Tag: substack
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Sal 134: When the One Who Has a Problem is Gone, The Problem is Gone
Argues true contentment is found in pure aware being, not the ego’s rising I, which is itself the dissatisfaction it seeks to resolve. Without that separative I, there’s no one left to say anything is wrong — so nothing is.
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Sal 133: Ego is not an Entity, It is an Activity of Pure Being
Frames ego as a fleeting wave rising and subsiding in the ocean of pure being, not a sentient entity. Sensations, thoughts, and emotions are simply known within knowing — there’s nothing to kill or transcend, only to notice.
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Sal 132: What Am I, Prior to This?
Offers a simple inquiry — asking “what am I prior to this?” whenever thought or emotion arises — to interrupt the mind and rest in pure aware being. Frames the practice as devotion to Truth rather than self-story.
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Sal 131: Freedom Is The Natural Human Condition of Health
Frames freedom as “the natural human condition of health,” not a denial of the body’s needs. Distinguishes healthy self-care from neurotic, narcissistic self-focus, pointing back to abiding as pure aware being — “pure self-love.”
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Sal 130: An Endless Amazing Display of Form
Invites resting as pure aware being while form endlessly shifts in color, texture, and shape. Frames noticing this — no effort needed — as self-love, or devotion to one’s own wellbeing and goodness.
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Sal 129: With No Attributes at All, I AM
Invites resting prior to name, story, and history — the pure subject that “doesn’t need anything else” to know it is. Explores what remains with no attributes whatsoever: simply aware being, I am.
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Sal 128: Discerning Between The Eternal and the Temporal
Introduces Viveka, the Vedantic practice of discernment, to distinguish what I actually am, alive and sentient, from the time-based story of self with its fears, desires, and attributes. Discerning between the eternal and the fleeting brings the spell of mind’s hypnosis to an end.
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Sal 127: Form Is Transparent, Being Permeates Everything
Explores the transparency of form — body, thoughts, and emotions all revealed as fields permeated by being, with no “skin line” separating inside from outside. Frames aware being as ubiquitous, urging a gentle, repeated return to it whenever lost in thought.
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Sal 126: Pure Aware Being and Non Duality
Frames pure aware being — stainless, nameless, untouched by body or mind — as what I am prior to the rising I. All attributes like fear or history belong to the separative ego, not to being itself.
