The changeless is what knows the change, the changeless is unconditioned
Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.
It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.
In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.
We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.
Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.
The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote, offered to a ghost that thinks it actually exists.
The One that experiences itself as your body-mind is the same One that experiences itself in every other body-mind, form, or appearance that exists.
Live knowing that you are already dust, long gone, already outside time and looking in, reviewing life, finally understanding every déja vu, your own guardian angel. Know that the scorched-black demon...
When you are truly awakened, you have completely stopped trying to become awakened. You simply are. You know that you did not locate awakening; awakening located you.
Sometimes you just have to take the pie in the face.
Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and going in the impersonal awareness that you are.
The true essence of vedanta focuses upon subject rather than object.
To see the positive or not to see the positive, this is the question.
To be the body-mind or not to be the body-mind, this is the question.
Isn't Existence is the only thing that make us feel as ONE.
What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there is no thought, can there be a mind? They cancel each other out, do they no...
The essence of death is discovered in the gap between one moment ceasing and another one beginning. That essence is the wakefulness that is our true nature.
Whatever experiences we may come across in our spiritual journey we are not any of those experiences but rather the one who is witnessing them, the pure awareness cognizing them without thought.
Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.
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