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Advaita Vedanta
Advaita Vedanta


Vijnana Bhairava Tantra on focusing awareness between breaths
Oh Bhairavi,
by focusing one’s awareness on the two voids (at the end)
of the internal and external breath,
thereby the glorious form of Bhairava is revealed
through Bhairavi.
~ Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
Kapil Piparaiya
Jun 18, 20211 min read


Our essential nature is 🌺pure consciousness. It Just Is ~ Billy Doyle
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Jun 18, 20211 min read


The life I am trying to grasp is the ME that is trying to grasp it ~ RD Laing
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Kapil Piparaiya
Jun 13, 20211 min read


There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
There are no steps to self realization ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Kapil Piparaiya
Jun 13, 20211 min read


Select quotations on Self Enquiry and Centering Awareness from the Vijñāna Bhairava Tantra
When the awareness has abandoned one object and remains fixed without moving on to another object, then through the state in between (the two) the supreme realisation will unfold. ~ Verse 62
One should concentrate on the state when sleep has not yet come, but the external awareness has disappeared (between waking and sleep)—there the supreme Goddess reveals herself. ~ Verse 75
Kapil Piparaiya
Jun 6, 20211 min read


I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Questioner: You too will die.
Maharaj: I am dead already. Physical death will make no difference in my case. I am a timeless being. I am free of desire or fear because I do not remember the past or imagine the future; Where there are no names and shapes, how can there be desire and fear? With desire lessness comes timelessness. I am safe because what is not, cannot touch what is. You feel unsafe because you imagine danger. Of course, your body as such is complex and vulnerab
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Jan 3, 20214 min read


Ego ~ Francis Lucille
Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego - Francis Lucille
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Nov 16, 20201 min read


Hills are divine ~ Francis Lucille
We cannot see how divine the hills and mountains are, so we want an angel with wings on top of them - Francis Lucille
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Nov 16, 20201 min read


Outposts of the mind ~ Francis Lucille
When we have reached the outposts of the mind, We have ready for the journey to the heart. - Francis Lucille
Kapil Piparaiya
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We are the universe ~ Francis Lucille
We are one huge universe speaking and listening to itself - Francis Lucille
Kapil Piparaiya
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Joy ~ Francis Lucille
Joy knows itself, as a child we didn't know the word joy, we were joy - Francis Lucille
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Mind covers up reality ~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The mind covers up reality, without knowing it. To know the nature of the mind, you need intelligence, the capacity to look at the mind in silent and dispassionate awareness.”
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Kapil Piparaiya
Nov 8, 20201 min read


Essence of Vedanta ~ Swami Vikekananda
“The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one being and that every soul is that being in full, not a part of that being”
- Swami Vivekananda.
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All events happen in awareness ~ Jean Klein
"There is no more Identification with time and space, body sensors, and mind. All events happen in awareness."
- Jean Klein
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Nov 8, 20201 min read


Art arises from consciousness ~ Jean Klein
"A work of art always arises from the background: Consciousness. Be it music, painting, architecture, poetry or sculpture, It is always seen by the artist in an instant, like a flash of lightening, as it surges forth from deep within him." - Jean Klein
Kapil Piparaiya
Nov 8, 20201 min read


Presence of stillness ~ Jean Klein
It is like being in the desert. First, you have to listen to the absence of the sound and call it silence. then suddenly you may be taken by the presence of stillness where you are one with listening to itself. - Jean Klein
Kapil Piparaiya
Nov 8, 20201 min read


Memory ~ Jean Klein
"Ego is nothing more than an Image held together by a memory"
- Jean Klein
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Root of all desires ~ Jean Klein
“The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.”
― Jean Klein
Kapil Piparaiya
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Trust the infinite ~ Billy Doyle
"There comes a time, when you have to let go all the words, all the teaching and trust the infinite." ― Billy Doyle, The Mirage of Separation
Kapil Piparaiya
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Follow Silence ~ Jean klein
“Go deeply into the urge to be silent and not the mental interference of how, where and when. If you follow silence to its source you can be taken by it in a moment.”
― Jean Klein, Who Am I?: The Sacred Quest
Kapil Piparaiya
Nov 8, 20201 min read
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