Q: Is not all speech just definition or the assigning of a relative meaning based on an imaginary “subject” or “knower” and the “other”, “object” or the “known” and the comparison or contrast of it to the many “others”? When mind compares one concept to another is it not just comparing one dream or story to another – is the mind thinking about thoughts the same as a dreamer dreaming about dreams?) an Eternal State, we assume (we think/imagine without being aware that mind [we] is imagining) all other states and (mind [we] assumes a “someone”, “me” or “separate subject”) someone who can find it (mind imagines a separate “me” that must search for the separate “object” or “experience” of enlightenment rather than realizing what is aware of the seeking IS enlightened and free).
C: There is no mind! All there is, is thoughts coming and going in the Space you are. The apparent problem arises when A) you believe YOU are the thought “I” or “me”, and B) you believe that these passing thoughts are ABOUT this fictional “you”. This is simply a case of mistaken identity. The solution is dirt simple: Stop BELIEVING the thoughts. Take your stand IN and AS the Space-Like Awareness which is NEVER absent! As Nisargadatta pointed out, REFUSE all thought except “I AM” (which is a close as language, thought, can get to the Eternal Isness; and reject any and all questions except “Who Am I”.
It always seems to come back to “WHO OR WHAT” is doing the asking and the answering. And it seems that it is the mind, which we think or assume to be our true Self - that is doing the asking and the answering. If the mind is a total illusion that only thought or assumed itself to be real, then the asking and the question and the answering and the answer are also illusions ….and thus only the Awareness of the asking and answering is real and there are no questions and no answers????.... Fuck!!!!!! said the mind….I am useless except in navigating the temporal world of the created or the known, Damn it!!! – I assumed/thought I was the intelligence of an individual person that could know the absolute truth).
The “individual” is a fiction; a believed thought that has no ACTUAL independent nature or personal power whatsoever. You as an organism are Being-Lived; life is life-ing. YOU are not a noun; you are a verb, world-ing, life-ing. The Livingness is totally alive and nondual. There is NO duality unless you give the energy of belief to the thoughts that arise unbidden in the Space … YOU are SPACE, No Thing, “being dreamed" as a dream character in a play that has no author and no star. Just BE. Simple. You ARE, BEING. No escape. There is no “realization” to get for there is no “individual” to realize. Seeing that, the search ends in the absolution dissolution of belief in a “me”.
Seeking "Wholeness, Completion, Happiness, Love or "Liberation" from “Another”, whether that "revered other" be a "Guru, Guide, Lover, or Friend", is a perfect way to avoid Paradise. Paradise is THIS. Just as it Is and just as it Isn’t. All seeking "out there" is a dream of a “me”, foolishly knocking on the door to Paradise, from inside Paradise. Paradise is only lost in seeking it. This Loving Oneness Cannot Be Known. To “know” Oneness there would have to be a sense of separation FROM Oneness. Who cannot see the fault in that logic?
Ponder John Greven’s pointers:
The below ponderings are just concepts to rattle around in the brain.
See that while this is occurring - you remain - as you always have been.
Present and Aware of the every changing appearance.
Anything in front of the mirror is still something in front of the mirror.
Even if that something is nothing.
Can you identify a single thing that is not an object to the subject that you are?
Is the you, that is attempting to do this, an object as well?
No Mind
In thinking about the mind, there is often a sense that the mind and brain are two different things. The thought may be that the mind is somehow an ethereal private world that is cherished or is perhaps a tormentor - while the brain is often ignored as having anything to do with the mind. As an example, a friend recently made the statement, “I’m going to sell everything I own and move into my mind - since I live there anyway.” The mind gives us a sense of place, whereas the brain just appears to be an idea in the mind.
We know of course that the brain is storing information and carrying on bodily functions. But this is really more of a belief than a true knowing because we can’t see or feel the brain carrying out its functions. There is no sensation of the brain sending a signal to blink the eye, no seeing of the brain storing or retrieving information from memory, or even translating these words. If something is touched with a finger, there is contact with that something, and it is known. But, trying to make contact with the brain seems impossible. Therefore, the idea of a mind receives the attention – contact is possible with thoughts and feelings and they become the focus. The mind appears to be active – in the head- while the brain appears to be silent. Perhaps the two different labels of brain and mind appear to mean something different, but are, in actuality, referring to the same thing. Perhaps if we got square with the facts things would appear differently.
