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The belief that reality cannot exist without mind assumes mind to be larger than reality itself. As if there are two realities: the reality of consciousness and the larger reality of mind.Upon contemplation, we realize that mind (thoughts, sensations and perceptions) is an appearance within…
From the personal self perspective, it is not possible to speak about consciousness with any authority. Why so? Because, as a personal self, we are starting with the unexamined belief that consciousness is limited and personal. This belief gets in the way and veils (infects) our capacity to…
Is experience the cause of suffering?
Is experience the cause of suffering? Perceiving a butterfly is an experience. Drinking a glass of water or recollecting my sweet cat is also an experience. There is no suffering there. Suffering is the sense of separation, which is the belief and feeling that there is a separate personal…
Throughout all experience, I am there. The light of awareness. Irrespective of what has been my experience, painful or not, I have been present throughout all aspects of my experience. Present as awareness, as presence. Even when I believed and felt that I am a person, happy or unhappy, I was there…
Can we drop the label ‘separation’?
Can we drop the label 'separation'? How can there be a 'separate I' when I am I? How can I be separate from I? Can you separate the rose from the rose or your nose from your nose? If there is separation, then it can only be an impression and not truth. The impression of separation. Thus, we are not…
For the separate self, memory refers to events in time. Both the events as well as time are believed and felt to be real. The separate self gets the impression via memory that there was something real that has occurred which is/was made out of people, things and experiences. In ignorance the…
Turning your attention to being aware
Whenever you turn your attention to 'being aware', whether you are turning your attention to being aware of belief or to simply being aware of being aware, you are visiting your true nature, so to speak. It is like going to the cleaners. These visits to the laundromat have the effect of making old…
There is no mind. What we call mind is thought. God is the creator of all thoughts. 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…
That which gives the impression that 'I am machine' is the belief in matter, the belief in a physical reality. Believing that there is a reality called matter, leads to the impression of physicality and has yet to be established by scientist who are looking for 'matter'. When the body is perceived…
Agitation and the sense of lack
Agitation is a tendency to want (desire) something else than our current experience and/or to not-want (resist) part of or the totality of our current experience. This agitation consists of thinking and feeling. Thinking something is wrong or missing and feeling it. ~~The sense of lack is inherent…
Life cannot die. There is no ending to that which is eternal. The conventional belief that I am a body mind, that I refers to a mental physical form is erroneous. I is not an appearing and disappearing object. I is the invisible reality of experience. Life cannot die. What dies is not life.
The activity of thinking, sensing and perceiving veils the wide open empty screen of being/awareness. Within thinking hides the belief in a separate thinker, within sensing the belief in a separate sensor and within perceiving the belief in a separate perceiver. Beyond thought, beyond mind…
Life cannot live through you when you are a dense structure of beliefs and activities.
Life cannot live through you when you are a dense structure of beliefs and activities. Life needs a hollow vessel in order to sing, like the musical sound of the flute requires the empty space within its chamber. It is the emptiness of the vessel that allows the harmonious dance of life.
If separation was real, how could you read these words that I am writing? How could you perceive the cloudy sky? How could you know seeing, feeling, sensing, perceiving? The belief in a separate subject and object veils the clarity of our total intimacy and disregards the intimacy of experience.…
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness.
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness. We arise out of the same source to realize the wholeness of being/awareness that we are, that everything is. We play together. It is so lovely Except when we go back into our bubble. The me-you bubble. So we contemplate this process. We…
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness.
We are one, Interconnected via awareness/consciousness. We arise out of the same source to realize the wholeness of being/awareness that we are, that everything is. We play together. It is so lovely Except when we go back into our bubble. The me-you bubble. So we contemplate this process. We…
In the caves of the mind, you are happy when you discover a new cave. But you do not emerge in the light outside the cave 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…
Like on a foggy day we cannot perceive the firmament, inside the dense bubble of thought we cannot perceive our true nature. Living the me-assumption, we are deluded in believing and feeling mortality, birth and death haunt us. Under the spell of personhood, the shining light of awareness eludes us…
There is only one perceiver, one reality.
There is only one perceiver. One reality. Once the belief in a personal perceiver completely dissolves, ignorance is gone, but the body mind functioning is not impaired. Quite the opposite. The contractions in the body are overall gone. One could say that the body is happier and the experience of…
The peace and happiness you seek
The peace and happiness that you seek in the world requires your deep inquiry into your true nature and your complete surrender. You may follow the guidance and get inspiration from a fellow traveler, but the inquiry must be your own. Question and investigate your beliefs and assumptions.…
Some folks say that the only thing that does not change is change itself. They foolishly speak that the only thing that is permanent is impermanence. If you believe this statement, you are believing a falsehood. In fact, reality is changeless. In your experience, the reality of…
The I-thought reduces you, that which is irreducible, diminishes you, that which is undiminishable, defines you, that which is undefinable. Without the inquiry into the I-thought, you become its prey. The wheel of samsara spins endlessly until you inquire into the belief and feeling that you are a…
Be clear about what you are seeking and honoring.
Be clear about what you are seeking and honoring. If it is on behalf of the me, it maintains the unhappy sense of separate self and other. Contemplate the belief and feeling that I am a mortal body mind, that I is a form that is born. As long as this position is not investigated, it continues to…
Why do we feel separate When we share the same dream.
Why do we feel separate When we share the same dream. We talk together. We shop from each other. We harvest the same fields. Breathe the same air. Why do we feel separate When we are made out of the same stuff, digest similar foods, love kindness and compassion, enjoy laughter and the song of…
The reality of consciousness is not a belief.
The reality of consciousness is not a belief. Fear of death, as well as all fears are due to the belief that consciousness depends on form and thus is mortal and personal. Once the thorn of identification and ignorance is removed, fears are left with no legs to stand on.