- 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
There is one reality. It is neither mind nor world. It is neither this nor that. Neither movement nor non movement. Beyond opposites. It is itself, complete onto itself. The reality of I. The reality of minds and universes. Like water is the reality of both steam and ice. I/reality/consciousness is…
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…
A comment about fate. Whose fate? Fate is on behalf of someone, on behalf of a separate person. Fate falls under the impression of me in time and space. Past and future which are both the product of thinking and feeling. Consciousness is reality and does not exist in time and space. There is no…
The intimacy of being/awareness. Although the ‘content’ of awareness is limited, awareness is not. In fact, awareness has no ‘content’. That is simply a way of speaking. Awareness does not have a door and windows. Does not have an inside or outside. Awareness is the undeniable reality of experience…
Surrender goes hand in hand with the recognition that there is one reality. I/consciousness. In this understanding it may become clear that resistance and seeking is an overlooking of truth, an overlooking of the reality of infinite and eternal consciousness. That is why it is said: There is no one…
This entire realm is dream like
This entire realm is dream like. It’s gone in a flash. Why trouble yourself pursuing dream objects? Contemplate the Self, the reality of consciousness and profit from this opportunity to awaken to truth. Truth is what IS, that which you ARE and not what appears or what you seem to be. That which is…
Sometimes the word awareness can lead us into confusion as to what we mean by it. If I may propose:Rather than the word awareness, we can turn our attention to the word reality. Via contemplation, inquiry, reflection and reasoning, we can come to the understanding of the undeniable reality of…
How come I perceive San Francisco but not Paris?
How come I perceive San Francisco and not Paris? From the perspective that I am Joe/John/Mary, I cannot perceive Paris since I live in San Francisco. From the perspective of consciousness, I perceive Paris, I perceive San Francisco. There is only one perceiver, one reality. the reality of…
You seem to refer to a body as something existing with its own 'individual reality', so to speak. In fact, all we know of a 'body' is the content of our mind. Meaning, we know bodily sensations, images, feelings, perceptions, all of which are 'internal'. In other words our experience does not…
In your comment, you seem to refer to a body as something existing with its own 'individual reality', so to speak. In fact, all we know of a 'body' is the content of our mind. Meaning, we know bodily sensations, images, feelings, perceptions, all of which are 'internal'. In other words our…
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…
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…
I do agree that clarity is helpful for a more harmonious living. When we confuse the content of our experience (which is constantly changing) with the changeless reality of experience, we are missing the core of the teaching. The non dual teaching does speak of the principle of non-doing (non…
This realm is an opportunity to realize the reality of divine presence and to realize the true emptiness of form which seems so real and pressing. We come into existence endowed with love for truth and happiness. As a separate self, we travel astray to distant lands that reveal ‘not here’, ‘not…
Before any superimposition, we are transparent borderless aware presence, nameless, formless. The unseen universal reality of being/awareness. What a wonder!Turn your attention to the transparency, that which you are. This way the impression of physicality and materiality will cease to haunt you…
The key thing in contemplation is the contemplation of reality. Who cares about anything that is not real? What is the point of having all sorts of theories and discussions about that which is not real? It makes sense to stick with reality because reality is absolute. You will be wasting your…
Consciousness stands prior to mind
Consciousness stands ‘prior’ to mind, like the dreamer stands ‘prior’ to its dreams. To assume a human or non human reality is mind. There is no such thing as personal consciousness. Whatever appears in your dreams, no matter how real it may seem, is dream stuff. To assume that consciousness abides…
In god's eyes, everything is holy. Everywhere you are is holiness. Contemplate the wholeness of being without any differentiation. Being/awareness is your true nature, the reality of experience, independent of time and space. Do not interrupt your inquiry and meditation as thinking attempts to lead…
There are a lot of things you know. But do you know your true self? You are not the bubble of your mind and feelings. You are not defined by anything you dream or imagine. You are not defined by your projections. Suffering is your lighthouse. It advises you that you have given reality to the…
Depending on the conditioned mind
When you depend on your conditioned mind, you experience the false. You experience time and space as well as birth and death, both of which are false. You have to go to the source in order to free yourself from ignorance, misery and confusion. You have to go to that which is real. The light of…
There are a lot of things you know. But do you know your true self? You are not the bubble of your mind and feelings. You are not defined by anything you dream or imagine. You are not defined by your projections. Suffering is your lighthouse. It advises you that you have given reality to the…
Freedom from personal concern is not possible as long as you consider yourself a person living in time and space. When we make real that which is illusory, when we give reality to that Which is impermanent, we overlook the reality of being/awareness, we overlook the totality of being, and we suffer…
Yes, all manifestation is impermanent. But I/consciousness is not. ~~~ As long as we remain at the body mind level, we overlook awareness/consciousness which is transparent and the reality of our experience. It is not sufficient to live in presence. We also need to contemplate the reality of our…
Desire for an object refers to a separate self which is desiring a separate object. Such desire maintains the sense of separation and the sense of lack. Desire for truth, desire for freedom, for love and beauty is different in that such a desire is not for an object. It is desire for the end of…
As soon as we adopt the perspective of being a separate self, a subject, there is a tendency to objectify our experience. That is how the process of thinking operates once it is infected with the belief in separation. Therefore we tend to objectify reality, consciousness, god, truth. Unknowingly,…