I Am Dreaming

I am never anywhere but here, now.

Even that is a dream.

Who is dreaming?

I am the dream.

Lila

Karma is the dream that never completes, because karma has never begun.

It appears within the oceanic timelessness of being as the play of consciousness manifestation.

That I Am

What is aware of the cyclic appearance of the three states of consciousness; waking, dreaming and deep sleep?

'That' you are.

the me

There is the appearance of a flag, a colored banner on a craggy mound, in sun and rain and moon, tattered by wind, flapping in deep starlight. Other banners appear to flutter in the distance, some near, some far, some fallen as they all fall eventually.

The appearance of a me constantly changes, to wave, to fall and vanish, for it never is but an appearance.

Life and Death

The appearance of life and death is just a hobby.

All of the story of good and bad, pain and pleasure, seems to come and go.

It is all quite entertaining.

The 'I' and the getting caught up are the same fixation.

Beneath the 'I am'

Looking beneath the 'I am' to what is seeing

it is discovered that the looking and the seeing are one.

'I am' and all its baggage are merely thoughts.

There is only the absolute

There is only the absolute.

Supreme intelligence radiates from and as the absolute.

All things are the supreme intelligent radiance of the absolute.

You and every speck of atomic dust and anything imaginable are the supreme intelligent radiance of the absolute.

But you cannot put your finger on the absolute.

Can an eye see itself?

Only the radiance can be seen like a river flowing from source to source.

All of this is you

There are no enemies because there are no others, all of this is you.

And you appear in an infinite variety of expression as this moment of being.

Nisargadatta Quote

Nothings stops you from being a gnani here and now, except fear. You are afraid of being impersonal, of impersonal being. It is all quite simple. Turn away from your desires and fears and from the thoughts they create and you are at once in your natural state.


~ Nisargadatta

One Water

Falling snowflakes, each a unique universe of expression, not ever two the same, but all of them one water.

apparition of separation and illusion of attachment

When there is no hardened perception of an individual entity there is not as much tendency to become attached to any "thing".

duality nonduality beingness

There is not duality and nonduality.

There is only this be-ing.

How could there possibly be duality and nonduality in this?

The idea of both duality and nonduality are included in beingness.

No answer to the mystery of life but what is

In the mystery of life there are no answers to be found because all answers have already been provided.

This that appears right here, right now is the only answer there ever is.

There is nothing else that is but what appears in this moment of being.

The answers that are provided by and as life appearing in this moment of being are complete and clear even if the answers that appear are made of confusion and incompleteness.

Knowing this gives great satisfaction.

Only illusions appear to die

I have seen such countless births and deaths, or beginnings and endings of this so-called person to know that the me is not real in any sense of being a separate entity with its own, personal self substance.

In fact the appearance of a phantom self within its phantom world is born and dies so often that there is no fixed beginning or fixed ending that can be seen to actually exist.

There is such constant changing of the phantom appearance that it proves to be just a light and shadow show.

Three More

The world does not yield to changing. By its very nature it is painful and transient. See it as it is and divest yourself of all desire and fear. When the world does not hold and bind you, it becomes an abode of joy and beauty. You can be happy in the world only when you are free of it.


When somebody dies, nothing happens. Something becomes nothing. Nothing was, nothing remains.


It is the changing that dies. The immutable neither lives nor dies; it is the timeless witness of life and death. You cannot call it dead, for it is aware. Nor can you call it alive, for it does not change.


- Nisargadatta

Nisargadatta Quote

[The Absolute] gives birth to consciousness. All else is in consciousness.

- Nisargadatta

In Solitude and Darkness

In each [school of yoga], one can progress up to the point when all desire for progress must be abandoned to make further progress possible. Then all schools are given up, all effort ceases; in solitude and darkness, the last step is made which ends ignorance and fear for ever.

- Nisargadatta

Onion

There are so many countless layers of being that one begins to see there are actually no layers at all. It's like sound of silence and stillness in action.

Thought isn't what we think it is

Check it out. Look at a thought. It isn't a set of concrete words or pictures "in time". It's like a cloud that is one with the whole of being. A thought is amorphous. A thought doesn't exist independently, just as nothing exists independently. A thought is always changing in the expanse of mind as a cloud moves in the sky; part of the sky, but never a thing with any permanence whatsoever. Look deeply into a thought and it will prove to be undefinable; incomprehensible. Actually, a thought never really exists as we think it does. So where does that leave us? Thoughtless? Ha ha ha ha

Are We Just Brains?

Can a brain apprehend the wondrous intelligence of being?

