non-duality

Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood.

I am a lonely figure when I run the roads. People wonder how far I have come, how far I have to go. They see me alone and friendless on a journey that has no visible beginning or end. I appear isolated and vulnerable, a homeless creature. It is all they can do to keep from stopping the car and asking if they can take me wherever I'm going.I know this because I feel it myself. When I see the runner I have much the same thoughts. No matter how often I run the roads myself, I am struck by how solitary my fellow runner appears. The sight of a runner at dusk or in inclement weather makes me glad to be safe and warm in my car and headed for home. And at those times, I wonder how I can go out there myself, how I can leave the comfort and warmth and that feeling of intimacy and belonging, to do this distracted thing.But when finally I am there, I realise it is not comfort and warmth I am leaving, not intimacy and belonging I am giving up, but the loneliness that pursues me this day and every day. I know that the real loneliness, the real isolation, the real vulnerability, begins long before I put on my running shoes.

Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in transition - and added in assumption / projection

Om is the presence which steals away. It steals away the ordinary mundane existence of strife, struggle and duality; it steals away anxiety, aggression, fear, grief and sorrow; it steals away the debris of anger, hatred, confusion and ignorance, to fill us with the nectar of joy, immortality and life eternal.

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can__ hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing _ nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever __hat_ is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.

When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.

The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.

You aren__ actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the __hought up_ entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn__ mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.