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Not selfishly, but shamelessly?

Posted by Holger:

From an email:

 

Dear [Friend],
I don’t want to sound preachy.

Isn’t there a saying:
friends don’t let friends drive drunk?

I am not claiming to be the sober one.

//

We conclude/render
body-mind-world,
based on thoughts,
feelings, perceptions.

What are you really certain about,
right now?

//

It Is hope-less.

❤️🙏🏻

I am always whole and complete.

//

Hoping is narrative, is mind-stuff.

Not a problem!

Simply a narrative.

//

Relaxing again.

What is not a narrative, right now?

//

“The only truth in the manifestation
is the impersonal sense I am;
the rest are concepts.”

Supposedly Buddha’s words.

//

Magdi (paraphrased):
There is something rather than nothing (experientially).
But I cannot say what I am
[because time, space, objects, experiences
are mind constructs; and I am prior to mind,
aware of mind and attention].

//

I am the space (words as concessions)
in which every-thing appears and disappears.

The sky, unburdened whether or not the weather is good or bad.
The ocean, undisturbed by waves.

Only one source of Light, one power.

//

To simply trust and rest
in and as being (empty open no-thing).

No need to change anything.

No need to improve the person,
but improvement happens naturally,
as a by-product.

No future happiness to wait for.

No-thing (God) is never missing.

//

How you feel and what you think is on one level irrelevant.

Thoughts and feelings are not you as I am.

But we are loving with body-mind-world,
We don’t eagerly throw out the baby with the bathwater.
We don’t use nondual-concepts selfishly, but shamelessly.

//

Just this ordinary awareness
right now is more than enough.

But you cannot discuss this with Mr. Mind (-;

“Ya but…”

“The belly of the mind is always hungry.”

//

Presence – wholeness – is always available.

It cannot be reached.

Only the veil of personhood dissolves.

//

Knowing this is good enough for right now;
nothing “me” can do,
besides being sincere in understanding and giving UP.

Applying the concepts in daily living.

Allowing feelings/thoughts/perceptions
to arise and be seen for what IS,
prior to and higher than making-sense.

//

To savor presence.

To enjoy spending time with the timeless.

To practically and fun-da-mentally
discern “me” (conceptual)
from “I am” (experiential).

And lovingly forgive yourself,
for what was never you nor fault.

//

Sorry, I just spoke to myself.

The above diagram (inspired by Roger Castillo)
is really cool; maybe to memorize it
and to fall in love with it?
It is very deep and exposes
the whole kindergarten of suffering/unhappiness.

//

Words from a friend,
who is not claiming to be right;
available to meet on Zoom.

//

All unhappiness is the “me”.

Not as a problem to solve,
but a mystery to live 😇

//

Love,
Holger

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