Just allow existence to enter
you
Are you aware right now? Any
doubts about it? And how do you know that you are aware? What tells you that
you are present and aware right now? You just simply know it, no one has to
confirm it for you, you simply notice that you are present and aware. At this
point you can just stop here and accept that this spacious aware space
containing everything is what you are or fall back into the habit of trying to
find the answers in your mind.
If you decide to stop, just notice this sense of just “being”, this awareness that is you – can you find the place where it begins? Can you find an ending to it? Relaxing your focus as you gaze into this natural open aware presence is the most important thing in this practice. If we are constantly allowing our thoughts to distract us from this place, we cannot achieve the full realization that this aware presence is what we are.
This open aware presence can only be discovered when we completely relax and turn our attention away from the appearances and toward the source of those appearances. By letting the thoughts just happen and move past, without giving them any attention, we can see from the openness from which those thoughts arise.
Relax yourself in this place. We do not need to seek anything, we only need to rest. Simply relax. Thought will never give us the answers we seek. Only through relaxing our minds will we be able to see our true identity.
Dismiss the story, don’t trust the thinking that distracts you by suggesting that there is something more to do. The thinking – the story – traps you in the cycle of searching for the answer. It is the very thing that keeps you (seemingly) caught.
Rest and realize in this moment, that you are the awareness – the aware presence that is the knowing all of this at this very moment. If you feel yourself doubting simply rest some more in this open aware presence itself. When you open yourself and rest in what you are, you are pliable, less rigid and more flexible and you allow existence to enter you.