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The experience of being one with everything arrives. Now the experience is gone and you are experiencing the absence of that experience. Experiences come and go, experiencing is constant. You are the experiencing and not the the content of experience.
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Know that you are not your thoughts, you cannot stop them and that you are not responsible for them. Then watch them come and go from the sidelines of liberation.
Weather is one of those things that we would agree is out of our control. We know it comes and it goes, it’s fierce or it’s balmy. It can be a curse or a blessing. We know that all storms pass. Yet behind all of that weather the sky remains untouched, unchanged. Only clouds, rain and gusts of wind are moving. Not the sky. The sky contains it all.
Now look at this “me” that you take yourself to be. Imagine the body as the clouds, the sensations that occur as drops of rain or warming rays of sun, the thoughts and emotions as gusts of wind.
The body forms from nothing and will dissolve into nothing, sensations come and go at any moment, thoughts and emotions swirl about in a vortex that eventually abates, then swirls again.
All of these things come and go like storms and balmy days, yet this is who you think you are.
You think you are the weather.
When you are the sky…
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There is nothing to get. If you think you’ve finally gotten this, then you surely have not. Simply because it was never lost. There is knowing which is happening right now. Which has always been happening (in apparent time). But it happens for no one.
The thought of a “me” that can get this or more accurately, the identification with the thought of a “me”, is the only thing that clouds this knowing.
It’s that simple.
Look and see.
Look around you, right now. I mean really look.
Without words, without names, what is any of this? Without language how can you possibly know what anything is?
Someone told you, long ago, to call this that, and that this, and that the bundle of feelings and emotions is what you are. They didn’t say it poetically or symbolically. No they said it pretty matter-of-factly as if it’s a given, that you are your body and your emotions and thoughts. Then everyone else collaborated on the myth and you fell for it.
But the interesting thing is that most people don’t know they are perpetuating a myth. Because long ago, someone told them they were the body and everyone else agreed…well we know how the story goes.
But one day a thought occurs “Who am I?”
Some answer with the regulation answers: I’m me, I’m a woman, I’m shy, I’m this and that.
A few accept no answer. The question remains unanswered yet it is noted by the unknown and unavoidable.
Who am I? What am I? What is all of this?
There are no answers yet you KNOW that you ARE and this all IS.