I am

अहं ब्रह्मास्मि | aham brahmasmi

[you-are-another-me]

[divatakesontruth]

ngl this feels like alot of mental work to upkeep. Be aware of being aware, peel back layers, ask yourself questions. I didn’t have to do any of that to know that I am this human being and its experiences. I never have to ask myself am I aware of still dealing with something or having something or being me. No it just is. it’s easy to be aware of separation it’s all I’ve known and maybe that’s how it should be. none of this is fun and it feels like work (not asking for recourse btw) either way dealing with life or dealing with being aware both need some effort so might as well just effort and try to live a good life to the best of my abilities.

I appreciate you and other bloggers words and pointers though. This was an experience to say the least. But I think it’s okay to say that sometimes some things just aren’t for you and I think I’m at that point. Thanks again!

It’s only tasking because you are treating it like a task, like a practice you must maniacally do in order to yield imaginary results and I’ve said this before, you guys cannot make sense of the fact that THIS needs no complications or work, it just IS.

But you rather itemize, conceptualize and drive yourself mad for something so effortlessly simple, be rest assured that the second this feels like work you are not on the right path, you are instead tangled in the lies and narratives you are creating.

The truth is simple, nothing is serious because everything is ideated. That’s it, every problem arising after this is equally unreal and ideated so where lies the issue?

Doing absolutely nothing is more accurate than any of the things you listed you had to do, there is nothing to be done , nothing at all— you struggle with this because you feel like you need something to do as that’s the comforting narrative you have stuck to.

Like I said, non duality is not a concept, doctrine or practice. It’s a one time realization, the entire teaching of it can be said in one sentence and left alone forever.

If you hold onto any concept, definition or stable truth as a guideline in non duality, then you are deceiving yourself by illusion, it’s all empty nothing, inconceivable existence.

If you simply realized right now that there exists nothing in truth outside Awareness then you have “achieved” the success you are seeking from the ‘work’ in less than two seconds .

[divatakesontruth]

Think

[divatakesontruth]

'If you wish to find liberation, you* must vanish. See that there's a deeper, purer space from where even the frustrated, angry one is seen. Don't go around anymore, stay here.' (Mooji)

*the image you have of yourself

♥

!!

[divatakesontruth]

There is nothing as truly freeing as realizing the Self, as understanding that fundamentally nothing holds any substantial importance, truth or implication. When people say it’s all too much to bear I wish I can give them an ounce of what I’m actually pointing at, I wish my words could accurately explain the taste of the apple without them needed to eat it themselves but I can’t.

I urge you to continue seeking Truth, continue questioning your ideas, continue abiding as Self, continue observing the observer. Do whatever will remove that dependence on the stories till you move with the unshakable Knowing that Self alone is.

[trulyeverafter]

I have the same desire as the 📏 anon but to me it all sounded like just know you are tall and will be but in Non Duality, what I have read across it is not about the desire or fulfillment. so what it is it? The famous ones I see here are all against the desires, fulfillment but they talk about shifting being as mundane as drinking coffee

It's not about anything. It's simply the truth. The “experience” can be anything, yes. But that isn't the point at all.

Whether you get what you want or don't, does the “truth” change? Yes, people are desperate to get what they want. That's okay. It has nothing to do with anything. But can you deny the “truth”?

You might say: “What if it's the truth? Who cares? I want what I want!”

The truth is that YOU just ARE. The truth is that all these experiences are within YOU, already. Of course, these are all just pointers to the truth. The truth is not any of these, either. It's indescribable.

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I already used this example in one of my first ever posts but think about this:

You have three cars. You think you have just one car and thus, you are trying to buy the other two cars.

...Now what? Nothing.

Can I meaningfully tell you that you can use this truth to get the two cars? That makes no sense.

All I see is just you pretending that you don't already have the three cars. There is no point in asking you to “stop pretending” because you have absolutely nothing to gain by doing that. It's just play. It has always been up to you whether to keep pretending that things aren't already perfect or stop. It makes no difference either way.

“But I don't see it!”

Does that mean you don't have the three cars? Obviously not.

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The above example assumes a "you" that "possesses" things. But it's pretty much the same, otherwise.

Suppose “you” are poor. Actually, scratch that. Suppose there's a story of a person going through poverty. Does that mean YOU aren't already " "? Does that mean a different story cannot appear within YOU?

Does seeking for something make sense when every experience is already within YOU? Even if it did make sense, isn't that just another story?

