8-21-08 – Post 

Is there a separate me doer?

Is all functioning, sensations in the body(seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling, feeling, breathing, etc.),  thinking(thoughts appearing out of emptiness, out of no thing, conceptualizing, rationalizing, objectifying, personifying, interpreting, speculating, imagining, identifying), happening presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, randomly, spontaneously, automatically, mysteriously, without a separate independent I me entity to do these things?  Am I, in truth, in essence, in reality, the witnessing presence of spacious awareness, no thing, and not a separate independent I me entity, some thing?

Are all sensations, perceptions (thoughts, feelings, emotions, concepts, ideas, assumptions, beliefs, stories, images, objects), presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, randomly, spontaneously, automatically, mysteriously, appearing and disappearing without a separate independent I me entity involved at all?  Is what I am, my true, essential, real, nature, my already and always present nature, the witnessing presence of spacious awareness, no thing, and not a separate independent I me entity, some thing?

Is all functioning happening presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, spontaneously, automatically, mysteriously, without any separate independent I me entity? In this immediacy, in this instant, right here, right now, is there a separate independent I me entity involved in anything that is happening at all?  Am I really, the witnessing presence of spacious awareness, no thing, and not a separate independent I me entity, some thing?

 8-20-08 – Post

Is this about relief?

Is this message about the relief from personal problems and psychological suffering?  Are personal problems and psychological suffering, caused by the belief in, and identification with, the imaginary, conceptual, thought based, false self-center, false reference point, and false separate independent I me entity, individual, person, as what I am? Is there really a self-center here, a reference point here, a separate independent I me entity, individual, person here, apart from the thought, concept, idea, image, assumption?  Can anything or anyone with any independent nature be found?  Is the false self-center, the false reference point, the false separate independent I me entity, individual, person, a mirage, an illusion, a delusion, a phantom, with no independent nature? In the investigation, the exploration, the seeking, the inquiry, the questioning, the examining, the close looking, is self-centered thought, self-centered thinking, the cause of all personal problems and psychological suffering?  Are all thoughts linked, added on, one after another, to form a mental picture, a self-center, a reference point, a separate independent I me entity, individual, person, that all appearance is referred to? 

Is all appearance relative to this mental picture, this self-center, this reference point, this separate independent I me entity, individual, person, with preference and power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain, grasp, own, do, be, or become something, anything?  Is this the resistance to what is?  Is the self-center, the reference point, the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, just thought, just imagination?

Are there any personal problems and psychological suffering, other than in thought, in imagination?  Without thought, without imagination, are there any personal problems, is there any psychological suffering?  Do all personal problems and psychological suffering need someone to attach to?  Do all personal problems and psychological suffering arise because, it’s only a self-center, it’s only a reference point, it’s only a separate independent I me entity, individual, person, that can have personal problems and psychological suffering?  If the self-center, the reference point, the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, the cause of all my personal problems and psychological suffering, is seen to be false, only thought based, only imagination, an erroneous belief, a false image, a false mental picture, a mirage, an illusion, a delusion, a phantom, with no independent nature, can there be any effect, can there be any personal problems and psychological suffering?

 8-19-08 – Post

As awareness, am I formless?

Is awareness, no thing, ignored, neglected, overlooked, rejected, in favor of the appearances, the things?  Does awareness have a place where it begins, and it ends?  Is awareness boundless, endless, limitless, immeasurable, indefinite, infinite?  As awareness, am I boundless, limitless, endless, measureless? Is awareness, no thing, another word for love, a love so total that it accepts everything?  Does awareness make noise?  Is awareness, soundless, silent, quiet?  As awareness, am I soundlessness, noiselessness, quietness? Is awareness, no thing, already and always present, regardless of what appears?  Does awareness move?  Is awareness motionless, immovable, unmovable, still?  As awareness, am I stillness, motionless? Is awareness, no thing, presently aware, witnessing and registering everything coming and going, appearing and disappearing, arising and passing away?  Does awareness have the power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain, grasp, own, do, be, or become something, anything?  Is awareness powerless?  As awareness, am I powerless? Is awareness, no thing, space for everything?  Does awareness have any shape or color or form?  Is awareness shapeless, colorless, formless?  As awareness, am I formless? Is awareness no thing, without which no thing can exist?  Does awareness age?  Is awareness eternal, ageless?  As awareness, am I ageless?

Is awareness, no thing, at the source of everything?  Does awareness appear to be bound by time?  Is awareness continual, ceaseless, endless, everlasting, unceasing, always present, uninterrupted, timeless?  As awareness, am I timeless?

Is awareness, no thing, beyond all appearances, things, and are appearances, things, no thing but awareness?  Is there always and only awareness, no thing, because of, in, and as which, all of this, everything, is appearing?  Is there no thing beyond nothing? 

