Soumya

All your problems are in the mind. What happens if you experiment and start watching your mind? This is how you create a gap between the watcher, you and the ongoing thoughts. The problems are in the form of thoughts. Everything in the world, even your personal limited existence is a thought. Be still and know yourself.

To awaken, the seekers just need this - to be totally present in silence, that is, without thought. Those who are able to drop all actions - know God (as their ever-present reality) Action or movement is outward and internal both. Internal action is thoughts of the past and future. If you just be still within - with no thoughts, that directly results in awakening. How do you be still? First you be aware of the internal thoughts, you watch those thoughts as a silent witness. You don't believe every thought. Then slowly you become more and more present with what's happening right now. You travel less to the past or future. Once you consistently do this, you'll naturally be silent and still - with time. It takes practice in the beginning, then Presence becomes your nature. Naturally, stillness unfolds within. That's it, there's nothing more to do. Just turn your attention within.

If you want any change - you are still attached to the mind, time and the ideas of good and bad. You want to reach from here to there. That's the mistake. Because you are ignoring what's right in front of you. Mind will ask - what's in front of me? Here's nothing special, nothing new. You/Self knows what's right in front of you - it is God. And you are missing the Reality all the time - by seeking and searching for a better place. That's why pay attention, be present.

"They are never dissatisfied with the present moment." ~ Wu Hsin That's the key to awakening.

Whenever you are trying to seek something greater than you - you assume there are two already. This and that. Here and there. With this duality filled mind - how can you know that you are One? Drop the mind. That's it.

First you lose the ego identity, the idea of being a person. Then you realise you are everything that ever was - beyond time. It's just your dream. Anything that undergoes change is just a dream. Stillness is You.

Disciple: What's the secret to becoming powerful? Master: No secret. When the need to become powerful dissolves, that's true power. When the need to become anything ends, you realise you are enough and complete. Let the person, the "me entity" not interfere in who you always are.

For the ego the problem is the world and other people. “I wish they would have done this and that.” That's the unconscious voice that rules their mind. Only by turning our attention inward to our own mind can we find that all unconsciousness and source of suffering is within. No one can cause suffering to you, it's just your own interpretations that you are living with that makes you resist Life. The one who is in conflict is always looking outward for reasons for their unhappiness. Wise know everything emantes from within. By this, I mean your joy, your misery, your success or failure - the cause is just you. Because there's just you in reality.

Most do not understand what non-duality really is. If you truly know there's only one playing in different forms - what suffering can you have? Why would you desire or try to manifest something? Who would you fear? Who would you aspire to be? Realising non-duality is the end of the world - in the sense you and the other don't even exist. Only oneness is. There's no one to fix or teach as you abide in this understanding. You just know you are playing in all forms. There's nowhere to go.

Be a nothing, then interact with the world. You'll see you don't hold any opinions or take sides. That's what true happiness is - when you are open to everything and not judging anything. Just like a child. There's unimaginable intelligence in this state because you are no longer using the conceptual mind. You are literally using nothing - you just are - without interpretation. This is love that springs from beyond the mind. Mind always plays in duality. When you are nothing, hold nothing in the mind - you are truly free. Mind is always in fear and desire - survival mode. Once you go beyond that, there's just bliss. In nothingness there's true fulfillment.

Past is not something happening right now. But the mind is what makes you think it is. We are so involved with the stories of the past and future, that we can't see what's really present. What is here and now. Once you are able to stay in the present - there's no suffering for you. Since you chase something only because in the past you've learnt that this seeking will fulfill you. This is the unconscious learning happened in the past. Reality is something else. Present is the only reality - and look, nothing is happening right now. You are just carrying the past to the Now. You are attaching yourself to something that is not here right now. That's why the mind is the space of hallucinations. It remembers what is not here - all the time. That's why life as you perceive it is just a dream. Be present and know who you are.

What changes doesn't matter, and what is changeless is all there ever is. In reality, that which is, is existence itself. It's the one changeless reality that gives life to everything that changes. Once you detach yourself from all the changing things in life inwardly, you find you are that changeless reality. It is not separate from you. You are literally Eternal and One. How do you see and realise this? By seeing in your experience what's changeless right now. The space where everything exists, the underlying silence that pervades every sound. These are two forms of changeless reality that you can be aware of. So be aware of empty space and silence. That's it. Soon you'll have a glimpse of what's changeless right now. All you need is to pay attention to it. They exist in the form of space and silence around you. As you become one with stillness, you find you were never in the moving/changing.

