One thing at a time

When you are aware of something, that is the only experience there is. There is always and only one object of consciousness at a time.

Not my business

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah

Concepts

Using concepts to explain the nature of reality makes no more sense than using containers of water to understand the nature of the ocean.

Determined to be free

Determined to be free,
He abides in the oneness
Beyond all things.
(3-6)

Hope and expectation

Hope & expectations are attachments to the future,but there isn't one. As hard as it is to believe, the present moment is all there ever is.

Not body or mind

A man who knows that he is neither body nor mind cannot be selfish,for he has nothing to be selfish for.” Nisargadatta

Forget the known

“Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower. Don’t be all the time immersed in your experiences.” Nisargadatta

Everywhere

The self is everywhere.

One.
Still.
Free.
Perfect.

The witness of all things,
Awareness
Without action,  clinging or desire.
(1-12)

freedom

[We can say] ‘I’ am aware of thoughts, sensations and perceptions but am not made out of a thought, sensation or perception. ‘I’ am made out of pure being and knowing. Our only experiential knowledge of the world is perception – sights, sounds, tastes, textures and smells. In fact, nobody has ever found an independently existing object or world; all that is ever found are perceptions. We cannot therefore even say we have perceptions of the world because that world has never been found. We can only say for sure that we know perceptions. And perceptions are never known independently of Awareness.

[…]

All we know of a thought is the experience of thinking, all we know of a sensation is the experience of sensing, all we know of a sight is the experiencing of seeing, all we know of a sound is the experience of hearing etc. And all that is known of thinking, sensing, seeing, hearing, touching, tasting and smelling is the knowing of them. And what is it that knows this knowing? Only something that itself has the capacity to know could know anything. So it is knowing that knows knowing. All that is ever known is pure knowing, knowing and being itself. And that knowing is your self. All that is known is Awareness knowing itself, the self knowing the self. There is only your self – not a self that belongs to any object or person because there are no objects or people as such to which it could belong. This knowing belongs to itself alone. It is itself and knows itself alone. There are no others or objects there, no inside self or outside world.

[…]

In understanding our self, Awareness, is realized to be the open, empty field of experience, not made of a thing but knowing all seeming things. As such it is nothing – not a thing. In love, the mind, body and world gradually take on the qualities of Awareness – they become open, empty, transparent, pervaded and saturated by the peace and happiness that are our true nature. As such our self, the open, empty no-thingness of Awareness is realized in our experience as the reality or substance of everything. […] True knowledge is the experiential understanding that there is only ever-present, unlimited Awareness or Knowing. Nothing other than this is ever known even when it seems that a mind, body and world are known. This ever-present, unlimited Awareness, which is simply the intimacy of our own being, is the fundamental nature of the apparently inside self and its corollary, the apparently outside object, other or world.

[…]

In this realization true knowledge and love are revealed to be one and the same – the experiential realization that the true nature of the apparently inside self and the apparently outside world are one single reality made out of the transparent light of Awareness, that is, made out of the intimacy of our own being. […] This is the only true revolution, the revolution in which our view of reality is turned upside down. Awareness – pure Knowing – is not just the witness of experience. It is its substance, its very nature. Everything changes when we begin to live from this point of view. We realize that what we have always longed for in life was present all along in the depths of our own being. It is always available, never truly veiled. To begin with it is often felt as peace in the background of experience but it cannot be contained and before long it begins to flow out into the world as […] love […].

-- Rupert Spira, The True Nature of Experience I Excerpt

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see the dream as a dream

Step back

"All that you need to do is to step back and not to interfere."

Synchronicity

the sound of the rain

Be Awareness

"Ideas leave not their source"_Themes from "A Course in Miracles"

mirror

listen to the silence

Me

"Everything is me, everything is mine. Just as my body moves by my mere thinking of the movement, so do things happen as I think of them.”N.

All

"As long as you think of yourself as a person, God too is a person. When you are all, you see Him as all.” Nisargadatta

Everywhere

As the air is everywhere,
Flowing around a pot
And filling it,
So God is everywhere,

Not two

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love

stop

not this or that

Eckhart Tolle 2017 - The Secret Of Life ( MUST LISTEN)

Being

Thought

What dies with death

The Core of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj's teaching.wmv

Abiding as Awareness is a Non Practice

Don't Look for the Presence of Awareness

Emptiness Dancing

Liberating Our Thoughts From the Tyranny of the Illusory Self

not knowing

That. This

"THIS which is seeking is THAT which is sought, and THAT which is sought is THIS which is seeking." — Wei Wu Wei

