Notes from Kings Cross - Monday - 3rd Dec 07.

How did I come to be?
First there was nothing and then spontaneously, without request, this "Iam" news, like magic has appeared. - Once it appears, amazingly, unquestioningly, it is taken to be real. - Because of the Absolute you come to know that you are, it is the Truth which knows, in that knowingness is the universe itself, that knowingness is all pervasive.
Whatever Lord Dattatreya (the first of the Navanath Sampradaya) did,I need to do now, only times change - knowing-ness never does. - We point to Advaita or non-duality in all these meetings and conversations - so called.
Why should I be concerned with others or here say?
They don't exist apart from the non dual Absolute.
Ishwara, holy spirit, the gods in heaven, and the suffering in hell, are all my reflection only.
I have and need no religion. - Before there can be any god, I ( the Absolute) have to be there first.I am the proof of god and not the other way round.
There is nothing simpler than One - non duality. - Whatever I say of myself is true of you also,because everything is THAT, non dual Absolute - One without a second.
This message is nothing new, it has been pointed to throughout the ages.
However it is rare to hear it this way - stripped bare, straight from the horses mouth - as is.
There is no pride of knowledge here, no desire to gain a following or protect any self-image, no copyright. - This naked non-conceptual awareness is self-shining, self-knowing, nothingness - emptyness.
It cannot be grasped by a concept - it is nothing you can see, hear, smell, taste or touch - yet it is because of this pure awareness presence, that all of these things are possible.
You never leave this pure awareness, you only imagine that you do. - Mind as memory and anticipation is pure illusion, Maya, or imagination. - Stop imagining, stop pretending to be what you are not - a limited bound creature and simply "be" what you are -nothing and nobody, just this pure livingness.
Anyone without a deep urge to know their true nature, will not even listen to something like this. - The mind as it is constituted, can't bear simplicity or no-thingness.
This will always be rejected in main stream spirituality and religion.
The mind will immediately come up with concepts and try to cover this bare naked awareness-knowingness.
This truth is written in the scriptures, but it is told in the form of palpable and is not understood, taught, or known in the organized religions. - All the religions in the world today are only concepts, built around the direct knowingness and pure experiencing, of their founders or originators. - All these religions are only someone's idea or concept, and are taught and propogated as such.
They are empty consolations and have no basis in truth or actuality.
eg: "The stone that the builder refused will 'always' be the head corner stone." - This rejected cornerstone will always be the head cornerstone of the temple of Truth.
This is how the parable speaks, and it has to speak this way because truth or nothingness cannot be grasped with any concept - hence it "has" to be rejected by the limited mind of convention, because that mind hates this and wants and insists on lies and concepts - organised religion, consoling concepts to cover up this simple, obvious, naked truth or essence, that no one can ever be apart from, now or ever.
There is no time at all, time is only mind - a mental concept."Now is the time of salvation" - another parable pointing to this.
What's wrong with right now, if you don't think about it? - Sailor Bob Adamson - another not so well known exponent of this natural knowing-ness.
"Look not to the fields and say three months to the harvest - look again, the fields are in full bloom now" - Jesus in the new testament.
If I have the idea that yes, at some future time I will get enlightenment - this itself is a trap, because as all jnani's have pointed out - there is no future time, there is only and ever this timeless moment - now - Omnipresence.
What you are seeking you already are - this is the message of Nisargadatta Maharaj and Sri Dattatreya. - The essence of what they are didn't appear and disappear - they haven't gone anywhere - they are here now - OMNIPRESENT.
End.

Notes from Kings Cross Sat 1st Dec 07

Notes by Mark West.