 8-18-08 – Post

Is this awareness freedom?

Where does all suffering come from?  Is all suffering, based on the belief that I am a separate independent entity, apart from reality, apart from awareness?  Is all suffering, concepts about a fictitious separate independent I me entity?  Is the root of suffering, the assumed separate independent I me entity?  Is the separate independent I me entity the core assumption leading to personal problems and psychological suffering?  Does the separate independent I me entity, with personal problems and psychological suffering only exist in thought?  Where is this separate independent I me entity, the root of all my suffering?  Are personal problems and psychological suffering always associated with thought?  Are there any personal problems or psychological suffering without thought? Are there ideas about a future when apparent personal problems and psychological suffering will be resolved?  Is there a belief in an imagined future when all personal problems and psychological suffering will be resolved?  Are the problems, suffering, and resolutions, only in thought? 

Is true freedom, the absence of personal problems and psychological suffering? Can true freedom only happen now?  If the freedom that is here now, is overlooked, for a freedom in the future, will there be no freedom, either now or in the future?  Is true freedom, untouched and unaffected by thought?  Is this message pointing to, my already and always present, true freedom?  As awareness am I here now free?  

What is aware of thought?  Is awareness, aware of, witnessing, registering, the coming and going of all thought and everything else? Am I the awareness within which everything comes and goes, and without which no thing comes and goes?  Is this awareness touched or affected by any separate independent I me entity with personal problems or psychological suffering, or any other thought?  Is this awareness totally and completely free of all personal problems and psychological suffering?  Does this awareness contain and transcend the apparent separate independent I me entity with personal problems and psychological suffering?  Is this awareness freedom?  Is this awareness the absolute, ultimate, timeless, boundless, eternal, infinite, freedom itself?

 8-16-08 – Post

Is this about the end?

Are all personal problems and psychological suffering caused when the appearance is referred to the false self-center, to the false reference point, to the imagined separate independent I me entity, individual, person with preference and power to create, change, choose, control, get, achieve, attain, own, do, be, or become something, anything?  Is this the resistance to what is?

Do all personal problems and psychological suffering, only exist in thought and imagination, based on an assumed self-center, reference point, separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Are all personal problems and psychological suffering, believing and taking thought and imagination seriously, believing and taking thought and imagination to be the fact, the truth, the actuality, the reality?  Is the absorption, attachment, attention, attraction, enthusiasm, excitement, fascination, fixation, interest, lure, passion, belief and identification, in self-centered thoughts, thoughts of things that have no actual reality, self-centered thinking, self-centered stories, personal problems, psychological suffering, nourished by, sustained by, supported and maintained by the belief in the assumed existence, fact, truth, actuality, reality, of a self-center, a reference point, a separate independent I me entity, individual, person?

Is this about the end?  Is this about the end of personal problems and psychological suffering?  Are all personal problems imaginary?  Is all psychological suffering imaginary?  Are all personal problems based on the assumption that there is a separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Is all psychological suffering based on the assumption that there is a separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Is there really a separate independent I me entity, individual, person here, to have personal problems and psychological suffering? 

After the investigation, exploration, inquiry, questioning, seeking, examining, close looking of my assumptions about being a separate independent I me entity, individual, person, what is found, what remains?  Right here, right now, what is actually happening?  In looking for this self-center, this reference point, this separate independent I me entity, individual, person, is awareness found, within which, sensations, perceptions (thoughts, feelings, emotions, concepts, ideas, assumptions, beliefs, stories, images, objects), everything, without exception, all appearances, all things, come and go, appear and disappear, arise and pass away, without a trace?   

Is this awareness ignored, neglected, overlooked, rejected, in favor of the always changing, constantly changing  parade of sensations, perceptions (thoughts, feelings, emotions, concepts, ideas, assumptions, beliefs, stories, images, objects), things, appearances?    Is this awareness ignored, neglected, overlooked, rejected, in favor of the assumption that there is a self-center, a reference point, a separate independent I me entity, individual, person? 

Is the self-center, the reference point, the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, that has problems and suffers, just thought, just imagination?  Is the ‘I’ that says ‘I want this’ and ‘I don’t want that’, just thought, just imagination?  Can there be any personal problems, psychological suffering, without self-centered thought, self-centered thinking, without any self-center, without any reference point, without any separate independent I me entity, individual, person?

 8-15-08 – Post

Am I, presence of awareness? 

Am I the separate independent entity, individual, person, with all the problems and suffering?  In the investigation, the exploration, the inquiry, the questioning, the seeking, the examining, the close looking, what is my true nature, my essential nature, my real nature, my true identity, my essential, identity, my real identity?  Can the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, be found?  Is there no separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Is this assumed separate independent I me entity, individual, person, just a conceptual construct, thought and imagination?