You Are This Being

There may be infinite universes of energetic experience,
but only this one Being in and of which they appear and disappear.

You are this Being.

There's nowhere to go

This is it

You are There in the Midst

Look into anything.

Look into any object, thought, sensation, feeling.

Look without conceptualizing and attempting to label or describe.

Look nakedly and see what you find.

If you look honestly and deeply all you will find is vast mystery.

And there you are in the midst of the seeing.

Appearance

In appearance you are born and then die.

In reality you are eternally present in the midst of the appearance.

Can you find a beginning to your self?

Can you see an ending?

Only in imagination.

Look Beneath Concepts

Look at reality with direct seeing.

Look beneath conceptualization.

Any conceptual interpretation of reality is illusion.

Beliefs, imagination, labeling, are unnecessary for being.

No Description

Nothing can completely describe or illustrate the source of all because everything that appears is merely a phantom expression of that mystery.

Expressions and descriptions occur nonetheless.

What you are cannot be pinned down.

Relax as you are and be.

Peter Brown Podcast at U.G.C.

Have a listen.

http://urbangurucafe.com/wordpress/2009/08/28/52-peter-brown-the-open-doorway-part-2/

More Nisargadatta Quotes

"Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear."

"There is only imagination. It has absorbed you so completely that you just cannot grasp how far from reality you have wandered. No doubt imagination is richly creative. Universe upon universe are built on it. Yet they are all in space and time, past and future, which just don't exist."

"There can be no continuity in existence. Continuity implies identity in past, present and future. No such identity is possible, for the very means of identification fluctuate and change. Continuity, permanency, these are illusions created by memory, mere mental projections of a pattern where no pattern can be."


- Nisargadatta

Whatever You Think

Whatever you think is going on is your imagination.

Nisargadatta Quotes

"Concern yourself with your mind, remove its distortions and impurities. Once you had the taste of your own self, you will find it everywhere and at all times. Therefore it is so important that you should come to it. Once you know it, you will never lose it."


"In reality there is only consciousness. All life is conscious, all consciousness -alive. Even the stones are conscious and alive."


- Nisargadatta

Spinning Thoughts

Focusing on thoughts spins an illusion of a 'me' in 'time'.

There is Awareness

Everywhere you 'look' there is awareness,

and in the midst of this awareness that is 'seeing'

is everything that appears within, in and as awareness.

It's not 'awareness' and 'things appearing'. That would be other than oneness.

Impermanence is awareness appearing as things.

Who is Suffering?

Suffering is the bliss of being.

Who can claim it?

There is no one to claim it.

Suffering, bliss, all of it is the experience that appears as being.

Bang! What a Boot!

The infinite appearance of divine intelligence is incredible!

What is light? What is a pencil? What is anything?


What is a boot?


What a fantastic appearance of divine intelligence a boot is.

How utterly incomprehensible it is that there is such a thing as a boot!

And the word that describes it, sorely limited as it is, what an astounding thing that word is.

Boot.

And what is it to not care about the magical appearance of a boot?

"Ho hum, it's just a boot. Who cares?"

What another fantastic appearance of divine intelligence that is.

All is the expression of the mystery of divine intelligence.

This is It

The miracle unfolding right here, right now, is the absolute, divine intelligence, God, or whatever you like to call It.

There are no 'things' and 'God', no 'people' and 'God', no 'me' and 'you' and 'God'.

There is nothing but this absolute, divine intelligence, and there's no definitive way to place a description on it as it miraculously unfolds in, as and around us.

The divine approaches the divine within the unfolding miracle of the divine.

Right here, right now, is all that there is. Right here right now is ever impermanent.

Absolute divine intelligence is right here, right now in and as everything appearing and disappearing.

You can't put your finger on it. You can't put a label on it.

This is it.

End of Karma

You are not only what you appear to be,

a separate entity living amongst other separate entities.

You are the entire universe,

and even beyond that.

Your Life is the Gift

There is no state of security for the individual.

Look into this.

Memories fade. Change is constant. The body will die.

There is no stopping these.

Your life is the gift.

Investigate

Inquire, investigate, look into whatever presents, whatever appears.

Nothing is passed up, all is looked into until the looking transforms into a new inquiry.

'See' whatever you look into is made of a fantastic eruption of consciousness energy from emptiness.

Objects, people, emotions, thoughts, sounds, sights, smells, sensations, tastes, likes and dislikes, everything, nothing, all of this is the self into which inquiry opens.

Look wholly with the entirety of what is available, of what you have access to.

Being inquires into Being.

