Everything is Thought

 We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ~ Buddha

Everything in our reality comes from thoughts. We live in a world of thought projections.  Ideas about me, others, world, opinions, beliefs, interpretations, experiences, objects, spirituality, God etc are thoughts.

Thoughts are movement in consciousness that are temporary appearances.   Thoughts control your life. If you are focusing on the wrong things, then you’ll become miserable and unhappy. Our thoughts create our experiences, and thus, we experience what we think. Hence, the quality of our thoughts determine the quality of our life. 

There are many theories on the origin but it is not known they just pop up and disappear as words, images, voices from all around. They are empty in nature, meaningless, neutral, illusory they just pass by apparently inside our head. Grabbing, labelling and dwelling on them feeds them with energy and aliveness, it blow them out of proportion into monsters makes them a reality.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. -Buddha

Thoughts are not facts, they are impermanent unless there is identification and association with them. Our thoughts become beliefs, and beliefs become the way you interpret reality. Even the idea of I, me, an individual, a person is a thought formation, a fantasy. Constant identification with thoughts and conditioned belief creates a phantom person, the ego self who appears to be thinking, having opinions, ideas, desires, etc. Nevertheless, the fact is there is no person thinking, the assumed person is another thought. A thought thinks as a person eventually is caught in its own cycle of self-feeding undesirable states.

The mind is compelling and convincing will trick us into believing that everything it tells is true and important. Happy, sad thoughts, fearful, hate, love shame, guilt are only thoughts, they aren’t facts, they are unreal and mean nothing. Thoughts control life, focusing on the wrong thinking then becomes source of suffering and misery. About 70% of the thoughts are negative and they gain power with attention that energize them. Engaging with thoughts trigger feelings and emotional states and is also expressed in body, speech, and actions. Surrounded and lost in thoughts create anxiety, OCDs, addictions dependencies and panic disorders.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded. ~ Buddha

Meditation helps in becoming aware of thought patterns stepping back and watching the mind gives space to choose right thoughts and also recognize the empty nature and causes of thoughts. Otherwise, life will be on auto pilot controlled by mind that can be like a wild beast attacking from all sides, unwholesome states of mind and self-perpetuating thoughts.

The greater part of human pain is unnecessary. It is self-created as long as the unobserved mind runs your life. –Eckhart Tolle

🙏May all beings be freed from the illusion of the world of thoughts and awaken to their true nature. 

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No Me

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering. -Frederick Lenz

The Me, which we think to be an integrated individual – is constructed and emerges out of mind narratives. Self I and me, are linguistic reference points that connect experiences together and gives an assumption that there is a distinct someone. There is no Self, there is no entity as Me, although it always appears that there is a Me a person who is feeling, thinking, perceiving, and interacting with the world, but nothing within points to that. Emerging into a false existence with each thought, mind talk, stories moment by moment creates layers of beliefs and illusion, perpetuates a pseudo Self.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.- Rumi

Me, other, us, them, they and the world - all are appearances, thoughts, and formations associations sprouting in consciousness. Flashes of past experiences, stored memories brings about the sense of Self, solidifies the sense of me, my life, my childhood, my hobbies, preferences etc. All that is now coming up in the present is just past thoughts and images, and have no reality. Attention grabs on to these memories with identification the Me and mine arise, pain, suffering, and misery also arise.

Annata doctrine, the Buddha attributed the concept of a self as both illusory and a source of unhappiness, suffering. All is just imagination but no imaginer. Whatever that seems to think it is the Me and is trying to understand this game and is seeking for answers is like dog chasing to catch its own tail.

Obscurations impurities from ignorance muddles and deludes the aware consciousness it hooks on to beliefs, breaks the being, creates separation. Mind movement leads to dualistic perspective of Me other, subject-object association supports the idea of self or person within. The habitual usage of language- I mine- sets a belief that there is an unchanging permanent entity within and everything revolves around this. But there is no separate Me/self; there is only the simple experiencing, cognition or awareness. When the process of self-realization begins the true nature of Self is revealed the truth of the other is unveiled.

