Divine Utterances:
Egoity

There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, an individual being. There is no such thing.

1975

Your Real Situation Is Non-egoic.

There is no Enlightenment, no evolutionary entrance into the truly Spiritual Condition of human existence, without ego-death, or transcendence of the mind.

"Ego Death and the Chaos of Experience"
Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
Will Soon Be Announced By The White House!

The ego is such a heavy grip, such a clench on the Divine Light, that Spiritual experience through Spiritual Transmission in life does not amount to much for most people. They cannot make it part of their existence.

"The Bodily Location of Happiness" (November 28, 1981)
The Bodily Location of Happiness

God is great. Unfortunately for you, bullshit is greater!

"The Baptism of Immortal Happiness" (December 17, 1982)
The Dreaded Gom-Boo

There is nothing as obnoxious as a gleeful asshole.

Get up from bed and drop dead!

The one thing you fear is death, because you are holding on to your egoic self. If you give up your egoic self by turning to Me (moment to moment), you die as the ego-"I". You transcend the physical and mental limitations of the egoic self.

"Get Up from Bed and Drop Dead!"
Easy Death

You will try all kinds of extraordinary healing methods, psychic methods, Yogic methods — anything to get rid of this root-sense of pain and agony that you have all the time. You will continue to pursue every kind of means until you realize that all you are doing is pinching yourself. When you realize that, you just take your hand away. There is nothing complicated about it at all.

My "Bright" Word

My first Teaching Sign to everyone was this gesture of My hand, clenching the fist versus opening the hand. Well, it's presuming darkness versus being Radiant.

"The Condition of Radiance" (January 3, 1996)
The "Brightening" Way Talk Series

When you open your hand, what happens to your fist? When you release the self-contraction, the "me" is gone, the search is gone, the entire principle of suffering is undermined.

"Vital Shock"
My "Bright" Word

You are, as a matter of habit, and in every part, conformed to the activity and the results of self-contraction.

"The Cult of Narcissus and the Culture of Participation"
The Dreaded Gom-Boo

What is the difference between animals and humans? Fundamentally, the non-humans do not exist in an ego-sphere. They exist in an eco-sphere — a space-time domain without ego-consciousness.

"Observe the Non-Humans, and Learn from Them" (May 11, 2008)

The ego, or the essence of every person (personified as "I"), is not an inner entity or subtle essence. The ego is the activity of self-contraction.

The Incarnation of Love

Narcissus is a good symbol for suffering. He has separated himself from all relationships, especially the primary relationships of mother, father, loved-one, and environment. He confronts only his own image, which he does not re-cognize as such. Obviously, Narcissus doesn't know that the face in the water is his own image. He does not recognize his own image or quality as such. And suffering is in the failure of a man to re-cognize, to know again, his own distraction, which is his own state, his own quality,his own modification. When he re-cognizes it, he ceases to be enamored, fascinated and distracted. His drama is undone by simple and yet radical knowledge. If Narcissus understands his fundamental activity, his insane condition will come to an end.

My "Bright" Word

So all that a man is suffering is fascination with the force of his own activity and experience, which represents to him the separate self sense (identification or "ego"), the field of differentiation (the conceptualized world), and the endless adventure of seeking (mysterious motivation or desire).

My "Bright" Word

The "I"-thought (or the presumed-to-be-independent ego-self), and the world, and the "God"-idea are the three fundamental categories of Reality-as-reflection. As such, "ego-'I'", "world-out-there", and "God-everywhere" are the essential categories of egoic bondage — the tripartite package of world-mummery.

"The Three Elements of Conventional Religious Thinking"
Religion and Reality

The ego is an addict. Ego is itself addiction to the body-mind. So the transcending of the body-mind point of view is the transcending of addiction.

April 24, 2005

The human individual in the midst of reality is like a camera in a room — perceiving everything from a fixed "point of view." But what does the room really look like? The room can be viewed from every possible "point of view" in space-time — not merely from any particular "point of view," or even a finite collection of "points of view." Therefore, no "point of view" can reveal the room, or reality itself, because every "point of view" is limited and essentially self-referring.

"Transcending the Camera: The Bright Reality Beyond 'Point of View"
The Quandra Loka Suite

There is not anything that anyone does or has done that gives you a "right" — based on any principle whatsoever — to dissociate from that person or to deny yourself the quality of sympathy and compassion relative to that person. Never wish anyone eternal suffering — anyone!

"The Repenting of egoity"
Part 9, The Aletheon

The thing that makes you unhappy is your own contraction. That's it, absolutely!

The Knee Of Listening

The Divine Reality, or God, is not ultimately the Savior of our lives. The Divine is That to which our lives must be a sacrifice. Indeed, it is the intuition of the Divine that permits us to live as a sacrifice rather than a Narcissistic, reactive, and self-possessed struggle for ultimate survival.

"The Creative Function of Life-Frustration in the Process of Self-Sacrifice"
Vol 1. No. 10, Vision Mound Magazine

The question "Is there a God?" reflects an immature, self-contracted state in human beings for which they must become responsible. When one's own self-contracted state is transcended, the reality of God is overwhelmingly obvious.

November 3, 1977

The essence of un-Enlightenment is concern for "self" — for its survival, well-being, pleasure, amusement, perpetuation, and so on. Enlightenment is not merely the transcending of "self" or the concern for "self". It is a matter of the Realization of Reality Itself, Which Is Always Already The Case. It is Inherently, in other words, without "self" and without a concern for "self".

January 19, 1997

Consciousness is not located until it is utterly set free from identification with separateness, with egoity, with the knot of self-contraction, the knot of the body-mind.

"What Consciousness Is"
Part 16, The Aletheon

You have been contracted upon yourself with emotional force, no amount of thinking, considering, desiring, exploiting and manipulating yourself in the world can affect that contraction. No awakening of the Kundalini touches it. It has nothing to do with Kundalini. You can have kundalini experiences until you are yawning with boredom, yet you will not have touched this emotional recoil at all.

Your First Philosophical Gesture Is "You Do Not Love Me".

Your First Philosophical Gesture Is "You Do Not Love Me"

Above the clouds, There Is Always The Sun — Forever Free Of Earthly Weather. By Tendency, You Are Always Looking At the local weather, and Not At The Sun Itself. That Is What egoity Is About — Always Suffering The Changes Of The local Patterning That Is the body-mind In its egoic Bondage. Instead, You Must (In every moment) Turn To Me.

The Dawn Horse Testament