The only thing that distinguishes our consciousness from 'Pure Unconditioned Consciousness' is our feeling that something 'else' needs to happen before we can be 'complete'/'saved'/'forgiven'... It is this feeling that weaves a web of identity around the stories that our thoughts provide.
Without this feeling, thoughts just arise and subside...
And the vastness of the Self remains clearly untouched... unstained...
It is fundamental to recognise that we have been taught not to trust ourselves...
We have been taught to create a split between 'me' and 'Life'... between 'me' and 'Source'...
The basis of this split is an idea. It is an idea that we picked up by observing all the 'separate-feeling' people around us - their actions, their words, their interests, their fears...
We have been taught to deny the peace that is right here in the Silence, between the thoughts, behind the thoughts, before, after and even during the thoughts... We have been taught to ignore this Witness that is Pure Consciousness... that is always Here.
No-thing is in the way of Understanding. No-thing needs to be removed or added. It's just that idea of separation that distracts us...
It's JUST an idea.
It's not important. It doesn't justify all that effort that we make to find wholeness again.
My work is to gently guide the attention of the enquirer to the ever-present nature of the Self – to 'Pure Being'.
I do not claim to be a Master, a Guru or an 'expert'... I do not claim to hold the authority of any spiritual lineage or academic institution.
My work is simply to encourage a dissolution of the story about the self to reveal the Presence of the Self.
I do not rely on any one specific technique.
No 'technique' or 'mechanism' is required for Self-realisation.
Many spiritual traditions are referred to in my work, but ultimately all ideas and teachings must be dropped in order to embrace the fullness of the Self, unconditionally.
The Self is revealing itsSelf at every moment. The awakening to this truth is Self-Realisation. It is not a stage or state to attain... It is eternally taking place. It is all that ever happens.
This is why zen and radical advaita traditions simply refer us back to the present moment, and to the everyday beauty, the mundane, the 'insignificant'... Because it is All Arising in Consciousness Here Now. Consciousness is the Root of All that Is...
Even the question, “What do I need to do to attain Self-realisation?” is just arising spontaneously in Consciousness... and doesn't require an answer...
The only thing that distinguishes our consciousness from 'Pure Unconditioned Consciousness' is our feeling that something 'else' needs to happen before we can be 'complete'/'saved'/'forgiven'... It is this feeling that weaves a web of identity around the stories that our thoughts provide.
Without this feeling, thoughts just arise and subside...
And the vastness of the Self remains clearly untouched... unstained...
PEACE
If your are seeking wisdom, May your mind be open.
If you are a seeker of love, May love be in your heart.
If you wish to be whole, May you be inspired in all that you do.
If you are seeking truth, May you realise the true nature of the Self.
May peace be with you, If you wish to bring peace into this world.
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