What’s really happening right here, right now?  Am I present?  Am I always here and now, while all else is coming and going, appearing and disappearing, arising and passing away?  Am I always present and aware, while everything else is coming and going, appearing and disappearing, arising and passing away?  Am I, presence of awareness?  What is this presence of awareness?  Is this presence of awareness, my true, essential, real nature?  Is this presence of awareness, my true, essential, real identity?  Is this presence of awareness, the already and always present happening, essential happening, fundamental happening, primary happening, underlying happening, basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after, all transient happenings, all transient appearances, all transient things?

Is this presence of awareness, aware of, witnessing, and registering all of this now?  Are all of these appearances, without exception, coming and going, appearing and disappearing, arising and passing away, within this presence of awareness?  Without this presence of awareness, could any of these appearances exist?  Is the essence of what I am, my true, essential, real nature, my true, essential, real identity, this presence of awareness?  Is this presence of awareness already and always right here, right now?

Is this presence of awareness being and beholding everything?  Right here, right now, is there only this presence of awareness, because of, in, and as which, everything is appearing?  Without this presence of awareness, can anything be appearing? Is this presence of awareness, the container of everything appearing?  Is everything appearing the expression of, the manifestation of, this presence of awareness? 

 8-14-08 – Post

Can I stop being?

Is undeniable, non-conceptual, non-dual being awareness, a fact, the truth, the reality, the actuality, right here, right now?  Is this fact of being awareness, obvious and undeniable?  Right here, right now, is there recognition of being, existence, presence, awareness?  Is there recognition that I am undeniably, certainly, without a doubt, definitely, present and aware?  Am I aware of sensations, perceptions (thoughts, feelings, emotions, concepts, ideas assumptions, beliefs, stories, images, objects), everything that’s coming and going, appearing and disappearing, arising and passing away, right here, right now?  Is there recognition that I exist, I am here now, and there is awareness present?  Am I this awareness?  Am I being awareness?  If I’m not here now as awareness, can anything exist?  Is there recognition of this being awareness, this presence awareness? Is there recognition of this already and always here now, presence of being?  Can I negate this being?  What do I have to do to achieve it, attain it, get it, gain it?  Can I stop being?  What do I have to do to be?  Is there anything I can do to become what I already am?  Is this being dependent on anything?  Is this being what I am?  Am I being?  Is this being happening naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, right here, right now? 

Is there recognition of this already and always here now, presence of awareness?  Can I negate this awareness?  What do I have to do to achieve it, attain it, get it, gain it?  Can I stop being aware?  What do I have to do to be aware?  Is this awareness what I am?  Is awareness dependent on anything?  Is this awareness happening naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, right here, right now? 

Is this being awareness, presence awareness, my true, essential, real nature?  Is this being awareness, presence awareness, my true, essential, real identity?  Is this being awareness, presence awareness, the already and always present happening, essential happening, fundamental happening, primary happening, underlying happening, basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after, all transient happenings, all transient appearances, all transient things?

 8-13-08 – Post

Am I always here now?

Is there recognition of my true, essential, real nature as this awareness?  Is there recognition of my true, essential, real identity, as this awareness?  Is there an undeniable, presence of awareness, witnessing and registering everything, right here, right now?  Can anything appear, can anything exist, without my presence as awareness?  Is there an undeniable awareness of presence happening here, before, during, and after all other happenings?  Is there an undeniable presence of awareness happening here, before, during, and after all other happenings?  Am I this awareness of presence, this presence of awareness, happening right here right now?  Am I always here now?  Am I ever separate or apart from here now? Is there recognition, that I am already and always present and aware?  Am I actually, naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, present and aware? Right here, right now, is there recognition of my being, and its nature of awareness, of my presence, and its nature of awareness?  Do I need to make any effort to be present and aware? 

Am I being present and aware effortlessly, undeniably, certainly, definitely?  Can I not be present and aware?  Right here, right now, am I being?  Right here, right now, does it take any effort to be?  What is undeniable right here, right now?  Is this being awareness, presence awareness, the already and always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after all transient appearances, things, and without which there are no transient appearances, things?  Is this being awareness, this presence awareness, what is pointed to as my true, essential, real nature, my true, essential, real identity, what I am?

Right here, right now is there awareness of presence, presence of awareness, being awareness, presence awareness?  Is this awareness of presence, presence of awareness, being awareness, presence awareness, the goal, and am I already and always that?  Can I ever move away from awareness of presence, presence of awareness, being awareness, presence awareness?  Can I ever move away from here and now?  Is everything, without exception, allowed to be here?  Without this awareness of presence, presence of awareness, being awareness, presence awareness, can anything be here, can anything exist?

Is there awareness of presence, presence of awareness, being awareness, presence awareness, happening, right here, right now?  Is there a knowing happening, that I am, that I exist, that I am already and always present and aware?  Can this awareness of presence, happening here, this presence of awareness happening here, this being awareness, this presence awareness, be negated, be denied? 

