you are the you that you already are

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noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:08:00 +0000

If you have enjoyed this blog you may also like the new one that I have up.

Who asks "Who am I?"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:45:00 +0000

The living experience of not being a separate "I" or "me" does not eliminate the person. If you are appearing as a person, then you are appearing as a person. And there is no problem at all with the arising of the structures that make up the person that you are.

There is a face...but it is not haunted from behind by a separate "me". There are arms and legs and a body moving and living...but these are not haunted by a separate "me". Not any more than a cloud passing in the sky is haunted by a separate "me". Not any more than a bird or a blade of grass or a speck of dirt is haunted by a separate "me".

Any person lives in a world with other people. Only, despite the obvious assumption, not one of these people is ever a separate "me".

Who asks "Who am I?"

Only a "me" that never is.

"HELP! "

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:57:00 +0000

Spiritual practice might get any person out of overt identification with ego.

By ego I mean when the assumption of "I am" is turned outward, as a matter of speaking, and a person is focused on external appearances.

To get out of ego is to get into being spiritual, inwardly focused--which has enormous value. A person with authentic spiritual focus is more likely to openly and actively wonder about the nature of things. Nonetheless, the spiritual "I" is still "I". And in the immediacy of this that is, there is never any problem with the arising of any sort of "I" as this "I" is only another appearance.

However, for any person to follow this assumption does have an effect. It is similar to believing that your pants are on fire, even though they are not. You will run and roll around like crazy all the time and always be jumping in water for no reason. Just imagine a world where people live like that... It would be crazy!!

In certain Tibetan teachings, there is description of what is called "mirror-like primordial awareness". Primordial awareness is, of course, being-awareness. So mirror-like primordial awareness is this being-awareness seeing so many people believing that their pants are on fire. Just like in the literal situation, if you recognize that there are no flames, you will naturally feel obliged to point out their absence.

Even though you are not doing anything by pointing out that something which doesn't exist, doesn't exist, you are in fact saving a person from the completely unnecessary behavior of attempting to put out the "fire" in their pants.

The Serpent & the Rope

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Some teachers say that appearances are a problem. Is this true?

No. Appearances are appearances. The notion "I am"--which has no basis in reality--entangles itself with appearances and this makes them seem like a problem. But have a look. Where is the problem? It is with this notion "I am". Where am I? Who am I? Investigate this. Anyone can do this simple investigation. If I am, where am I? Who am I?

If I am my body, then how am I seeing that I am my body? Even an eye can not see itself. So how will a body see itself? If I am my thoughts, then how am I seeing that I am my thoughts? What "I" is all of this occurring too? What is seeing and what is being seen?

This notion of "I" is like a house of mirrors. Once it is taken up, it multiplies and divides inside of itself. Only, despite appearances, there never is anything that IS a separate "I". This notion of an independent "I" is just like a parasite hanging onto a host. The reason it stays "alive" is through the host, yes. Only in this case the parasite is a phantom, a mirage. And you can never find the basis for a mirage. A mirage is pure imagination, pure fiction. A mirage is seeing a serpent when all there is, is a rope.

Person & Being

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:34:00 +0000

The person that I am is an expression of being.

It is possible to have a relationship with any person.

And yet no person can ever have a relationship with being,

as every person is nothing other than an expression of being.

the search for meaning

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:55:00 +0000

the search for meaning

finally falls

right into itself

why

because every eye

is only this

immediacy

of pure seeing

any so called

meaning

of you

can not

be found

in

you

when

the meaning

of you

is

you

Reality

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:30:00 +0000

Reality as it appears is never separate from reality as it is. However reality as it appears discovers its own greatness, moment by moment by moment, in giving itself up to reality as it is.

"What is Wrong with Me?"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:30:00 +0000

What do you think is wrong with me?

Nothing! There is no "you" or nothing outside of you. Take your pick.

It may be that you feel bad, in a way that seems out of step with your current circumstances, due to some vasanas. It is similar to what happens when you nearly have what is certain to be a bad fall. Even though you catch yourself from falling, your pulse still races. Your feeling that something is wrong may be like this.

