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Only the deepest love accepts complete wisdom, And only the deepest wisdom expresses total love.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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Where is home? It is the clear reality of the individual mind I call my own, fully merged with countless other beings, the most intimate family I know. This is my true Group. Where is home? It is the unbroken memory and ever-present vivid experience of all past lives, countless rich experiences on myriad worlds—learning in joy and sorrow, passing from ignorance to enlightenment. This is my Self. Where is home? It is the fluid embrace and grandeur of being, a transcendent passion of union with the One Creator whose body is the entire Universe. This is my world. True home, for all of us, is realizing endless awareness, endless meaning and endless value in each iota of matter, thought, and circumstance. This is Godhead.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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Nothing more than peaceful being, open heart and clear mind, sitting alone or in a crowd, active or silent – just this is sufficient world service. Awakened mind appreciating infinite creation, trusting divine law, knowing a bigger view – just this is sufficient world service. When we’re ready to accept our innate perfection just a little bit more, then we’ll see physical action is unnecessary to world service. And although big events and works help many, free radiation of what we are, deeply knowing and trusting your All-ness, is enough.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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You just have to find the right teacher. And therefore you'll find the right teaching. And I don't mean me. I'm just a channel also. I didn't make this teaching. I'm just saying what I knows. :) So, the value of finding the right teacher is that you'll find the right teaching. And the value of finding the right teaching is of you'll find yourself. And when you find yourself, you'll know yourself. And when you know yourself, you'll expand to your true being. And thereinlies freedom. I'm just translating. The teacher is the essential only to the degree that the teaching is essential. The teacher is a raft, in a way that the teaching is a raft. You take it, you use it, you get on it, you get off it. You get on the teacher, so you can get the teaching. And you get on the teaching, so you can get to the other side. And then you drop the teaching. Because the teaching is just "dog and ponny show"; "dog and ponny show for the education of the children.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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My work is to amplify the Light, not battle its absence.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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In Theravada Buddhist meditation, the fundamental goal is insight - direct contact and knowledge of self and phenomena as-it-is, developing a clear vision of that which is beyond change. In Sanskrit terminology, this is considered awareness of sunyata , also called emptiness, impermanence, insubstantiality, and the illusory nature of all that is conditioned, all that arises and passes away.

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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My real home is a state of unbounded awareness in tremendous unity; this is the place from which I am estranged during my life on Earth. My homesickness is the pain of having lost this beautiful, open state of being..." True self is the true home; dwelling in boundless mind is the real homecoming; the entire spiritual path leads to the Original Home".

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.

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Emptiness is Form, Form is Emptiness... What it appears to be is a limited version of what it truly is and what it appears in a solid form is not really solid and it's not really eternal and it's not really separate from anything either and it's much more than that. However, your conception of what it is, much greater, is also just a conception. And that's yet another limited form. It's the limited form of your conception of emptiness. The limited version, your limited understanding that comes from your limited conception of what you're terming emptiness. So, it means totality expresses through the apparently limited. But the apparently limited is an expression of totality. And therefore, you can see God in a grain of sand. But the grain of sand is also a grain of sand. It's also infinite, it's also infinity. Ra said "In each infinitesimal part of your self resides the One Infinite Creator in all of Its power.". But we're still making a distinction between an infinitesimal part of your self, meaning a little tiny part of yourself or many many little tiny parts of yourself; we're still saying that there's a distinction between many tiny little parts of and the Infinite Creator. That's limited perception; that gives us the duality of 'part and whole'. That limited perception, or that perception of 'part and whole', which you know, "In each infinitesimal part of your self resides the Infinite Creator in all of Its power."is a lovely philosophy, " but it still comes from dualistic consciousness of part and whole; little and big, limited and unlimited. You can say that we're talking about unity; but you can see how unity is based on belief and duality. To say that there's a part and a whole, but it's really one, is basically based on belief that your perception of part and whole and little and small are real. Even the perception or belief of part and whole are limited perceptions too. So to argue about unity... That's why Buddhism doesn't talk about unity. True Buddhist teaching doesn't talk about unity. Because it's simply a counter point distortion to the distorted perception or belief in separation or duality. You can't really have unity. Because you don't actually have separation. Duality is a fantasy. So, our conception of unity is also a fantasy. It's a complimentary to the previous fantasy of duality and separation; but both ultimately are empty of essential nature. That's why Buddha didn't talk about unity. And he didn't really describe enlightenment or nibban; other than saying it's the blowing out of the flame of grasping and ignorance. But it's surely non-dual, but it can't be called unity. It actually of course can not be described. That's why it's called absolute view. And that's why Ra says "Intelligent Infinity".

Scott Mandelker, Ph.D.