The Real exists and is experienced
in
the
gaps
between
the words
in the gaps between the thoughts
In deep, dreamless sleep
Upon the death of the body/mind
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- Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:47 pm
- Forum: Questions
- Topic: The state of presence,why do we call it that?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 591
- Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What is the most direct way to realize "I" does not exist?
- Replies: 191
- Views: 8222
Re: What is the most direct way to realize "I" does not exist?
Your participation is a great gift to this forum, Ananda - Thank You 

- Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:33 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Who am I?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 651
Re: Who am I?
Yes Ananda - Spiritual teachers and books and asking the question "Who Am I?" are all very useful only for negation - for a mind to come up with conceptual answers for what "I" is not. Few minds, however, are willing to keep asking the question "Who Am I" until they go beyond the conceptual "I" and ...
- Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:55 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: if youre aware of being now are you here now?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 882
Re: if youre aware of being now are you here now?
Thinking and not thinking.
Doing and not doing.
Knowing and not knowing.
Reality and illusion.
Living and dead.
All the same.
Hypothetical.
Doing and not doing.
Knowing and not knowing.
Reality and illusion.
Living and dead.
All the same.
Hypothetical.
- Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Free Will
- Replies: 50
- Views: 1946
Re: Free Will
"Ego" is the conceptual sense of a sole and separate self, which then becomes the mental "story" of the relationship between all that occurs and that "self".
"Neti, Neti" (relaxing without knowing) is Peace.
"Neti, Neti" (relaxing without knowing) is Peace.
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Nothing that is seen is you, because you are what is seeing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 331
Re: Nothing that is seen is you, because you are what is seeing
Yes CFS:) - the conceptual bubbles of "I Am" floating around inside the bubble of the consciousness of form - floating around inside the bubble of the illusion of separation - floating around in the no-thing-ness of "Awareness"(the "witnessing presence").
The bubbles do not exist.
The bubbles do not exist.
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:56 pm
- Forum: Awakening / Spiritual Enlightenment / Truth-Realization
- Topic: So how do you realize the truth.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5566
- Thu Jul 22, 2010 5:25 pm
- Forum: Recommended Books
- Topic: Tao Te Ching... the missing link
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2110
Re: Tao Te Ching... the missing link
It is available to read here:
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phal ... te-v3.html
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phal ... te-v3.html
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:48 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Memory
- Replies: 10
- Views: 546
Re: Memory
Somewhere in the brain are the memories of the pure experiences of being prior to language - although often hidden under layer upon layer of the virtual memories of language-translated experiences. If possible, remember those early peaceful, joyful experiences - where "self-realization" was not an i...
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:43 pm
- Forum: Awakening / Spiritual Enlightenment / Truth-Realization
- Topic: So how do you realize the truth.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5566
Re: So how do you realize the truth.
Through negation - by investigating and realizing that which is illusion. Whatever remains is Truth. The Real exists and is of the nature of witness-consciousness. Of course it is beyond the witness, but to enter it one must first realize the state of pure witnessing. The awareness of conditions bri...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 2:10 pm
- Forum: Questions
- Topic: What brings you back to presence?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 754
Re: What brings you back to presence?
Yes - experiences/thoughts come and go, the witnessing presence is.
"We" are "that".
"We" are "that".
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 4:56 pm
- Forum: Personal Experiences
- Topic: living as embodied reality: An essay in two parts
- Replies: 5
- Views: 853
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:17 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Practical issue regarding "I" thought
- Replies: 10
- Views: 577
Re: Practical issue regarding "I" thought
Yes - expressing an authentic consciousness can be socially unacceptable - just ask any 2 year old.
"Fitting in" - "conforming" - doesn't appear to be important to HermitLoon (again, at age 67, a "terrible two year old".
)
"Fitting in" - "conforming" - doesn't appear to be important to HermitLoon (again, at age 67, a "terrible two year old".

- Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:34 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Where is freedom in all this? Where is self-determination?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2015
Re: Where is freedom in all this? Where is self-determination?
"Freedom" is non-attachment.
- Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: So what do you think happens at the time of death?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 4000
Re: So what do you think happens at the time of death?
The illusion of separation dissolves.So what do you think happens at the time of death?