Pointers

Self-knowing: Thisness without end.


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Awake to your awakeness. Pause a moment and see what is already before you. It is, at once, subtle and splendorous, immediate and beginningless, unconditioned and ever-present.


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Every time you attempt to "reach" self-realization, you are--inversely--delaying it. Why? Because you are already awareness itself. Your seeking it entails not only an imagined seeker, but the notion that you have to make some sustained effort to "gain" this state.


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There is nothing cosmic, mystical, exclusive, or positive-minded about your natural state. These descriptions are used by writers and teachers for whom self-realization has yet to occur.


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Even happiness is only an experience. Thus, it is limited in duration and in no way compares to the peace of presence itself.


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The space in a jug or bottle cannot actually be separated from the totality of space itself. Likewise, awareness permeates all apparent bodies, minds, and states-of-consciousness.


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To what does a thought appear? It obviously is not your body, because your body is physical matter. And it can't be your mind, because your mind is nothing but the occurrence of a thought! So to what does a thought appear? Allow the power and significance of this question to bring you to a Full Stop. You really don't have to do a thing. Just see that there is something to which a thought must appear. It can't be another thought, because one thought can't know another one. So to what are your present thoughts appearing?


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Matter and energy are manifestations of one reality: Pure awareness.


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Your daily life is a race from concept-to-concept, from reaction-to-reaction, from experience-to- experience, and from sensation-to-sensation. You have rarely taken the time to ponder if there is something, amid all this coming-and-going, that Does Not Move. In all likelihood, you are feeling it right now. Take moment to examine the fullness of this presence. Then you will discover that you have actually never departed from its consummate richness and glory.


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You can easily spot the ego (which is the false identification with the body, mind, and senses). The ego always appears after an occurrence or activity as a particular thought, response, or feeling.


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If you could see the foolishness of your seeking, you would be struck speechless with disbelief. You are floating in the clearest, purist, most magical of springs; and yet, you search for water. Pause a moment and recognize not only the presence of this sheer, aqueous plenitude, but that you are the spring itself.