You Are the Supreme Reality

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Adapted from ‘I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj’ Maurice Frydman, 1973

Stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it.

Just be aware of your being here and now.

 Reality will find you.

Just live your life as it comes. Keep quietly alert, inquiring into the real  nature of yourself. Perception is based on memory and is only imagination. The  world can be said to appear but not to be. Only that which makes perception  possible is real.

You agree to be guided from within and life becomes a journey into the unknown.  Give up all names and forms, and the Real is with you. Know yourself as you are.  Distrust your mind and go beyond. Do not think of the Real in terms of  consciousness and unconsciousness. It is utterly beyond both. It gives birth to  consciousness. All else is in consciousness.

 Nothing you can see, feel or think is so. Go beyond the personal and see. Stop  imagining that you were born. You are utterly beyond all existence and  non-existence, utterly beyond all that the mind conceives. Question yourself:  Who am I? What is behind and beyond all this? Soon you will see that thinking  yourself to be a person is mere habit built on memory. Inquire ceaselessly.

 How can Reality depend on experience when it is the very ground, the very basis  of experience, the very fact of experience? Just be aware of your being here and  now. There is nothing more to it. In reality you are not a thing nor separate.

You are the infinite potentiality, the inexhaustible possibility. Because you  are, all can be. The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless  capacity to become. You are neither consciousness nor its content. You are the  timeless Source. Disassociate yourself from mind and consciousness. Find a  foothold beyond and all will be clear and easy.

You are the Supreme Reality - all there is. Just trust and remember that. Wisdom  lies in never forgetting the Self, the Supreme Absolute as the ever-present  Source of both the experiencer and the experience. I am beyond consciousness and  so in consciousness I cannot say what I am. Yet I am. The question “Who am I?”  has no answer in consciousness and therefore helps to go beyond consciousness.  Remember there is no person, only a mental picture given a false reality by  conviction. All you need to do is to cease taking yourself to be within the  field of consciousness.

You are free of being a percept or a concept. Abandon all conceptualization and  stay silent and attentive. Be earnest about it and all will be well with you.  Give up the idea of being what you think yourself to be. Let go of the idea that  you are not aware of yourself as the ever-present, changeless inexpressible  Reality. Just let go.

Your difficulty stems from the idea that Reality is a state of consciousness.  Essence is independent of consciousness. Self-knowledge is a new dimension  altogether. Pure, concentrated longing will take you speedily to your goal. If  you could keep in mind what you do not know, it would reveal to you its secrets.

When you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the Supreme State will  come to you uninvited and unexpected. Stop making use of your mind and see what  happens. Do this one thing thoroughly. That is all. Your weakness is due to your  conviction that you were born into the world. In reality the world is ever  recreated by you and in you. Once you realize that the world is your own  projection you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does  not exist except in your own imagination!

Realize that you are the Eternal Source. There is no reality but That. So how  could you be “other?” And accept all as your own. Such acceptance is true love.  Don’t try to understand! Don’t rely on your mind for liberation. Go beyond it  altogether. Be aware of being aware. Broaden and deepen the field of awareness.  You are beyond space and time, uncaused, the very matrix of existence, the  Supreme Absolute, the Noumenon- not unknowable, but unperceivable, un-objectival,  inseparable, neither material nor mental, neither objective nor subjective- the  Source of being, life and consciousness.

You are the all-pervading, all-transcending Reality. Behave accordingly. The  actual experience will dawn upon you in no time. No effort is needed. Have faith  and act on it.

All will happen by itself: You are the subtle cause of the entire  universe. All is because you are. Grasp this point firmly and deeply and dwell  on it repeatedly. To realize this as absolutely true is liberation. What you  need will come to you.

Whatever you come across, go beyond. Paramakash, your Self, is the timeless and  spaceless Reality, mindless, undifferentiated, the infinite potentiality, the  source and origin, the substance and the essence, both matter and consciousness,  yet utterly beyond both. It cannot be perceived, but can be experienced as ever  witnessing the witness, perceiving the perceiver, the origin and the end of all  manifestation, the root of time and space, the prime cause in every chain of  causation.

Your idea that you were born and that you will die is absurd: Both logic and  experience contradict it.

Behave as what I say is true and judge by what  actually happens. I know the Source of all experience. From moment to moment the  little I need to know to live my life I somehow happen to know. The Supreme  Absolute, the Self, is at the root of and utterly beyond all. You are That.  Don’t you see that the Self, your Self, the Supreme Reality, is what makes  everything possible?

Know life as pure radiation from the inexhaustible Source. There is nothing to  practice. To know yourself, be yourself. Stop imagining yourself to be this or  that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge.
Don’t disturb your mind with  seeking. The very absence of obstacles will cause Reality to rush in. You will  know the Light of Absolute Awareness in all its clarity and the world will fade  out of your vision.

Awareness takes the place of consciousness. In consciousness there is the “I”  who is conscious, while awareness is undivided. Awareness is aware of Itself.  The “I am” is a thought, while awareness is not a thought. There is no  “I-am-aware” in awareness. Awareness is not an attribute. One can be aware of  being conscious , but not conscious of awareness. Awareness is not a form of  consciousness.

One who is aware is beyond every experience, utterly beyond awareness itself.  The fundamental Reality is beyond awareness, beyond becoming, beyond being and  not-being. Give up all idea of the person , of personal attainment. Find out  what you are.