Your feelings are not you. They are happening IN you.

Silence

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:25:00 +0000

These are all of the things that Silence surrounds:

all things

and everything, everything

If you can perceive or conceive it,

Silence already has it

in its thoughtless and kind crook

Before you can say you are

and judge, Silence

is the hand

fitting your glove, is

the foot walking and talking

your shoe.

Walking Around

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:04:00 +0000

At times as my feet

are moving themselves on

unrolling sidewalk, a church bell sounds

over the long exhaust noise

while light lies gently around

and thoughts rise in my mind

as only thoughts and I

don't even think them.

Shrubbery and houses twist and scrawl

and edgeless life pulses

and flows itself.

At times it is morning;

I am walking inside myself

as this bright flowing of life,

and the sky is clear blue

and the trees only click their leaves faintly

and the autumn chill lights through everywhere

and leaf colors joyously paint themselves multicolored,

and small birds peep from a cropped tree

in perfect wonder.

drop is ocean

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:18:00 +0000

me is the haunting

of a single drop

and this is

all ocean

what happens

when ocean

enters drop

is utterly utterly

unexplainable

and utterly utterly

unattainable

for every drop

is only

pure ocean

The Presence of a Master

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:05:00 +0000

You have been talking lately about teachers and masters...Is a master important?

While a master does not consider his or her self to be separate from anyone or anything, the presence of a master does have a effect. This effect is with people who are assuming themselves to be separate from other people and the whole vast, edgeless flowing of life.

The "I" of the pretending character is not the person that appears. It is an invisible assumption that is supported by vasanas. As an analogy, you might say that the assumption "I am" is like the tap root of a plant that is surrounded and supported by all of the plant's other roots. Usually only the plant is considered, which is the specifics of what the character is doing, has done or will do.

A master's presence silently works to "shut off" the roots of this phantom plant. He or she is not doing anything. And yet--without this presence--more and more roots will continue growing indefinitely, which will continue feeding the illusion of plant-ness.

Karma

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:13:00 +0000

What can I do about my karma?

You can investigate your own nature by inquiring "Who am I?" Aside from this you are helpless.

***

There are actually three types of karma.

Firstly, there is all the past karma that has accumulated as the result of actions over many lifetimes.

Secondly, there is the karma of living in relation to so many other beings. Any sentient being is like a ripple on a stream in the open flow of life with countless others--both sentient and non-sentient.

And, thirdly, there is the karma that emerges in the present moment. If you are taking yourself to be a separate "I" or "me" then this pretending character is also accumulating new karmas that are due to present action.

***

This third type of karma is what comes to an end, as a matter of speaking, when the "I" sufficiently questions itself. Without a "basis" it can not continue to develop.

However, there is still the result of the other two types of karma. Any sage or master has the personal and life that he or she has due to past actions as well as the actions (both past and present) of so many others--because of these types.

So even a sage has karma; even a master is helpless to end it.

***

Find your own present helplessness and you need not worry about ending any karma.

Instead you can laugh at it and enjoy it!

i never learned to smile

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:10:00 +0000

i never learned

to smile

this joy

this joy

that already

is is

a cup

running over

everywhere

no smile

could ever

do this

justice

this wide-awake

being-ness

so

openly

edgeless

"I Feel Ashamed..."

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:58:00 +0000

Another video of Karl Renz.

Two Videos of Madhukar

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:03:00 +0000

On Silence

Q & A

A Passing of Grace

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:32:00 +0000

I recently read an article by David Godman that considers some of Ramana Maharshi's teachings about aham sphurana.

This article caught my attention mostly because this sphurana experience is something that happened for "me" right before the question "Who am I?" finished itself.

So, although I was quite oblivious about it as it happened, I can attest to its significance.

***

At any rate, this article has helped to clarify that it was Bhagavan's grace that "set off" this "sphurana experience" allowing the Self to "realize" the Self.

