Knowing is Being

It's really difficult for most to accept that the deepest form of knowing is simply being, which continues to be despite whether or not thought is going on.

What this means is that the intellect isn't even necessary to understand what reality is. Being reality is the only way. Reality will never be separate.

To take an imaginary step out of reality, in other words, to create a separate identity and also a "world" out there for this identity to look at, this is the illusion.

Ramana Maharshi said that knowing is being. It can be really frustrating to ease the investment in a mental self/world in order to experience the always already present reality beneath, within, as all there is.

This is why we are thankful to the ego. In the end the ego is the source of our pain and suffering to such a degree that we are guided back again and again to giving up thought-identity. We relax. We come full-stop in the mind. And here we are.

Rest as this beingness. If there has to be a practice of any sort, it might as well be this.

The End of Seeking

Have a nice day.

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Deny Everything and see what is left, by Gilbert Shultz

You can deny everything except the fact that you exist.
All the rest is concepts.
It is so simple and so obvious everyone ‘appears’ to miss it.
Just be conscious of this consciousness.
Nothing else is required.
Being conscious is not an effort being made by someone.
Being conscious has no past or future and no story of me.
Even the present is only a concept appearing.
Randall Friend adds: ……”And everything else that appears to exist has some basis – it is a pattern OF something that exists. The wave is a pattern of ocean – the ring is a pattern of gold. The essence is all that matters. The pattern IS the essence. Even if you identify with the pattern you must then also admit to being the essence. And the essence of all is Life itself”.

Amen.

by gilbert on May 26th, 2013 in Uncategorized

Robert Wolfe's Living Nonduality, free PDF

 Most professional seekers of inner peace and recognition of ultimate reality, the kind of recognition that leaves absolutely no more fear of death, have inexorably found their way to Nisargadatta and Ramana Mahrshi, both recognized by every contemplative tradition as the greatest modern sages to have lived in the last hundred years, and possibly in the history of humanity.

Today there are several Realized teachers who have practiced the skill of pointing out direct experience of True Nature. One man in particular, Robert Wolfe, lives in Ojai, California, and has put together a series of short pointers to observe and read. The fact that it's free speaks to the way all essential truth always is, completely free. So here it is, and I hope you enjoy it.

If you read Ramana Maharshi, Nisargadatta, and Robert Wolfe, you've done enough reading to last an infinite amount of lifetimes.

www.livingnonduality.org (Robert Wolfe's website)
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