The Apperceiving of what-is is already-always complete.
im-mediate
Leave ‘sound’ unheard,
And ‘hearing’ hear instead,
For hearing lives,
But sound, as such, is dead.
— Wei Wu Wei, Posthumous Pieces
direct experience-ING
The Self is certainly within the direct experience of everyone, but not as one imagines it to be. It is only as it is.
— Ramana Maharshi, Talk 141
“the light of the mind”
No goal exists in Dzogchen separate from the now.
— Keith Dowman
“the pure Self”
Q: On enquiry into the origin of thoughts, there is a perception of ‘I’. But it does not satisfy me.
A: Quite right. The perception of ‘I’ is associated with a form, maybe the body. There should be nothing associated with the pure Self. The Self is the unassociated, pure reality, in whose light the body and the ego shine. On stilling all thoughts, the pure consciousness remains.
— Ramana Maharshi, Conscious Immortality
“The sense of time is purely mental.”
There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present when you experienced it, and tomorrow will also be the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.
— Ramana Maharshi, Guru Ramana
“What is the non-self?”
Q: Viveka is said to be discrimination between the Self and the non-self. What is the non-self?
A: There is no non-self, in fact. It is the Self which speaks of the non-self because it has forgotten itself. Having lost hold of itself, it conceives of something as non-self, which is after all nothing but itself.
— Ramana Maharshi, Talk 310
On ‘the ego’
Uncertainties, doubts and fears are natural to everyone until the Self is realized. They are inseparable from the ego; rather they are the ego.
— Ramana Maharshi, Talk 612
“existence is consciousness”
You cannot deny your own existence. That existence is consciousness — the Self.
— Ramana Maharshi
“Objectivization is the only obstacle”
From moment to moment, conceptual ignorance turns the fluid field of appearances into something seemingly concrete.
— Bairotsana
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