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Nothing
is left to you at this moment
but to have a good laugh!
Zen master
 
Open Secret
Wei Wu Wei
This is
It
and I am It
and You are It
and so is That
and He is It
and She is It
and It is It
and That is That.
James Broughton
 
The Wisdom Teachings of
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Matthew Greenblatt (ed)
Spontaneous Awakening
Adyashanti
The Course In Consciousness
Stanley Sobottka
 
The Zen Teaching
Of Huang-Po
P'ei Hsiu
Nondual awareness occurs when we no longer divide our consciousness into subject
and object, and perceive inner projections as outer reality.
Edward Plotkin
 
Glimpse After Glimpse
Sogyal Rinpoche
Enlightenment:
a path through the jungle
Dennis Waite
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what is awakening?
offerings from
scientists, philosophers and mystics ...
douglas harding
Here is just emptiness. There is no getting
my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing,
shining in great brilliance and clarity.
wei wu wei
Summing up the long history of the struggle
for "liberation," all that can be stated with finality is that sentient
beings must always appear as such, objectively extended in a space-time
context, but that what they are non-phenomenally, other than objectivised concepts, can never be either perceived or conceived since
cognizing cannot cognize what is cognizing, and what is cognizing is
what they are.
j krishnamurti
When there is a watcher it is merely the
past watching, and that is not watching, that is just remembering and it
is rather dead stuff. Watching is tremendously alive, every moment a
vacancy. Watching without a single thought, watching every reaction,
watching without identity, only endlessly watching, you are not really
awake, you are absent minded, not all there; you are not you but
watching. There is no thinker watching the thought, the thinker is the
thought. Somebody passes by you and wonders what you are watching. You
are watching nothing, and in that nothingness everything is.
henry david thoreau
I only know myself as a human entity; the scene so to speak, of thoughts
and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can
stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my
experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of
me, which, as it were, is not part of me, but spectator, sharing no
experience, but taking note of it; and it is no more I than it is you.
ashtavakra gita
The Self is the witness, all perfect, free,
one consciousness, actionless, not attached to any object, desireless,
ever tranquil. It appears through illusion as the world.
gary crowley
Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement
and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken
identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the
seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.
nisargadatta maharaj
Please understand that there is only one thing to be understood, and
that is that you are the formless, timeless unborn.
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be
yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your
true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.
david carse
Thinking that you are an awakened one, or that it is possible that you
might become an awakened one, or that your teacher is an awakened one,
or that there is at least one awakened one in a cave in the Himalaya
somewhere, is called being asleep. Awakening means popping out of the
context in which awakening makes any sense.
jesus of nazareth
(gospel of st thomas)
Whoever discovers the true meaning of these sayings will never die: Let
the seeker not stop seeking until he finds. And when he finds, he will
be greatly troubled. And after he has been troubled, he will be
astonished, and he will reign over the All.
adyashanti
All that is necessary to awaken to
yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something
more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the
awake silence that you are.
ramesh balsekar
The only truth which is not a concept is the sense of presence, here and
now.
'I am,' not 'I am Joe or Jane.' This impersonal sense of presence in the
present moment is the only truth.
When the apparent but illusory identity called a person has
disappeared into the awareness of total potentiality that it is, and has
always been, this is called enlightenment.
stanley sobottka
Awakening is disidentification of Awareness from the "I"-concept, and
therefore also from the sense of personal doership.
With awakening comes the awareness that there is no person or
entity, and there never has been any person or entity.
Consequently, there are also no other objects, and there
never have been any other objects.
Since there is no doer, there is no regret, guilt, or shame
for the past; or worry, anxiety, or fear for the future.
