There is absolutely NO reason why anyone should suggest that you should commit yourself to any spiritual program or practice unless they themselves have an agenda. – What is true is as immediately available as your next breath. The mind does not need to be trained, no matter what anyone says about that. Even the [...]
Why should anyone feel gratitude for someone who only speaks in blunt terms that appear to consistently threaten to rob you, rob you of all your favorite erroneous beliefs? The body may feel some relief once the angst slips away, the burden lifted from the carrying all that weight – the weight of the dramas [...]
It is all appearance only. Every particle is an appearance. No matter how close you look at things, nor how far away, it is all appearance. Everything appears in the seeing. Seeing does not go out from your eyes and grasp objects, then return with information. Seeing is everywhere and every thing. No separation. If [...]
I am not interested in analysis. All perceptions are in the mind. Whatever you perceive ‘out there’ is actually ‘in there’ (which can only be ‘here’). Yet there is no inside nor any outside. Just this presence, unbound and obviously clear. In fact there is no ‘there’ and to see this clearly, walk over ‘there’ [...]
Of course the ‘seeker’ is nothing but a misunderstanding and the ‘me’ cannot see or know anything. Who does not understand? Everything is clear and obvious just as it is. Belief in ANY thought as being something that is separate and having some substance of its own is delusional – yet very common. The One [...]
“This Consciousness is hard to bear, which is why people become involved in worldly activities”. “Self-Knowledge is beyond all words and concepts” – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. We may sense the pain in others and we may wish to ease the pain in others. But the problem is closer to ‘home’. The ’cause’ for psychological pain [...]
Recognition of our true nature happens because ‘it’ is already known. Even in an ordinary sense, you cannot recognize something unless you have already ‘seen’ or ‘known’ it before. What you ARE, you have always been – recognizing it as being naked and unadorned awareness, is a silent, wordless recognition. It cannot be explained or [...]
The investigation is not a gradual process. It can appear as a process of elimination. “I am not this – I am not this”…etc. The pure seeing is not identified with anything and can never be identified with anything or nothing. Seeing is seeing. everything appears in the seeing. That should be plainly obvious and [...]
You are not a name or a ‘person’. Whoever you believe yourself to be is just a story. It may be a good one for sure, it maybe the best – but it is a story, none the less. Without words, where is time and story? Every story begins with “Once upon a time………” Memory [...]
Everything is appearance only. The Essence of everything is beyond the capacity of the intellect. In its pure nature it is the simplicity of the naked knowing, an activity of the same energy that ‘creates’ the entire appearance in this immediacy called LIFE. You cannot be separate from THAT. You are THAT and could not [...]