 8-12-08 – Post

Is presence awareness?

Is presence awareness? Is the true nature of presence awareness empty?  Is awareness presence?  In this instant, is everything, without exception, an appearance in this that I am, in presence?  Does everything, without exception, just show up as a happening here in this that I am, in awareness?  Is everything, without exception, happening, appearing and disappearing, coming and going, arising and falling away, in this that I am, presence awareness?  Is wakefulness already here as presence awareness?

Are dreams and the waking state just appearances in this thought that I am, presence awareness?  Does thought, feeling, sensation, perception, have any independent existence apart from this awareness?  Is there anything with any independent existence, apart from this awareness, separate from this awareness?  Is what is being pointed to the natural condition of what is?  Is awareness the context in which everything is born, lives, and dies?  Is awareness the context of all appearances?  Am I this awareness now?  Right here, right now, in this very moment, in this presence, this now, in this instant right now, what is happening?  What is the description of what is happening right now?  Can I describe what is happening right now?  What is the immediate present evidence?  Is awareness open to all that appears and disappears?  Is awareness touched or affected by anything that appears and disappears?  Is awareness limited by anything?  Is awareness the source of all this activity, the appearing and disappearing, of all these things? Am I this awareness and not any of these things appearing and disappearing? 

Is presence all there is? Does everything happen presently, right now?  Is there anything that does not happen, appear and disappear, presently, right now?  Can anything and/or everything only appear in this presence, right now?  Is everything spontaneously present?  Can I move away from this immediate presence, right now? Does everything appear and disappear, without exception?  Are any of these appearances my true identity?  Is any control that I believe that I have over these appearances just an erroneous belief, concept, idea?  Is presence awareness, right here, right now?  Am I present and aware, right here right now?  Is presence awareness, the only fact?

 8-11-08 – Post

What’s actual, real, and true?

Is the investigation, the exploration, the seeking, the inquiry, the questioning, the seeking, the examining, the close looking, to uncover and discover, what is fiction, a commentary in thought, a story in thought, unreal, false, and discover what is actual, real, and true?  Is there identification with and as what’s presently appearing?  Is the present evidence, that the thought story of the separate independent I me entity is a fiction, a commentary in thought, a story in thought, an image unreal, false?  Is this mistaken identity, idea, the presumed existence of a separate independent I me entity, individual, person, what I erroneously, incorrectly, assume and believe myself to be? Are thought stories transient, appearances, temporary, impermanent, conceptual images, conceptual constructs, conceptual frameworks, conceptual overlays, links, add-ons, appearing and disappearing, coming and going, arising and passing away presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, randomly, spontaneously, automatically,  mysteriously?  When all these appearances are seen through, what remains?  Am I still here?  Do I still exist?  Did I disappear?  Am I still present and aware? 

What’s constant, unchanging?  What’s always right here, right now? What’s actual, real, and true?  Is my true nature, my essential nature, my real nature, already and always fully present?  Is my true identity, my essential identity, my real identity, the presence of awareness, happening before, during, and after, all transient appearances? 

Is there awareness of the thought stories, and everything else, appearing and disappearing, coming and going, arising and passing away presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, randomly, spontaneously, automatically,  mysteriously?  Is awareness already and always aware, regardless of what appears? 

Am I present and aware, before, during, and after, all thought stories, all appearances?  Can anything exist if I’m not present and aware?

Are the thought stories and everything else appearing and disappearing, coming and going, arising and passing away,  presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, randomly, spontaneously, automatically,  mysteriously, within awareness?  Without my presence as awareness, can thought stories or anything else exist?  Is everything transitory, fleeting, impermanent, passing, constantly changing, in awareness? Am I the awareness?  Am I not the transient, impermanent, constantly changing, fictitious, unreal, false thought stories, or anything else?  Am I, what is constant, unchanging, always, right here, right now?  Am I not the thought story of the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, some thing?  Am I in essence, the non-conceptual, non- objective, actual, factual, real, true, presence of awareness, no thing?   

 8-9-08 – Post

Am I a Body? Am I a thought?

Am I really interested in discovering the truth of what I am, my true nature, my essential nature, my real nature, my true identity, my essential identity, my real identity?  Is there a separate independent I me entity, individual, person, with the power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, own, do, be, or become something, anything?  Is being, existence, presence, awareness, the absolute, pure, essential, actual, factual, ultimate reality, the constant happening, the already and always present happening, the essential happening, the fundamental happening, the primary happening, the underlying happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after all transient happenings, all transient appearances, all transient things?

