“The Great Completion”

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 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

“Absolute Presence”

The principle in Dzogchen is RIGPA, the recognition of presence.

— Namkhai Norbu

“Pure Consciousness is indivisible”

Pure Consciousness is indivisible. It is without parts. It has no form or shapes, no ‘within’ or ‘without’. There is no ‘right’ or ‘left’ for it. Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the Ultimate Truth.

— Ramana Maharshi

“There is no object.”

There IS nothing apart from, other than, This-Here-Now.

“Learn what surrender is.”

Learn what surrender is. It is to merge in the source of the ego. The ego is surrendered to the Self.

— Ramana Maharshi, Talk 201

“Being is our nature”

Being is our nature. So what have we to find?

— Ramana Maharshi

“all is bliss”

The Self is all, and all is bliss.

— Ramana Maharshi