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Shine a light.
You are not a name or a ‘person’. Whoever you believe yourself to be is just a story. It may be a good one for sure, it maybe the best – but it is a story, none the less.
Without words, where is time and story?
Every story begins with “Once upon a time………” Memory only lives in the immediacy.
Turn away from memory and what is left?
What past is there without words or thought?
Some may dismiss this as sheer nonsense but if you really drop all thoughts and cease from referring to memory – all that is left is naked wakefulness.
How difficult is that? Yet many Masters tell us that it will take many life times to get beyond the mind and the conditioning.
The so-called great enlightenment is right here. The resistance is called ‘me’. Shine a light on that and SEE that it has no substance or independent existence and the whole fabrication falls apart…..leaving you as you are – present and aware – with nowhere to go and nothing to get.
Blessed relief.
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The same energy appears as a seeker and as a so-called realized one. The relative forms appear to be different but the immediate energy vibrating into those apparently different patterns is the SAME immediate energy. ONE, without a second.
The pattern of energy cannot see or realize anything just as the idea of self cannot see or do anything without that life force pulsing through it.
A corpse has all the instruments, eyes, ears, brain, arms, legs etc. The corpse cannot see, hear, think, touch or walk.
What is missing? The animating life essence. So, what is seeing, hearing, thinking, touching and walking?
The Life Essence and there is ONLY ONE.
You are THAT.
How could you be anything other then THAT?
Yes. In the illusion of duality, vibrations called persons appear with their vibrations of thought and memory. But the backdrop does not vibrate, does not change, just is. ‘Enlightenment’ is seeing through the illusion of the vibrations. Any thing that vibrates is illusory, will change, will end.