
Self Illumination

‘One without a second’, means that there is no boundary and all inclusiveness is boundless.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
Thoughts have no ability to see or know anything.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
the Buddha said: 'We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world'. Also attributed to the Buddha: 'Emptiness is form - and form is emptiness'. How is one to understand such cryptic sayings?
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
Misunderstanding may simply be a conflict of ideas and an apparent holding on (more or less) to erroneous beliefs. It may be increasingly helpful to be more aware of the response than to fixate upon what is written.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
If the hand attempts to grasp the space it appears in, is there a recognition that the hand is appearing in space? In the same fashion, the mind attempts to grasp Awareness or Non-Duality and in the recognition, the effort dissolves naturally.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
Separation is a concept based on a belief in being separate. Being is not separate and cannot be separated.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
A thorough definition of an apple would be a lot of words. Would any of the words or definition have the taste of apple? Can you eat the word 'apple'? No, of course not. Doesn’t that demonstrate the clear difference between thinking and Knowing?
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
There is nothing outside of this Knowing and nothing inside of this Knowing – everything is this Knowing – there is no ‘other’.
Gilbert Schultz • Self Illumination
There is no one to change anything, no one to alter or modify ‘what is’. In Knowing the truth of this, the believed in character, the resistance, eases off and Intelligence flows with ease.