What capital do I actually possess? - Waking, dreaming, sleeping states, plus the knowledge "I am" - Mr So and So. - All this has to go, or be seen to be utterly redundant, before there can be Atmajnana - Self knowledge.
This consciousness of being a sentient human being, is being sustained and depends upon food essence juices, that are constantly being imbibed. - The body itself is simply the result of vegetation - food essence. - The body is nothing but the elements, and has no independent nature apart from the consciousness, which itself is time-bound. - It appears and disappears.
Where is the individual or separate entity called "me" in all of this?
It has to be seen clearly by no one, that there is no entity with any substance apart from the consciousness which is fully manifest. - The consciousness is ample.
Everything exists in the very light of your consciousness.
Consciousness "is" it's content. - No object,thing or person can exist apart from it. - When it is looked at carefully, it is seen that everything "is" consciousness.
See the Mahavakya or Great word or statement of Hinduism - Advaita - PRAJNYANAM ASMI. - I am Consciousness.
However, who is it that knows the consciousness? - that "must" be found out before the mystery will resolve itself.
Become one with the I am-ness, the fully manifested consciousness or being-ness, then you can transcend it, then "I" the Absolute, am not the I am.
Be devoted to yourself - I am THAT(ATMAN).
Another Mahavakya or Great Word is -AYAM ATMA BRAHMA -
This SELF is all REALITY.
"Be one with consciousness,worship it like God or Guru, and it will be pleased with you - this is Grace. - Grace is always present, but not in the form of an individual." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
The one who is up to his or her neck in water, claims that they are thirsty. - If you drink this water that "I am" is giving you, you will never thirst again.
The one who is thirsting is the son of a barren woman. - He never existed, he is a phantom, an illusion, a reflection, like the moon seen in water; not real even for an instant. - Hold one pointedly to this train of thought, and the belief that there is a separate entity is dissipated, and liberation is attained.
When this is realized there is a seeming energetic shift, from contraction and self-imprisonment in this cage like fleshly body, into boundlessness.
This is true freedom and liberation - to know that there is no person here who needs to be liberated - there never has been and there never will be.
Reality never changed - why did you change, oh man or woman? -If Reality never changed, which "I" the non dual Absolute now claim - then nothing ever happened!
Nothing has ever happened at all.
All this time, so called, you've simply been duped by illusion.
You ate of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (duality) and were expelled from the Garden of Eden.
But this event never really happened - it only appeared to happen, and you have been taken in by appearance.
Wakey, wakey!
Wake up right this instant!
The manifest universe has never really been created - it is unborn, uncreated, it only appears to be born.
This world is simply the shadow of Reality.
The world is your own reflection.
The world is in You the Absolute, you are not in it.
Stop taking the appearance to be real and reality is already here and now.
All problems are resolved in the unborn, why swap the unborn for thought?
Trying unsuccessfully to find the answer in the mind, in the thinking - you never will be able to find one there.
This is the fruit of Satsang - association with the wise - Sat - pure being - Nisargadatta - your true natural stateless state.
Nature is not concerned whether it is hot or cold, wet or dry.
Nature is infinite, boundless, untamed, wild, unconcerned with anything whatsoever.
Every living thing, no matter how great, famous, or important, must return to the wild, must become nothing!
Why not now? - End.

Notes from Kings Cross Thurs 29th Nov 07.

What I am in the absolute sense, is not possible to convey in any words. - In that ultimate awareness, nobody has any consciousness of being present. -
The presence itself is not there in the absolute. - The Absolute is Nirvana - no thing - no knowingness - extinction - no permanent self or individual.
This is what is to be abide-d in and real-ized - not by any entity or person, but by the "fact" that here and now this Absolute cannot be negated.
This very reality enables and empowers the dreamed character, the apparent sentient human being to appear.
It has no substance or independent nature apart from this unknowable and undeniable Absolute.
And this is the very ignorance - that to the so called person, this self-existing Absolute or Reality, doesn't exist and is invisible,
and the illusory body-mind person, is taken to be real without question - the real is seen as unreal, and the unreal is seen as real.
This is the greatest mystery - That being the Self or Reality, one has lost hold of it, by falsely identifying with the body-mind,
and is now seeking it.
How can this be? - The answer is that it can't be - nothing has happened at all - Reality can't change - what changes is phenomena or dream.
This simply has to be seen, by no one. - No attempt to awaken within the world dream is necessary.
Just see this dream as dream and awakening will happen by itself. - There is no one who awakens or is enlightened -
You, the Absolute are always and ever aware. - You never change.
Sleeping and awakening happen in You, not you in them.- What remembers, understands, or forgets is not You.
You the Absolute remain unchanged, always and ever. - Understanding is a subtle form of seeking.
The universe is in You, the Absolute, not You in the universe. - You are more than you appear to be - all the world's strength and
power rests inside You.
Don't get caught in words.- They are only concepts or pointers. -For You there is no birth or death, no inside or outside. - You are nothing
perceivable or conceivable - unspeakable emptiness-fullness.
Here at this talking point the words have exhausted themselves and subside into the empty essence - " To remain without thought in
the waking state is the greatest worship " - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.
This Love is impersonal, all inclusive. - Grace "is" - I am That - you are That - all is THAT.
End.

Notes from Kings Cross, Sydney, Sat 24th Nov 07.

Nirvana is the highest happiness - bliss - what the scripture refer's to as the peace that passes all understanding - when you don't know you are - the beingness has been transcended.
So long as there is interest in, and attachment to this beingness - wanting things to be different - feeling incomplete - wanting some thing - then this non dual essence is seemingly obsecured or not fully abided in.
Look and see who it is that is not complete - investigate for yourself and find the seeker.
Then the whole mystery is cleared up.
When you earnestly search for the seeker, you cannot locate or find it -it never existed - it's a phantom.
This non existent phantom, prior to investigation, was the cause of a lot of unnecessary suffering, anxiety and endless conflict.