If you don't know what this existence is, if you don't know who you are - how can you manipulate reality your way and get material success? Material success is all about having a certain understanding of how life works. Otherwise it is purely accidental. That is, you don't know why you succeeded, but you did. On knowing yourself, you will always succeed because now you know how the human mind functions - in your direct experience and understanding. This ability only a few have. You can get this by being still and embracing your silent nature. Because when the mind is overthinking and overloaded, it has no clarity. What can you do with such a mind? It will just create misery for itself and others. That's what is really happening. So be conscious of your inner world only then can a conscious world happen. In is the way out. Turn within and win the world. You'll always have this choice to create a conscious and beautiful world around you. It all begins with yourself and how aware you are.

Only by being still within yourself can you know that everything is one and connected. There's no duality whatsoever. Now if the personality is not even here, what problems can you have?

@thoughtsRseeds I am-ness

In any moment, are you experiencing and acting from division, or are you experiencing and acting from oneness? ~ Adyashanti

What's the real problem - money or mind? Mind offers you a narrative that money will solve your problems. But the look at this carefully - do you really have problems or is it just the mind used to thinking and continuous thinking that assumes you have a problem? Right now, just pay attention to the Now - this moment. What problems do you have now? In this very instant? None whatsoever. But then the mind will come up with a thought that says - "oh I have bills to pay, so I need to act." Tell the mind - yes, I have bills to pay and I need to act. But you can also be present and do all that. Why do you want to create suffering around your job or work situation? Think about this. It's just a work situation. It comes and goes, it is ever changing. Why do you want to rely on your financial condition to be happy, to be who you are. Just by understanding this - you'll be relieved. Understand that mind will never be satisfied no matter what you do. Are the so-called billionaires satisfied yet? So it's better to see this nature of the mind - be aware of it, constantly within yourself. This is freedom from thought. As you watch the thoughts - you are free of thoughts. Watching the thoughts means you are no longer trapped in believing everything that the mind creates. So the real problem is an unobserved mind. Not your life situation or financial condition. Your mind is depending on situations to feel secured. As you understand this, you are free of the compulsion to have things your way. You are free of conditions, what greater gift can you get for yourself?

Self-realisation is not a journey. All you need to be yourself is to be still.

You'd need nothing once you realise you are not the body-mind complex. The world can't fulfill you so you won't expect anything from the world. You ask all from your Self and you receive from your Self. There's no other way, this has always been the case.

Time is the cause of our suffering. If I remember what happened a second ago, I'll suffer. If I think there's something called the future, I suffer. I'm not saying don't make plans or don't learn from the past - but just do that and put down the time. I mean, stop using time, you have the choice. The problem is - we are not able to consciously stop the mind's clock. It keeps travelling to past or future. The way out is - is to see that there's nothing like past, or future. You are merely imagining things right now - in the present. These are mental movies that go on playing itself. Thinking is dreaming. And we don't even think. It just happens based on what kind of past we had. The life story is not your story - it's here because you give too much importance to the past. Basically, you believe the past, you believe your thoughts unconsciously. So to wake up from the dream of this past and future, which is actually thoughts, and time - is true awakening. Just realise - whatever you think is not the reality now. It's of the past, it's alive right now - because you are thinking about it. If you don't give a thought power, it won't stay. That's it. You have this choice. You have the power of Now. Mind is ever-changing, Self is not. Anything that changes is the mind, the thing that doesn't is You.

@everyday_awaken The ride has been enjoyable.. seems to be more once this gets clearer.. Thank you 🙏🌸

Very few people are prepared for what they find when they look for the thinker. You go looking - really looking, not philosophically musing - for the entity behind your thoughts. The decider. The one choosing what to think next. The captain of the ship. And nobody's there. I don't mean this as a clever spiritual sound bite. I mean I sat down, paid close attention, and watched thoughts appear. One after another. And not a single one was authored by anyone. They arose the same way sounds appear in a room - from no one, to no one, for no reason that could be traced. The mind immediately objects: "But I'm choosing right now! I chose to read this! I choose my words in conversation!" Look closer. The "choice" itself is a thought. Which appeared on its own. Which means the chooser is just another thing that happened without a chooser. This is either the most terrifying thing you've ever heard, or the most liberating. Depends entirely on what you thought you were losing. If you thought you were the controller, sure - the controller doesn't exist. But what you gain is something far more interesting: the recognition that life is happening with extraordinary intelligence and zero effort on "your" part. Thoughts think themselves. Actions act themselves. The whole show runs perfectly without a driver. You're not steering. You never were. And the ride has been fine this whole time.