See For Yourself

All the wonderful books, the words, the pointers, the talks, the teachers, the teachings, the blessings, the satsangs, all are immediately ripped up, set afire and dumped in the ash can of dreaming.

In fact any and all experience whether wonderful or horrible are already gone.

Where are they now?

They don't exist beyond thoughts.

You are the truth in which all experience occurs.

Eternity, Infinity, Impermanence

Right here, right now, is found infinity and eternity. Where else are these qualities found?

Except in imagination, no other place and time can be found.

Here and now is also found impermanence.

Eternity, infinity, impermanence of appearance, none of these qualities are separate and distinct.

All 'things' appear and disappear eternally and infinitely.

From what do they appear and disappear?

What observes this?

Impermanence

Anything that appears within experience proves to be impermanent.

Some things appear to be more permanent than others, but ultimately when looked into they are also seen to be impermanent.

When everything is looked through and seen to be impermanent, what is left?

Are you still 'here' ?

This Is It

Nothing ever happened.

From where does anything come and to where does anything go?

This is it.

Direct Experience

Direct experience.

Nothing else.

What else is there?

Imagination, thought, belief, all appear in direct experience.

See What Happens

Peter Brown says,

"Now here's the punch line. You want to look at the back of the book to see what happens? This is what happens:

God wins "

Everything and Nothing

Not only does everything matter

But also nothing matters

At all

Each One is the Universe

Universe, God, Oneness, whatever label is used to describe the

indescribable, that One is embodied in appearance.

Appearance is eternally infinite.

Every Thing is Impermanent

Every thing is impermanent.

Grasping impermanence is bondage to suffering.

Even in thoughts are made prisons of belief.

Attempting to not grasp is grasping the attempt to not grasp.

Any endeavor to free oneself is suffering because it is a grasping of a desire to be free from grasping and suffering.

That there appears to be one who could grasp or not grasp is a key to the puzzle, as in the grasping and an identity as a personal, separate self are the same energetic expression.

But actually nothing can be done or not done.

What seems to be doing or not doing just happens, to no one, whether or not there appears to be a someone.

Nothing really matters or doesn't matter in impermanence because nothing really happens or doesn't happen

to no one.

When Thoughts Have Vanished

When thoughts have vanished nothing is right or wrong, there is just this as it is. Everything appears in a whole mysterious freshness, a newness. A depth of being is revealed as present, not hidden, not beneath a veneer of illusory labeling, and everything loses its description because the fog or veil of conceptualism has never been, can never have been. No feelings of tiredness or awakeness, or any other feelings that make a personal story. What were dishes being washed is still happening, perhaps, or maybe not, but it is no longer dishes and no longer washing, and at the same time it is. Wonder and commonplace are merged into a richness of unexplainable, incapturable isness.

And then thoughts are once again center stage (or somewhere thereabouts I suppose, it doesn't much matter).

Appearances of Appearances

Sufferings and hobbies are just appearances of appearance in this show of illusion's reality.

Children starving appear to appear in this appearance too.

The show appears to go on as long as it appears to.

What to do?

Complete Mystery

Walking along the avenue with my kid in tow and looking at the people. 'They' are not 'me'. Every one of them different. Each one of them with a different expression and a different gesture considering me in their momentary posturing that is likely a habitual stance. 'Me', looking at 'them' out of a likewise habitual stance. What are they to me? A complete mystery. What am I to them? A complete mystery. What am I to myself? Unknowingness. Mystery. Complete. That is what makes us the same. Our eyes shine the light of complete mystery. And vibrating in and as all place and moment the stunningness of this appearing with no possible hold or claim from any thing, because this unknowness is everything. Nothing can claim the mystery of this. All that is.

Artifact

Artifacts appear there stuck in the ground until I pick them up and study them to find out that they are still just artifacts.

An artifact (any thing, even a thought) exhibits the truth of the universe because all apparent things exhibit that. All things are completely the entire universe in that no thing exists separately.

So I can pick up an artifact and study it many different ways, looking at various infinite aspects all the way to the subatomic as far as measuring will allow. Doing this is what makes a thing an artifact.

There is nothing wrong of course with studying artifacts. What is already remains when that is done.

A mystery.

Every Thing is Impermanent

Every thing is impermanent. Grasping impermanence is bondage to suffering. Even in thoughts are made prisons of belief.

No Time

Time as we think of it is just that; thought. Thoughts of time appear in timeless being in which all things appear and disappear.

When we see what appears to be continuity of time it is an illusion.

Any thing that appears in this moment to have an association with another so-called past event is only that past event appearing now in the midst of anything and everything else appearing now. Meaning, there is no past event beyond what appears in this moment, be it a thought, a form, or whatever appears now in and as THIS.