Enlightenment

The remedy for the fear of death is very simple - Rupert Spira

Time and Death

Time is Never an Experience

is that so

I was reading over chapter 7 in "A New Earth" again today and came across the story Eckhart often shares about the Zen master who was accused of fathering a child, to which the Master's response was "Is that so?" The master then continued to take care of the child, even though his reputation was demolished, for the next year until he was later absolved of being the father, to which his response was, once again, "Is that so?" I find this level of acceptance stunning and wonder how any of us would react if this had happened to us? Eckhart writes, "The Master responds to falsehood and truth, bad news and good news, in exactly the same way: 'Is that so?' He allows the form of the moment, good or bad, to be as it is and so does not become a participant in human drama. To him, there is only this moment, and this moment is as it is. Events are not personalized. He is nobody's victim. He is so completely at one with what happens that what happens has no power over him anymore. Only if you resist what happens are you at the mercy of what happens, and the world will determine your happiness and unhappiness."

Is That So

Love

Be the Awareness

Not a subject

You are not a subject that sees objects but seeing itself - the knowingness, the aware presence in which all manifestation appears.

Awareness

There is only one fact that can't be denied. The presence awareness that you are. All else comes after that and appears within it.

Objects Don't Have Existence; Existence Has Objects

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not abt pardoning wrongs. It sees that the dream/drama of the human condition does not affect our Truth as spiritual beings.

Lose yourself in Love

Whatever happens,just keep smiling & lose yourself in love ♡ -Rumi

You are

What we take for reality is all a play of the mind. But there is one thing which is not a mental construct. The aware presence that you are.

Ego needs

The ego's needs are endless. It feels vulnerable and threatened and so lives in a state of fear and want.

Light goal

When a candle is used to light another, the first one still burns brightly, but now there are two lit candles & more light.

You are what you think

If you think you are free,
You are free.

If you think you are bound,
You are bound.

For the saying is true:
You are what you think.
(1-11)

Selfish

"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9% of everything you think, & of everything you do, is for yourself, and there isn't one." — Wei Wu Wei

Fix the projector

Focus not on fixing the screen, the world, but fix the projector which is in your MIND. This is some of the best guidance words can convey. twitter.com/katz_corey/sta…

Acceptance of truth

"To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it
is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat."
      — Shunryu Suzuki

Light

The Light shines in everyone. Let the higher purpose of time be to brighten your light by reminding others of their own.

Unhappy thoughts

"The thoughts I am thinking right now are making me unhappy." This realization breaks your unconscious identification with those thoughts.

Nothing as it seems

You must realize nothing is as it seems. — Brian Thompson

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. — Dalai Lama XIV

Mind power

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
—  Marcus Aurelius

Be vigilant

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts ~ Buddha

Ocean of delusion

"If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary,
you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion."
              — Linji Yixuan

Enlightenment

"Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it." — Chogyam Trungpa

Now

There is only and always Now. Leave thoughts and issues behind, and celebrate the miracle and mystery of being alive.

The ego

"The ego cannot survive without judgement, and is laid aside accordingly."
~ A Course in Miracles, T-4.II.10:3

Dissolve

 You see the world.
But like the snake in the rope,
It is not really there.

You are pure.

Let yourself dissolve.
(5-3)

Meditation

"You should sit and meditate for 20 minutes, unless you're too busy, then you should sit and meditate or an hour." — Zen Proverb
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love

"Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees." #ACIM

Realized

Life

There is no one who awakens.That is all part of the dream. In fact, in the cosmic game of hide & seek, it is Life that awakens to itself.

Listen

Thoughts

The Self

"The Self is always realised. There is no seeking to realise what is already - always - realised. For you cannot deny your own existence. That existence is consciousness - the Self.

"Unless you exist you cannot ask questions. So you must admit your own existence. That existence is the Self. It is already realised. Therefore the effort to realise results only in your realising your present mistake - that you have not realised your Self. There is no fresh realisation. The Self becomes revealed."

(Bhagavan in 'Talks with Sri Ramana Maharishi', Talk 625)

Awakening

Hands open

"Keep your hands open & all the sands of the desert can pass through.

Close them & all you can feel is a bit of grit." — Taisen Deshimaru

Everything is going to be ok

Allow yourself a day without worry. A day with simple trust in the universe and an inner knowing of the truth that it’s all going to be okay

Pure Awareness I am

Through ignorance
I once imagined I was bound.

But I am pure awareness.

I live beyond all distinctions,
In unbroken meditation.
(2-17)

One Moon

"One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon." via @ ZenProverbs

Counterintuitive

As counterintuitive as it seems, we have no past or future. The idea of progress implies a continuity, and an entity, that does not exist.

Spirit

Free yourself of tethers. No more limits. Your spirit is wholly free - and You ARE your spirit, not the limited image you hold of yourself.

