Is not truth, if that word means anything at all, an ongoing process of careful observation and uncompromising, undefended honesty?

If you stop using your transient body or your thoughts or feelings as points of reference,
it will be obvious that there is no 'someone' and there are no 'others.'

What doesn't exist doesn't need to be defended.  It never did.

Suspend all opinion and debate, and find out for yourself.


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A quiet mind is all you need.
All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet.

(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

(H.W.L. Poonja)


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“Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think is you is not the protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, ‘my life’ is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don’t possess life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life.”

- Ilchi Lee

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there is no you.

what if it's true?

what would the experience happening right now be like, without you?

look at all the parts of the experience happening right now.

which one of these parts are you?

it's not that when you die, life will go on without you.
it's that life is always going on without you.

thoughts about 'your self' do not mean a 'you' exists.

the noticing of this is available right now, in ever-present experience.

just look.

"my true nature"

this phrase assumes there is an entity to own nature.

where is this entity? where is the dividing line between this entity and 'it's' nature? if this entity does not know it's true nature, where is this nature hiding?

please question your assumptions. please make a commitment to looking at this.

the search for 'your true nature' implies a you.

please find this 'you', before continuing to look for 'your' true nature.

mightn't it be liberating to see that this assumed foundation of the search is not real?