| Meditation | deep student of Zen and Buddha-suttas, lifelong meditator |
| Vedānta | deep student of Upaniṣads and Vedānta, longtime serious meditator |
| Consciousness | founder, Consciousness Research Centre; prolific writer and teacher |
| Between Thoughts: what is already here | https://bhagavan.dev |
— The Error of Seeking —
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At a certain point, the direction seems clear.
You are looking for something.
It may be called different things:
Enlightenment.
Mokṣa.
Self-realization.
Or something simpler:
Relief.
Clarity.
An end to confusion.
But the movement is the same:
You are seeking.
— Self-luminous Awareness —
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Up to this point, something has become clear.
What is seen
changes.
What sees it does not appear in the same way.
It cannot be found as an object.
And yet, it is not absent.
Everything is still known.
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This raises a quieter question.
How is this known?
— Not an Object, Not an Idea —
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What, exactly, are we speaking about here?
Why all this indirect language?
“That which remains.” “What is doing the questioning?” “What knows this?”
Why not say it plainly?
Because it is not an object.
And it is not an idea.
This—whatever we are circling around— is neither.
— That Which Cannot be Removed —
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Up to this point in our series, the movement has been consistent.
Things are examined. Questioned. Set aside.
What is not stable is not held onto.
This process can continue.
You can set aside what is seen.
What is known.
What comes and goes.
But even when nothing in particular is being noticed, something remains...
— The Seer and the Seen —
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Up to this point, something has become clear.
Things can be observed:
Thoughts appear. They change. They pass.
Perceptions shift:
What is seen. What is heard. What is understood.
Even identity is not fixed:
It adjusts. Reforms. Reinterprets.
Now consider the other side...
more... https://bhagavan.dev/seer-and-seen/
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— Can the Knower be Deconstructed? —
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So far, the movement has been clear:
Things are examined. Questioned. Taken apart.
Ideas don’t hold. Meanings shift. Identity loosens.
Even the way the world is understood begins to feel uncertain.
But now something different comes into view...
— The Hidden Assumption —
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Up to this point, something has been happening:
Beliefs have been questioned. Meanings have shifted. Identity has loosened.
Everything that once seemed stable no longer holds in quite the same way.
This process feels thorough.
Relentless.
Nothing appears to escape it.
But something has gone unnoticed...
— The Vortex of Deconstruction —
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You can question something:
A belief. An assumption. A position you once took for granted.
You find inconsistencies. Hidden assumptions. Gaps that weren’t obvious before.
So you question it further.
And it gives way.
At first, this seems like a way forward.
A kind of refinement.
But if you stay with it, something different begins to appear...
— The World as Appearance —
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If you follow the train of thought in this series far enough,
something begins to change.
Not as an idea. As a feeling.
Things don’t seem as solid.
You look at what once felt certain.
And it doesn’t hold in quite the same way.
Not completely false.
But not entirely reliable either...
— The Collapse of Identity —
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It often feels obvious: “I know who I am.”
There doesn’t seem to be much doubt about it.
You have a name. A history. A set of preferences and tendencies.
All of it appears to form something consistent.
Something you can point to and say: "This is me."
But if you look closely, it doesn’t hold in quite the same way... continued https://bhagavan.dev/the-collapse-of-identity/