There is no effort in witnessing. You understand that you are the witness only,  and understanding acts. If in the state of witnessing you ask “Who am I?” the  answer comes at once, wordless and silent. You find yourself utterly beyond the  subject and the object. Both exist in you, but you are neither. You, the Supreme  Absolute, are the very source of reality. Collect your energies in one great  longing. My words are true and they will do their work. Enlightenment is a  certainty. It is your destiny.

Discard every self-seeking motive and Reality will find you. Who am I? Go into  it deeply. Find out your real being. You are the beingness of being, utterly  beyond the universal even. You are the non-dimensional Source of all dimensions.  As you keep on giving up, you grow spontaneously in intelligence and power and  inexhaustible love and joy. The Absolute can be reached by absolute devotion  only. Don’t be half-hearted.

The “person” is a shell imprisoning you. Break the shell. There is nothing you  need. Nothing perceivable is real. Even space and time are imagined. All  existence is imaginary. Only the Unlimited is real. Question the limits. Go  beyond. Set yourself tasks apparently impossible. This is the way. Look at  consciousness as something alien, superimposed. Then suddenly you are free of  consciousness. Whatever you feel needs to be done happens unfailingly. Selfless  and intelligent, all the powers of the universe are for you to command: You are  the Source Absolute. This is your natural state. Believe me, you are the Supreme  Reality. You are the fullness of perfection here and now.

Investigate what you know to its very end and you reach the unknown layers of  your being. Go further and the unexpected will explode in you and shatter all.  The crucial question is: “Who am I?”

 Just see the person you imagine yourself to be as a part of the world perceived  within consciousness; and look at consciousness from the outside; for you are  not the consciousness. You, the Supreme Reality, are utterly beyond.

It's Not Rocket Surgery

“Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.”  
-Richard Carlson

This whole 'changing-your-life-having-your-dream-life-getting-what-you-want-manifesting-your-desires-living-the-good-life-being-happy-healthy-peaceful-loving-yourself' thing....It's not Rocket Surgery.

But we make it a big deal. We really just need to feel good, be happy, trust the Universe, trust in ourselves, trust in our emotions, feelings, realize that things can and will unfold perfectly.

But we don't believe in ourselves/trust ourselves to be who we already are: Creators. Pure source energy. The Universe. Gods and Goddesses. We are not separate but part of the Whole.

Actually, we are more non-physical energy than we are physical energy. Because of the 'stuff' we are made up of, we are more 'nothingness' than 'somethingness'....We are made up of cells, which are made of molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made of subatomic particles which are primarily composed of energy. So, 99.9999999 percent of each of us is composed of energy..ie: the non-physical.

Dr. Joe Dispenza says in his book Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, "Isn't it ironic, then, that we keep all of our attention on the 0.00001 percent of reality that is physical? Are we missing something? If this nothing consists of energy waves that carry information, and this force organizes our physical structures and their functioning, then it certainly makes sense to refer to the quantum field as an invisible intelligence. And since energy is at the basis of all physical reality, that intelligence I've just described to you has organized itself into matter."

Simply put, whatever you call this Intelligence, we are extensions of it. We are part of it. We are made up of it and, therefore, can create our lives the way we want to.

All that needs to be done is to think and feel, think and feel, think and feel....match the feeling to the thought and you have a winning combination.

Pay attention to what you are thinking and feeling because, as you are thinking and feeling, you are also creating.

Fake It Till You Make It

Fake it till you make it! What does that mean. There is a lot of confusion surrounding this statement, and sometimes people get very uptight about it.

In my assessment, there are many interpretations depending on who you are, what you've read, and who you've spoken to.

Some think that it means just pretend you are the person you want to be and eventually you will become that person. All you need to do is forget everything that that isn't working in your life and pretend that everything is sunshine and lollipops. There may be a little truth in that, but, you certainly can't go around spending money you don't have because you are 'pretending' you are a millionaire. That's not how it works and this isn't what it means.

A little demonstration:

When I was younger, like 12 (I'd like to say it was 10 years ago, but it wasn't.), I would go to sleep by visualizing myself on The Love Boat. Sometimes I would be Julie McCoy, Cruise Director, and sometimes a passenger. This was a great way to fall asleep because it made me happy and I would have a peaceful sleep.

Seriously, I think we would all have excellent sleeps if we envisioned ourselves on a beach, a boat, a train...whatever, as long as we were having a relaxing time on our imaginary vacation.

So, what Fake It Till You Make It means is to visualize what you want. THINK and FEEL it... just like I did visualizing and feeling what it would be like on The Love Boat as Julie McCoy. This is how you create your life; this is the fake it part. This is the part where you go within and have fun, no matter what is happening. Although I didn't manifest being on The Love Boat (because that wasn't the point of the exercise when I was 12), what did manifest were peaceful sleeps. I remember waking up one morning and I felt awesome! I even looked like I had a restful sleep.

Once you are in your conscious state and moving through day to day life, you take that feeling wherever you go.  The point of life is to feel good!

Still unsure about this Fake It Till You Make It business? There have been studies demonstrating that thought and feeling will produce similar or close to similar results. For instance, studies show that when athletes visualize running and training for a race, their bodies go through the same processes as if they were physically doing it.

Why? Firstly, thoughts and emotion are energy. We are all just a bundle of energy! Secondly, your brain doesn't know what is real or what is imagination. When you throw feeling into the mix, you can tell your brain anything and it will believe you.

Therefore, tell it you are rotten and FEEL it....and it will believe you. Tell your brain you are wonderful, and FEEL it....and it will believe you. Whatever you tell it, it will believe you and create more for you. It is at your beck and call.

Be mindful of your thoughts and feelings! They are extremely powerful!