spiritual-teachers

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.

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.

Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves in a state where something is excluded, that state, however amazing it is, is still a dualistic state.

Not knowing anything, not searching for anything, understanding that we can__ hold on to anything, leaves us with nothing _ nothing except our original nature, pure awareness.

Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave. Nothing changes except the falling away of a false belief.

Awareness is that which is reading these words right now, whatever __hat_ is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what you are; a vast, conscious, luminous space simply resting in itself, not knowing a thing, at the point where all things are possible.

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.

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.

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.

You aren__ actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the __hought up_ entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn__ mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.

Looking forward_ to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these things and noticing what remains, you are left only with what is permanent _ the truth of who you are.

All paths are valid, but in the end you will find that the realization of the ultimate truth is a pathless path.

At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped__ody, mind, all states, all things__verything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become enlightened, because there is no I that can experience it.

Nothing can be the total truth in the worlds of manifestation and the more solid your concepts, the more likely they are going to sink you, sooner or later.