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#2139 -
Gabriel Rosenstock
The nondualistic snail
Never leaves a trail!
Gabriel
Arjuna Ardagh
Dear Friends,
I am extremely happy to inform you of the forthcoming publication
of my new book "The Translucent Revolution."
Please visit the book's website www.translucents.org,
which contains an overview of the book, information about many of
the people I interviewed, excerpts from a number of chapters, and
endorsements and reviews.
Arjuna Ardagh
www.translucents.org
The First Instant
by Gilbert Schultz
All there is - is Knowing
A guide to a direct, unmediated Knowing
of your own true nature – Wakefulness
Download a free copy of this e-book
consisting of excerpts from the complete book: http://www.shiningthroughthemind.net/pages/TheFirstInstant.pdf
What is the First Instant?
What is the First Instant?
The first instant can be described simply as this vast unbounded
presence. It is completely
indescribable yet all talk is not about anything other than this
presence.
The first instant is all there is.
There are actually no limitations to this space of knowing (which
you are). If you explore it, it
simply opens up more and more as this unfolding first instant of
knowing.
As this moment unfolds before you, there is a ‘space of
knowing’ in which everything unfolds.
We call this unfolding, ‘time’.
If you stay quietly present to this subtle unfolding of time, you
may notice that everything of this
unfolding is registering clearly within this space of
knowing. It never budges. It has no qualities
of coming or going to it. It is as if this space of knowing
is absolutely still. The scale of these
movements or unfolding vary from large and obvious movements down
to very subtle impressions
of change.
All of these impressions are registering on awareness without
causing any change to the space of
knowing.
This clear open cognizing is the first instant of knowing.
Without a thought or story being attached to this open cognition,
it remains clear and without
hindrance.
When the mind latches onto some movement in
this unfolding, a fixation takes our attention into
a mind realm. This can be called inadvertence. We
tend to be less present to the unmediated
registration of direct cognition. In retrospective
analysis, it appears that we had gone into the
mind’s matrix.
However, in the first instant of direct cognition, what we truly
are has never gone anywhere.
We are the first instant of cognition–knowing.
There is nothing that is not of the first instant. This
instant right now is it. All moments from the
so-called past are it. All moments of the so-called future
are it.
It is One moment—the first and only instant.
What is this first instant? You are this first instant.
Unmediated knowing.
There is no ‘other’ here in this first instant.
You are the center of your world. Start from the fact that
YOU ARE.
This immediate being-ness is not negotiable. It IS.
Everything else is belonging to this flow of
unfolding phenomenal changes.
All that appears in this flow will disappear.
http://www.shiningthroughthemind.net
Bob
http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/downloads/talks_with_ramana_maharshi.pdf
contains a copy of the first volume of "Talks with Sri
Ramana Maharshi."
The "downloads" page of
http://www.ramana-maharshi.org/
says "We will be adding up to 50 books over the coming
months - please keep returning"
Bob