All you need to discover is the limitless, timeless nature of awareness – that which knows the coming and going of all things but doesn’t come and go with them.
Discover this and all your questions about the meaning of life, the truth of existence, enlightenment, awakening, or liberation will be answered.
Simply look at what in you exists prior to any appearance in the body, mind, or world. Or even more simply, notice that whatever you are aware of you are not.
You are the awareness or consciousness with which all things are known. Because your nature is limitless and timeless nothing can exist outside of you.
Recognize this limitless, timeless element of your being and experience freedom from the bondage of the body, mind, and world, and in this recognition experience the one true experience, your essential self, whose nature is one of unbounded joy.
How do you recognize the limitless, timeless nature of your essential being? Look at that within you that is aware, or awareness itself, and see if you can find an edge or boundary to it. When you firmly establish that there is no end to awareness, in other words, it is infinite, then see if you can discover a time when it is not present. When you firmly establish that there is no time when it is not present, or, in other words, it is eternal, you are home free.
What else do you need to know? This discovery, recognition, understanding – the infinite and eternal nature of awareness or consciousness – dissolves all separation between self and other, you and me, subject and object, this and that, and reveals the indivisible nature of all experience. All things are made of the same stuff – consciousness if you’re a scientist or pragmatist, awareness if you come from a philosophical or spiritual background – and therefore all of our actions spring from the reverence of this oneness and promote nothing but peace, love, and happiness for all beings, all things, and all worlds, inner and outer.
Beautifully worded, Will. Succinct. Thanks.
Thanks, Steve. Nice to hear from you and hope both you and Aileen are doing well. Much love!
Beautifully pointed out. Thank you! The “Knowing” that is the only reality of any experience, and what I thought of as God or the Supreme being is my very self and all that I have ever been or ever know. This understanding is blowing my mind and realigning the world.
No, I thank you. I somehow missed this wonderful comment when it came in and it’s blowing MY mind! “Knowing” you has certainly helped to realign my world.