Is there a mind separate from the brain? Is what we refer to as the mind just the thinking process of the brain? Perhaps, if we dropped the label of mind and just saw the brain for what it is, a complex network of cells that make up a limited, habitual, machine type organ, the mind would loose some of its seeming authority. An analogy has been drawn from the computer function of “garbage in garbage out”. The brain is truly no different. In regards to what we refer to as the mind, all the brain is doing is organizing information, combining information, and bringing ideas and behaviors back out. The brain is a conditioned organ. It is nothing but a machine. The conditioning that it has received was started millions of years ago and through a seeming series of events, is what it is, right now, down to the last cell, memory, and thought.
There is no mind.
ReSources...
18 January 2012
17 January 2012
Pointers from 'Sailor' Bob
"Recognise the naturalness that you are--pure, all pervasive, space like, ever expressing, spontaneous presence-awareness, with no reference point (self nature) having any substance or independent existence. Failing to recognise naturalness (the unity of appearance and emptiness, space and its content), delusion happens and there is a grasping of or fixation on appearance--me and the other--a seeming duality. Without that fixation there is freedom as naturalness, delusion dissolves and evenness (non-duality) remains--the natural state--simply this, nothing else. Naturally remaining as naturalness (equanimity) is the natural (effortless) meditation of no one to meditate and nothing to meditate on--no trying to get or trying to avoid, just effortless being which is always already so. Recognise this again and again". ~Bob Adamson
13 January 2012
The Delusion of “Intention” and “Personal Power"
The Delusion of “Intention” and “Personal Power"
Q: I have a friend who is still in a spiritual group" ( that I used to belong to till Non-Duality came along ) who keep carping on about "setting or having an intention about goals whether they be about spiritual, financial or health issues." I know that "intention" is just another thought. Can you please say a few words on "intention" and why it is meaningless? Thanks & love, M.
Charlie: Sure. To start with you are spot on in seeing that “intention” is just another cloud in the mental sky. Yet that word is imbued with endless meanings by so called “teachers” whose own ignorance prevents THEM from this direct seeing and nondual realization that all thoughts .... ALL ... are empty, meaningless movements of pure energy. As Nondual "Kashmir Shaivism" points out, thoughts are made of sounds. ALL there is is energy-sounds and nothing. In that set of pointers, it is seen directly (NOT conceptually or intellectually) that all there is, is Nothing, and Energy, which are The One Essence appearing as duality. And that this stillness-moving of Nothing As Energy arises as letters, words, sentences. This is known as Matruka Shakti. And since all there IS, IS Nondual Shakti, no collection of sounds can possibly be more “significant or meaningful” that any other collection of energetic impulses.
WHY is it meaningless? “Intention” requires a deluded belief in an entity, which entity then makes up these “meanings” about the totality, stating with the belief in separateness and time! IT makes up the notion that there really IS a separate “Me” or “I” with power of its own apart from the whole! This is bizarre yet looks “normal” to 99.999% of human organisms.
Eventually each apparent “person” MUST test and see, if there REALLY IS any “I” or “Me” with a speck of independent power to create and intend. WHERE exactly IS such an entity? On investigation (which happens ONLY spontaneously, sans that delusion of intention, as a function of the Grace of Totality, can any such entity be found? Where?
In This Now, This Here, this open clear NONconcepetual and INconceivable Aware-Space-That-This-All-IS, in direct Seeing-Being, it is absolutely clear and obvious that there just AIN’T no such entity anywhere; not in these ignorant gurus or teachers or their equally ignorant students in these deluded “schools”, or anywhere else. Look: It is the blind leading the blind. Yet to assign blame is also incorrect: ALL there is, is the Impersonal Functioning of the Infinite Energy of Awareness-Being-Consciousness.
As Bob Adamson repeats, THAT is What IS, and there is ONLY THAT, NOT TWO. Full Stop.
