encounters with nondual awareness

I Am That
Nisargadatta Maharaj

 

The Wisdom Teachings of
Nisargadatta Maharaj:
A Visual Journey
Nisargadatta Maharaj and
Matthew Greenblatt

nisargadatta maharaj

when you look at anything
it is the ultimate you see
but you imagine that you see a cloud or a tree
 

I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind of consciousness it has; I become the inner witness of the thing. I call this capacity of entering other focal points of consciousness, love; you may give it any name you like.
Love says "I am everything".
Wisdom says "I am nothing".
Between the two, my life flows.
Since at any point of time and space I can be both the subject and the object of experience, I express it by saying that I am both, and neither, and beyond both.

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Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelt, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.
Nisargadatta Maharaj I Am That

When you come to the end of material world-knowledge, at that stage you transcend the observer and the observed. That means that you are in a true state of being-ness. Thereafter, you enter the state of transcending being-ness, where the identities of the observer and observed disappear.
Nisargadatta Maharaj Consciousness and the Absolute
 

Questioner: But what is true?  What comes first, mind or matter?

Nisargadatta: Neither comes first.  For neither appears alone.
Nisargadatta Maharaj I Am That

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