Is there a separate independent I me entity, individual, person here, right now, in this instant, to be the doer of anything?  Is there no one to do anything or not do anything?  Can I locate, can I find, a separate independent I me entity, individual, doer, doing person here, or is it false, unreal, non-existent, absent?  Can I find only thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions, appearing and disappearing in awareness?  Is the separate independent I me entity, individual person, just a thought, a concept, only an idea, with no independent nature, appearing presently in awareness?

In the investigation, the exploration, the inquiry, the questioning, the seeking, the examining, the close looking, for the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, is no thing found, that I can take myself to be?

Can I only discover this awareness happening, in which a separate independent I me entity, individual, person thought, concept, image, idea, assumption, presumption, premise appears, along with the belief of this thought, concept, image, idea, assumption, presumption, premise, as fact, as truth, as reality, as my true nature, my essential nature, my real nature, my true identity, my essential identity, my real identity?  Is there really a separate independent I me entity, individual, person here?  Is there identification with, and the belief in, the separate independent I me entity, individual, person thought, concept, as what I am, as fact, as truth, as reality, as my true nature, my essential nature, my real nature, my true identity, my essential identity, my real identity??  Is there the discovery of the truth of what I am, and a seeing through of the illusion of what I am not? Am I a body?  Am I a thought?  Am I an individual, a person with certain qualities?  Am I waking-up from the conceptual fallacies?  Is the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, just words, labels, thoughts, concepts, language, translation, temporary, impermanent, false, unreal?  Is this conceptual image, this conceptual separation, this conceptual construct, this conceptual framework, I believe that I am a separate independent entity, individual, person, just a temporary appearance of thought arising and passing away in this awareness? 

Is there really anyone inside here?  Is there really anyone inside there?  Is there really anyone in here doing something, or needing to do something?  Is there really anyone in there doing something, or needing to do something?  Is there really any separate independent I me entity, individual, person here to control this body, these thoughts, these feelings, sensations, perceptions?  Can it be found? 

Is the separate independent I me entity a powerless mirage, an illusion?  In the pausing, stopping, dropping, of all concepts, all thoughts, am I still here, do I still exist, did I disappear, am I still present and aware, is all else still functioning, appearing, presently, immediately, naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, spontaneously, automatically, mysteriously?  Do I need thoughts or concepts to be present and aware?  Without my presence as awareness, can thoughts or concepts exist?  Without my presence as awareness, can anything exist?  Is this awareness, still the already and always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after all transient happenings, all transient appearances, all transient things?  

Does all happen by itself?  We say, ‘I think, I feel’, but is it all happening by itself, without anyone doing it?  Is this immediate, present functioning happening naturally, effortlessly, uncontrollably, spontaneously, automatically, mysteriously, without any entity here?  What breathes this body, moves this body, lives through this body, animates this body? Is everything constantly changing?  Is there anything happening that I am responsible for?  Is there really such a thing as a separate independent I me entity, individual, person here, with the power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, own, do, be, or become something, anything, or, is it completely, entirely, utterly, totally, non-existent, not present, absent, fictitious, fictional, mythical, imaginary, false, unreal?  

 8-8-08 – Post

What’s happening?

What’s happening?  What is the source, the essence, of everything appearing here?  In duality, in appearance, is the source, the essence, awareness?  In non-duality, in no thing, is the source, the essence, awareness?  Without my presence as awareness, can anything appear here?  As awareness, is everything appearing because of, in, and as me?  Is there an exposing, uncovering, revealing, seeing through of the false belief of what I think I am, the existence of a separate independent entity, individual, person, and yet I still exist? 

In the investigation, the exploration, the seeking, the inquiry, the questioning, the examining, the close looking of what my true nature is, what my essential nature is, what my real nature is, can the separate independent I me entity be found?  Can I find anything that is the separate independent entity, individual, person?  Is there any evidence of a separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Is the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, non-existent, what I am not? 

What is really happening here?  Is there any doubt that I am present and aware?  Is there awareness of everything appearing and disappearing?  Is the source, the essence, of everything appearing here, this awareness?  Am I this undeniable, non-objective, non-conceptual, non-dual, presence of awareness? 

Is being, existence, presence, awareness, being awareness, self-knowing awareness, awareness of presence, awareness of being, what I am?  Am I being itself, and not a separate being?  Am I this knowing that I am, that I exist?  Am I present and aware of being present?  Can anything exist, if I’m not present and aware?  Can I deny the fact of my being, my existence, my presence, my awareness?  If I’m not here as the presence of awareness, awareness of presence, being awareness, presence awareness, can there be any appearance, anything?  Is this always present, undeniable, non-objective, non-conceptual, non-dual, presence of awareness, ignored, neglected, overlooked, rejected?

Is this always present undeniable, non-objective, non-conceptual, non-dual, presence of awareness, awareness of presence, being awareness, presence awareness, the always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which all appearances, everything depends, happening before, during, and after all appearances, all transient things, and without which, there are no appearances, no transient things? 