The key point however, seen as it is from Here, is that ANY belief or acceptance of some separate power or separate “person” that attains or has such power is the root cause of human suffering. Ask one of these deluded souls how often "their" "intentions" are actually REALIZED!!?? Ha! IF they are honest (a BIG if, of course) they will have to admit that never are anyone’s "intentions" realized 100% as visualized or thought up; never mind the events where intentions are not fulfilled at all. Of course, some will CLAIM (that is what egos do) is that “I" (this ego-claim of a powerful “me”) "intended X and by God it happened". What stays hidden from view, often to themselves (!), is the fact that these ideas of a future accomplishment FAIL more often than not. (Besides where IS a “future” unless you think about it!?)
The key point however, seen as it is from Here, is that ANY belief or acceptance of some separate power or separate “person” that attains or has such power is the root cause of human suffering. Ask one of these deluded souls how often "their" "intentions" are actually REALIZED!!?? Ha! IF they are honest (a BIG if, of course) they will have to admit that never are anyone’s "intentions" realized 100% as visualized or thought up; never mind the events where intentions are not fulfilled at all. Of course, some will CLAIM (that is what egos do) is that “I" (this ego-claim of a powerful “me”) "intended X and by God it happened". What stays hidden from view, often to themselves (!), is the fact that these ideas of a future accomplishment FAIL more often than not. (Besides where IS a “future” unless you think about it!?)
I can give you countless examples on request, from the apparent universal life, that would absolutely prove these points, yet, that would be NO more valid than the opposite, it is all unproveable! Either way it’s just a popular yet delusive story the ego tells out of its own sense of separateness (and self-importance.) It’s like a rooster who takes credit for intending the Sun to appear as the earth circles around.
In any case: As the wag said, "Tell God your plans, if you want to make her laugh!) Or as our dear friend Byron Katie says about such deluded false egoic claimers, "Who needs God when we have YOU!?" And consider the thousands who said they would “end hunger” back in the seventies. How’s THAT going?
You asked a good question; this shows that you are zeroing in on Reality and rejecting the false sense or power or control. Good for you! Please feel free to keep in touch as Totality inspires you to. Love ya!
11 January 2012
A warm, open all-embracing Love:
Pause thoughts, let it all be in This Now, and NOTICE: Your True-Nature. The warm, open sky of Awareness-Loving-ItSelf is ever present. Just notice that. It is, Here. It is, Now. This Love is invincible. As the body ages and dies, that Open Warm Space remains forever, unaltered, clear, and welcoming. That, Thou Art. So It Is, whether the conceiving-mechanical 'min d-brain' sees That o not. IT IS and IS NOT.
Not Two.
Facebook No Mas
In my view Facebook has become the province of politicos and newsies. I find it so cluttered with concepts and opinions that this space will no longer participate.
So long as donations and book sales allow for it, this space, the videos and newsletters will continue. Thanks for your support! Love, Charlie
(Scroll down for a NEW video posted today.)
Where and What ARE 'Problems' REALLY!?
With deep love and gratitude to 'Sailor' Bob Adamson and Ramesh Balsekar who inspired this talk. As Bob says, "Subject-object thinking seems to cover the natural state (awareness).
But without awareness, thinking could not take place. Because thinking
appears in awareness (like a cloud appears in the sky), realise that
thinking is in essence awareness. Understanding this, thinking cannot
obscure awareness."
And as Ramesh said, "To any conceptual problem there cannot be any valid answer except to see the problem in perspective as an empty thought. There is no such thing as a 'problem' which is other than merely conceptual."
10 January 2012
Consultations: Update as of January 2012
If
you would like to more deeply explore The Pathless Path Of Being, consultations are
available... in person if you can travel to Reno, Nevada, or by telephone or on Skype. Consultations take 60 to 90 minutes, and are recorded for your later use, when possible. Unlimited e-mail followup is included. Usually only one session is needed.
Advance payment and booking required: The suggested fee is $100. But if that will not work for you please request an exception (I always grant them!) and make any donation you can afford.
To book, Go HERE for details. Call to arrange a Time and Date: Telephone +1 775-342-3561 or Skype charliehayes36, or e-mail non.duality@yahoo.com, and specify 2-3 options of day and time that work for you.
Charlie also answers brief questions by e-mail and phone by donation (any amount is fine.)
And note that MANY Books and Podcasts are also available. Immersing oneself in these expressions can dissolve confusion, leaving what You Always ARE shining with the pure radiance of Non-conceptual Self-Knowing Awareness.
