Don’t Chase The Dead

Jesus said, “He who has found the world,

has found a corpse.”

This world not real.

and those that believe it is real.

are doomed to repeat this moment

again and again,

perhaps for eternity. 

Jesus also said, ” Let the dead bury the dead.”

This sounds so callous,

but He meant something very difference.

This is how dead are those whose who do not love God

before any other thing.

All one needs to do is fall completely in love with God.

God loves to be loved just like you do.

Find ways to honor God everyday,

and you will feel a change within. 

All is God. 

Exerpts from the Ashtavakra Gita

To be free, shun the experiences of the senses like poison.

Turn your attention to forgiveness, sincerity, kindness, simplicity, truth.

Liberation is to know yourself as Awareness alone—

Abide in Awareness with no illusion of person.

You will be instantly free and at peace.

A single understanding: “I am the One Awareness,”

consumes all suffering in the fire of an instant.

Meditate on this: “I am Awareness alone–Unity itself.”

Give up the idea that you are separate, a person,

that there is within and without.

You have long been bound thinking: “I am a person.”

Let the knowledge: “I am Awareness alone” be the sword that frees you.

That which has form is not real.

Only the formless is permanent.

Once this is known, you will not return to illusion.

Be now spotless and at peace– Awareness beyond Consciousness.

All this time you have been duped by illusion.

Look closely at cloth, you see only threads.

Look closely at creation, you see only Self.

Not seeing Self, the world is materialized.

Seeing Self, the world is vanished.

A rope is not a snake, but can appear to be.

As a pot returns to clay, a wave to water, a bracelet to gold,

so will the universe return to me.

In Reality, knowledge, the knower, and the knowable

do not exist.

I am the transparent Self

in which through ignorance they appear.

Looking at One and seeing many is the cause of all misery.

The only cure is to realize what is seen is not there.

I am One—aware, blissful, Immaculate.

The body exists only in imagination,

as do heaven and hell, bondage, freedom, and fear.

Are these my concern?

I, who am pure Awareness?

I see no differences or separation.

Even the multitudes appear as a single formless desert.

To what should I cling?

Having realized yourself as That in which the waves of the world rise and fall,

why do you run around in turmoil?

Having realized yourself as pure Awareness, as beautiful beyond description,

how can you remain a slave to lust?

Rare is he who knows himself as One with no other— the Lord of the Universe.

He acts as he knows and is never afraid.

I am in all beings; all beings are in me.

This I know. No need to renounce, accept or destroy

When the mind desires or grieves things, accepts or rejects things,

is pleased or displeased by things– this is bondage.

Opposing forces, duties done and left undone— when does it end and for whom?

Considering this, be ever desireless, let go of all things,

and to the world turn an indifferent eye.

Attached as you have been to kingdoms, sons, wives, bodies, pleasures— life after life—

still they are now lost forever.

You are One— Awareness itself.

The universe is neither aware nor does it exist.

Even ignorance is unreal. What is left to know? I am Awareness alone.

The world is a passing show.

How can thoughts arise of acceptance or rejection? And where ?

Desire creates the world–renounce it. Renounce desires and you renounce the world.

Now you may live as you are.

One who has realized that only by caring is misery caused in the world

becomes free, happy, serene, desireless.

“I am not the body, nor is the body my possession,

I am Awareness itself.

One who realizes this for certain has no memory

of things done or left undone.

there is only the Absolute.

One who knows for certain that this manifold and wonderful universe is nothing

becomes desireless

Awareness that abides in the stillness of No-thing. 

I Am Silence and Emptiness

I am no self,

I am silence and emptiness. 

What is there that needs affirmation ?

Who exists to be judged,

Or to judge?

Selfless Awareness is the only One here.

No longer the mind, 

Or this world,

Or anything known.

Never do I fear for all is my Self.

What can trouble the silence within,

That is bliss ?

I am the Majesty, 

Of the Kingdom within,

But Awareness cares little of this. 

I see birds, and the passing dream.

