If you’re reading this, you are aware
This is, obviously, obvious.
However do not error this obviousness for insignificance.
The significance of understanding is usually overlooked,
and this is a mistake even worse than neglecting to breathe.
The price of neglecting to breathe is fatality;
the cost of overlooking the importance of recognition is a lost life.
The value of understanding is that it is the typical
context, basis and essence
of every experience you’ve ever had–
and yet, none of these experiences have actually ever before hurt neither altered recognition.
In seeing this, the security you sought somewhere else
is disclosed to have been right below the whole time.
Not “under your nose”– closer than that.
Not “hidden in ordinary view”– more clear than that.
It is somewhat like water is to the fish:
both bordering and within, without actual department
in between “external” and “internal”.
This is why, in seeking it, one never discovers it.
It can not be located; it can only be acknowledged
And when it is identified,
it is recognized to be one’s true nature.
Awareness is “constantly on”.
Also the experiences of dullness, drunkenness, dreaming and sleep
are understood in, as, by and through understanding.
You don’t really “go offline” when you rest.
You don’t actually drift off one minute and get up the following.
There is a subtle understanding that continues.
In addition, no experience of health problem, injury,
neither psychological or emotional turmoil has actually ever affected understanding in the slightest.
Understanding looks at health issues just as it sees health;
it lays eyes on anxiety equally as it beholds pleasure;
it looks at disgust equally as it sees love.
It is flawlessly unbiased, consisting of and infusing all experience without approval or denial.
Indeed, the experiences of approval and
denial, themselves, are regarded with that same quality!
And naturally, all these experiences come and go;
begin and end.
Yet, recognition stays.
It is before a sensation; it is during an experience; it is after a sensation.
It is prior to an idea; it is during an idea; it desires
an idea.
It is prior to a feeling; it is during an emotion; it is after an emotion.
It is prior to an event; it is during an event; it is after
an occasion.
If something comes and goes, exactly how can it be “you”?
Even understanding itself is synergistic with that which it lays eyes on!
There is just the nondual, rainbow, automatically
unfolding pattern of nature.
Truly, absolutely nothing that can be said about it suffices:
it is past summary;
beyond comprehending with the believing mind.
And yet, to point to this inexpressible truth, wonderful masters throughout time have aimed– each in their very own method– to this provisionary pecking order.
Understanding can be said to be primary, while its “materials” are secondary.
It is not really a container, yet it consists of whatever.
It is not actually fundamental, for there is no foundation and no structure.
It is not really space, for it has no dimension.
It goes to as soon as infinitely big and definitely small.
When you identify the dimension of a space or an object,
you are running a mental procedure.
You discovered this so young that it seems to be a hard fact of reality.
But this process can be stopped, such as when you meditate
and discover that parts of your body change size in
your proprioception.
In the same way, for one that finds out to relax normally in
all circumstances– without looking for or rejecting anything–
noises and views can show up both near and far at the
very same time;
feelings can be experienced as colours;
ideas can discontinue to take place in between the ears and happen, rather, outside the head.
The distinction between recognition and its components
is made provisionally, to urge that key technique of all-natural rest.
Understanding is never participated in the ideas, feelings
and behaviors that seem to obscure its clarity:
it is like a vast, limitless, ageless area in which all thoughts, sensations and behaviors happen.
All that you require “yourself” happens in all the same way as a bird flying previous your window:
the experience of your left ankle joint was not there, and now it is;
the idea “I when found out to review” was not there, and now it is;
the sensation associated with the author of this text praising you
totally for being right here;
insisting that you are an excellent possession to humanity even in being
just curious concerning what is created right here–
or maybe a resistance to acknowledging yourself in
by doing this–
was not below, now it is.
And currently, concentrating on the feeling I simply defined,
your left ankle joint has vanished from your straight experience!
Perhaps currently it is back!
Just how can these points or any others like them be that you actually are when they reoccur with such rapidity?
Obviously, you identify patterns in your experiences,
thoughts and feelings,
and the aggregate of these patterns is what you take to be “yourself”.
However if you call up the resolution on your perception–
if you “zoom out” and see points without your common
analyses, judgments, labels, descriptions–
you see that no two perceptions are ever fairly the same.
Now every little thing is fresh, lively, clear, understood in its volume, equally as it is–
without the filters overlaid on experience by
relativistic reasoning.
This is to break out of the cage of ideas and live in Reality:
Reality that is inarguable and irreducible;
Truth that would hold true on an alien world,
among an alien culture speaking an alien language,
showing unusual ideologies.
Ideas, analyses, tags, judgments, summaries,
philosophies, religions are all based on being “best”
or “wrong”.
Even what we take as scientific reality is consistently uncovered to be incorrect later!
Yet recognition, the basis of all of this, is past “ideal” and “incorrect”.
It just sees what is– as it is.
You needn’t assume anything concerning anything.
You could select to do so– that is different; aggressive,
in contrast to reactive.
The psychological and emotional resources; the time and power
you declare back from your common mode of being are
infinite in extent.
Now you are straightened with the only thing that absolutely matters:
the natural ideas to do good.
Your long for recognition has disappeared, yet currently others
commemorate your merit.
Your yearn for love has actually disappeared, yet currently others wish to be around you.
Your want wealth has actually disappeared, yet currently your capability to earn is increased.
You benefit others as if you had a wonderful mood.
Wisdom falls out of you like rainfall from a burst cloud.
You want absolutely nothing, yet you feel as if you have whatever.
You have actually found the paradise world that might never ever be discovered
due to the fact that it was always right here– only obscured.
You are awakened in that you are no more dreaming;
you are enlightened in that you have actually relinquished
your worries.
You are material; relaxed; lined up; coinciding–
an emanation of pure benefit, without making a crumb of effort to be so.
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