Pointers

What is it that is already awake?


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Nonconceptual Reality is totally beyond the mind (i.e., it can neither be found in the mind nor by the mind). Thus, no amount of concentrated effort or theorizing can "get" you there. So relax and see that there is a sure presence of awareness directly before you and as you at this very moment.


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Awareness witnesses through consciousness. Thus, consciousness is clearly not the Ultimate I.


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Consciousness is a state or movement within awareness. It is closely linked to the body, and its attributes include awakeness, dreaming, drowsi-ness, and sleeping. Awareness is spaciousness, but it is not a void. It is a very real and cognitizing presence that can't begin to be put into words.


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Again, you are spaciousness. You are not your body or your mind. You are that which knows that your body and your varying states of conscious-ness are present. Your body and mind are not even "yours." They are merely appearances in awareness and are comprised of nothing but awareness.


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All pointers are just a way of saying that You Are Awareness Itself. Full Stop.


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Thoughts, feelings, and occurrences have no independent existence from presence. Any talk of form and formlessness (or even of origination) is just that: Talk. Mere conceptualization. Yes, concepts are needed to speak and to communi-cate with one another. But see to what the concepts are pointing. Don't get ensnared or enraptured by terms and expressions.


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There is no one to rest as or in awareness. Any thinking in that direction, however limited, leads you nowhere. For Truth can only be seen by Truth. And when this seeing occurs, it is quick, unquestionable, and completely free of any "I" or "you."


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Perception proves the existence of awareness, and the not the existence of the objects themselves.


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Wisdom is self-knowledge, not objective or conceptual knowledge.

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Completely forget your thoughts and body for a moment. Even shelve the fact that you are presently awake. What is it, at this very second, that effortlessly remains? Re-read the previous sentences and see the clarity to which the words are pointing. What is it, at the end of the words that you are perusing right now, that wonderfully remains...?