No matter how hard (or softly) you try,

you can't get here from here.

What IS, here and now,

cannot be objectified.


Only in the partial optic

of 'self' and 'other'

does there seem to be

'time' and 'space'

separating 'entities'.


If there IS neither 'self' nor 'other,'

'who' is there to suffer any 'thing'?

It takes time

to make something

out of Nothing.

left to itself

Where the true is left to itself,

There is nothing false in it,

Which is Mind itself.


--- Hui Neng

the First Principle of Ch'an

Q: What is the First Principle of Ch'an?

A: If words could tell you, it would become the Second Principle.


--- Wen-yu

perfect

The present moment is perfect

in that

It is a perfect mystery.


--- J. Jennifer Matthews

unconditional acceptance

The mystery that is aware of this moment

has already accepted it, as it is.


We can't create this radical acceptance

and we are powerless to make it go away,

for the very nature of awareness

is to accept, without conditions, what is.


--- John Astin

omnipresence

Who sees God not everywhere,

Sees God nowhere.


--- Meister Eckhart

non-ego

Sokei-an found, after long consideration, that the common basis of both Buddhism (the religion of wisdom) and Christianity (the religion of love) is non-ego.

"Love that does not come from Emptiness is merely partiality."

"Christian love, like the wisdom of Buddhism, is also non-ego."

"When we take this [non-ego] into ourselves, it is wisdom. When we give it to another, it is love."

"With this one key in my mind, Christianity and Buddhism come to know one another."


--- Sokei-an

pure awareness

There is a state beyond consciousness

which is not unconscious...

It is pure awareness,

free from the subject-object nexus.


--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

in non-attention

It occurs to one's attention that one is.

When it was not in the attention of that one,

was the principle not there?

It was.

The principle is unblemished and without attention.

In non-attention it prevails.

Eternally.



--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

totality

When the consciousness fully understands the consciousness, will it embrace the body as itself? It is in totality; it is not going to pick out a fragment of the manifestation and say, "I am this."


--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

I AM, but not as an object.

Since we already are completely-what-we-ARE,

There is neither the need for

Nor the possibility of

Knowing "IT" as something perceived or conceived.

seamless

Q: There is really no "you" that is using the personality [as a tool]?

A: No. It is the situation that asks for the right tool,
for the right acting, the right doing.


--- Jean Klein

the functioning of Totality

Your real being is only availability, openness. There is nothing objective. In this openness, you find yourself adequate to every situation.

Look deeply into what is meant by "volition without volition," volition without interference by the "I-concept." It is not the person who wills an action but the situation which "wills" it.


--- Jean Klein

'Emptiness' is itself empty

The ultimate truth is

that there is no ultimate truth.


--- M. Siderits

In seeing

all that you are not,

in one moment,

no other state is projected

because it is not possible

to conceive of an unconditioned state.


--- Jean Klein

You will see

that all that you try to become

is only an object,

but openness

can never be an object.


--- Jean Klein

Truth cannot be perceived.

It can only be lived in the non-dual continuum,

the non-state where there is neither seer nor seen.


--- Jean Klein

One could say

that the 'seeker' refuses the gift of What IS

by searching for something 'other.'


Yet, Reality is,

always and only,

already given.

"We" don't have to look

In order to "see" that "this"

Is wherever "we" happen to be.


--- Wei Wu Wei

whole-mind IS; split-mind SEEMS to be

Belief in dualistic thinking is the problem.

In non-dual awareness, dualism only appears to be so.


--- Sailor Bob

a Chinese proverb

Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are.

as it is

Awareness always has been here.

It is what "Here" IS.

It is what you ARE.

It is never absent.

....Joan Tollifson

EVERYTHING is seen;

the SEEING is what-you-are, what IS.