 8-7-08 – Post  

Is questioning happening?

Am I an entity separate from every other entity, and everything else? Is there a separate independent I me entity here, within here, anywhere?  Am I a separate independent entity or, is the separate independent entity non-existent? 

Is this thought, image, concept, idea, of a separate independent I me entity what I believe myself to be?  Is self-centered thought, self-centered thinking, thoughts referring to the false self center, thoughts revolving around the fictional separate independent I me entity, my root addiction?  Are the self-centered thoughts, thoughts concerning my false identity, thoughts of things that have no actual reality, assumed to be real, because of the unexamined, unquestioned, false belief in the assumed existence of the separate independent I me entity?  Is there a belief in my assumed existence, my imagined presence, as a separate independent I me entity?  Where is this separate independent I me entity?  Other than thought and imagination, can it be located?

Is investigation happening? Is exploration happening? Is seeking happening? Is inquiry happening? Is questioning happening? Is examining happening? Is the looking within for the separate independent I me entity happening?

Is there really a separate independent I me entity to do anything at all?  Is there any separate independent I me doer?  Is there any separate independent I me entity, within here, to do or not do anything?  Is there any separate independent I me entity anywhere, with the power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain, grasp, own, do, be, or become something, anything? Is everything happening, is everything appearing, naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, randomly, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, without any separate independent I me entity involved at all? Is the separate independent I me entity just thought, just imagination, anything other than a thought story, an image, having no independent nature?  Have I found the separate independent entity, individual, person, to be non-existent?

Is awareness my true identity, my essential identity, my real identity?  Is awareness my true nature, my essential nature, my real nature?  Am I already and always this presence of awareness? Is anything, not of, in, as, and because of  this awareness?  Is awareness already and always here and now?  Is this awareness,  the always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends, happening  naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, happening  before, during, and after all transient happenings, and without which there are no transient happenings?

 8-6-08 – Post

Can a real person be found?

Is the separate independent I me entity, with the power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain, grasp, own, do, be, or become something, anything, an imaginary person, a fictitious character, assumed, believed, to be true and real and present and what I am? Where is this separate independent I me entity?  Can a real person be found?  Can I find anything, that is the separate independent I me entity, person, individual, what I am?  Is there any separate independent I me entity other than in thought, in imagination?  

Is there any evidence, that I am a separate independent entity?  Can I find a separate independent I me entity here?  Is this assumed existence of a separate independent I me entity believed in?  Is this concept, idea, belief, assumption, premise, of a separate independent I me entity, a thing apart from reality, true?  Or, am I this already and always present reality, this witnessing presence of open, clear, empty, spacious awareness, within which everything, without exception, is appearing and disappearing, and without which, no thing can appear? 

Is, what I am, and this witnessing presence of open, clear, empty, spacious awareness, two separate things?  Am I separate or apart from this already and always present, witnessing presence of open, clear, empty, spacious awareness.  Or, is what I am, this witnessing presence of open, clear, empty, spacious awareness, no thing, no individual, no person, no separate independent I me entity?

Is what I am that which is already and always present and aware?  Can anything exist, if I’m not present and aware?  Am I naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, already and always present and aware? 

In the investigation, the exploration, the seeking, the inquiry, the questioning, the examining, the close looking, is it recognized, that the premise, the assumption, the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, does not exist?

What is already and always here?  Can I deny my own being, my own existence, my own presence, my own awareness?  Can this being, existence, presence, awareness, this knowing that I am, this being awareness, presence awareness, be negated, be denied?  Is this being, existence, presence, awareness, a fact, not a concept?  Is this being, existence, presence, awareness, the already and always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after all transient happenings, all transient appearances, all transient things?  

If I’m not present as awareness, can anything exist?  Wherever I am, and wherever I go, what is always present and aware?  Is this witnessing presence, of open, clear, empty, spacious awareness, within which everything, without exception, is appearing and disappearing, and without which, no thing can appear, that which is already and always here?  Is this witnessing presence, of open, clear, empty, spacious awareness, my true identity, my true nature, my essential nature, my present nature, what I am? 

 8-5-08 – Post

What is my story? Part 3of3

What is my story?  Is it imaginary stories about the assumed separate independent I me entity, individual, person, that I believe myself to be?  Is my story, which is assumed to be true and real, which is believed to be true and real, which is based on separation, on a separate independent I me entity, individual, person, with the power to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain, grasp, own, do, be, or become something, anything, no more than just another thought, just  imagination, just another imaginary story, that’s appearing and disappearing in this already and always present, spacious awareness? Is it possible that this 58 year old body is just another appearance, appearing right here, right now, naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, randomly, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, along with the thought story of 58 years of experiences?  What is aware of these appearances?  Does everything, including the thought story of the separate independent I me entity, individual, person, only exist as a transient, impermanent, temporary, fleeting, passing appearance, within this already and always present, spacious awareness?