So yes. All those experiences are equally possible, available. Why wouldn't they be if all of all kinds of experiences are within YOU already?

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[divatakesontruth]

The entire point is to Remain as you Are, to withdraw away from and let be what appears to be external from what IS.

The tendency to delve into the intellectual understandings and logical reasoning is one that must be transcended at all costs— trying to conceptualize that which is above concepts is utter deception.

Stop trying to attain an enlightenment, or a superior knowledge, truly there’s absolutely nothing that you lack right now, I do not know more than you.

There is no difference between me and you, we are all THAT. The ideas and stories of separation create an imaginary otherness but the truth is there is only Self. Nothing can harm you

[bunnybeyondtwo]

bunny notes on suffering🐇

after noticing one is going through some kind of suffering (like anxiety or frustration), the common reactions are to try to resolve it right away or to ignore it as much as possible. these two approaches don't take you anywhere in terms of really freeing yourself from suffering. when trying to resolve something, we are perpetuating our experience with that feeling. when trying to ignore it, we indirectly feed that feeling because we are still trapped in the idea that there is a problem that is being ignored.

so, how does one break free from suffering? by recognizing that there is no suffering in the first place. no matter how real it seems to be, it is just another idea that arises in consciousness and that has no meaning of its own. it is the mind that interprets this idea as something bad and painful. nothing has a fixed meaning, so when the mind goes “this is bad, this is beautiful, this is difficult”, remember there is nothing that sustains these interpretations as true, besides your identification with the mind. they don’t mean nothing at all.

essentially, everything is the same thing. everything is you. beneath the mental labels, everything will always be fine.

you can live in the illusion of having gone through traumas and bad experiences, but those are just stories that you've repeated so much to yourself that you've forgotten they're just stories. nothing binds you to any story because you have no past and no future, you simply are.

this does not mean that we should repress the feelings and thoughts that arise, but rather see them for what they truly are: just ideas with no meaning, that cannot disturb oneness in any way, and that are not a threat. you are always safe because you are untouchable. there is nothing that can hurt you or make you suffer, only the illusion of suffering. this “i”that seems to suffer doesn’t exist.

in “practice,” the thoughts and feelings that seem negative will arise, but they are transitory. observe them without analyzing or engaging with their supposed meanings, let them come and go without your attention and realize that the angst was never yours to feel.

when you believe that there is a reason to suffer or that suffering is inevitable in a situation, you are letting yourself be opressed by a unreal narrative that has no power and no truth in it. there are no reasons to believe that a situation is bad because there is actually nothing happening at all.

remain present in the now and you will see that there is nothing wrong with this present moment. you are here, and that is enough reason for everything to be fine.

to free yourself from suffering, see that it doesn’t exist. see that there’s no i here, only this, only awareness.

[i-amyou]

Hello Ru! how’re you? Hope you’re having a good day.

I have a question that’s been really bothering me. If I decided, for example, to be an arts student tomorrow, how does the prior knowledge of the past classes or the exam dates come up? I’m not sure if I explain myself.

The experience is like a play, no? How do the details of this play display? Like now, looking at my phone with all my saved pics in my gallery or all the apps I have, how does it display? Just because?

Or I shouldn’t bother myself with these questions as they’re unnecessary and just focus on within? Thank you!

You don't have to concern yourself with the how, because there is none. Every conclusion you would reach would just be another story, and every question would eventually lead you to silence.

There's a quote, I don't remember who said it but it says "The point of questioning is not to arrive at the answer, but to dissolve the question/questioner", and I think that is a lovely pointer.

Moreover, your entire life, past present and idea of a future, is something that is arising right in this moment. Entirely NEW. It has no relation to a previous(seeming) thought or appearance, it is happening NOW. EFFORTLESSLY. There is no time, the empty illusion of memories (also arising fresh in the present) might make you believe in the continuity but it's all just the mind's play to make it make sense in the NOW. And this now we speak of is not a moment in time, rather the absence of time altogether. A DOT (a pointer by chi of @ko-existing) is a good pointer to understand it, it's literally just THIS. Whatever is appearing right now is brand new, fresh and spontaneous.

[rabbithole0]

https://www.tumblr.com/rabbithole0/747224124587425793/when-you-said-and-watching-everything-from-this

So why do I feel like that some people say it in a way that you close your eyes and imagine and that’s it, you've experienced what you want and if you open your eyes and everything's the same, it's okay because you've already experienced what you wanted? :/

Because you separate the "imagination" and the "physical" world. Who is present both there and there? And who do you identify with? But I understand exactly what you want to hear. What you want to experience is possible and available in the "physical" world. Don't focus on getting things. Figure out who you are.

