✨ Not two ✨

🪷 Unifying wisdom from the Heart Sutra 🪷

💛 Where is the boundary between you and this moment? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Heart Sutra 🪷

✨ Listen Sariputra, this Body itself is Emptiness and Emptiness itself is this Body. This Body is not other than Emptiness and Emptiness is not other than this Body. The same is true of Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations, and Consciousness. — Heart Sutra ✨

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✨ Just this ✨

🪷 Unifying wisdom from Mazu Daoyi (709–788 CE) 🪷

💛 Right now, what isn’t this? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Mazu Daoyi (709–788 CE) 🪷

✨ The myriad forms of the entire universe are the seal of the single truth. Whatever forms are seen, are just the seeing of the mind ... whatever speech you make it is just phenomena which are the expression of the ultimate principle. — Mazu Daoyi (709–788 CE) ✨

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Thinking for yourself begins when you notice how much of what you call your views was handed to you. Family, #culture, media, and habit all leave marks. None of this is wrong, but it is often unexamined.

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Most people never notice how much of their thinking is inherited.
It feels personal, but it is often repetition.

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The “I” That is Seeking Liberation is Unreal: “All Are Appearances in and of Awareness” — Advaita, Gaudapada & the Seeker Who Never Was

A friend messaged “All are appearances in and of awareness” in reply to my poem “Big B” – https://selfrealization.blog/2026/04/13/big-b/.

I responded back as follows:

With such perfect understanding already in place, are you sure I might have anything else to add to that. Really, what you wrote just now is all the knowledge one needs to undertake and finish the spiritual journey with no need for any other prop. The very looking for other props is itself the obstacle to the full manifestation of the understanding that is already there…shit, one knows one has to just “keep quiet” and everything will be accomplished and yet why are we all restless?

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing;
Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.”

~ Matsuo Basho

This (“All are appearances in and of awareness”) is all that the name-and-form analogy of the clay and pot conveys albeit in different words.

The only problem then for you and I might be that we are failing to grasp that the I that is seeking to understand and attain self-realization is itself an “appearance in and of awareness”.

Which is why Ashtavakra Gita and Gaudapada’s Verse 32 in Chapter 2 of Mandukya Karika (see below) and Sankaracharya’s Nirvana Shatakam say what they say.

Mandukya Karika 2.32 (Vaitathya Prakarana) asserts that from the standpoint of Absolute Truth (Paramartha), there is no creation, destruction, bondage, liberation, or seeker. This famous verse highlights that all dualistic experiences are illusions, and the ultimate reality is non-dual (Advaita), often interpreted as the unborn, unchanging Self. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Sanskrit Verse (2.32):

न निरोधो न चोत्पत्तिर्न बद्धो न च साधकः ।न मुमुक्षुर्न वै मुक्त इत्येषा परमार्थता ॥ ३२ ॥

na nirodho na cotpattirna baddho na ca sādhakaḥ |na mumukṣurna vai mukta ityeṣā paramārthatā || 32 ||

Translation & Key Meanings:

• na nirodho: There is no destruction.
• na ca utpattiḥ: There is no creation or origin.
• na baddhaḥ: There is no one in bondage.
• na ca sādhakaḥ: There is no one practicing spiritual disciplines.
• na mumukṣuḥ: There is no seeker after liberation.
• na vai muktaḥ: There is no one liberated.
• iti eṣā paramārthatā: This is the Absolute Truth. [1, 2]

Significance:

• Non-Dual Reality: This verse by Gaudapada clarifies that the ultimate reality is entirely free from all dualistic concepts, including the processes of spiritual seeking or the state of liberation itself.
• Context: It comes within the context of analyzing the “unreality” (Vaitathya) of the world and the mind, noting that when knowledge of the Self is attained, all mental projections disappear.
• Absolute vs. Relative: While relative existence appears as a world of change, from the ultimate standpoint, no change ever occurred, as explained on VivekaVani and Tom Das. [1, 2, 6]

[1] https://vivekavani.com/m2v32/
[2] https://tomdas.com/2018/02/22/advaita-vedanta-gaudapadas-method-mandukya-upanishad-karika/
[3] https://swamij.com/upanishad-mandukya-karika.htm
[4] https://vedantastudents.com/mandukya-upanishad-with-shankara-bashyam-volume-17/
[5] https://vedantastudents.com/mandukya-upanishad-with-shankara-bashyam-volume-20/
[6] https://vivekavani.com/m3v32/

विवस्त्रयोगः एव अद्वयप्रज्ञासाक्षात्काराय एक एव उपायः। — गुह्यसमाजः

#VivastraYoga is the only practice to lead to the realisation of non-dual wisdom. - Guhyasamāja

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“Is it perfume from a dress / That makes me so digress?”

No, Eliot, it is not the perfume
From a dress or otherwise
That makes me digress.

I digress
Because the mind itself is a digression
Or so I am told.

Sometimes I wonder
If it is not spiritual atyachar
For God to have created
This dilemma, this ridiculousness
That after spending a lifetime
In figuring out the Truth
You are told
What the mind understands
Is still not it.

I would like to ask God,
“Why then God
Give us a mind at all
That cannot fathom it.”

NON-DUAL AWARENESS
Another Way to Experience Being Alive

There’s a quiet shift that happens when the mind stops chasing every thought.

Less anxiety.
More presence.
Less noise.
More awareness.

This piece reflects on experiencing life without constant internal commentary — not as an escape, but as a deeper form of being.

Article link 👇

https://medium.com/@dianabasieseme_60028/non-dual-awareness-ae0e48be1ea2?sk=b04148c8f4d06b8b19fa42addceb962b

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