The study of what pertains to Spirit or a pointing at Spirit. Spirit being the Essence of our Being and the Essence of everything that is perceived or conceived.
— Mr. Z says that time does not exist. Time doesn’t exist in the same way that your car doesn’t exist, your wife doesn’t exist, your money, your underwear, the air we breathe, and god do not exist. If I hire you to do a job and I give you a deadline and you arrive […]
— Truth is relative. What we are is Truth and that is absolute. What we think we are is relative. We can only have conversations about what we think we are. What we are elicits absolute silence. The closest experience to Truth is “I Am”. The essential knowledge of being or existing. No thinking is […]
—I think Self-realization is the state of space. Equating self-realization with space and the complete detachment from the manifestation is an illusion of the finest order. Of course detachment and space are pleasant. However, the irreversible death of the sense of separation has no relation with the experience of detachment or space. The degree of […]
—From what you say, suffering doesn’t end, the experience continues to be painful. I wish it were the end of all suffering. Enlightenment opens the door to the end of unnecessary suffering. The rest, the unpleasant half of duality, we face as adults, according to our virtues, weaknesses, level of experience, and maturity. Enlightenment does […]
The Tao cannot be an object of study. By its very definition, the Tao excludes such a possibility. The Tao is not an object. The concept of the Tao, however, can be studied, though never understood. The assertion that the Tao is understood is also excluded by its very definition. An object cannot understand or […]
I exist, like you do. I experience individuality, a body and a personality, like you do. I perceive a world, like you do. I am not fooled by projections of divinity, promises of finer metaphysical realities, or concepts of an ideal state other than This. Thus fear is absent. Since April 2021 there has not […]
The person, I, is a phenomenon in the form of an intermittent experience. “Understanding the Source” does not and cannot exist other than as a concept associated with “I”. Replace the word Source with, God, Awareness, Consciousness, Emptiness, Stillness, Oneness, Nothingness, Tao, Brahman, Dharmakaya, Absolute, Divine, Infinite, Unmanifest, That, or This and it applies equally. […]
When we are seekers we wait for the time when something may die. We explain it in numerous ways but we do not know what it is that will die. When it dies it becomes clear that the seeking and the entire conceptual framework of spirituality was based on a projected imaginary state. That imaginary […]
I am Consciousness. What has died is the concept that I am separate from Consciousness, and all of its attending stream of emotions, desires, fears, memory, projections, and self-derived spiritual goals. The self as a spiritual entity was misconception of Truth. That misconception has died and with it what I used to call spirituality also […]
The last piece of psychological suffering that vanished in my case was the pursuit of self-realization. The subtle but profoundly rooted misperception that some other state is “it.” The desire for release from suffering is genuine. That alone justifies and imparts value to teachings, teachers, and seeking. However, how that release from suffering is objectified […]
— How do you know the state of our Essential Nature that you experience is not a passing state? Because the very nature of the Essential State engenders the effortless conviction that there is no I who experiences or can experience it. And because it is Not Two there is no opposite to it. Therefore […]
— Pure Awareness is not a focused state of attention. It is expanding and spacious. It is both, it is neither. Seek one and reject the other, and trouble begins again because of the sense of separation and involvement in time and space, which are concepts that do not pertain to real “I” and its […]
The frame of mind of wanting final realization supports seeking. It in no way invites final realization.
When there is subtle feeling that things are not well an effort is still needed to reach the acceptance of things as they are. Sounds perfect and natural to me. The more that happens, the clearer it becomes that it is a spontaneous event. The effort happens. And Consciousness remains untouched and unchanged. Is this […]
The frame of mind of wanting final realization supports seeking. It in no way invites final realization.
The Son of God The body and the personality are experiences. Even experiencing itself is an experience, as is witnessing. There is no “experiencer,” and there is no witness. There is consciousness. The entity “I” is an experience. Consciousness is the underlying source of experience. “I Am” is what is called “The Son of God” […]
The Natural State is Omnipresence It is the ever-present ground of Being and of all manifestation of consciousness or creation. As well the absence of any creation; the potential of creation. It is present at all times, as the term implies. In fact, it is the only “thing” that is ever-present. Everything else appears and […]
The ego can be obvious, or it can be very subtle as it projects its values and conditions onto its idea of spiritual realization. The way the ego sees spiritual realization gives shape and flavor to the experience of seeking, which is different for different people. So, what is the purpose of enlightenment or spiritual […]
An Ocean without beginning or end. Still, incorruptible, unchanging, uncaused, unmanifested. Potential.
— Can you comment on the notion that the student can surpass the master? In arts, sports, or any other human activity that seems to be the case rather often. Spiritually, the notion that the student can surpass the master is absurd. The true Master was never above anything or anyone, neither below; neither better […]
— Why did you abandon the Fourth Way system? I have not abandoned it as a system of psychological delineation. I still use it when communicating. It is the most accurate psychological system I have ever encountered. It is an example of objective knowledge, but not in the original form that I learned it. What […]
What is the importance of belief? Belief, or faith, is a genuine function of the mind. It is an attitude. Faith is important and useful in the right circumstances. It imbues the mind with positive energy, and new positive action becomes possible. For that to be the case our actions must be congruent with our […]
— Some teachings say that we must develop will and the power to do… Early on the path, seekers must find the power to sustain their efforts to journey through the jungle of psychological suffering and painful karma. The individual must believe they have power; otherwise, they will crumble under the pressure. However, that is […]
— Why is Enlightenment so desirable? Because it is the end of suffering. — What kind of suffering? The suffering that is based on the imagination of and identification with a vulnerable “I.” For example, anxiety, guilt, hurry, feelings of oppression, feelings of inadequacy, stubbornness, greed, fear of the future, fear of loss or lack, […]
— Are you a man number…? Zero. Being a man or a woman or a person is a garment. There is no grand state I must experience. There is no new revelation that must occur. There is no essential vulnerability. I put on my name, body, and personality every morning and live their pleasures and […]
The frame of mind of wanting final realization supports seeking. It in no way invites final realization.
