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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…
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…
First we search outwardly As the mind points towards the senses In time we realize That we are searching for the searcher We are seeking the seeker The revelation is that the True seeker Is not a seeker There is no seeker All along It was a dream seeker Seeking itSelf? Only the Self is real And…
How do you know that there is a world outside of you?
How do you know that there is a world outside of you? All you know of the world is your perception. But is your perception outside of you? All you know is the thought, the belief that there is a world outside of you. But that thought/belief is not outside of you. Is it? It is intimately within you…
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,…
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…
Be like a lion ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche “When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick; every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. But if, instead, you look at where your thoughts are coming from, you will see that each thought arises and dissolves within the space of…
I have no words for you. I sit in you As you My heart is content. Diving into you Is an endless dive Of blissful silence And contemplation Of the wholeness of being awareness. infinite gratitude To the Self To the teaching To the teachers To my guru Who through his absence And absolute love Has…
RETURN TO THE SELF You cannot find happiness in the world. You only find happiness in the Self. Therefore reside in the Self. The Self is infinite invisible, unknown to the mind. All knowing. Knowingness itself. Closer than close, ever available as the invisible reality of being-awareness. All…
When you ask: What am I truly", You are coming to the Self. It's the formless reality that perceives right now. This beingness, this Isness is aware. It is scintillating with awareness. It's like a psychedelic Isness, a knowing beingness. It's a substanceless beingness which glows with…
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…
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…
Awareness does not come and go
Only awareness is aware. It is awareness, the light of perception. that perceives. It is awareness, the light of sensation. that senses. It is awareness, the light of all impressions. that speaks and dances. It dances all dances! It is awareness, the light of Joy. that rejoices! How it loves!…
The arguing mind resists the stillness and goes for the spin. The whirlwind of the spin is confusing and unhappy, excites and overloads the body mind with vibrational argumentation. Be still. Stillness is at the heart of contemplation . invites the body mind to rest in the shining light of…
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…
About deep sleep and awareness
Deep sleep is not nothing. If it was nothing, we would not be speaking of it and there would be no word for it. We know deep sleep is not nothing. We also know deep sleep is absent of mind (no thoughts, no body sensations, no perceptions). Could be thus be open to the contemplation that deep sleep…
There are no landing strips to the Self as it is the infinite open space of awareness, velcro free, limitation free, structureless, boundless. Brimming with love. Nothing personal about it as it includes everything and everyone. Wherever you move, there is no movement to or away from the Self. No…
As you continue to contemplate that you are the open space of awareness, unmoved and undisturbed by the images that appear on the screen, the belief structures that define you as a limited mortal body mind weaken and eventually dissolve. revealing causeless peace, freedom and happiness. the…
About consciousness and awareness
A note about the terms consciousness and awareness: ~~~ It should be noted that while Nisargadatta uses the term consciousness and awareness to make a distinction between mind (he uses the term consciousness)and the absolute (he uses the term awareness), in certain languages (such a French), only…
All states appear and disappear out of and in the openness of Awareness. Awareness refers to the knowingness and not to any particular known. All mind events, all states are known. Feelings, thoughts, sensations, experiences are known. Awareness/consciousness is the 'ultimate' non-dual knower.…
Have you noticed that when you are looking out, it is consciousness looking? Have you noticed how there is no specific point from which looking is taking place nor is there any specific place where it is taking place. It is a sort of an open looking, free and free floating. Have you noticed how it…