There are no fixed points.
Try to find something, anything in your experience that is permanent and unchanging.
(Spoiler: you won’t, there isn’t.)
Identify the sense I AM. Abide as that. And if you find your mind has wandered, simply and gently return your attention to the I AM. Do this for a set time every day or simply do it whenever it occurs to you.
Through frequent repeated practice the experience and recognition of your true nature as awareness will dawn naturally and ultimately will become permanently established.
The faith to follow this instruction, to try it out in earnest, is all the faith that’s required in this teaching. The faith to find out for oneself what is true and real.
Everything is forgiven. We are redeemed by the fact of love. We are redeemed the moment we choose to accept what is always already true. And even if we don’t or can’t, still we are.
In regard to a difficult sensation or experience, ask: is it permanent? And then watch and see to find out.
You’ll also notice that you’re forced to try to identify the parameters and qualities of the thing being observed. Ask: where does it begin, where does it end? And if it’s ‘difficult’, what is it that makes it so?
Scrutinise, interrogate, inquire, observe. What is going on? What is the nature of this apparent thing, this experience?
Everyone’s so caught up in speech and language
And so much reality is lost to them
They mistake language and concepts
To be reality itself
This is why the culture is so lost
No conscious contact with the truth of what is
Minds captured by concepts
Lost in mental constructions
To the point that they disbelieve the existence
Of anything but that
Deep confusion and delusion
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Life flows by without description
No need to explain
No need to judge
It simply is
There’s nothing in particular that you can put your finger on. It’s gone before you know it. But what knows? What is always present to all that passes? This is the true refuge, the true home, the true identity.
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