The Source.......Yourself

 Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word or mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you......

   ~Eckhart Tolle

This is What You Are

Everything you see, everything you touch, everything you think is you. Just after the thought, after the perception, after the feeling, you say, "I was there as a person and I was having this thought, this feeling, this perception." But, that isn't true, because at the time of the thought, feeling, or perception there was no thinker, feeler, or perceiver, and there was no object thought, felt, or perceived. There was only thinking, feeling, perceiving. So, from moment to moment there is only oneness. And this is what you are. This is the


real you. As such, you are not here or there. "I am here," is a


thought. When you eliminate this thought, where are you?
 
         ~~ Francis Lucille

Transient Moment ( )

This is a precious moment, but it is transient.  It's a little parenthesis in eternity.

~Deepak Chopra

The Dream, the Illusion

A reoccuring dream I have is that I am living in a city called Abilene.  I had parents when I was very small that told me my name is Diane. I lived in a lot of other places, did so many amazing things, and I think that my memory of it all is real.  In this dream  it is the present,  and I am  57 years old, a female, and I am married to a wonderful man.  We share our lives with three dogs and two cats.  I have three grown daughters. It seems and feels so real. Within this dream, at night I lie down  in a comfortable bed and I dream other dreams about other faraway places, doing amazing things like flying, ice skating, and playing with childhood friends, all while my physical body lies still on the bed. The night dreams feel just as real as the daytime dreams.

Then I awake within this dream and I think that I am in a physical body.  I believe I am awake, while actually I am living in another dream. Tthe illusion that most of us have, though, is that THIS dream is what is REAL. 

 Most people never understand this.  They keep creating an illusion of having a life, sometimes one full of problems, suffering,  and sometimes fleeting happiness that comes and goes. Think of this:  how can you have a life when you are Life? 

"Wherever it leads you, it will be a dream. The very idea of going beyond the dream is illusory. Why go anywhere? Just realize that you are dreaming a dream you call the world, and stop looking for ways out. The dream is not your problem. Your problem is that you like one part of the dream and not another. When you have seen the dream as a dream, you have done all that needs be done."

                
              ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

I'm Asking You To Do This.....

This is it.  Here is what I am asking you to do, and that is to question the belief that you are a separate entity who has destiny and free will, that you began at some time in the past, that you were born and that you will die at some future time. What I am suggesting is that there is no time at all, and that beginning and ending are only mental concepts and that what you are is the timeless - you in essence are timeless and space less! You never had any beginning and you will never have any ending, you were never born nor will you as THAT non dual Absolute, pure awareness or consciousness ever die.


Don't stop now.  Do this:  go into it, go deeper, question it, find out the truth for yourself. See THIS for yourself and actually realize the unquestioned assumptions and limitations that you have placed upon yourself with the help of society, culture, and religious beliefs and conditioning's. Question all this and see the prison of all these concepts and beliefs vanish before your very eyes. You are not what you have taken yourself to be - a limited, enclosed, sentient, human being, but the unlimited all knowing potential itself, what we call THAT in the great word or statement of Advaita Vedanta - I am THAT!
 
"That which is seeking is the sought."   ~ Budddic Scripture

Non-Duality

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Me = You....It'sTtrue

I am you....you are me.  How can this be?  Most of us strive to be unique, different from the others, and if we aren't doing it outwardly, we at least think in our minds that we are separate from others. Until we understand that we are not separate from anyone or anything, we are living in a state of duality.  How do we begin to understand the unity of wholeness, this oneness that we truly are?

 "Abide in me as I abide in you", said Jesus.  Also, he said "The Father and I are one".  Deepak Chopra explains that these teachings of Jesus are rarely applied to ourselves.  Yet we should.  He says, "Consciousness is a shared phenomenon.  No one is isolated from it, and when Jesus speaks from the level of spirit, he is speaking for all human beings.  On the spiritual path you become less isolated as an individual and more universal as an expression of consciousness.  This change occurs because in truth everything is happening in consciousness. "

I love Chopra's example of how convincing it can be to see ourselves as standing apart from others.  He said that when he remembers his mother's face, it exists in his awareness.  It's conjured up in his mind.  When his mother was alive and he was with her in person, the same thing happened; it was conjured up in his mind. 

Here's why:  when photons of light hit the retina and are registered in the brain as an image, they create a delay.  It takes only a few milliseconds for the brain to register that image and by the time it does, that image is just a memory. The image appears after the fact, much like the light from a star.  Even in real life, each of us appears as a stream of memories in our awareness. All other senses, besides that of sight, holds true, also.  When someone touches your hand, for instance, that, too, is registered through brain activity after the fact.

Chopra tells us that at the quantum level we are all blinking in and out of existence countless times per minute.  Everything is in flux.  The brain creates the illusion of constancy, yet in truth the person or thing you believe to be in front of you is actually a ghost of what was in front of ou a few thousandths of a second ago.  In this illusion that we perceive as a continual reality, there are many gaps.  We go away as much as we stay here.  When you go away, blinking out of existence for a fleeting millisecond, you aren't anchored in physical reality.  You voyage to the quantum dimension and beyond.  Think of this:  no one knows for sure where the universe goes when it blinks off and on.  This is the glory of the creative process - it's constantly flowing and changing. 

"Jesus taught that the spiritual aspect of a person also exists in awareness", states Chopra.  A person's spirit comes from a shared source; we are all part of the Divine Source.  When Jesus said, "I am in you", he was referring to his essence.  When we are in a state of duality, or separatedness, we aren't aware of essence.  It will seem as if the soul level of our existence is far away.  "By entering another person's situation, by sharing and bonding, you begin to have the experience of literally abiding in someone else.  God-consciousness carries this transformation to its final end.  You are in everyone else, and everyone else is in you.  Instead of perceiving any human being as an individual person, you see them as essence, or pure Being.

Know that you are not a separate person with “an understanding” to gain. You are already all of it.