WELCOME,
It is impossible to say something exact about the Ever-Present Truth, except that...without any doubt at all...
HERE IT IS...AT ALL TIMES.
And yet... we busy ourselves, running around looking elsewhere for It. As if there existed an "elsewhere" that was not This!
THIS... Seamless, Boundless, Eternal WHOLE...that mystics throughout the ages have referred to as God, Allah, Buddha Nature, Self, Brahman, Tao, Etc., Etc.,....is none other than
"THIS IMMEDIATE THIS"
(without any concepts or imaginings of any kind).
The following are a few excerpts from recent Meditation sessions/Retreats at the Chicken Coop...
"The message of Non-Duality is simple, straightforward, uncomplicated and utterly all-inclusive...There is only ONE thing that actually exists. You are free to call the "One Thing" whatever you want, as long as you remember what you are referring to... This Unimaginably Infinite Totality Of Existence".
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"The only "understanding" that one needs to Realize is this...
Absolutely Everything, Everywhere, At All Times, Is none other than God. And...most importantly... that INCLUDES this that you keep referring to as "I".
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"Imagining that there exists something"other" than God ("I", "You", "This", "That", etc., ) is the root cause of ALL suffering".
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Q) What is God?
A) That which is asking the question.
Q) What else?
A) That which is answering.
Q) Okay...What is NOT God then?
A) There is nothing that is not God! Including nothingness!
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"God is Infinite Infinity in all directions. Please try to see directly the SIZE that is sitting in these chairs".
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"Here was nothing but God all along. And "there" was an imagined, separate "I", hallucinating otherwise".
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Q) What is the difference between "I" and "God" ?
A) There is none.
Q) So "I" am God!
A) What other Essence could you possibly be?
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"This is a tree. Here is a baby. That is a flower. There is a Galaxy.
Where does the mind get such crazy ideas? LOOK! GOD!"
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"To say, "This is God" is correct.
To say, "That is not God" is ignorance".
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Q) You keep telling us that we are one, seamless, boundless field.
A) Yes.
Q) Why then do I not FEEL that? Why do I not see it?
A) Because you don't LOOK to it.
Q) Sure I do! I meditate daily. I practice...
A) No. You are involving yourself in some kind of secondary exercise. Look DIRECTLY at Who/What is meditating. Ask yourself..."What does the word "I" actually refer to"? From where does the sense of "I" arise?
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"Are you in a book, that you should keep looking there for your Self? Reading, praying, studying, worshiping...any excuse so as not to look DIRECTLY at Self! What is it that is performing all of these functions"?
"Look directly at your own self. That alone is Meditation".
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Q) What is "I" ?
A) Yes. Please ask YOURSELF that! Who/Where/What am "I"?
There is no other question worth asking.
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"Please don't ever make the fundamental mistake of imagining that there is something "other" than God that is Practicing.
It is God that is seeking for God .
Please understand that.
Understand that and have done with it".
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"No need to wait! No need to wait! Within all things, God is saying "I". Please look directly and immediately to this "I".
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Q) What is Meditation?
A) The Original, Ever-Present, Primordial Field being aware of Its' Own, Infinite, Non-Dual Self.
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Q) What do you mean by "Source"?
A) THAT which is spontaneously arising as ALL. Nothing exists...whether form or emptiness...that is not Source.
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Q) If God is everything, including this, the Seeker...why should I meditate?
A) Because understanding this intellectually is not the same as Realizing it empirically. Words are not the thing they are describing.
So...if you understand that you actually ARE this Infinity...please BE like that. It's an amazing paradox...but one needs to Practice in order to effortlessly express ones' Own, Original, Natural, Normal, Ever-Present Essence".
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"How is it possible that there could ever be anything OTHER than the Universe Itself, seeking the Universe Itself"?
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"God is everything. God alone exists. There is nothing that is not God. All is just THAT...God".
"Understand this. Meditate on this. Realize this".
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Q) What is suffering?
A) The illusion of being "separate". Imagining that there is something other than God that exists.
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"All the infinite varieties of shapes and forms are actually none other than God Itself. The separation or distinctions between them is imagined. This imagined separation is due to the movement of the mind. The mind and all of its' movements are ALSO none other than God. Do you understand? All manner of shape and form...emptiness and void...is ALSO none other than God.
Please contemplate deeply on the significance of this".
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Everything...Everywhere...At all times...On all levels...Formed and Un- formed...Imagined or Perceived...Existing or not...
Is none other than God.
So I ask you then ..."What is It that Sits in these chairs"?
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THE ORIGINAL, EVER-PRESENT, BOUNDLESS, INFINITE
REALITY IS WHAT "I" IS.
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PLEASE BE EXACTLY, NATURALLY, EFFORTLESSLY LIKE
THAT.
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THAT THOU ART
May all of Creation awake to, and Realize, Its' Ever-Present, Inherent, True, Cosmic Nature.
Love and Peace,
claudio