Ancients like Buddha, as well as contemporary Jnani's like Nisargadatta Maharaj, tell us that this psychological suffering is unnecessary.
This cage that I had built around myself - a cage of words and concepts - the bondage of self - is non existent and without substance - if it is looked into.
Freedom is here for the taking - the release from contraction into boundlessness.
You were never that limited entity or person that you had taken yourself to be.
This is effortless - what effort are you making to be aware right now?
None, you already "are" what you are seeking.
In that inner core, that knowing-ness or "I am ness" there are no cages or shackles.
Once it is understood that I am is purely I am -formless - and not that shackled body form - then no liberation is called for.
To be stabilized in that being-ness, which has no name and form,that itself is liberation.
That which is de-conditioned from name and form is "PARAMATMAN" - UNIVERSAL ESSENCE.The vital force or prana is universal, it can't know death - it has no shape or form - it is universal energy.
The corpse like physical body is only seemingly alive because of this vital breath.
Know and realize that you are this universal essence, life force or livingness, and not just this fleshly body-mind.
This is the primary obstacle to self realization - thinking that you are this body-mind (memory etc) and identifying with it, instead of the living vital force essence that is animating it, and allowing it to say and think "I am a separate person or individual."
This is delusion,pride and ego - doer-ship. - You are the deathless animating essence, unlimited by any shape or form.
The vital breath is not confined to the body. - All the elements are moved, operated by the vital breath,but because it is inside the body you call it prana.
This vital breath is a vital energy and that qualitative principal is the "knowing-ness" that is in the vital breath.
Vitalness, intelligence energy,principal,spirit - that is what you are -not this limited body-mind entity, called Jiva or individual soul.
In order to know this, no effort needs to be made - just a clear seeing,knowing.
What effort am I making to be aware and present right now? - None at all.
When effort's are needed effort's will happen - when effortlessness is needed that will assert itself.
Everything happens spontaneously - effortless effort. - This pure functioning is being witnessed by no one.
Everything is unborn, unceasing, utterly non dual, without any origination or source as such.
This is utter freedom and effortless living. - Self knowledge and self realization.
I am the self luminous Reality. - The sun doesn't need another light to make it shine - it is self shining
and your true nature or natural state is self knowing. - End.

Mark's notes - 22 November 07

Sydney, Thursday 22nd Nov 07.

There is just "what is", always and ever.
There is no escape from what is nor anyone who needs to escape.
Who am I talking to when I say this, and who is saying it?
No one, it is just consciousness or "isness" talking to itself.
There is no benefit to anyone in this. - There is no profit or loss to anybody, so I am not talking to anybody or mind, there is just this I am-ness talking to itself. - Talking and listening, asking and answering just happen- nothing happens to me, the non dual Absolute.
Whether I exist or don't exist, live a long time or not, doesn't concern me.
I have no interest in being or non being, or even in nothingness or emptiness or what we call noumenon.
All these so called things are only of interest as long as the manifested being-ness or consciousness "I am" is present.
This consciousness of being a person and seeing a world is only possible while the food essence body-mind is in good order and is being supplied by a regular quantity of healthy and nourishing food and drink.
As long as that seed of consciousness, I am, is moist and nourished, you will experience this world and have all these concerns.
Once this seed is no longer moist and can no longer be sustained, this consciousness will disappear and merge into the
universal Consciousness. - This stateless state - Parabrahman - for your sake, I attach a label to it - is what is to be known and abided in.
This is what could be called heart to heart. - The words that are flowing out here are not coming from my intellect as such - they are coming from the heart of reality itself.
Heart means - this is the center, not the physical heart on the left, or the spiritual heart on the right, but from the very core of your being.
If they resonate, then you already know what I'm saying, so you are not getting anything from me personally.
This has nothing to do with Mark West or anyone else - this is utterly impersonal - though the words can seem to describe or point to it.
There is no me or you - there is only THAT, non dual Absolute communicating with Itself.
When this that I am pointing to presently is directly appercieved, you will never again fear a foe.
Then the riddle or mystery will be un-raveled and fully understood.
That is: from no- being to being and then again no - being.
How and why this happens will be fully revealed to you.
This alone is self - realization not god - realization.
The idea of god is there only when the manifested consciousness "I am" is present.
When the consciousness disappears and sets at the time of physical death, where is is the idea or need for god? God is only necessary or thought of when this fever (illusion) of being a
sentient human being or person comes over me and is mistakenly taken delivery of.
God is only necessary when the sense of duality or manifested consciousness is present - when this disappears there is no need for god, because I myself am God - the non dual Absolute.
How has this happened? - there was just bliss or nothingness - I didn't know anything, I didn't know I was - then for no known reason, and without my permission - this fever or sickness "I amness" came over me - I am So and So.
In my case, this fever or illusion of being a limited, separate, sentient human being has passed off and I am in my original or natural state of bliss or wholeness.
Call it grace, good luck or whatever, but this you can and must realize for yourself - you have to become your own proof of the non dual Absolute - there you will meet no other.

Not - two.

This may be misleading to a circumscribed intellect, so let it be seen (by no one) that the Absolute is not an object - a person, place or thing.
It is not an "it" - has no location, is Omnipresent - this is it - this is all there ever is - TAT TVAM ASI - thou art THAT.

- End.