Advance payment and booking required: The suggested fee is $100. But if that will not work for you please request an exception (I always grant them!) and make any donation you can afford.
To book, Go HERE for details. Call to arrange a Time and Date: Telephone +1 775-342-3561 or Skype charliehayes36, or e-mail non.duality@yahoo.com, and specify 2-3 options of day and time that work for you.
Charlie also answers brief questions by e-mail and phone by donation (any amount is fine.)
And note that MANY Books and Podcasts are also available. Immersing oneself in these expressions can dissolve confusion, leaving what You Always ARE shining with the pure radiance of Non-conceptual Self-Knowing Awareness.
03 January 2012
Keeping It Simple
Keeping It Simple (aka: K.I.S.S.)
A transcript of an Original You Tube by Charlie, offered by Rich Hay (Thanks, Rich!)
OK, what do you say we keep this real, real, real simple this time?
You exist. You can’t doubt your own existence. You know you’re aware. That Presence of Awareness, that’s what you are. Are you a separate entity? Is there ‘a me’ apart from other than me? Isn’t ‘me’ and other than me just thoughts arising, and don’t you have to be the Aware Presence for any thought to arise?
So where’s the problem, unless you think that there’s a problem? And even the thinking there’s a problem is simply stuff arising in the Presence Awareness. If there’s no Awareness can anything happen? Can anything be apart from Awareness, if Awareness is required as the substrate, or the underlying or silent background, of everything that happens? Without that background of Awareness can anything be?
So, perhaps, you can see that you are Aware, you do Exist, that I Am is absolutely certain, you can’t deny It. And, perhaps, you can also see that the ‘me’ which you’ve taken yourself to be, and believed yourself to be, if you look for it you can’t find it. But who would do that? Well, ‘the you that you believe that you are’ could do that, and find out if there’s really such thing as ‘a me that’s in charge of its life.’
So I want to keep this real, real simple and brief for this little, maybe the last video, perhaps, I don’t know; but It seems like, it’s feeling like this is gonna be it for awhile. Because It’s so simple that It’s Simplicity Itself: What you are is Presence Awareness, what you’re not is anything else. And the Sages over eons have pointed it out this way. That, simply, ‘know what you are and also know what you’re not.’ The second is really required. Just knowing that I Am Presence Awareness, once that’s taken on, and as a belief, that just turns to crap.
So the direct knowing I Am, of Presence Awareness, is all that’s been pointed to and you can’t escape that.
But if there is a subtle belief, or a thought energy going into the idea that there’s a separate person, that there’s I and other than I, then you can just see that that is something arising in Awareness, so it can’t be apart from Awareness; and you can also see if it’s valid by seeing if it has any control or free will about anything.
If you think you have free will then, you know, consider the possibility that what you consider you’re free will is like counterfeit money. You try to spend counterfeit money and you can’t buy anything with it. It’s the same thing with this appearance of free will. If you believe that you’re in control of your life, then control your thoughts for the next 10 or 15 minutes; and don’t have one single thought that you don’t want or intend and don’t have one single feeling or emotion or pain in the body or anything else that you don’t want or intend, and see if you can actually control any of that for that length of time. You might seemingly be able to control a few things, but this is 100% or nothing. Either you’ve got 100% control or you don’t have any control at all. So just find out for yourself which it is.
So the bottom-line, the bottom, bottom, bottom-line: I Am, Awareness Is, you know that you are, and that’s undeniable, and that’s what you are, and that’s open, empty, meaningless, space-like, and that’s the Real. What is false? All the stuff you believe that you are, which you actually are not. On investigation can you find a separate me? No! Can you find a controlling entity? No! So that’s It. That’s It. Mind you that the bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom-line, is that all of this is simply Oneness appearing as this entire manifestation of dreams, and individuals, and seekers, and sages and all that’s simply Oneness appearing as this vast phantasmagoria of appearances and what you are is never touched by any of that.
I Love You.
A transcript of an Original You Tube by Charlie, offered by Rich Hay (Thanks, Rich!)
OK, what do you say we keep this real, real, real simple this time?
