Trace the Radiance Back

(Formerly Yoga9vipassana & Pinelands Vipassana)

[eve-livelight]

Right or wrong,

Joy and sorrow,

These are of the mind only.

They are not yours.

It is not really you

Who acts or enjoys.

You are everywhere,

Forever free.

–Ashtavakra Gita

translated by Thomas Byrom

[been-here-b4]

[know-the-self]

Talking of the witness should not lead to the idea that there is a witness and something else apart from him that he is witnessing.

The witness really means the light that illumines the seer, the seen, and the process of seeing.

Before, during, and after the triads of seer, seen, and seeing, the illumination exists. It alone exists always.

- Ramana Maharshi

There is no one standing apart watching life go by like a spectator.

There is only the light in which the watcher, the watched, and the watching itself all appear.

That light was already there before the seer, the seen, and the seeing arose.

It remains all through their existence, and it remains unmoved even after they dissolve.

You are not the witness standing outside experience.

You are the light in which experience itself appears and disappears

[tracetheradianceback]

“In night dreams and in the dream-like movie of waking life, this groundlessness appears as infinite forms. When we look closely, we see that these forms are nothing but continuous change, and that no solid, independent persisting thing ever actually forms except conceptually, as an idea.”

—Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

[vintage-tigre]

[tracetheradianceback]

“The whole show is one seamless, ever-changing, ungraspable happening…Only when we think about this seamless flow and put it into words, does it apparently get broken up into subjects and objects, nouns and verbs, causes and effects, before and after, good and bad.”

—Joan Tollifson, Nothing to Grasp

[tracetheradianceback]

"Your true nature is something never lost to you even in moments of delusion, nor is it gained at the moment of Enlightenment.”

—Huangbo

[tracetheradianceback]

In me,

the pure Awareness-Se!f

the universe is born, maintained

and dissolved as the mind.

Therefore, there are no mind and

thought forms of objects

apart from me the Se!f.

In this firm experience

one should ever abide.

—Ribhu Gita 32: 35

[tracetheradianceback]

“There is a vastness beyond the farthest reaches of the mind. That vastness is my home; that vastness is myself. And that vastness is also love.”

—Nisargadatta

[tracetheradianceback]

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”

—Nisargadatta

[tracetheradianceback]

“All you need is already within you, only you must approach your self with reverence and love. Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors… All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect.”

—Nisargadatta

[tracetheradianceback]

“As long as you imagine yourself to be something tangible and solid, a thing among things, you seem short-lived and vulnerable, and of course you will feel anxious to survive. But when you know yourself to be beyond space and time you will be afraid no longer.”

—Nisargadatta

[tracetheradianceback]

“Our minds are just waves on the ocean of consciousness. As waves, they come and go. As ocean, they are infinite and eternal. Know yourself as the ocean of being, the womb of all existence.”

—Nisargadatta

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