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About silence and stillness. ~~ There is a quality of silence that is beyond the mind, that is not imposed by thought, that is not conceived by the mind, that is not manufactured, that is not created. It permeates everything. Actually, it is complete intimacy with what we refer to as everything, it…
OF LITTLE PRAISE YOU ARE You can contort your body in many intricate ways but you remain ignorant of yourself. You can outdo the prouesse of a chimp and that of a gazelle but you remain ignorant of yourself. You have wasted the precious time gifted to you tending to the body and mind ignoring the…
Contemplate that which is unmoved in your experience
Contemplate that which is unmoved in your experience. Contemplate the permanent. If you remain enamored and hypnotized by what appears, you will be the prey of your thoughts and feelings. You will be like a yo-yo trying to find peace and balance in that which cannot provide it. Find that which is…
Whenever the wind of change appears in your life, you run away
Whenever the wind of change appears in your life, you run away and hide behind your complaining mind and your thinking, but this doesn’t help in any way. Whenever you meet change with your complete presence without playing the tricks of thinking, blaming, whining, regurgitating, you will find a…
The initial fragility of inner peace
THE INITIAL FRAGILITY OF INNER PEACE If there is a challenge in your life, this means you are ready for it. It is meant to take you beyond your previous beliefs. Although you are ready for it, you may completely misunderstand the situation and not be able to benefit. You May argue and blame and…
Since everyone is busy with their minds and all what appears, it is your business to bring in the contemplation and to awaken to the reality that is beyond the dream. Although empty, the concerns of the mind are very powerful and not easy to overcome. You contemplate the Self on behalf of everyone…
Form and thought are absent in deep sleep
Form and thought are absent in deep sleep as well as when the body is under anesthesia. Anesthesia and sleep are states that relate to the body mind but not to awareness which neither sleeps nor is awake. Awareness is not a state. Awareness IS. Sat-Chit-Ananda. Between thought A and thought B you…
You know yourself without the aid of the mind
YOU KNOW YOURSELF DIRECTLY WITHOUT THE AID OF THE MIND You know yourself without the aid of the mind. You known yourself directly. This knowingness is a non phenomenal knowingness which is referred to as an apperception. In the absence of thought, in the absence of perception and sensation, I know…
ABSOLUTE STILLNESS In the relative realm everything is relative including your happiness. The relative reveals the absolute only when you are still. When you are relatively still, you are relatively happy. It’s when you are absolutely still that you are absolutely happy. Absolute stillness is not…
ABOUT GOOD AND EVIL Good and evil, better and worse are relative concepts that refer to the mind. Once we accept good and evil, they become our personal (relative) preferences. Good and evil will limit us and divide us. Our true nature is beyond the dichotomy of good and bad. The Self is…
Given there is only you As universal borderless presence Fear is self generated An internal panorama That does not reflect any actuality. Within your very self You imagine danger Since you have separated yourself From the wholeness of Being Giving rise to external worlds And external others You…
DESIRE We imagine a separate object that we imagine to be apart from our experience and simultaneously, we imagine ourself to be a separate subject that lacks the imagined object. Desire is a dualistic imagining that separates us, but not really. Separation is imagination. This internal mechanism…
Internal harmony and external harmony are both essential for the paving of the Way. One without the other is like a bird flying with one wing. Correct conduct is harmonious, Dharmic and is a reflection of clear mind. Conduct reflects mind. A student of the way contemplates the Dharma, reflects upon…
Most of us suffer from the mental disorder of believing that we are the body mind and that we are born. I would even say that most of the 7 billion folks on this planet adhere to this belief. Given this disorder, it is not surprising that our actions reflect this belief that we are the images, the…
LISTENING I listen to the body without knowing. I notice a burning sensation in the belly. It could be the late breakfast. But it doesn’t matter what the mind says. It is a deepening listening, sensing, feeling, without knowing, openly, freely. I am interested. An ever deepening intimacy. Intimacy…
Breathing, shared breath. Containing everything, embracing everything. One breath. Feels like no breath. And yet, yes there is breath and strangely, simultaneously there is no breath. Such intimacy, such mystery! We call it breath. What is it we are calling breath? What is it? The mind is satisfied…
TURIYA. What is the experience of no self?
TURIYA. What is the experience of no self? Turiya cannot be comprehended by the mind. It cannot be comprehended by a separate self since Turiya is the absence of separation, the dissolution of the veils of duality. The ending of the subject-object dichotomy. Turiya is not an experience as we…
THE INITIAL VEIL The veil of our true nature is the superimposition of ‘I am the body mind’. This initial assumption gives rise to the I-me-mind and me-feeling that triggers the I-thought and enivrates it. The mind becomes like a drunkard who is rambling at no end unaware of reality. Upon inquiry…
Maintain your gaze onto the divine
Maintain your gaze onto the divine and you will be guided to her. Do not rest, do not celebrate too early as you will be cutting yourself short. Do not be content with intermediary stages that compromise the absolute. Remain on the path until you are completely unmoved by the world body mind.
The worldly path of samsara and the senses keep you in the illusion and you do not get off the roller coaster ride of mind impressions. As long as you do not actively engage in the contemplation of the Self, the Self will continue to elude you and you remain entangled in the phenomenal world body…
THE LIGHT OF BEING Step out into the shining light It shines through you Onto everyone and everything Revealing true nature As nothing and everything Step out into the shining light Nothing to hide Nothing to protect All is revealed As it is Step out into the shining light It may not seem easy Yet…
ABSOLUTE KNOWLEDGE. THAT WHICH CANNOT BE DENIED Absolute knowledge is the collapse of all parts. What remains is absolute, without parts, non segmented. Whatever thought segments, I am not. Everything that you know, you know via your mind. Thoughts, images, memories, sensations, perceptions are…
Doing and non-doing refer to the dream character that is imagined to be the Self.
Doing and non-doing refer to the dream character that is imagined to be the Self. The Self rests as it is beyond mind, beyond description, beyond coming and going, beyond gain and loss. You recognize yourself as That. In this recognition you rest as the Self, one beyond a second and you contemplate…
All obstacles are seeming obstacles. They are mind impressions that point to the illusion of duality. They point to the erroneous belief that there is a separate subject. Obstacles lead us to struggle with them, a dream struggle that does not reveal the innate happiness of the Self. Sooner or later…
Do not forget what you truly yearn for.
Do not forget what you truly yearn for. You yearn for God. You yearn for truth eternal. You yearn for the bliss of the Self which is beyond any personal mind. The journey is in this lifetime. The path is the Dharma, the contemplation of the Self, the contemplation of truth. What is it that does not…