You cannot wait for your mind to quiet before you realize your true nature.

Don’t be fooled by the infiltration of thoughts after you’ve recognized what you are. They cannot touch what you are. They cannot exist unless YOU are here first. They come and go, making such a racket. They leave so much more quickly with out impetus from you. Their job is to arrive, present themselves then leave.

And you, well, you just nod your head gracefully and note “Ah, I see you, I hear you. I’m not going to get involved. No, thank you.”

There is only the seeing that you’ve always been realized.

It’s like wiping the fogged up window pane. The only thing keeping you from the view is the condensation. The only thing keeping you from realization is the foggy thought: “I’m not yet realized.”

Once that thought is wiped away, or rather given no investment, then you will see what’s always been right outside your own window “pain”.

Here they come… some slowly and languorously… some at a sprint, nearly knocking you down.

Just watch them come. They have a will of their own. They are none of your business.

Don’t get in their way, and tell them “you  shouldn’t be here!”

Don’t cling to them because you find them favorable.

Just get out of the way and watch how they come and go without any permission from you.

You were never in control of them anyway.

The chatter of the mind cannot exist unless you are there first.

The way you look, the way you speak, any insecurity arises from the belief that oneness could be wrong. And yes, even the belief that there is something wrong arises from oneness itself.

Don’t worry about it. You are oneness.

That’s all they ever are. Thoughts occurring in this timeless unfolding moment.

See this now.

Everything.

The confusion, the hurt, the indignation, the tears, the fear….These things do not go away. The absence of discomfort in not what is being pointed to.

That which knows the waxing and waning of discomfort, that is what you are.

And through it all there is a watching. A knowing that this is a state which has arrived and will depart. I was there before this state.

There is the seeing of a strong sense of a lonely, disconnected “me”, a feeling of hopelessness and so many thoughts. A river of thoughts that I’ve taken a plunge into and I get carried away for awhile.

And yet, even this is watched.

If I am witness to this, if I am experiencing this which before was not there… then I cannot possibly be this contracted ball of suffering that has arrived and will soon depart.

And it’s very easy to see that this body-mind is simply suffering from a lack of sunlight and sleep.