Always on offer, always just here

The self is always enlightened and always offering enlightenment to the false non-I ego-i.

The ego-i is unable to grasp the gift though as there is no false i, only the idea of one.

Getting to the real subject

Everyone can see that if there were no subjective ego self then there would be no world to see.

By the same logic, and some people instinctively know this to be true, but many will not see it: If there were no true self, there would be no world at all, no people, no stars, no universe, no potential for anything.

You may easily see that you are an ego self who on dying will no longer see the world.

You may be one of the few who know their true self to be the only self, the one that was here before the mind, the world and the body.

look after you you me

All stems from within and the without is nothing but the projection.

Many people work to paint, feed and decorate the body, nourish it and supply it with answers to its cravings.

While the within is the root and the only, the local shell is a waste of paint. The root has no need for your efforts, work on the body is wasted. While the out-there dream is only a projection, that is where good will should be placed.

Not looking after your vehicle, but helping others; as helping others is true self help with real benefit.

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There is no 'yourself', so work here is wasted, the world is your-self and work here is true action, of the whole, for the whole, not wasted on ego.

big inflated ego

The ego is not real but it is a useful form of measurement.

The size of the ego defines the separation between self and true self.

The larger it gets the more the true self is hidden. And so the more the ego inflates to fill an every growing gulf - of its own making.

One step out of reach

Who are you seeking this bliss for?

If ego is seeking then truth will be kept at bay. If person is seeking for gratification, position, accumulation, then truth will be ever absent.

Search only so that, realized as awakened, you will aid the world.

Teach with silence.

Don't worry, I'm in control.

The ego is quite happy indeed that it is given the name I, that it is seen to be in charge, that is is seen to act.

Yet, when you meet the real self and turn to the ego, it whimpers, game up and disappears.

Don't let it pretend to run the show, ask who it is.

Subtle Truth

Truth will capture you. You don't need to look. In fact looking will make it hide.

No method exists. Methods only seek to give a pacifier to the ego in the hope that once pacified it will not stand in the way of the the truth.

My name?

I see a lady over there. Just a lady passing by.
She comes over and introduces an ego. She says;
“Hi, you saw my body floating by but I am Ego called Name.
What is your Ego Name?” She enquires.
I stand silent.
She says; “My Ego Name does Job, What Job does your Ego Name do?”
I stand silent, but a thought occurs.
“I am not drawn to say a Name, I am the universe, acting, undivided. I do not Do a thing.”

Hot head

The mind can be seen as the air filling the open sky.

Our mind is the air inside a hot air balloon (open at the bottom - so joined but separate)

The ego then is the flame at the bottom of the hot air balloon that stirs the mind up into the balloon.

Overly inflated, hot headed, big head, full of hot air... all make sense in this analogy.

I see I

The cat or dog is given a mirror and they become fascinated by the reflection, scratching at the mirror, jumping around, running to the back of the mirror, seeing nothing they return to the front, nudge it, on and on..

So it is also with the person when they first see the world.

With time they may realise the world is a reflection of themselves and smile.

Is happiness your goal?

Are you trying to make yourself completely happy?

This is the action of the ego!

Strive only to hold onto the one.

Ego gone, no longer identified with – is the true state.

A note from self to ego

So you think you are analytical - I think you are staring at the wall.

So you think you are spiritual - I think you speak mumbo-jumbo.

So you think you are religious - I think you have a closed off mind.

So you think you are happy - I say stop thinking and you will be.

So you think I have it all worked out - I know for sure you can't.

And this is why I exist in bliss,
   knowing the only certainty,
     is this.

I give to you yourself

By offering 'yourself' to one higher, you are offering something fake (your idea of separate self) to something equally fake, as it has its conceptual reality based on your initial false premise: that idea of a separate self which may be offered.







Yet, to give yourself up...

What guide you?

Guided by the groin they live in endless lustful seeking.

Those guided by the belly suffer unhealthy short days.

Those who take the heart for guide are some of the best people we know, but may often follow false whims and suffer these.

Guided by the mind are the most dangerous; thinking they are right, letting ego dictate ideas, wants and needs. Our common man.

Only they who have the empty cap, the guide in the crown of the head, can truly be seen as balanced. This spiritual perspective is the one who rules them all. No other guide can lead astray when this master has the helm.

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This crown may also be felt in the heart, but not the physical heart.

Aware

What is the true-self?

Who are you?

Can both be entirely answered with the same word?

"Awareness"

Oooo I look good.

Ego and Body are presented to the world so seem important to present well.

Yet what is the world but an image of the true self?

You think the true self is interested by the show of the ego, a well held lotus position or a nice tan.

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Edited and removed question mark to show rhetorical nature of question

meet a master and know yourself

When you meet normal people they tell you all about themselves.

When you meet the wise they teach you about your self.

For the master, there is nothing but the self.