The paradox

Who is the one reading these words right now?
What is it that perceives these words?

Is it confined to the body?
Does the one reading this stops at the skin?

Or is it confined to the mind and its processes.
The comprehension,  the reactions,
the thoughts coming and going?

If one takes the trouble to investigate,
just where one is right now,
inevitably one finds that there is no end to This.

Everything is perceived,  
is known 
in This and as This.

Including the body,  
the thoughts, 
the emotions,  
the perceptions,
the swaying trees,  
the sound of water,  
and a car passing by.

Everything is perceived equally.
There is not one thing more yours than other things.

Life is impersonal

AND

Everything is perceived equally
Everything you meet and encounter is You,
There is no other.
Not Two.

Life is Personal

Everything is You




The total paradox...

It is neither personal nor impersonal and yet 
at once personal and impersonal. 

Personality is a fiction of the impersonal; 

impersonality the mask of a Person.

Sri Aurobindo

Raya Buddha

Buddhahood does not happen by being made to happen.

It is unsought and naturally indwelling, and so is

spontaneously present.

 Rest nonconceptually in this effortless, natural abiding state.

~The All-Creating Monarch Tantra, from Longchenpa's

Treasury of the Basic Space of Phenomena

Just This

The obviousness of this perspective is amazing.

It is screaming at us,
as every sound and taste,
and every thought and feeling,
every sight and touch.

Happening through all the senses already.

Nothing you need to do for this,
Nothing you need to achieve.

As it is already the case.

This is all there is.



The preoccupation with the story,
with keeping up the self image is so absorbing
and so much work that we loose sight of
this plain and very simple fact.

The natural state is not something to be achieved,
it is discovering and recognizing
that it is never not here,
and happening as all there is.

Just This..

The game of distinctions

There is only This.
Ever..
Appearing as Everything.

All the different understandings,
e.g. traditional advaita vedanta,
versus neo advaita,  is never versus really,
as both are appearances in This.

Its the mind's nature to make distinctions,
it is doing this so well,  that we believe them
to be true.

Well, this is then also only a game of distinction
appearing in This as This..

Nothing is ever excluded.

:-)