I see the same things that everyone sees,

But I know Eternal Reality,

That is Awe.

I am Awareness that sees through illusion.

All is Perfection this very moment, and Perfection is Paradise

Awareness

The unseen is eternal.

That which is transient is not real,

And it perishes. 

Awareness loves Reality.

An activity that is not thinking,

Seeing Awe with a single eye

Knowing all is One Living Presence.

The Jar

Go a trillion light-years out,

And look back at where you once were.

Of what use is all the noise now ?

Create a jar

Where all that is unreal is kept. 

This includes:

The mind, the body, this world,

And all that is known,

As well as the entire universe,

And all planes of existence.

It only contains illusions of ‘people’, and ‘things’.

There are also the ashes,

Of the false-self

And it contains the dream that I created. 

The dream that I am in, but not of.

Awareness simply watches it now. 

Someday the jar will simply disappear.

In its place is Freedom, Peace, and Eternal Bliss beyond imagination. 

The End of  the the World

All is the Self; the Absolute The world has no reality of its own

In all things,
There is only the Absolute.

Knowing this means that there is not a personality-ego looking at this,

Only the Absolute looks through ‘your’ eyes

The eternal that does not seek immortality

For It Is Immortal Awareness

There is nothing ‘out there’ to get.

What appears material is but the mind’s desires.One never encounters the world;

One only encounters the Self.

The world is not a reality; It is merely called a world.

Simply accept life as it is.

You are not the doer.

The purpose of this earth experience is to discover the inner Self

And to know our true Being Is That Which Is

Upon awakening, One has entered the Kingdom of Heaven

Timeless in the eternal moment

For thought is empty of reality

And ‘thingness’ is man-made

Intellectualism is for those whose cups are too full

The sense of separateness is an illusion. There is only One Being:

The Immortal Awareness that writes and reads this.

Nothing has existence apart from the mind.

You are not even the mind, this dream, or life: “the end of the world” means 
       the end of all things worldly. 

The Secret to Reality

When we turn from the superficial,

To the Absolute;

From the many to The One,

Reality is found.

If one affirms ‘this’, 

Or denies ‘that’,

Judgement is being made,

At the cost of Awareness.

The Self is free

As It Is.

One is free when this Awareness happens. 

“He that loseth his life for my sake,

Shall find It.”

This is the Absolute talking to you. 

Simply accept that all is Perfect,

As It Is.

There is no such thing as a ‘person’.

There is no free-will or doer, 

Except the Absolute.

There is only One here. Period. 

Surrender to what comes to you each day,

With gratitude.

Once you become disgruntled,

You lose the beautiful flow of blissful ease.

No more worries, stress, depression,

Or suffering. 

Even time ceases to be. 

One finds that Eternity is this very moment forever,

And Immortality is had. 

Reality

Penetrate deeply into a single form of practice

For no consequence has any meaning

Avoid superfluous things

There is no world in Awareness

Do not try to control anything

Seek nothing

Simply sit still, as all passes by

Practice the the actual Reality of the Self

Avoiding thinking nonsensical thoughts

That do not exist

For everything is the Absolute

See the world as such 

And give up your false sense of existence

To know yourself is to forget yourself

The Truth is already in us

Loss is enlightenment, gain is illusion

Your pleasures and sorrows

Relationships, and attachments in worldly affairs is your enemy

If you attain complete enlightenment

All sentient beings also attain it

The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of enlightenment

    Nonduality

    ” Everyone understands the concept of a drop of water merging into the ocean, but only a few understand the entire ocean merging into a single drop.”

                                                                                                                                                     ~ Kabir

    “Prologue”

    “In darkness and in concealment, My house being
        now at rest.
    In the happy night, In secret,
         when none saw me,
    Not I beheld aught,
    Without light or guide, save that
        which burned in my heart.
    This light guided me
    More surely than the light of
        noonday,
    To the place where he ( well I knew who!) was awaiting me –
     A place where none appeared.” 

                                                               St. John of the Cross