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What I truly am cannot be threatened
What I truly am cannot be threatened. Whenever I feel threatened, there is a tendency to defend, attack, justify, flee, wish things were different. But it is possible to be present, silently present to what is going on and wonder: 'Is there really a threat? And what is being threatened? ' Feeling…
About 'thought being a bitch'. inspired by a friend's post: ~~~ Thoughts are like images appearing 'out of' as well as 'on the' screen, are not a bitch from the screen's point of view. A thought is a bitch only from another thought's point of view. 'Distance' between thought and awareness is not…
What makes our dreams so unhappy?
We are trying to heal from our own dreams. What makes our dreams so unhappy? Is it not our identification with the mortality of the body mind? Are we not the awareness to which the body mind appears as the self and as everything? Is aware presence a limited personal self or is it the borderless…
We bathe in love, as we seek it
When we feel like a separate self, when we come from the sense of limitation and lack, the wholeness of our true nature evades us. From that perspective there is not enough love to go around. Thus we look out onto the world to fulfill us, which it can't. Until we discover that we are whole and…
There is more to the Jello than the fruit
When you perceive the forms and objects that arise in the openness of awareness but fail to experience the seamless, borderless, radiant awareness that YOU are, you remain entangled in the phenomenal world, body and mind. It is like being served Cherry flavored Jello, noticing the fruits and grapes…
What maintains the sense of self?
The sense of self is maintained via the feeling state, via bodily sensations. That is where the me-identification roots itself. That is where we get entangled, in the feelings. Then the I-thought sticks to the feeling and relies on the feeling as its evidence that, indeed, I am a mortal body…
Self honesty does not maintain the illusion that I am a separate self. It does not maintain the story line, does not defend it, does not promote it. Self honesty leads you to the truth, to the recognition that you are the open space of awareness and that everyone and everything is made out of that…
Consciousness is already enlightened.
Consciousness is already 'enlightened'. Obstacles are imagined and are the result of identification with mortality. The open field of awareness is borderless and infinite and is unencumbered by any structure. The seeming obstacles are mirages and not real of their own. It is the reality of…
Sat-chit-ananda refers to: Being-Consciousness-Bliss Presence/Isness = Being Awareness/Experience = Consciousness Ananda = bliss. The realization of our pristine blissful true nature is the realization that Presence/ISness and Awareness/Consciousness are One. That is the 'I AM THAT' reference. The…