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    Another spontaneous expression by André A. Pais from the burst of joy of the unconditioned free from all elaborations. Enjoy! 🤪👍
    In ignorance, it is understood that phenomena originate dependently upon confusion;
    Upon thorough de-construction, dependent arising is recognised as the conventional expression of spontaneous presence and natural perfection!
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    Reality is naturally untainted by the three spheres of subject, object and action. As Maitreya said:
    "Any thought of ‘subject’, ‘object’ and ‘action’
    Is held to be a cognitive obscuration."
    There is no knower, known or knowing; no seer, seen or seeing; no perceiver, perceived or perception.
    There is no knowing, seeing or perception, and yet appearances spontaneously radiate with a light of their own. This vivid clarity is the mind's nature arising as dependent origination. So, don't look inside seeking the nature of awareness - it is the moon itself, rising from behind the clouds.
    It's like this that Dōgen is able to drop body and mind, and become actualized by the myriad things. Free from knower, known and knowing itself, there is no trace of awakening - for there is no sentient being to become awakened, nor insentient rock to remain asleep. And yet, this no-trace unfolds endlessly, for it is characteristic of the natural state that its radiance spontaneously manifests.

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    Anurag Jain
    But the question is how do these expressions come from André A. Pais when he admits that he is not enlightened.


    John Tan
    Anurag Jain "unenlightened or enlightened" are both unimportant conventional notions as compared to the peaceful joy of non-attachment to these notions.


  • Anurag Jain
    John Tan lol. So no point working for nirvana. Nirvana and Samsara are known as one only when one attains Nirvana. Not before. Non attachment to Nirvana comes after attaining Nirvana.
    Anyways I know André A. Pais is a good friend of yours so you support him in every way.


  • Anurag Jain
    John Tan mere conceptual articulation does not help anyone attain peace. As a friend, I would warn someone against it rather than promote it.


  • André A. Pais
    I agree with you Anurag Jain, especially your last sentence.
    But, as we say in portuguese, even a broken clock is on time twice a day. Even unenlightened folk have their moments of direct insight, regardless of their personal limitation.


  • Geovani Geo
    Anurag Jain, but then, who is there to be enlightened?

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  • Anurag Jain
    Geovani Geo the appearance gets enlightened. Samsara and Nirvana are both appearances.


  • Geovani Geo
    Yes. Light shines over conditioning, or perhaps using Buddhist lingo, over the field of DO. Besides, only self sees other selfs.


  • Geovani Geo
    "Even a broken clock is on time twice a day" 🙂 🙂 🙂
    Never heard that one here in Brazil. I'll introduce it.


  • André A. Pais
    Geovani Geo "até um relógio parado está certo duas vezes por dia." Don't you have that saying in Brazil?

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  • Geovani Geo
    Not that one - that I know about it.







  • Geovani Geo
    An interesting phrase my eyes just happened to stumble on. Its from some old Chan text:
    "The calm radiance does not shine but there is nothing it does not shine on."

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    Enjoy the uninhibited expression in the flow by André A. Pais 👍💪:
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    I couple of examples, just to make sure you get my point! 🤣
    Sooner or later we can come to realize, for instance in contemplation or meditation, that we aren't any longer - nor perhaps have we ever been - a corporeal being investigating its physical environment or human condition. Instead, there is just experience unveiling itself, knowingness contemplating and questioning its own nature, mere existence or reality touching and (un)mapping itself, luminous appearances displaying information. As we get to this point, no longer tethered by limiting notions of materiality, solidity and embodiment, things can start opening up, unblocking the way to a type of perception where anything can happen and appear. We are no longer a human being inside a physical world in a substantial universe, and therefore a new whole level of insight is possible.
    It's no longer a subject analyzing myriad objects, but a seamless sphere of luminous processing, an unknoting of perception, a release of crystallized categories. It's just an activity of open inquiry moving through and as appearances, an active but gentle flowingness of curiosity. The whole process can become less of a cry for peace and more of a celebration of inquiry itself, the glorification of an ever-deepening wisdom, an upward spiraling love of knowledge.
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    (this following one actually makes sense in this post:)
    If there is no self at all,
    How could it be inside the head,
    Behind the eyes or in the chest?
    Implode notions of in & out,
    Internal or external,
    Subjective & objective,
    Material or mental.
    Dissolve into centerlessness;
    Into borderless experience.
    There is no agent, no observer.
    In this very experience
    There is actually no experiencer.
    Rest in sheer non-dual luminosity.
    In mere unestablished appearance.
    Now, finally,
    Having dropped such notions,
    Transcend their very absence.
    There is neither self
    Nor any lack of it.
    There is no essence
    Nor its emptiness.
    There is no center
    nor non-duality.
    Since a negation still implies
    Its refuted object,
    Drop all views.
    This dropping goes on.
    It goes deeper.
    Endlessly.
    Rest.
    Dissolve.
    Eyes wide open,
    Drop all views
    And shatter the universe.

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    Anurag Jain
    I especially liked the lines, "The whole process can become less of a cry for peace and more of a celebration of inquiry itself, the glorification of an ever-deepening wisdom, an upward soaring love of knowledge"


    John Tan
    Anurag Jain actually I like every sentence. 😁👍


  • Anurag Jain
    John Tan the rest of the sentences are often how enlightenment is sold and thus can be easily copy-pasted. But the sentences that I quoted are known by ones who have really tasted non-dual gnosis.
    At any rate, I too am sharing this whole post in my Advaita group 🙂

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  • Yin Ling
    All is wrote by Andre ?
    It is exceptionally good 😭


    John Tan
    Yin Ling I think so. Have to ask the originator.. Haha...


  • Yin Ling
    John Tan haha it’s okie. I’m just enjoying it nontheless







  • Arthur Deller
    Signatures upon flowing waters. 🙇🏻


    Arthur Deller
    André A. Pais “a couple of examples, just to make sure you get my point”
    This following one actually makes sense in this post. 🤣
    Hahahaha!!!! Ty
    Priceless!


  • André A. Pais
    Those insertions make sense (hopefully) in the thread I posted these on. Here not so much...







  • Arthur Deller
    The absence of absence


  • André A. Pais
    "Uninhibited expression!" 🤣🙏

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