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Awakening and Healing The path that emphasizes 'healing the patterns' eventually leads to awakening to the Self. The path that emphasizes 'awakening to the Self' eventually leads to healing the patterns of conditioning.
Contemplate that reality refers to: * That which is changeless. Meaning, it does not change over time or space (location). * That which is and cannot not-be. * The essence of whatever appears. Contemplate that there is one non-dual reality and that it cannot be limited by matter or form. It is…
First, let us be clear in how we define these two words. By mind, I refer to anything perceived or conceived. By consciousness, I refer to the reality which perceives. The belief that reality is phenomenal and cannot exist without mind assumes mind is primary to reality and larger than reality.…
There is no real fate for an illusory self
In speaking about fate, can we contemplate whose fate are we talking about? Fate is on behalf of someone, on behalf of a separate person. The belief is that there is a personal self which exists in time and space. Contemplation and inquiry reveal that there is no separate entity which exists in…
From the personal self perspective, we are starting with the unexamined belief that consciousness is limited, personal and dependent on the body mind. This belief veils our capacity to comprehend. A glimpse in the eternity and infinity of consciousness is required. Francis often mentions that the…
Friend: If appearance is all there is, what need is there for anything more? Reply: When we say: 'appearance is all there is', the question which follows would be: 'What is saying that?' Appearance does not say anything. Appearance does not say: 'Appearance is all there is. ' Something is saying…
Although the content of awareness is limited, awareness is not limited. Awareness does not have doors or windows, does not have inside or outside. Such conceptual constructs do not apply to awareness. Awareness is the undeniable reality of experience and the undeniable reality of being as nothing…
Sweet sorrow is not unhappiness. It is connected to love, a sweet feeling that is not triggered by a personal story or a personal desire or the sense of lack. Rather, sweet sorrow is the recollection of love. Regret and unhappiness are a different matter altogether.
The main hurdles, the main barriers are at the mind level. A certain resistance that is awaiting your releasing. Noticing the inner position, the warrior position within and having the courage and the inner strength and maturity to expose it, to expose yourself and to surrender your position. This…
The mind is always doing something
The mind will always be doing something. Meaning the activities of thinking and feeling may go on. Sometimes sweet and gentle. other times thunderous and loud. That is how thinking feeling operate. When we remain as we are, meaning when we are not defining ourselves via the activity of thinking and…
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…
About being here. Here is not a place. Here is being. Being is not being somebody; it is being being, being presence, being the nameless wordless totality. The love, the beauty, the sweet not-knowingness of presence, of awareness. Being here as absence is seamless presence. Resting as being, there…
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…
You never leave yourself. You never cease to experience yourself. The content of your experience is intimate with your very self, which you never leave, which you are. Our shared dream is precipitated from the same universal field of knowingness which we are. Like in a dream, we dream ourself. We…
Personal love as a state is temporal and is not true since behind such a love hides the separate self with all its conditions, demands, judgements and expectations. Love is eternal, all embracing, unconditional and unwavering. It is our true nature. States are coloring of mind and represent Shiva’s…
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…
The focal point is a superimposition
Once you cease referring to yourself as some sort of manifestation, the states appear to you like the weather appears to you, like the wind and the sunshine appear to you without any 'external or internal' reference. The focal point returns to its true nature which is similar to a sphere without a…
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…
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…
Examine your suffering closely
The gardens of Versailles belong to the Republique of France. ~~At the core of your experience, there is silence and stillness which permeates your entire experience and yet, this silent stillness is overlooked. And whenever the silent stillness is felt, it is not clear that this silent presence is…
Beyond the mental understanding
A truth lover is well served by being careful not to remain with the mental understanding. It is one thing to know about the ocean and it is another thing to be the ocean. Once ignorance is removed, and Self/Awareness is revealed, it does not matter whether mind exists or not because the mind is an…
No matter how many orbits around the cosmic universe, I will continue to seek you. My body mind and heart are dedicated to you as there is no other love, no other passion, no other reality but your being. Although you grace me with your presence as my own, it is thy will which is. Ignorance of…
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…
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…