Shining Through the Mind

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For those interested in Enlightenment, living in the Now, Prescence, Being, abiding non-dual awareness, etc., etc., take a read here.  Scroll down the page and read what he's written. 

Shining Through the Mind

His E-book is very insightful as well, and can be downloaded for free.  On this page above, it's listed on the right side of the page with the name:  Everything is Clear and Obvious.

Good juju. 

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Awareness is space-like. The ancient texts tell us that it is ‘space-like awareness’.

Right THERE where these very words are registering, via the pure function of seeing, there is nothing that you can know of as ‘something’ which is registering all the (millions of) impressions.  It is not a screen, nor a bunch of brain cells. It is space-like. It is all too obvious and we normally miss it altogether.

There in that space-like awareness, there is an indescribable sense of open space with no boundary to be found anywhere. It has no qualities that one can objectify.

One could call it ‘clarity’ but it is best to leave it nameless.

In this vast open space the whole world appears, including the body with feelings, sensations, thoughts, states, etc.

Nothing actually alters this space-like awareness. It is unchanging and timelessly present. It is presence itself.

Discovering this 'invisible presence' to be your true nature, somehow, mysteriously, it releases the habitual identified consciousness. One’s natural presence is found to be an ease of being and totally unencumbered.

In this space-like awareness, there is no one to have or not have any claim or ownership of it.

It simply is.

It is pure wakefulness – absolutely stable, it is the Un-mediated Knowing Presence - of itself.

Everything else appears in THAT and is the movement and the changing – energy – Livingness.

It is by this movement that ‘knowing’ happens.

(If you move your arm about in that space, you may know first hand the immediacy of un-mediated knowing.)

Everything registers directly and immediately in and on presence awareness.

It is too obvious to notice as long as old ideas pervade the mind and it is impossible to objectively ‘see’. The FACT is: it is the SEEING.

I am That.

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Presence.

Just — Presence.

You are present and aware.

‘Feel into’ this presence that you are.

Do not imagine anything, just feel into it.

It is not an object, yet it contains all apparent objects.

It is not a subject, yet it contains all apparent subjects.

It has no specific qualities, yet it contains all qualities equally.

Simple presence.

The Ultimate Reality is That.

It is thoughtless, yet it contains all thought.

It is not imaginary, yet it contains all imagination.

Presence.

“I am Presence and nothing other than That”.

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The message is simple. The thrust of the message, as it is received, attracts the attention of those open to it and turns the attention subtly back to its own natural open space of the living source. It appears to be a ‘deliverance home’.

This leaves the troubled, imagined realms of a fragmented mind without the energy of belief and so they naturally wither away.

A surprising number of so-called non-duality teachings only address the intellect because of the language used. Endless thought patterns only bind the intellect into a never ending cyclical “mind maze” of more and more concepts. Even though it is only in the appearance, it keeps the mind actively searching for a perfect expression of what it is apparently looking for. It is simply fixation with concepts.

Seeing is happening quite naturally and is not dependent on a ‘seer’ or a ‘knower’.

The message must strike the being-ness, by passing through the habitual, convoluted mental activity.

The message may arrive as the simplicity of a solo bird singing or as a single sentence in the written or spoken word. The essence of the message is imbibed directly through a resonation in being. A note of equality suffuses THIS moment.

(From what I see) The methodical study of the subject of Non-duality is rarely fruitful. It is probably one of the most challenging tasks for any intellect. The foundations of belief are consistently challenged as one approaches the heart of it all through the intellect. The intellect is tempted by its own apparent egocentric cleverness as it indulges in some kind of special knowledge. Esoteric knowledge is especially tempting.

Direct insight is a realization for the mind. Not study. The Bible says: ‘much study is a weariness to the flesh and in the making of books, there is no end’. The essential nature of realization is ‘seeing’. Concepts follow the insight, not the reverse, although many would argue about that, without any pause in which to really contemplate its meaning.

One of the central factors, which make non-duality seem so difficult to grasp, is that the non-dual nature of everything is so obvious. Like empty space, it is just not noticed.

When speaking to an intellectual, one can visibly perceive the disturbance in the persona, if it is mentioned that everything is clear and obvious. The fixation is ruffled, usually to no avail.

In being obvious, no one suspects the natural simplicity of the obvious. ‘Who’ has a problem?

The 'intellect' may appear to mount a case immediately to defend the ground of its beliefs. The clear and obvious appears to be covered over once more by that habitual conflicting mental terrain.

However it has no substantiality at all and can be seen to dissolve without incident.
The wrangling dis-ease only lasts as long as the fixation with it.

The intellect ‘appears’ to be consistently attracted to complications and to the paradox of conflicting concepts. “Analysis paralysis” is a favorite pastime with seekers. The peaceful moments of no thought are not noticed because they are of no value to the ego.

The mind constructions and complications do not actually exist and so resolving them is just impossible for the mind. They simply vanish.

As Nisargadatta says “No university can teach you to be yourself”.

Direct ‘seeing-knowing’ is the means.

Though the light of knowing the authentic natural presence itself dissolves the erroneous diversions of mind (yet this also is in appearance only- mind stuff).

Is not self-realization is simply ‘seeing what is’? The potency of all revelations is always via the pure function of ‘seeing’. Seeing what is true – not belief.

At no point, in any ‘time’, is ‘seeing’ not happening.

So, my advice is to drop all study and simply pay attention to what is. It is simply obvious. Seeing is not a ‘doing’ made by any ‘entity’. It is that pure functioning happening with you right now.

Your 'immediate life' is THIS moment, just as it is. Let the natural state resonate. The open view will appear to expand quite spontaneously, with no effort being made by anyone.

Do not necessarily follow any line of thought. Better to follow the simple joy of self-discovery.

Ever-fresh and new ― is THIS moment.