Does anything have any actual, real history, or is everything just appearing and disappearing, within this already and always present, spacious awareness?  Is my essential, true, and present nature, this undeniable spacious awareness, and not a separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Is there any way that I am separate from this spacious awareness?  Is there any way of separating from this spacious awareness?  Am I waking up from the mistaken identity, the erroneous belief, of being a separate independent I me entity, individual, person?  Is my essential, true, and present nature, spacious awareness?  Is this spacious awareness accepting everything, allowing anything and everything, to appear here, to be here?  As spacious awareness, am I accepting everything, allowing anything and everything, to appear here, to be here?  Does anything touch, alter, or disturb this spacious awareness?  Is spacious awareness already and always present, regardless of what appears?  Can anything appear here, without this spacious awareness?  Can anything be here, without this spacious awareness?  Without my presence, as this spacious awareness, can anything appear here, can anything be here?

 8-4-08 – Post

What is my story? Part 2

What is my story?  Is there a belief in the story as true and real, that I actually exist as a separate independent person over time?  Are the past and the future a collection of thoughts and images?  Is there any past and future, other than in thought and imagination?  Is there really a separate independent person here to create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, gain, grasp, own, do, be, or become something, anything, or is everything happening naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, randomly, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously? 

Is there really a separate independent I me entity in here to be the doer of anything, or that anything is happening to, or, is the separate independent I me entity, just a thought, just an image, just one fictitious story after another, believed and assumed to be true and real? 

Is the separate independent I me entity, nothing more than just a thought story?  Is the separate independent I me entity thought story, appearing and disappearing naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, randomly, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously in the emptiness, in the no thingness, of awareness?  Am I this emptiness, this no thingness of awareness?  Without my presence as awareness, can anything exist?  Is awareness already and always happening now?

Is everything, without exception, appearing and disappearing, right here, right now, in the emptiness, in the no thingness, of awareness?  As awareness, do I contain everything?  As awareness, is everything appearing, because of, in, and as me?  As awareness, am I touched or affected by appearances?  As awareness, am I all appearances?  As awareness, are all appearances no thing but me?  As awareness, am I already and always totally free?  As awareness, am I already and always this essential reality?  As awareness, is everything allowed to be?  As awareness, is there nothing wrong with me?   

Is this emptiness, this no thingness of awareness the already and always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends?  Is this emptiness, this no thingness of awareness happening before, during, and after sensations, perceptions (thoughts, feelings, emotions, concepts, stories, beliefs, ideas, memories, images, objects, assumptions), all transient happenings, all appearances, and without which there are no transient happenings, no appearances, at all?  

 8-2-08 – Post

What is my story? 

What is my story?  Apart from the sensations, perceptions (thoughts, feelings, emotions, concepts, stories, beliefs, ideas, memories, images, objects, assumptions), can a separate independent I me entity, can any separate independent person with any independent nature be found?  Is the separate independent I me entity just a thought?  Is there an assumption, a belief, that this separate independent I me entity thought, is what I am?  Is the separate independent I me entity thought, the root misconception, misunderstanding, mistake, error, confusion?  Is the separate independent I me entity, an imaginary character, a fictional character, assumed and believed to be true and real?

Right here, right now, am I believing these thoughts of a separate independent I me entity, to be what I am?  Right here, right now, can I find anything, that is the separate independent I me entity, what I am?

Is my story a collection of memories, a collection of thoughts, an idea that a collection of experiences led up to this moment, an idea that this 58 year old body has a history and there are a collection of memories here that support that idea, that are relative to that idea, or, is that history just a story associated with this 58 year old body appearing here, and linked or added on presently? 

Is there anything that appears anywhere other than in this spacious awareness right here right now?  Without this spacious awareness, can anything appear?  Is the story, only thought, imagination?  Is the story, only thought appearing in this immediate, present, spacious awareness, along with this body and everything else, right here right now?  Do all stories, thoughts, concepts, memories, bodies, and everything else, come and go, appear and disappear in this already and always present, spacious awareness, without a trace?  Are memories appearing in this spacious awareness believed to be real, what I am? 

Are these memories just images, imagination, thoughts, concepts, stories, transient, impermanent, temporary appearances?  Are these memories referring to a separate independent person, which is another story, another thought, believed, and assumed to be true and real?  Is everything constantly appearing and disappearing, only in this, already and always present, spacious awareness? 

 8-1-08 – Post

What causes suffering? 

