Articles | Awareness and Experience – Isaac Shapiro
Let us consider what we all call experience.
The entire universe, life, time, space, our family, everyone we know, is in this moment simply experience to us. We experience all the above through five senses, so I am calling all experience, sensations. These sensations are then given name and form by our ability to think and make distinctions.
Stop for a moment and simply experience the totality of your experience simply as sensations now. Read more
Articles | Excerpts from an interview by Dick Sinnige in Amsterdam in 1996 for Mystèr Media.
For about 5 years now you give Satsang, and Satsang means meeting with Truth. It’s an invitation to see who you really are. Welcome Isaac.
Thank you.
Five years Satsang?
Yeah, five years since I met Papaji.
Well it’s a meeting with Truth, is there something like Truth?
What’s spoken of as Truth is that which doesn’t change. Because the way Truth is used in this context, is to see who you are. And all of us know, and all of us have the experience that we have many experiences, but we remain the same. From being a little boy to an older man something remains the same. Ideas might change, our beliefs might change all this thing might change, but something remains the same. And so this is what’s called Truth, that which is always here, which doesn’t change. So we’re not speaking about relative truth. Read more
Articles | An interview with Isaac by Dick Sinnige in Venwoude in 2002.
Every true teacher is only a finger pointing at what is real in you. Isaac Shapiro (52) is sharing the truth of being in an intimate way. For eleven years he has been sharing his love of truth and the insights that come from that in Satsang and in silent retreats. Isaac invites being totally open in the midst of pain, pleasure or whatever experience there may be, to be the space of awareness, instead of being identified within the framework of your personality. Isaac, who is leading a natural life, has had a lot of opportunity to practice peace. Last year his wife Kali fell in love with another man. They have split up in a responsible way, taking good care of their kids. Read more
Articles | An interview by Quidam Green Meyers to be published in March 2002 in “Wide Awake: The Everyday Miracle of Spiritual Breakthrough” by Quidam Green Meyers. The publisher is The Book Tree Publishers, San Diego, CA, phone 1-800-700-8733.
Q – In your experience, is there such a reality as Enlightenment, Awakening, Liberation, or spiritual freedom?
Isaac Shapiro – My experience is that it even jumps out of the realm of experience. There’s just a seeing that what is Awake has always been Awake, and until you know that, there’s just a sense of life that was asleep, although you didn’t know it was asleep. And it’s so simple when you recognize it. You recognize that you’ve always known it. [Pause] That’s about it.
Q – Have you experienced or realized anything that might seem distinct from what is called average or normal human experience?
IS – Yes. What’s considered normal is a sense of separation. It’s funny because you can’t really call it an experience but it’s a recognition in which all experience is seen to be just the filter that gets looked through. Yet there’s no one looking and there’s no filter.
But, in the sense of being somebody that knows something or that is something, that is an entity even…it doesn’t seem so any more.
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Articles | It happens by itself.
In this instant everything that exists is changing. However, these changes appear in Awareness, which is not changing. For example, there is space in this room. When we build walls, we have a room and the creation of inside and outside space. If we knock the walls down, the space is still here. It is unchanged whether the walls are here or not. Walls do not alter it. Space is space, but we don’t notice the space, correct?
We define it by something else. Read more
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