How much ever I look within, there is only open dark space, can’t find Myself. It is liberating to realize that there is no one anywhere. Direct realization of no other but only bodies floating –anxiety gripped within it is still sinking into the being. The dichotomy is dissolving, sense of Me is slowly but surely melting, nothing here, nothing there, empty awareness. If all past memories I could wipe out, wake up every morning fresh a new birth then there would be no concept of I Me, Self is obliterated it can’t standalone without crutches of the past. Just as water in a mirage, a human figure in a post is nothing but a reflection, an illusion, so is the illusion of Self, Me and the other, a person in a body.

There Is No Self Or Soul – Khandas

🙏 May I be the guiding light to illuminate the path to realization for all seekers!!  

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Appearances

Let what comes come, let what goes go. - Ramana Maharshi            

All relative phenomena or appearances arise and disappear in awareness like waves on surface of the ocean caused by winds. Ocean of awareness, bubbles and waves arising on the surface are all the appearances perceived by the senses caused by stirring of awareness. Waves cannot be separated from the ocean, phenomenon arise from awareness cannot be segregated from it, they are non-dualistic. Both samsara and nirvana are manifestations pervaded by the same awareness, it is the basis for every kind of manifestation.

The appearances are contents of the aware presence. These are magical illusions spontaneously emerging modulations of consciousness, moment by moment changing dream-like appearances, fantasies, perceptions, thoughts. They are unsubstantial, do not possess any independent identity or inherent self-existence outside of consciousness awareness which is both conceiving and perceiving them.

Christ, Buddha, and Krishna are but waves in the Ocean of Infinite Consciousness that I am! ~ Swami Vivekananda

Even a “person” body-mind are illusory dream, empty name and form appearing in awareness.  Phenomena are constant folding and unfolding changing forms appear as color, shape, taste, texture. But awareness obscured by conditioned ignorance and deluded thoughts create the illusory appearances of changing forms, due to which they seem to exist independently as separate objects. This dualistic view of reality a mind projection, a finite experience of subject/object, good/bad etc a world of objects which are actually not there but produced by figment of fantasy. Nevertheless, all phenomena, are by nature beyond duality, beyond all false discriminations created by the mind; insubstantial and empty of intrinsic beingness.

Where consciousness is concerned, the appearance is the reality.— John Searle

All is born within sphere of non-duality, abide and function within non-duality, and finally disappears into the ocean of non-duality. Just as all beings born into this world of duality, live life in diversity and multiplicity and pass away into nothingness all occurring within the space of non-duality. Similar to wave forms arising continually changing on the ocean surface, but the water itself remains as one seamless whole.

This sea of aware presence, I Am open spaciousness being is impersonal absolute vastness. All sensation and perception, each thought and experience, rise and fall within I the awareness selfless consciousness in which the drama of life, dream-like World & Me, mine, myself unfolds.

No matter what sort of appearance or experience, none lasts, but I Am the aware presence is the radiant ground for unceasing manifestation, conceiving perceiving each thing, yet remains unaffected, unassociated I Am, the essence of awareness. Therefore, all phenomenon is none other than me.

Just as all images borrow their reality from the screen, so all thoughts, sensations and perceptions borrow their seeming reality from myself, awareness.-Rupert Spira

🙏 May all beings be benefitted by the arising merit and wisdom. 

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Labeling Consciousness

Labeling makes the invisible visible, but it's limiting. Categories are the enemy of connecting. Link, don't rank. - Author: Gloria Steinem

Habitual nature of mind is labeling the self, labeling the other, labeling conditions, circumstances, relationships, and a horrifying experience that freezes and condemns the consciousness. The I thought is a fundamental and a complex root label created by articulation of identity, biography,  projections, judgments, fear, aversions and desires, a duality of mind. This I thought with layers upon layers of labels expresses through the ego. By identifying, believing and holding onto the labels the ego is caught in web of delusion just as a spider is tangled and bound in its own web of creation. 

Labels are based on assumptions and interpretations that filters, distorts and destroy reality, it fragments, clutters the mind, the consciousness, or the aware presence with objectification.  It is discriminating, a limitation on self, others, environment, and conditions resulting in conflict. Labeling is an attempt to manipulate, control, condescend and restrict the other or the environment, it is a form of imposition or aggression on the other by denying the infinite reality. Simply said, self-labelling is close mindedness, it is to tell the mind that it may consider ideas only in a certain group and must preemptively reject ideas that are beyond that group.

