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The mind can never grasp Reality. That understanding occurs when the mind stops, such as during breaks in thoughts or when there is a pause due to some pointing or pondering. But during those times, we really aren't brought any "closer" to what we are. For we never move from this. It's just that during pauses and deep reflecting, our seeing is clearer, less foggy, and free of distractions.
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Your consciousness will remain only as long as you are living. There is nothing eternal about it. So it can't possibly be your fundamental reality.
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Thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, and images are not you. They are simply arisings in the immeasurableness that is you. And you never cease being this, so there is no need for you to strive to "reach" or "attain" it. But most seekers are trying to "conquer" presence so that they can exclaim that they have done so and then point to the travails that they have endured in order to acquire it. But the irony is that they will never reach it that way. They will, however, experience any number of sensations, manifestations, and conditions. So at least they can take "consolation" in that!
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Always be mindful of the point that something is being overlooked. That's all. There is unequivocally nothing to be "merged" with or to become "established" in. That kind of spiritual drivel will keep you in conceptual whorls for the rest of your days, which would be tragic, given that not only are you already free, you are Freedom itself!
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The answer that you're looking for is spaciousness. It is neither an experience nor anything that can be experienced. Again, the answer that you are searching for is bare, utter spaciousness. You're looking through it and into right here and now, as you read these words. Feel yourself being paused by what is blazingly before and within you at this very moment.
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Notice that the presumed entity--in the form of a thought, an emotion, a personality trait or cluster of traits--always changes. Ditto your body. But your essence never alters. Your knowingness Does Not Move. Even if you don't yet have a clear of understanding of this fact, you intuitively know it to be true. Listen to your heart--your wise and wily heart. Allow it to lead the way, and you may just suddenly see that there was never really any place to go.
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"Loved the book, Rodney. Enjoyed it as much as John Wheeler's first book,Awakening to the Natural State. My favourite quote of yours was "you are no more your personal history than you are your toothbrush." I like the fact that you included little tidbits of your life and surrounds. It felt more like reading a book on travel or history than some of the other textbook style books on nonduality. I think for anyone serious about a direct approach, your book and John Wheeler's are the two to have." -- Ian
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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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