"That"

The reason why "that" is the most mischievous word, metaphysically, in our language, is that it points to what-we-are as an object of what-we-are-not, whereas the reverse is the precise truth.

It is nefaste in that its use necessarily obliges the user to be speaking as a phenomenal object envisaging its own noumenality objectively.

Whereas the relative truth he is seeking is that PHENOMENA are just the objectification of noumenon, and therefore are "that" whose SUBJECT is "this".

---Wei Wu Wei

"THIS"

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Why?

Because there IS

Nothing OTHER than that

(which is THIS).

"fact" derived from L facere, to make

The most amazing "fact" is that there aren't any!

hidden in plain sight

ACTUAL as-it-is-ness is UBIQUITOUS!

the voidness of apperceiving

"You" don't "get some thing";


"NO THING" "gets you"


(and "every thing else").

"I am this which I am."

"I am that I am", said Jahweh

---which no doubt means "this which I am".

We too are "this which we are",

for THIS is everything

that ever was, is, or ever could be.

---Wei Wu Wei

"We" don't have to look in order to "see" that "this" is wherever "we" happen to be.

An object is always over there;

The whereabouts of "this" is very precisely here.

An object is only in one place,

Whereas the situation of "this" is ubiquitous.

True, "this" is objectively absent,

But non-objectively "this" is eternally present.

---Wei Wu Wei

I, who am no thing---am every thing.

The world is illusory;


Brahman alone is Real;


Brahman is the world.


---Shankara

"One, without a second"

Everything, absolutely EVERYTHING

IS the SAME

Awareness.


There can be

NOTHING OTHER than THIS

(no matter "what you do").

"beyond knowledge and ignorance"

Q: How can one know the Self?

A: The Self always is. There is no knowing It.

It is not some new knowledge to be acquired.

What is new and not here and now

Cannot be permanent.

---Ramana Maharshi

"this which I am"

Enlightenment is not a goal to achieve or an idea to grasp.

It is the timeless presence that you already are...

---Scott Kiloby

castles made of mind

Whole-mind or Total-awareness

Transcends and includes

the body-mind's "point of perception

and conception."

concepts, all concepts

Nothing has ever emerged from Source,

Therefore,

There is no Source.

---Dan Berkow

"inseparability"

Is the sun prior to its shining?

"Judge not, lest ye be judged!"

A neo-Advaita version of Jesus' famous dictum might run something like this, "Judge not others, lest you also judge yourself!"

"Omni-presence"

No matter where you point, it's always there. But as soon as you grasp it as an object, it's NOT "IT."---Wayne Liquorman

"Look, the Self is only Be-ing, not being this or that. It is simple Being."

NIRVANA is perfection. In the Perfect State there is neither subject nor object; there is nothing to see, nothing to feel, nothing to know. Seeing and knowing are the functions of the mind. In NIRVANA there is nothing but the blissful pure consciousness "I am."---Ramana Maharshi

there IS no object (or subject)

In Non-duality there isn't anything. There's only something in duality. The only place something exists, is in duality.---Wayne Liquorman

"there's no there there"

We can apprehend that the processes of perception and conception require what we think of as "time" to take place. Thus we may notice that taking the "results" of these processes to be objectively existent, is drawing a veil of phenomenality (and separation) over our non-dual Noumenal Nature.

"I am This, Here, Now!"

The apperceiving of "This"

Is just awakening from the dream

Of an objective universe

To the actuality of what is.

---Wei Wu Wei

"seeing directly without inference or interpretation"

Did you see that?
Yes, of course.
Well, do you believe it?
Why do you ask?
Because for you seeing-is-believing,
For me seeing is---just SEEING.---Wei Wu Wei

(ap)perceiving: without a perceiver or perceived

Perceiving non-inferentially,

Seeing the phenomenal universe as-it-is,

Without judgment,

Is perception of "suchness,"

Of "as-it-is-ness."


The subject of such an object

Is not then itself an object.

---Wei Wu Wei

the "Functioning of Totality"

EVERYTHING that "you're doing"
is IT.
Meanwhile,
you think you're doing
"something else."

See-ING without a see-ER or any THING seen.

My seeing is the same as yours,
Only mine is uncluttered.---Tony Parsons

No amount of seeking can ever lead to Mind.---Huang Po

"You" cannot "see" Mind

Because "you" think "you" are looking.


And "you" cannot see LOOKING,

For Mind is what is looking, not "a" you.


No "you" could ever see Mind.

"You" removed---Mind is HERE.---Wei Wu Wei