[divatakesontruth]

https://www.tumblr.com/divatakesontruth/818204800321716224/hii-genuine-question-cause-im-a-bit-confused-if?source=share Totally agreed..but that's the loop I can't get out of. If we seek the direct experience - it perpetuates 'seeking', if we wait for direct experience-the waiting continues Being aware of awareness is the so called "direct experience" but when does it actually unveil reality? While abiding in awareness doesn't take effort, it does take intent to go back to 'self' in each experience. Idk if I am explaining my confusion correctly but I've been in this loop for over 2 years now. Please help for once & for all!!

Why would you need to seek direct experience? It’s here and it’s now that’s the whole point of it, I’m telling you to come back to what you have never left, you don’t ‘seek’ direct experience you just BE , that’s directly experiencing the now, here, the IS.

There’s s nothing to seek because seeking takes away the fact that you’re directly experiencing, you’re taking away direct experience and making it seeking which is a different experience

It doesnt take any effort, the effort is a different experience you’re supposed to go back the natural state you’re not doing anything unless you start to ideate that you’re doing something

You have to stop making it a task just relax and be as you are righy now, its the easiest thing in the world

Without taking any stories into account, stop taking effort, seeking, hard , difficult, confusing. Stop taking these narratives and relax in the nothing that is revealed

(I used text to speech cause I was in my car when I got this ask)

[rabbithole0]

Give up.

Stop resisting and accept all your apparent circumstances as they are. Stop trying to control the illusion. 

F🍄ck off

When you really don't care about your life, you'll notice how it miraculously becomes easier. The circumstances that hurt you disappear. You can breathe deeply. You feel free. 

And at that moment, you really understand what reality is and who you are. 

You are deeply aware of this mechanism. 

You stop resisting, and the resistance disappears. 

Try it, it's really simple.

— Neo

[innernachoesandguacamole]

"You stop resisting, and the resistance disappears"

Collapse of duality!

Giving up / not caring / letting go is the release of the mind, a surrender to what is

Doing so eliminates the veil of separation - your perspective is subsequently opened and limitations are transcended, and you discover it's just you

Subsequently what you've been striving for seems to magically fall into place, but it's always been there! Just by then you no longer feel an illusory distance

Well said C:

[ko-existing]

"You were never born" - John Wheeler

[unknowable-known]

if this opens you up to infinity, can you play around with infinity? i understand the fact that anything is possible but how do you play? like maybe teleporting, or seeing in 4d

im sorry but this is a natural curiosity as i came from an loa background..

i know that I'm the Witness, so it also confuses me as to how i "choose and decide" anything. wouldn't the result be whatever "this" brings up?

ur answers have been helpful!

And aren’t you “this” already? There’s no separate human at the whim of some infinite entity and their grand destiny. This isn’t anything specific or conceptually definitive, just being or nothing or THAT. That’s all we’re pointing to.

So it’s not a matter of how or who is deciding. It’s just what is. So yes, what is unfolds perfectly already. Including whatever seems like choices or desires from an individual mind.

Right? Any definition is just another seeming position. See how your thoughts just go in circles attempting to rationalize any foundation. When all along it’s always been you, as nothing and everything all at once. In the never ending abstractions you are self seen

[divatakesontruth]

dear, i understand everything is unreal, therefore it's like white noise. but i can't treat / feel it as unreal.

for example, a problem: i know it will arise again, and I'm still living this life yk, so despite knowing it as unreal. it doesn't make a difference to me because the thing will continue? So if I were to forget about it, I would worry because of the "future". when I try to " ", it feels peaceful, but very temporary. and then life bites me. its only for a moment before i return. idk how to make it be something lasting. (not to mean be " " all the time, i just mean to realize the unrealness of things, therefore acting as " ".)

I don't quite get it, because at the core of it I can't think of it as unreal, and that it's something not actively affecting me. I am living in the dream, it still feels like that?

I hope you understand what I'm trying to get at. i truly appreciate your patient replies. know that you are very much loved. 🩷

The issue with this entire ask is that you are still very rooted in this idea that you are a limited helpless human being when we have established that the only identity here is the Self; the Knowing

Problems are seeming to arise but your only true interaction or relation with these ‘problems’ is that you Know it, it seemingly appears within Awareness

You could never be the one suffering because it’s just not possible, you are only ever the Knower— the Knower of whatever profound complex or complicated situation that appears to be , you won’t ever be inside the scene because the scene only IS because you Know it.

