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Be the way you are
Where is Shiva not?
I am not this person
What is real
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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 89
Sunday, September 17, 2006 *
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Answer: Just as there is no need -nor the option- for objects appearing in space to go 'beyond' space, there's no need -nor the option- for the 'I-thought' (or any other thought) to go beyond the mind.
Space itself cannot go anywhere, yet it is everywhere. It has no location, yet all that has a location appears in it. That, what 'you' truly are, is already and forever 'beyond' thought in the same way that space is already and forever 'beyond' that what manifests in it.
Trying to think oneself beyond thought is like fighting fire with gasoline. For the 'I/thought-object' there is no way out of thought, as it is nothing but thought itself.
Something/no-thing, which is not a thought, knows the coming and going of all thoughts. This 'something' cannot be known, as it appears as the very knowing of all that arises. Even the 'you' that wants to go beyond thought, is part of the 'known'; it is but another thought.
The idea that the mind is controlling, is again thought. Like material objects, which do not control or affect space in any way, thought objects do not control THAT in -and to- which they appear and dissolve.
There is nothing that can or has to be done. Paradoxically, seeing this, is all there is to it. Perhaps the thought "Let it be." can be added to the repertoire?
Like clouds drifting by, unattached to the sky in which they appear, thoughts come and go by themselves.
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What we generally call 'thinking' is a process of memory. It is a projection built on the already known. All that exists, all that is perceived, is represented to the mind. Sequential thinking, rational or scientific thinking, thus begins with a fraction, a representation. Such fractional thinking is born from the conditioned idea that we are independent entities, 'selves', 'persons'. The notion of being a somebody conditions all other thinking because the person can only exist in the repetition of representation, the confirmation of the already known.
Every thought is an explosion to be manifested and an implosion to be reabsorbed into silence. The desire to be revealed and to be concealed is the Cosmic Dance, motiveless play for the joy of playing. True desire is nothing but this. All other desire is only a warping of, and an unconscious longing for, this ultimate desire. The essence of thinking is this divine playing. Creative thinking never begins with the already known, a representation. It is born and dies in openness and merely uses functional memory for its expression. Where there is no thinker there is only a channel for the function of thinking.
From: Who Am I? By: Jean Klein
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Prior to heaven and earth
There is a reality
even prior to
heaven and earth
Indeed, it has no form,
much less a name.
Eyes fail to 'see' it
It has no voice
for 'ears' to detect ...
To call it 'Mind' - or 'Buddha'
violates its nature
For it then becomes like
a visionary flower
in the air
It is not 'Mind' -
nor 'Buddha'
Absolutely quiet -
and yet illuminating
in a mysterious way
It allows itself - to be 'perceived'
only by the 'clear-eyed'
~ Dai-o Kokushi ~ (1235-I308)
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Things are not what they seem;
Nor are they otherwise.
~ Lankavatara Sutra ~
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