Fancies

“My teaching is very simple; the experiencer  and the experiences are all fancies.” Nisargadatta

The Truth

“Whatever can be understood or perceived can never be the eternal Truth. The Unknown is the Truth.” Nisargadatta

Remember

By whatever name, mystical realization is simply a matter of remembering what you already are and always have been.

Wholeness

Seeing life from Wholeness is like watching the chaos of traffic from the top of a high building: a beautiful play of energy and light.

Separate

"We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh #Buddhism

The future

You are CONDITIONED to be in desperate need of a future.
—  Alan Watts

Heart

I looked in temples, churches and mosques, but I found the divine within my heart.
—  Rumi

Don't

"Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand – relax." — Osho

The Self

Consider a piece of cloth.
It is only threads!

So all creation,
When you look closely,
Is only the Self.
(2-5)

The Self

The self is everywhere.

One.
Still.
Free.
Perfect.

The witness of all things,
Awareness
Without action,  clinging or desire.
(1-12)

Born

“You were born because you were a fool. if had known anything about it, you would not have come into this world.” Nisargadatta

I am this

O how wonderful!

I am awareness itself,
No less.
(7-5)

Suffering

You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
—  Thich Nhat Hanh

Muddy Water

"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear." — Lao Tzu

Hot coal

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

Yourself

Knowing yourself as That
In which the worlds rise and fall
Like waves in the ocean,
Why do you run about so wretchedly?
(3-3)

This

We begin as seekers, but as such can never find. Seeking focuses on the future, while what we yearn for is what we already ARE. Just this!

Interpretations

Beyond the Mind

Let Go

The secret

What is left after collapse

When a building collapses, the space it occupied is not lost. And nothing happens to our true nature when our names and forms fade away.

Change

"If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to."
            — Zen Proverb
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#Zen #Buddhism

You are That

There is nothing you have to attain. You are always That. You have only to give up thinking you are limited.
—   Ramana Maharshi

Anger

"The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves." — Buddhist Proverb

Energy to Change?

We have any amount of energy to quarrel, to kill each other, to divide the world, but apparently not the energy to change radically.

Great Way

"The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences." — Sosan

Virtue

"To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; not to realize that you do not understand is a defect." — Lao Tzu

Clouds gone

"Clouds gone, the mountain appears." via @ ZenProverbs

It

"As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." — Ram Dass

Self

He is pure of heart,
He knows the whole world is only the Self.

So who can stop him
From doing as he wishes?
(4-4)

Clay Pot

I am boundless space.
The world is a clay pot.
This is the truth.

There is nothing to accept,
Nothing to reject,
Nothing to dissolve.
(6-1)

Buddhist Proverb

"There is no fire like passion, no crime like hatred, no sickness like hunger and no joy like freedom." — Buddhist Proverb

Perfection

"Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, and speak without offending"

Mirage

With clear and steady insight
He sees this world is a mirage,
And he no longer wonders about it.
(3-11)

Heart Felt

When your heart urges you to give, help or serve, try not to wait until your mind finds a reason not to.

Improve the silence

Don't speak unless you can improve the silence.

freedom

"What a liberation to realize that the "voice in my head" is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Already There

You get there by realizing you are already there.
—  Eckhart Tolle

What am I

Thought can't comprehend what is beyond thought

Admit it

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and what everybody really is.
—  Alan Watts

Spirit immersed in human experience

"We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings immersed in a human experience." ~ Wayne Dyer

Beyond Form

Be in love with what is, knowing that beyond the limits of what the eyes can see is the reflection of the Beloved One beyond all form.

The knower

Awareness

Not the Surface

Judgement

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." ~ WayneDyer

Stress

"No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world." ~ Wayne Dyer

Let It Be

Stop stressing over it and just let it be. Everything will be ok.

Suffering

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown."
      — Thích Nhat Hanh

Improve

As long as you are concerned about improving yourself, you will always have a self to improve.
—  Cheri Huber

Find God

Seeing

We dream with eyes closed yet the images seem real. How are we seeing?

What you seek

Many seekers read countless books, try different forms of meditation, go to many retreats, never guessing they already are what they seek.

Pure Awareness

Know you are pure awareness.

With this knowledge as your sword
Cut through your chains.

And be happy!
(1-14)

Mindless

Stop making use of your mind and see what happens.
Do this one thing thoroughly.
That is all.
—  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Time

"When you look forward into time, it seems like forever.
When you look back, it appears time has passed in a flash."
      — Zen Proverb

Conceptual

AM I HERE?

ego

muddy water

new normal

So coincidences became the new normal,
and serendipities a daily thing.

Making it real

Mind is the key

The Door to God

SILENCE

Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the S

SILENCE IS THE ONLY TEACHING AND THE ONLY TEACHER THAT IS AVAILABLE ALL THE TIME.

Borderline Insane

Manifesting

Nothingness

Life Force