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"Deepening" your practice accomplishes nothing. It is still a practice, and there is still this perceived-person doing it. Further, at no point do you "reach" presence because it can only be recognized or understood, not attained. In short, with methods and practices, you are looking away from the very thing that you are seeking.
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Without a single belief or a nanosecond of any spiritual activity, awareness gleams radiantly before you. And it isn't so much because you are distracted by life that you aren't seeing it (though that contention is not without merit). You just haven't properly paused and cognitized the presence of awareness within that pause. And such a recognition comes simply and easily.
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Awakening is a direct understanding of your true nature. And it occurs only once, and that's it. Game over.
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You are aware of these words as you are reading them on the computer screen. But what is it that is aware? Pause carefully here. What is it that is immediately present in addition to the words that you are reading right now? See that there is a subtle presence of sheerness and spaciousness that has absolutely always been within you and before you. It is the Mona Lisa-smile within the 3D picture. It may appear hidden at first. But once perceived, you realize how it was always in rapturous view.
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The "I" is a convenience, a practicality, an assumed reference point that allows us to function and communicate in our day-to-day life. Attempt neither to negate it or to give it overwhelming importance. For your fundamental nature can't be anything that comes and goes. And the "I" and the "me" do just that. You are the splendor and the spaciousness that forever remains.
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The serious exploration of such spiritual concepts such as "grasping," "egoic consciousness," and "energetic unfoldings" is such a waste of time and neurons. You are awareness itself, the presence in which all of the above notions come and go. Give you attention to that which Does Not Move. Then perhaps you, like the English poet Thomas Traherne, will finally feel "no dross or matter in my soul,/No brims or borders, such as in a bowl/We see. My essence was capacity."
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A Vastness All Around: Awakening to Your Natural State is now available for purchase. Rodney's first collection of essays, discussions, interviews and powerful pointers can be ordered directly from the publisher at Lulu Press.
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1 comment:
Nice ones. I would say there can hardly be any waste of neurons, though...neurons will be neurons, doing whatever it is they seem to be doing! Dang neurons. Hope you are keeping well Rodney!
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