What causes suffering?  Is the root cause of suffering, the erroneous belief in the mistaken identity, the false assumption, of the separate independent entity thought, as what I am?  Is suffering necessary?  Is suffering the habit of believing the imaginary to be real?  Is suffering, I’m the separate independent I me entity, and this is happening to the separate independent I me entity, and it should not be happening to the separate independent I me entity?  Am I still in the suffering of being a separate independent I me entity? Am I still in the suffering of false beliefs, false concepts, and false assumptions?  Is suffering caused by erroneous, false concepts, of what I am?  Is the mistaken identity, the cause of suffering?  Is the belief that I am a separate independent I me entity, apart from reality, the cause of suffering?  Without thought, without imagination, can there be any suffering?  Is suffering, thoughts and imagination? 

Is suffering thoughts and imagination, based on an assumed existence, reality, of a separate independent I me entity?  Is suffering a creation of the thought process?  Is suffering, thoughts about a fictitious, false, non-existent, separate independent I me entity?  Is suffering nothing more than thoughts and imagination? 

Without self-centered thought, the separate independent I me entity thought, self-centered thinking, thinking about things that have no actual reality, can there be any suffering?  Is suffering, self-centered thought, self-centered thinking?  Is this separate independent I me entity, with personal problems and psychological suffering, just thought, just imagination?  Is suffering, this assumed separate independent I me entity?  If I am not really this separate independent I me entity with personal problems and psychological suffering, then what am I?

In the investigation, the exploration, the seeking, the inquiry, the questioning, the examining, the close looking of what I am not, thought and imagination, what is recognized, what remains?  What’s aware of thought?  What’s aware of imagination?  Am I, what’s aware of thought?  Am I, what’s aware of imagination?  Am I, the awareness within which all thought and imagination are appearing and disappearing, naturally, automatically, effortlessly, spontaneously, randomly, uncontrollably, immediately, mysteriously, without any separate independent I me entity involved at all?  Am I, the awareness without which, no thought or imagination could exist?   Is everything, without exception, appearing and disappearing, coming and going, arising and passing away, within this awareness?  Is this awareness my true identity, my essential identity, my real identity?

Is this awareness the already and always present happening, the fundamental happening, the essential happening, the underlying happening, the primary happening, the basic happening, on which everything depends, happening before, during, and after all transient happenings, all transient appearances, all transient things?  

  What is this about?

Is this about understanding who I really am, what I really am?  Is this about resolving my personal problems, my psychological suffering, my seeking, my doubts, my desires, and my fears?  Is this about getting something or becoming something? 

Is this about Christian Mysticism, Kabbalah, Zen, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Dzogchen, Mahamudra, Sufism, Taoism, Advaita, Advaita Vedanta? Is this about self-inquiry? Is this about non-duality, the essential oneness of existence?  Is this about an investigation into the nature of existence? Is this about an investigation into the essence of all that is? Is this essence one without a second, one without separation? Is this essence no thing being everything? Is this essence what everything is made of? Is this essence what everything is appearing in? Is there no thing outside of this essence?

Are being, existence, presence, awareness, presence awareness, being awareness, self-knowing awareness, non-objective, non-conceptual awareness, beingness, consciousness, wakefulness, aliveness, livingness, I amness, nothingness, knowingness, direct knowing, the knowing that I am, reality, true nature, true self, witnessing presence, cognizing emptiness, the one energy, intelligence energy, it, this, that, what is, some of the words used to point towards my true nature, my real nature, my actual nature, my non-conceptual nature, my essential nature, my non-objective nature, my present nature?

In the dream state, is everything made of the same dream stuff? In the waking state, is everything made of the same waking stuff? What’s aware of the dream stuff? What’s aware of the waking stuff? Is this presence awareness the source, the essence, of the dream stuff and the waking stuff? Is the essential oneness in the waking state the same as the essential oneness in the dream state? Is the essential oneness presence awareness?

“The I thought, the You thought, the Me thought, the Other thought, the body, the thought story, the image, the idea, the concept, the mental picture I have about myself, which has no power of its own, which has no independent nature, which appears in, and could not exist without, being awareness, presence awareness, is believed to be the actuality, the reality, what I am, the true self center, the true reference point, the true self-identity. Why? Because it is not questioned. These songs question it.

These songs investigate the immediate present evidence, what is, bringing the attention to things, or no thing, never investigated before: to the actual, to the factual, to the natural functioning, to this present moment, to my being, which is a fact, not a concept, to this being awareness, presence awareness, that’s undeniable right now, to this presence of awareness, awareness of presence that can’t be negated right now, to what’s really happening right now. Is there anyone here who can create, change, choose, control, achieve, attain, get, own, be, or become something, anything? Is there a separate I, a separate me, a separate independent actual substantial person here, within this awareness which presently is, or, is this separate independent I me entity, person, just a thought, a word, language, a label, an erroneous concept, belief, assumption, idea, a mental image, a mental picture, an identification, a story, a mirage, a transient appearance, a dream, a fiction, an illusion, false, unreal?