NEW Video 24 October 2011

What Is and What Appears

What IS is the timeless Reality of Being-Knowing, arising in the appearance as the first knowledge you have had for eternity, that is, "I AM". This I AM is the one Universal Natural Knowing that NO "other" can argue you out of, no matter how persuasive that argument may be. If some wag were to say to you, "you are NOT", or if YOU were to say "I am NOT", is there the faintest wisp of truth to that assertion? Isn't it clear and obvious that to even utter such a lie, in order to do so, you must first BE, you must know "I AM" BEFORE any truth OR lie could be uttered? 

Just notice that in this apparent manifestation, all that appears is appearing within the Absolute Subject, your own Eternal Being, which is clear, empty and open like space? To deny your Absolute Oneness-Nature is the task of religious zealots and misguided philosophers. This expression is neither religion NOR philosophy (and haven’t you had quite enough of both!?) This that is pointed towards here is best understood by the brain as “I AM and That is That! Nothing that follows “I AM” is but a false identity, a fiction believed at your peril. (A precise technical term for that is, “bullshit”.)

Anything that follows I AM must finally be rejected: The ancients used the term “Neti Neti”, Not This Not That. I AM is almost the Absolute; BUT The Absolute Subject which you are cannot be “known” as a concept or experience. THAT – which You ARE – is unknowable yet utterly REAL: THAT is expressed (made to appear) by Itself as “I AM”. So stay with I AM and reject all else. Reject any and all “identities”, even the so-called “holy” ones such as I Am Shiva!” Or “I am all that is!” 

Now: Please do NOT turn the pointing-concepts into a new “Advaita Nondual RELIGION". Please. That will only prolong the arrival of the final Absolute Knowing. 

So stay with I AM. Just That and nothing else. Because, another pointer (ONLY a pointer) is, “There Is Only THAT. All Is Consciousness, and That is Not-Two.) Just I AM and nothing else. Let THAT be Who-You-Are until even THAT disappears.

Wei Wu Wei from "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon" & More

There seem to two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.

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(From "Reality and Manifestation:)

What did the Monk Realise when Overtaken by a so-called Satori-Experience?

    The reality of anything is confined to the Instant, which we cannot normally seize and of which we only experience a reflection or an echo in the form of a memory.

    Our mind is only a collection of reflections or echoes, preserved by memory, of the reality that we have missed. Our mind is merely a shadow which we mistake for the substance which we have never been able to see.

    Perceiving the substance should be Satori. After seizing the Real, becoming Real, we realise that our mind was only a shadow - and that may be why the reaction was often a laugh. Past and Future vanish when the shaft of light falls upon the shadow, and only a Present, renewed every instant, remains, for that alone is real.

    'We' are not the reality, not the substance, but its reflection. The substance is there, in Reality, hidden from us by the screen of Time. 'We' are a shifting shadow on a wall, but the substance of that shadow is in every Instant that our consciousness is not able to seize. Our 'life' on the plane of phenomena is a continuous misapprehension by which a reflection is mistaken for its image, an echo for its voice, a shadow for its substance.

    We are phenomena, but we pretend to be noumena.

A'convention of enlightened beings'? Really!?

From time to time (whatever that may mean!) there appears to be 'Jnani conventions' in various locations (that itself a conceptual phantom) that nearly always seem to appear in California or Bangalore, other exotic locales. This brings a softly whispering reminding in the Space That We Be, of one Robert Adams, a departed True Sage of recent times, who quipped, "We should announce a convention of (warning - oxymoron alert!) 'personally enlightened Sages' (Jnanis), and then anyone who turns up would be automatically disqualified".

To wit: "When one is free from attachment, all things are as they are, and there is no coming nor going". ~ Seng Ts'an ... in short, where are 'others' in the Absolute Non-dual Singularity that Ultimate non-conceptual and impersonal Seeing-Knowing that is Naturally What-IS?

A gentle ponderationing, may for what it's worth appear...which may be rediscovered as, hopefully, worth Nothing. 

"Nothing is sacred. ONLY Nothing is truly sacred" ~Wayne Liquorman

"When you believe yourself to be a person, you see persons everywhere. In reality there are no persons, only threads of memories and habits. At the moment of realisation [immediate-apperception] the person ceases [as does any vestige of illusory 'otherness'.].  ~Nisargadatta Maharaj


'ONCE UPON A TIME... the Play of Ten Trillion unconnected dreams appears, out of NowHere......