You exist. You can’t doubt your own existence. You know you’re aware. That Presence of Awareness, that’s what you are. Are you a separate entity? Is there ‘a me’ apart from other than me? Isn’t ‘me’ and other than me just thoughts arising, and don’t you have to be the Aware Presence for any thought to arise?
So where’s the problem, unless you think that there’s a problem? And even the thinking there’s a problem is simply stuff arising in the Presence Awareness. If there’s no Awareness can anything happen? Can anything be apart from Awareness, if Awareness is required as the substrate, or the underlying or silent background, of everything that happens? Without that background of Awareness can anything be?
So, perhaps, you can see that you are Aware, you do Exist, that I Am is absolutely certain, you can’t deny It. And, perhaps, you can also see that the ‘me’ which you’ve taken yourself to be, and believed yourself to be, if you look for it you can’t find it. But who would do that? Well, ‘the you that you believe that you are’ could do that, and find out if there’s really such thing as ‘a me that’s in charge of its life.’
So I want to keep this real, real simple and brief for this little, maybe the last video, perhaps, I don’t know; but It seems like, it’s feeling like this is gonna be it for awhile. Because It’s so simple that It’s Simplicity Itself: What you are is Presence Awareness, what you’re not is anything else. And the Sages over eons have pointed it out this way. That, simply, ‘know what you are and also know what you’re not.’ The second is really required. Just knowing that I Am Presence Awareness, once that’s taken on, and as a belief, that just turns to crap.
So the direct knowing I Am, of Presence Awareness, is all that’s been pointed to and you can’t escape that.
But if there is a subtle belief, or a thought energy going into the idea that there’s a separate person, that there’s I and other than I, then you can just see that that is something arising in Awareness, so it can’t be apart from Awareness; and you can also see if it’s valid by seeing if it has any control or free will about anything.
If you think you have free will then, you know, consider the possibility that what you consider you’re free will is like counterfeit money. You try to spend counterfeit money and you can’t buy anything with it. It’s the same thing with this appearance of free will. If you believe that you’re in control of your life, then control your thoughts for the next 10 or 15 minutes; and don’t have one single thought that you don’t want or intend and don’t have one single feeling or emotion or pain in the body or anything else that you don’t want or intend, and see if you can actually control any of that for that length of time. You might seemingly be able to control a few things, but this is 100% or nothing. Either you’ve got 100% control or you don’t have any control at all. So just find out for yourself which it is.
So the bottom-line, the bottom, bottom, bottom-line: I Am, Awareness Is, you know that you are, and that’s undeniable, and that’s what you are, and that’s open, empty, meaningless, space-like, and that’s the Real. What is false? All the stuff you believe that you are, which you actually are not. On investigation can you find a separate me? No! Can you find a controlling entity? No! So that’s It. That’s It. Mind you that the bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom, bottom-line, is that all of this is simply Oneness appearing as this entire manifestation of dreams, and individuals, and seekers, and sages and all that’s simply Oneness appearing as this vast phantasmagoria of appearances and what you are is never touched by any of that.
I Love You.
02 January 2012
There are no 'shoulds' in Your Reality-Essence
Q: I had an experience once where I also felt the is-ness of existence, but I lost that feeling is it something that will come when I’m ready? Should I just sit in silence everyday and have faith that i will see it eventually?
C: There are NO 'shoulds' in (and AS) the Essence-Presence-Awareness that you truly ARE. That ‘should’ would assume that the false sense of separation, AKA the core belief-assumption of being an independent doer-entity are true. In actual fact, what will be will be, in perfect accord with “the will of totality”. Mind you that is ONLY a pointer: In Reality nothing ever happens, despite appearances! So there is no “Willing-Force”; these pointers are merely poetic non-descriptions of what IS. What IS IS … forever, always and beyond any description or pointer; beyond even the experiences of “oneness” that keep the seeker seeking what he/she already always was is will be (then when the concept of “time” drops, all there is, is THIS. Not-Two-Ness, non dual impersonal Being. Self Aware, yet NOT separate in any way shape or from. Language will always fail here!
What may happen there is that you find that it so happens that you look and see if you can you find, in deep looking within, any such 'entity'. You may well discover It just not there, yet YOU as-You-Are, are always fully present and aware. That, Impersonal Presence of Awareness, or Awareness of Being, clear and forever unfettered, IS the true You. THAT is empty and devoid of meaning, thought, language … and also, THAT is appearing as all there is. There is ONLY THAT, Not Two, as the Sage Bob Adamson powerfully points out.