With awakening also comes the awareness that Reality, which
is what You are, has never been affected by either
conceptualization or identification.
ramana maharshi
Stillness or peace is realization. There is no
moment when the Self is not. Doubt or the feeling of
non-realization is due to the identification of the Self with
the non-Self. When the non-Self disappears, the Self alone
remains. To make room, it is enough that the cramping be
removed; room is not brought in from elsewhere. Your duty is TO
BE and not to be this or that. I AM THAT I AM sums
the whole truth: the method is summarized in BE STILL.
huang-po
A sudden perception that Subject and object are one will lead
you to a deeply mysterious wordless understanding - you will
waken to the truth of Zen.
If you form a concept of the true nature of
anything as being visible or audible, you allow a dharma of
distinction to arise. Let me repeat that the perceived cannot
perceive. Can there, I ask you, be a head attached to the crown
of your head?
llewellyn vaughan-lee
You make this extraordinary
journey from existence to nonexistence. You discover the truth
of your own nonexistence, the nothingness, the void where you as
a human being no longer exist. It's completely intoxicating and
this outer world falls away. You experience that the physical
world is only one among many worlds.
ken wilber
The moment this constant
nondual consciousness is obvious in your case, a new destiny
will awaken in the midst of the manifest world. You will have
discovered your own Buddha Mind, you own Godhead, your own
formless, spaceless, timeless, infinite Emptiness, your own
Atman that is Brahman, your Keter, Christ consciousness, radiant
shekinah - in so many words, One Taste. It is unmistakably so.
And just that is your true identity-pure Emptiness or pure
unqualifiable Consciousness as Such - and thus you are released
from the terror and the torment that necessarily arise when you
identify with a little subject in a world of little objects.
dzogchen
Primal Awareness always "is" as it is. It is the default
awareness that is always present. Like when we open our eyes we
"see" without anything we need to do to make "seeing" happen.
Or when we hear sounds, there is nothing we do to
make "listening" happen. Both of these perceptual aspects are
there by default. This State of Awareness is also just there.
No practice or preliminaries can make this default awareness be
more present than it already is. It requires no purification or
maintenance.
It is always on the "on" position. And it is fully on right now.
(Jax, posted
on DzogchenPractice)
u g krishnamurti
You wouldn’t touch
this with a barge pole. This is going to liquidate what you call
‘you’, all of you – higher self, lower self, soul, Atman,
conscious, subconscious – all of that. You come to a point, and
then you say ‘I need time.' So Sadhana (inquiry and religious
endeavor) comes into the picture and you say to
yourself ‘Tomorrow I will understand.’ This structure is born of time and
functions in time, but does not come to an end through
time. If you don’t understand now, you are not going to understand
tomorrow. What you are looking for does not exist. You would rather tread an enchanted
ground with beatific visions of a radical
transformation of that non-existent self of yours
into a state of being which is conjured
up by some bewitching phrases. That takes you away from your natural
state – it is a movement away from yourself. To be yourself requires extraordinary
intelligence. You are ‘blessed’ with that
intelligence; nobody need give it to you, nobody can take
it away from you. He who lets that
express itself in its own way is a natural man.
dennis waite
This term [enlightenment] is much confused and misused. It
is self-ignorance that prevents recognition of the truth about
our nature and that of reality. Enlightenment takes place in the
mind of a person when self-ignorance has been eradicated. It is
true (in absolute reality) that we are already 'free' - there is
only ever the non-dual reality so how could it be otherwise? It
is not t rue that we are already enlightened (in empirical
reality), as the seeker well knows. Enlightenment is the event
in time when the mind realizes that we are already free.
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Face to No Face
Douglas Harding
Krishnamurti's Notebook
J Krishnamurti
 
From Here To Here
Gary Crowley
 
Perfect Brilliant Stillness
David Carse
 
Who Cares?!
Ramesh Balesekar
Your nature,
and the infinite universe
Are none other than
one and the same:
Indescribable,
but eternally present.
Simply open yourself
to your own True nature.
Lao Tzu
Doing Nothing
Steven Harrison
The Simple Feeling of Being
Ken Wilber
 
The Natural State
U G Krishnamurti
advaita
nondual perspectives
the eyeless eye
meditation
seeing without shadows
the wonder of wonder
what is this 'nonduality'?
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