We put labels on people and fight wars over them. If we truly want harmony, we have to get past the labels.”- Wayne W. Dyer

Dropping labels by letting go of attachments and identifications, it liberates the bound consciousness, removes blockages. Meditation helps in self liberation from labeling. Conventionally, ego believes that there is a world of objects upon which are labelled and named. On self-realization, truth is realized that it is actually the reverse, the world is synonymous and comes into being by language and labels including the I thought.

To practice non labeling exercise in nature shifts the consciousness, the totality of the appearance, sounds etc. arise in the space of pristine awareness. There is silent aliveness, the picturesque nature appears as a painting on a canvas. Non labeling exercise at a public place such as café is like a stage play. When this happens there is no person watching but it is the presence or aware space perceiving the arising and also at the same time awareness in the background of being. This can be one of the portals to realization, sense perception without mental labeling. An open vision, a simple way of seeing that is totally receptive, free of all tendencies to label and judge, there is only life presence.

The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between. When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are. - Author: Matthew Donnelly

May all beings be happy, peaceful, safe and free from suffering and misery. 🙏

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Perceiving Perception

All the mighty world of eye and ear, both what they half-create, and what perceive.-William Wordsworth

Perception is not personal it does not belong to an individual as it may seem. The one who is perceiving is aware presence. Also, as it may seem, awareness is not standing apart at a distance and viewing the perception, but it is the intrinsic nature or substance of perception.  Perception is the limited and temporary activity or experience that arises within awareness. However, awareness itself is not limited, unaltered by the arousal of perception. All there is in this whole activity is only awareness.

When a red apple placed in front of a mirror, the reflection of the apple gives a red coloration to the mirror, which is transient. The red coloration is not an essential feature to the nature of the mirror. When the apple is removed the red color appearing on the mirror, disappears; it is just a reflection. Similarly, when perception goes, the awareness remains as luminous transparent empty back ground and then takes the shape of next perception.  Superficially, due to conditioning, from point of view of a separated self, perception seems limited but when viewed from inside, it is unlimited.

Though, awareness assumes a temporary name and form because it is intimately associated with the limited activity of perception; yet it is free of it.

Perception is a faculty of awareness, it is a form of knowledge, an activity of experiencing or awareness of sensing and perceiving.  Perceptions are temporary form of awareness which are labeled by thought as names, colors and shapes, textures, sound, taste, speech.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” – Aldous Huxley

We are conditioned to believe that hearing takes place inside the body through sense organs. But when observed by experience, there is no “a body”- there are just a clump of sensations and hearing occurs in the open field awareness or I Am, which is me. Hearing is a temporary modulation of awareness. It is made of awareness. Awareness takes shape of hearing. It is also noted there is not clear demarcation between hearing end and awareness or experience of hearing begins. It is all one experience occurring in awareness.

Likewise, all perceptions take place in me or I Am and the nature of experience of all perceptions are the –seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, tactile. It is all arising in awareness made of awareness.

All there is to perception is experiencing of it, consciousness or awareness of it. The knowledge of body and world are only sensations and perceptions. The body and world have never ever been experienced. The only substance in perceptions is awareness or pure consciousness.

The finite mind and conditioning impose limitation through which perceptions are filtered and the world is perceived. Therefore, the world appears consistent with those limitations. Seeing through colored glasses, the world appears colored and finite. The way reality appears depends upon the structure and faculties of the mind that perceives it. An insect mind and a human mind would perceive the same reality differently.

 If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.-William Blake

May my experiences benefit all beings accomplish their goals on the path of realization!! 🙏

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Luminous Self

No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.- Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

All life experiences are experienced within the luminous field of awareness. All the external experiences of life that seems to be external is actually experienced within the field. There is constant flow of experiences arising and passing within the filed.

Awareness is the medium which facilitates all experiences it is the space in which experience arise. On investigation, there is no edge, no dimension, no center found for the field. All objects appear in the field just as clouds appear with sky as the background, just movie appears with a screen in the background. Even the body and world appear in awareness. Our conventional belief and experience is that I am awareness is inside the body but fact is, the body is within field of awareness. The body, mind, and the world are experienced only by awareness.

