Q&A with Sailor Bob
Bob: You’re not unaware right now? So you must be aware? But that awareness is not being noticed. As soon as you start looking for awareness, you’ve objectified awareness. And if it’s objectified, it’s not what you are. So, realize the same thing. When all the chatter or whatever’s going on, peace, bliss, or the [...]
Commentary on Self-Liberation text, part 3
This is Part 3 in an ongoing series of writings and commentary by Mark West on the Dzogchen Terma treasure text entitled “Self-Liberation Through Seeing With Naked Awareness”, translated from the Tibetan by John Myrdhin Renolyds. This particular Terma text was composed in the 8th Century of our era by the master from the then [...]
Realizing the Obvious
Even with today’s superabundance of supposed nondual teachers expressing themselves, seekers still seem confused as to what a nondual sensibility actually is. In many cases, people believe this “realization” will bring constant pleasure and high-flying bliss. They often imagine that with a nondual sense of things we can overcome all human frailty and move the [...]
Whole Reality
No words can approach it – no concept can grasp it. It cannot be realized for it is the truth beyond the realiz-er. It only IS. What we know is the expression OF that IS-ness, right here and now. It isn’t something other than, something different, some source which produces a result outside of itself. [...]
Nisargadatta’s Corner – November 2011
Pleasure depends on things, happiness does not. As long as we believe that we need things to make us happy, we shall also believe that in their absence we must be miserable. Mind always shapes itself according to its beliefs. Hence the importance of convincing oneself that one need not be prodded into happiness; that, [...]
Not Becoming
The most basic teaching of nonduality, it could be summarized, is the transcendence of dualistic conceptions (such as good or bad, right and wrong). The fundamental dualistic conception which is deconstructed in the initial phase of Self-realization, particularly, is that of I and not-I, self as apart from other—to even the extent that the Infinite [...]
Just This
If we are looking for what is ‘true’, then whatever that is must be completely here and now. There is absolutely no need to look anywhere else but right here and right now. So, as usual, the approach here is to point to something that is already the case. You can rest easy in knowing [...]
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Relativity
What is the meaning of meaning?
We all know what ‘meaning’ is don’t we? When some information arrives it is understood clearly or not. We know what the information means or at least we don’t question it usually. Once we start to question the information the meaning starts to shift. If we consider for a moment that all words are learned [...]
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