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Welcome
The world is unreal
Inner Strength
Be the way you are
Where is Shiva not?
I am not this person
What is real
Talks with Bob Adamson
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
An ancient story
Certificate of Awakening
The Mysterious Stranger
Extracts from Tony Parsons
Seeds for the Soul
The Drama of it All
Clarity talks with Nathan Gill
The Self-Perfected State
Amazing Grace
The cage of self-centeredness
Original mind
You Are That
All There Is
The existence of consciousness
A myriad bubbles
Beyond the grasp
Selling water by the river
Awake In The Heartland
What is wrong with Right Now?
This First Instant
Peace of Being
Talks with Ramana Maharshi
All That Jazz
About Silence
It is all
The background
Seeing it Simply
The Dream of Space and Time
Discovering
Already Awake
Reincarnation?
IN MEMORIAM
Basic Questions
Integration
Simplicity
One Essence
Thought
The Central Teaching
Unity
Knowledge and Ignorance
Inexpressible Door of Nonduality
The real "I"
Presence/Awareness
Awakening to the Natural State
Looking for God
Life As It Is
There is only Source appearing
Yearning for otherness
Dharmakaya
The ever-present nature
Getting rid of the ego
To Hell with it All!
You Are the Self
The Search is the Trap
The Obvious
Are you awakened?
The Supreme Self
Naturally Timeless Awareness
The Absolute
Seekers of Enlightenment
Presence of Awareness
I am...
This Amazing Realization
I am Life itself
Awareness is the Source
The Golden Eternity
Simple Beingness
The Boundless Void
Self-enquiry
Who pays the bill?
Changeless Reality
The Precious Treasury
Transparent Radiance
You Are the Buddha
Beyond Good and Evil
The real does not die
Memory
Seeking
I Am
The Nature of Thinking
The Great Way
Beyond na?ve affirmation
Ping-ting T'ung-tzu
Free will versus determinism
The End Of Seeking?
A Sharing of Timeless Being
Present and Obvious
Blinded by the Light
Hooked on Enlightenment
It's marvelous
All the world's diversity
There is no oblivion
Direct insight
Remembering and forgetting
Letting go
Beingness
That which appears
Manifestation of the Absolute
Nothing Being Everything
Consciousness
This
Radiance
Benedictory Verse to the Self
ATTD News Letter number 5
5/05/2003
Q & A
If or when you have a question you'd like to see answered in this newsletter mail to: author@awakeningtothedream.com

Have you personally experienced this state? It's a state I yearn for.
Answer: That enlightenment would be an experience or a state for someone to be in, constitutes the enlightenment myth. Enlightenment is not so much an experience for someone as that it is freedom from being a someone. Yes there are wonderful experiences (peak experiences or mystical experiences), which often get confused with enlightenment. True enlightenment is already fully present, but as long as the mind thinks it's some kind of an experience it gets overlooked.
Your true identity is the ultimate subject and is effortlessly aware of everything. To this ultimate subject -this witnessing presence- everything that appears is an object; including thoughts, the ego and the mind. Seen from this angle the mind appears in awareness. Shift the attention from the experience to the experiencing itself, from the seen (the mind) to the seeing and from the known to the knowing and it will all be clear. Seeing can never be seen by the eye and this 'knowing' can never be an object to itself, which is the reason that it is -as so often said- beyond the mind.
I wish you the clarity you yearn for, but be careful as it will annihilate the 'you' that yearns for it.
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Where is Shiva not?

One day the sage was sitting in a temple and his foot was pointing to the statue of Shiva. Pointing one's foot to the temple deity seems to be a big no no in India. A priest, on entering the temple, discovered this unacceptable behavior and told the sage to not point his foot at Shiva. The sage answered: "I'll gladly point my foot away from Shiva, if you can point out to me where he is not."
Dreaming and awakening

But there comes a great awakening, and then we know that life is a great dream. But the stupid think they are awake all the time and believe they know it distinctly. Chuang Tzu (399 - 295 B.C.) Chinese philosopher.
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/chuang.html
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Awakened Poetry

If God would stop telling jokes
I might act
serious.
Tukaram
From: Love Poems From God Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky
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The angels fly because they take themselves lightly
(G.K. Chesterton)

Quote of the moment!

Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
Diana Hunt
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