What is appearing now is a unique energetic expression that manifests in timeless being.

Things seemingly past and present are already merged in essence as one and their uniqueness of expression appears as an infinite and eternal cascade, forming patterns that appear to be familiar and distinct at the same instant.

So in the story of a self that seems to exist independently from other selves and other things there also appears a concept of a past existence, of a continuity of a separate entity living apart from "others" with its own history. This is fine for the dreamer. But when awakening from the dream it is all seen as illusion. A passing show on its way back to nothing.

Look into the so-called past. Where is it? Where does it exist? In thought only. An artifact from the so-called past appears only in this moment with a dream story attached to it. The present moment never exists as time either. Where can it begin and stop? NOW?

There is no time as in past, present and future. Only timeless being. You are this timelesssness of being.

Forgiveness

I am you and you are me.

When you and I interact we complete a portion of each-others' reality.

Our experience of life is fulfilled in one another.

The world we perceive reflects what we know as ourselves.

So you are me and I am you.

I am you and me.

Surrender

The dream of the separate self is ever an act of surrender

Known as Love as the dream of the separate self dissolves

This Whole Life Experience Is Sex

This whole life experience is sex.

Being created here can never be seperated from the sexual experience. From the moment these bodies are born to the moment they die THIS is a sexual experience.

These bodies are created out of sex and they vibrate with never-ending sensuality which includes sexual vibration. Sensuality feeds the body's needs for food and procreation. Out of that experience, unique to each bodily experience, arises self-expression.

Then, for humans the next layer of experience is self-consciousness. That's where the biblical account of the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of right and wrong comes to play in the human experience.

Other animals don't eat from that tree which sprouts from the human mind of concepts of right and wrong which is layered on top of the desires of a conceptual "I". That "I" concept is ultimately rooted in the needs for food and procreation. Animals don't have the concept of right and wrong. The survival and extension of bodily experience becomes a concept in the human mind called self-consciousness. Animals eat and procreate. Humans do too, but also entertain concepts of those acts as related to a conceptual self.

So really, like the animals, all of life experience includes sexuality, along with the need to consume food. Even if we try to shut it out the sexual urge is never missing from the human experience. In a sense, everyone we come into contact with is involved with us in a sexual experience. It cannot be denied or escaped because it is intimately wrapped in the body's life experience.


How's this for a thought?:

Because these bodies are wired as a never-ending sensual experience to nourish and replicate themselves, then on an underlying level we are "consuming" and "making love" with everyone and everything we meet. Our bodies are ever seeking nourishment and reproduction.It is just the process that comes natural to being a human animal.

Ever New Now

There is no past, no future and no concrete present when it comes to the phenomenal world. If someone disagrees then they can try and show me where and when things existed, will exist, or exist now. Even things now are ever changing from moment to moment.

I have been working on understanding that ALL possibilities exist simultaneously. That has been somewhat difficult to realize because there is only presented an ever-shifting fluidity of experience that appears now, and now, and now. Any known possibilities are also contained in this here now as thought. I can only presume that unknown possibilities exist as well perhaps as unmanifest thought. The infinite possibilities are only that; infinite possibilities. They don't all appear together in a manifested way (not to my perception anyway).

Now it appears to be more clear that the phenomenal creation is always dynamically emerging from source. And because phenomena ARE ultimately source, then it is a constantly reinventing radiation of NOW.

So really, THIS appears as ultimate possibility. All thoughts of past present and future appear in this ultimate possibility. THIS appears to have time-space continuity, but really is in all ways the one original expression of source.

Source appears ever new, ever now and can be found as the underlying reality of the appearance of phenomenon.

Where and when is any of THIS happening?

Where and when is any of THIS happening?

The dishes are being washed, the sunlight shines through the window, the fly lands and then takes off, and all along where and when does any of THIS happen?

Thoughts form and dissapate. Feelings in the body rise and fall. Where and when do these occur?

Here and now?

Is there anything other than here and now?

Where is the past and future? Do the past and future really ever exist?

And here and now is such a phantom. In a sense it never really exists because here and now is always gone, ever to be replaced with here and now.

What are you? Do you exist here and now? Is THIS event that never really exists yet is simultaneously all there really is what you are?

What are you? What is here and now? What is THIS?

Are you THIS?

Are you the ultimate mystery?

You Are Forever

When is forever? Right now is forever.

Where does right now begin and end? Right now never begins and never ends.

What is right now? Right now is what you are.

What you are is forever.