So, in Essence, all there is, is YOU and You which you and others erroneously call "other" ... until Totality arises as the resonance in the heart that allows and nurtures a deeper look INTO What Is. If no separate entity-'me' can be found to exist, did it or could it ever exist? So while you may do all sorts of stuff, meditate, self-enquire, chant, do selfless service etc etc, the real doer is Consciousness.
Realizing that (as is the case with the entire appearance!) happens absolutely beyond “your” control … simply because there IS (which the effortless investigation proves beyond doubt) absolutely no “you” to design or author or control anything whatsoever (despite beliefs and appearances.) Look into that, and all the while just notice, You ARE, Being, awake present and aware.
Take your stand as THAT, Your True-Essence, as Bob days “One Essence Appearing As Everything”, i.e. Spacelike Awareness. Reject all identities and all and any content, experience and concepts that come and pass in That and are also included therein. THIS (That Pristine essence) appearing as no thing and everything, is ALL THERE IS. Ben That and nothing else. Refuse any belief of conviction of identity-in-language. Let us know how that unfolds! With Love, and a happy new year to you!
“When Realization dawns, then what happens? You are no longer 'you'. You remain established in the inner silence and freedom without any concern for your welfare, content with whatever comes along -- and life goes on in perfect effortlessness.
When you see that you have no control over the results, you stop worrying about the results and concentrate on the work that is being done.” ~Ramesh Balsekar
C: There are NO 'shoulds' in (and AS) the Essence-Presence-Awareness that you truly ARE. That ‘should’ would assume that the false sense of separation, AKA the core belief-assumption of being an independent doer-entity are true. In actual fact, what will be will be, in perfect accord with “the will of totality”. Mind you that is ONLY a pointer: In Reality nothing ever happens, despite appearances! So there is no “Willing-Force”; these pointers are merely poetic non-descriptions of what IS. What IS IS … forever, always and beyond any description or pointer; beyond even the experiences of “oneness” that keep the seeker seeking what he/she already always was is will be (then when the concept of “time” drops, all there is, is THIS. Not-Two-Ness, non dual impersonal Being. Self Aware, yet NOT separate in any way shape or from. Language will always fail here!
What may happen there is that you find that it so happens that you look and see if you can you find, in deep looking within, any such 'entity'. You may well discover It just not there, yet YOU as-You-Are, are always fully present and aware. That, Impersonal Presence of Awareness, or Awareness of Being, clear and forever unfettered, IS the true You. THAT is empty and devoid of meaning, thought, language … and also, THAT is appearing as all there is. There is ONLY THAT, Not Two, as the Sage Bob Adamson powerfully points out.
So, in Essence, all there is, is YOU and You which you and others erroneously call "other" ... until Totality arises as the resonance in the heart that allows and nurtures a deeper look INTO What Is. If no separate entity-'me' can be found to exist, did it or could it ever exist? So while you may do all sorts of stuff, meditate, self-enquire, chant, do selfless service etc etc, the real doer is Consciousness.
Realizing that (as is the case with the entire appearance!) happens absolutely beyond “your” control … simply because there IS (which the effortless investigation proves beyond doubt) absolutely no “you” to design or author or control anything whatsoever (despite beliefs and appearances.) Look into that, and all the while just notice, You ARE, Being, awake present and aware.
Take your stand as THAT, Your True-Essence, as Bob days “One Essence Appearing As Everything”, i.e. Spacelike Awareness. Reject all identities and all and any content, experience and concepts that come and pass in That and are also included therein. THIS (That Pristine essence) appearing as no thing and everything, is ALL THERE IS. Ben That and nothing else. Refuse any belief of conviction of identity-in-language. Let us know how that unfolds! With Love, and a happy new year to you!
“When Realization dawns, then what happens? You are no longer 'you'. You remain established in the inner silence and freedom without any concern for your welfare, content with whatever comes along -- and life goes on in perfect effortlessness.
When you see that you have no control over the results, you stop worrying about the results and concentrate on the work that is being done.” ~Ramesh Balsekar
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