The awareness is causeless self-arising, luminous, borderless, unlimited, and dimensionless, it is primary wisdom and intelligence, which is free from labels of samsara and moksha. It is spontaneous unconditioned presence since the very beginning. Its radiance pervades the whole of the manifested and the unmanifested. It is unaffected unmodifiable, nothing can be added nor removed from it, undisturbed, untarnished by the objects arising in its field. Even though, awareness lights-up and intimately touches all objects yet the field primordially pure, pristine, clear and peaceful. It is not mixed with the objects.

There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.― Bram Stoker

I  Am luminosity is the primordial intelligence and wisdom aware of itself, it experiences itself by itself.  The field of awareness cannot be known as an object- just as the screen can’t be known on which a movie is played.  This primordial knowledge is beyond comprehension of the finite mind.

The I Am, Self, Awareness Consciousness or Presence is the Eternal Light radiating divinity. Ignorance and impurities temporarily veil and distort the essential nature of awareness. Recognizing the constantly emitting light, enlightens the true nature clears all ignorance and impurities. The spark of eternity is present in all sentient beings, all have the same true nature and potential for enlightenment, for peace, harmony, love and happiness.

Awareness means you come with an inner light, you move fully alert. Each step is taken in awareness - the walking, the coming, the sitting - everything is done in full awareness.- Rajneesh

🙏 May the light within me illuminate the path for all beings for they may find the way!!

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Chattering Mind

 Watch what you tell yourself, you’re likely to believe it. – Russ Kyle

Mind chatter, inner voice are verbal thoughts that construct the idea of the Self, strengthens illusion of an individual person. The validity of the inner voice is never questioned, it is believed it to me, I, my voice it comes from my body. The inner voice reflects beliefs, fears, hopes, ideas, and opinions of a person who considers the voice to be their own thinking. These thoughts created through generations of human conditioning and sustained by the illusionary Self. The constantly talking mind is narrating stories, opinions, and exaggerations and manipulating distorting realities.

Typically, ego is fearful of loss, failure, being hurt, non-existence and death. Identifying with the chatter the being starts to live in a fictional modality believing in the narrative in the head. The ego, tricks us into believing that our thoughts are one hundred percent true. Controlled by the very loud compelling voice, inner critic, and bullying brings self-doubt and negative self-perceptions, paranoia, panic attacks and choices made out of fear. The ego never ceases to stop telling stories reliving the past, agonizing family ties, sins, guilt, victimhood, and imaging and building the next story for the next experience. The self is completely consumed caught in the chatter, living the egoic dream searching for happiness -like being sucked down into quick sand.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.― John Lennon

A good movie is one which grasps attention of the audience. They identify with the characters feel their pain and pleasure.  Similarly, story in the head identifying with egoic characters monologue, dialogue or multilogue. The melodrama, every word will “seem real” and “feeling the emotions”.

When the limited self realizes that it is a figment relentlessly working towards a foolish and hopeless search for or pursuit of something unattainable. Having wasted a whole life being religiously loyal to the character in the story of “my life” to know it does not exists would be terrifying to the ego mind. Becoming a yogi, a spiritual quest, austerities, and practices is yet another story, voice in the head, an egoic pursuit. Mind is a story chatting machine. A life under the influence of mind chatter is disconnected from divine source and wisdom.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.-Deepak Chopra

Effective way of quieting the mind is connecting to the silent truth within. It would take courage to go beyond fiction stepping into neutral state not adding more thoughts, even analytical ones, or good intentions to the mind.  Not analyzing thoughts but becoming aware and shifting from identification to watching the mind behavior, thinking and generating emotions. It is like being aware the whole time that it is just a movie you are watching. Distancing and observing creates gaps between thoughts and they appear as clouds against background of the stillness of the sky. This opens up a new dimension of perceiving and revelation of true nature of true self i.e, eternal love. As purification continues there is falling away old thought patterns and freedom from inner critic and ego.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.-Ram Dass

May all beings derive the capacity to become self-aware and self-realized ! 🙏

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 AB