All the definitions and conclusions ‘you’ are deriving about what the case is are unrelated baseless ideas that are free to be expressed so long as the light of Awareness feeds that existence

I want you to be able to have this as a deep understanding that You are not the doer or the victim but the unspeakable undefinable presence in all that seems real

This is something very obvious and blatant to you that you have overlooked it your entire life. When the gurus say to enquire into your true identity ; Awareness, when they say to notice the Self, when they say to leave the mind alone they say so because they know how paramount a direct experience of what we are pointing to is and not merely the intellectual understanding of the words we say

You have to be willing to Know Self for exactly what it is and have that pure knowledge be with you in all you seem to do

Trying to understand all this with the mind is a futile attempt. The mind cannot grasp it and neither should it— you do not need to feel anything you need to go beyond logic to the only thing that needs no words to be and that is Awareness— Being.

[divatakesontruth]

I feel like I’ll never have the realization you and many others have and I’m just stuck waiting for my desires to come true and I’m not even sure if they will ever happen because apparently they aren’t real

I don’t know I’m just struggling and stuck in a rut of watching and over consuming content about non duality I’m also on the shifting side and manifestation side of tumblr and they give me hope but then I’m reminded that it’s not real and just delusion so I’m back to feeling terrible

diva please tell me what I can do to make these feelings go I just want peace

thank you for replying

First of all, please breathe and accept that you don’t know anything about how “realization” is supposed to look, the more you keep conceptualizing an experience the more you’ll be stuck trying to attain it perfectly by rejecting everything you think it is not

I understand trying to read and watch more but understand that there is nothing out there that will suddenly make all of this ‘click’ for you, that entirely depends on your willingness to remove your loyal attention on whats out there and place it on whats undeniably here. YourSelf

Notice Awareness, notice this unchanging knowing in the background of experience. THAT is the nature of True Being not the ideas of who you are and what you want, the fact that that you know of something that KNOWS of your circumstances means that what you really are is beyond those circumstances, identifications and scenarios

You must be able to return devotedly to Being the exact same way you return to suffering.

The suffering is nothing more than an appearing idea, you do not have to account for it or claim it as your own, perfection is the only thing that exists , joy and bliss become tainted when we start giving into the stories of lack and suffering when these things hold absolutely no truth

They hold absolutely no truth

Where is the lack and suffering outside the ideas of it?

Nowhere because lack and suffering are ONLY ideas and by default are not concrete

So make the decision now, this will not dawn on you when the time is right, no you must choose now to see Actuality

And for the love of God, get off that side of tumblr if it’s bothering you— make the choice it’s either truth or illusion

[fubukiiisss]

one of the epiphanies i’ve had is that when i catch myself saying “i intellectually understand but…” that right there is misidentification, trying to understand ……… is just crazy. because when you watch yourself you’ll find yourself saying “i try…” “i be aware but then….” you find yourself trying to understand “ ” through this seeming human. whenever you feel like you’re complicating it, step back. back it up, fall into the silence. everything is effortless like the way you’re aware of reading this right now, the way i’m writing it, do you even think much? no you just do, effortlessly. just be, don’t try. don’t ever go tell someone you’re “trying” to understand. for me, i watch my thoughts like i watch tiktok, scroll, scroll, but the “hmm where?…” “why ?…” “can’t see….” i don’t overreact nor panic, it’s just part of the algorithm, i simply watch or scroll away.

don’t just read, it’ll never help, ponder, take away what you resonate, leave the rest.

it’s just cute a little dream, with seeming circumstances, seeming beautiful things, just look at how beautiful you orchestrated everything. it’s okay, it’s always is, just be, dive into the silence, it’ll hold you.

[beesfairlyland]

Isn't it soo fascinating knowing that Everything you see around you ...is just the creation of THAT (you). Even the thoughts

"i intellectually understand but..."

Who's thinking this? Who's trying to understand? This ego!

This ego is the creation of THAT too. Ego is an Illusion too. Soo why try to make something unreal understand THAT.

In the end all this knowledge we are gathering... Everything that ego knows.... it's all useless.

You'll only KNOW THAT by experiencing THAT.

Sooner or later you'll have to drop all the labels, all the knowledge.