Only I should qualify this by saying that in the aliveness of the Self there is no separate "me" who was then "helped" by any separate "Bhagavan". It is simply that the Self smiled in recognition to the Self in the guise of a passing of grace from "Bhagavan" to "myself".

Which is to say that something happened to a seemingly separate "me" so that it could be clear that nothing separate happens at all.

Two Songs by John Wheeler

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:56:00 +0000

The Sailor Bob Song

Song of the Sixth Patriarch

The Carrot of "Enlightenment"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:09:00 +0000

Here is a VERY funny video of Karl Renz.

no i & no you

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:44:00 +0000

what is it that

flashing lightning

flashes or

the shining sun

shines within

is it not

infinte

and spaceless

space

what is it that

infinite

and spaceless

space

appears

within

is it not

your very own

unseeable

and pure

being

i would tell you

to be this being

only i

don't have to

why

because there is

only this being

and no separate telling i

and no separate hearing you

the eye that never sleeps

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:07:00 +0000

i am

an eye

that

never

sleeps

each

seeming thing

appearing

appears

only within

this eye

that

i

am

and so i am shapless

and without boundaries

and without qualites

and without duration

and unnamable

every eye

whether

closed

or open

is open to

nothing

other than

this

not possible

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:59:00 +0000

it is not possible

for you to attain

and not possible

for you to loose

the you that you

already are

the aliveness

exploding

as a leaf

or clouds

flowering

across

the vast sky

or the smallness

and tenderness

of an infant's

hand

or the blue

or brown of

her or his

eyes

this aliveness

is nothing

but undeniable

saying of

unsayable

you

Your Inner Eye

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:24:00 +0000

I feel that I am in my body--inhabiting it and--that my body is me.

What about your mind?

What do you mean?

Do you sometimes think that you are in your mind? For example when your mind thinks about how your body looks whenever your look into a mirror--or thoughts that tell your body to get out of bed and get ready for work in the morning.

I also am in my mind.

So which one are you in...if you had to choose?

I can't decide between them!

Why not?

Because I am both of them.

What about your heart? What do you know about it?

I feel love for people and for things with my heart.

Love for all that arises?

I wish I could say so!

Who says that you can't?

Sometimes I do.

When? Is it when you are in your body or when you are in your mind?

Both.

How do you see this "I" that sometimes inhabits your body and sometimes inhabits your mind?

I don't know. I see it with my heart?

Yes! You see this "I" with your heart.

Your heart is your inner, invisible eye. When you look at an object with your physical eyes, you know that this object in not your physical eyes; they are what sees any physical object. Yet what is it that they can not see?

They can not see themselves.

Right. They can not see themselves!

So my heart is like my eyes?

Yes. That's right. Your heart is your invisible and undeniable being-awareness.

And heart is not a special "thing". It is your own innate and natural being. By staying with your own natural being you find that your body and mind are presently free. Why? Because they are not you. They are only a passing shining out, only an arising IN you.

You Are

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:56:00 +0000

You are not in your body.

Your body is in you.

You are not in your mind.

Your mind is in you.

You are not in your emotions or feelings.

Your emotions or feelings are in you.

You are.

You are ALL of this that is arising in you.

"Do 'Dualistic' Practices Have Any Value?"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:57:00 +0000

Do 'dualistic' practices have any value?

Who does a dualistic practice? Let's look into that first. If you are assuming that you are a separate person, an individual, then you may also find, in doing a practice, that you are getting some benefit from it. Only the quality of the benefit will be as limited as the assumption that it is predicated on.

The most helpful practice that I am aware of (it may be more accurate to say that this is an anti-practice; because it helps to reveal the present nonexistence of the practitioner!) is that of turning back repeatedly to your own natural awareness--initially by asking "Who am I?" This is helpful for the simple fact that to be continually misapprehending yourself is similar to banging your head against a wall. Nothing new is added to the scene for you to stop banging your head against a wall. Only something extraneous is left off from. And the very instant that you stop the "action" of banging your head against the wall of one thing or another--you may discover that no wall exists. There is only this simple and ever-present and natural awareness.