not be a help to a man to seek solitude and give up his outer duties in life? Sri Ramana Maharshi : Renunciation is always in the mind, not in going to forests or solitary places or giving up one's duties.…
If your happiness is contingent on paying bills
If your happiness is contingent on paying bills, on health and wealth, on situations and events. . you are doomed (to unhappiness). Conditional happiness is not the real deal. The revelation of unconditional happiness, the revelation of THAT that is untouched by world body mind events is the path…
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…
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…
What we truly are does not sleep
What we truly are does not sleep . as it is not worldly. When the body is tired . out of love, we invite it to rest. The dream, in all its forms, is a divine expression, an offering from the absolute . meant to be celebrated and honored and not burdened with false identification.
The Self is unmoved,unmovable and unmoving
The Self is unmoved, unmovable and unmoving. All impressions of movement are the dream of Maya and serve to remind you of the Self eternal. That is how the world body mind fulfills its function . serving as a gateway to the Gateless. Revealing your seamless joyfully-free nature. Wherever you look,…
Before being a man, a woman, I AM
Before being a man or a woman, I AM. Before being a father or mother, I AM. Before being any thing, I AM. I AM is undefined and non descript. Yet, nothing can be without I AM. Like gold takes the form of a necklace, ring or bracelet, the I AM, while remaining infinite, eternal and formless aware…
In your contemplation, it becomes important to notice the me feeling, the unhappiness that arises and is expressed in the body, the internal bodily contractions that refer to a separate me. Releasing them into the transparency of being, into the spacious borderlessness of awareness is a relaxation…
When we feel good and things are unfolding according to the way we wish things to be, we think and feel all is well. And when things are not unfolding as we wish things to be, we are not feeling good and we think things are not going good, and we feel all is not well. Such is the gogo mind, such is…
The first discrimination is to realize that we are not our thoughts. Our thoughts do not know us. This discrimination may lead us to the understanding that ‘I am the knowingness and not the known’. Upon further inquiry, we realize the known and the knowingness are one and that I am this knowingness…
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…
What is the source of insecurity?
Question: What is the source of insecurity? Reply: The belief that I am born, the belief that I am mortal. The thorn of mortality is the cause of insecurity. Believing you are a man, a woman is a mistaken identity. Believing that I am a mortal body mind results in the unhappy impression of…
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…
The Self is all of it. Awareness belongs to the Self. Sentience belongs to the Self. Insentience belongs to the Self. All is the Self. Believing that the Self depends on the body mind is ignorance and the cause of your unhappiness. Believing that consciousness belongs to the body mind leads to the…
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…