Where is my dwelling place?

Where I can never stand.


--- Angelus Silesius

"You"

are not living "your life."

"Living" is all there IS.

The "Knowing" which IS,

Which you ARE,

Is the one "thing"

That is beyond

Knowing or not-knowing.

not-two

There ARE

no separate things

to be 'different'

or the 'same.'

The 'Totality of Isness' cannot be an object.

Whose object could it be?

The Ultimate

The ultimate is that 'Enlightenment' means

NEITHER 'enlightenment' NOR ''non-enlightenment'---

which is ABSENCE OF AN ENTITY TO CONCEIVE EITHER.


--- Wei Wu Wei

no more worry

One in All, All in One -

If only this is realized,

No more worry about your not being perfect!


--- from the Hsin Hsin Ming

God alone is

Q: How to see God who is all-pervasive?

A: To see God is to be God. There is no all apart from God for him to pervade. He alone is.


--- Ramana Maharshi

"Experience (ing)"

Is that which cannot be described or defined

Because there is simply no place outside of it

From which we could do the describing.


--- J. Jennifer Matthews

everything

When nothing is,

you still are.


What is that you?


--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

seamless

The whole, being love,

there is nothing for you to set it against

and judge it by.


[Doing] so, you are driven to fancies.


--- George MacDonald

not a thing is -- Hui-neng

At the level of non-duality,

there is "nothing to do"

simply because

there IS no thing.

where?

When you are cognizing something as an individual,

where do you place yourself?


Consciousness is

that which is cognizing,

the cognition,

and that which is being cognized.


--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

being=awareness

Q: How can I stay stable in awareness?

A: You know you are. That is awareness. If you think you have to be aware, then it becomes an experiential state. You want to experience something.


--- Nisargadatta Maharaj

a total unity

Reality is infinite, thus unseizable.

We cannot take hold of it.

We can only allow ourselves to be seized.


--- Jean Klein

everything - always

What we truly long for is intimately here, always...

It is not something, some of the time-

It is everything, all of the time.


--- Jeff Foster

All IS

Jean Klein: When the senses are accepted totally, welcomed, they open and there's a deep relaxation. In this deep relaxation, they are integrated into our being.

Q: Would you say, then, that the practical essence of enlightenment is integration?

Jean Klein: Yes; there is nothing to refuse and no one to refuse. All is consciousness perceived by consciousness in consciousness.

apperceiving

Welcoming is [undivided] presence and in this presence you are absent as a perceiver.

There is only perceiving with no perceiver and nothing perceived.


--- Jean Klein

the objectivity of a thing

The objectivity of a thing is maintained only

by the divided mind functioning in a subject-object relationship.


When the subject becomes pure, becomes innocent, free from all striving,

then it disappears - and with it, its object.


What remains is only openness, being.


--- Jean Klein

just this

When the subject is fixed on the object,

the body[mind] is in a state of tension.

In the [natural] unfolding of the object,

the body[mind] comes to a great letting go.

It is only in deep relaxation

that the object can dissolve in the subject.


--- Jean Klein

total being is always present

Q: What is this insight you speak of?

A: It is an instantaneous apperception that your total being is always present, always in the "now."


--- Jean Klein

"Self"

What we call the Self

is not a soul-like thing, a state;

it is the uninterrupted flow of life.


--- Jean Klein

"a liberating relationship"

Rather than a remote transcendent state, nirvana is a liberating relationship with all things. For Nagarjuna, it is simply "the letting go of what rises and passes" and, as such, is neither something nor nothing. It suggests a freedom that cannot be pinned down in either time or space, prompting Nagarjuna to ask:


What do you think

Of a freedom that never happened?

What do you make

Of a life that won't go away?


---"Verses from the Center" by Stephen Batchelor

What do you mean by "the perceived leads to the perceiving?"

It is the shortest way to consciousness.

The moment the object gives up its representation,

we live in silent perceiving

where there is nothing seen and nobody seeing.

It is non-dual.


--- Jean Klein

When we consider the knower independently of the known,

he reveals himself to be pure witness.


When knowledge and knower are one,

there is no longer a place for a witness.


--- Jean Klein