Consciousness, also referred to as The Absolute, The Supreme Reality,
No-thing etc is appearing as everything and everyone right now. That is
Your identity, Your true nature. You ARE The Supreme Reality, in and as
which arises Awareness, in and as which arises form
(the play of life).
Whenever there is simple relaxation into the Awareness aspect of Your
Nature, it becomes clear that form (the play of life) is appearing
completely spontaneously and that there are no individual entities doing
or thinking anything. Awareness is attracted to its own appearances,
and, focussed as attention, becomes mesmerised by them (particularly
form as thought, and especially thought that appears to refer to “me” as
an individual). In this mesmerising, and consequent forgetting of our
true nature, the play of life in its myriad appearances seems to be the
sole reality.
But Awareness is not confined as and to form, rather, form is
appearing IN awareness! When the reminding of this happens in some way,
maybe by this current article or through a “teacher”, book, Youtube etc,
then identification as form may become obvious and seeking
spontaneously ceases. There is no longer focussing in and as form,
rather there is resting as Awareness.
The play of life continues but the suffering that arises whenever
there is attachment to form (and thought particularly) is no longer
there. There often ensues in the play of life remembering and forgetting
(identification and dis-identification) which has become known as
flip-flopping, but the seeming confinement to and as form has loosened.
At times mesmerisation may occur with consequent seeking, at times there
is simply resting as Awareness.
In whatever configuration form appears right now, it is just exactly
how it’s “meant” to be. Form – the play of life – cannot be altered or
transformed in any way by any supposed individual because there are no
individuals. The play of life is like a movie already transcribed onto a
DVD. It is unalterable, playing endlessly on and on in a display of
endless appearances.
Whenever Awareness identifies with form it appears as though seeking
through various means is the key to freedom from that identification,
but seeking is merely more identification. The life of the apparent
individual is an automaticity, just another part of the movie. There is
no individual freedom, rather there may be recognition of our true
nature when seeing as and from Awareness, and even the outshining of
that as the entirety of our nature as the Supreme Reality. None of this
can be “done”. All is simply a spontaneously arising modification of the
One Reality, which of course is none other than This, already!
So there’s one story, and here’s another. Rarely, with some body-mind
appearances in the play there’s no gradual reminding and remembering,
but rather the complete and immediate falling away of any limitation to
seeing and living directly as and from The Supreme Reality, from
No-thing.
Seeing and living directly as and from No-thing is always already the
case of course but there isn’t always the conscious recognition of
that. Consciousness likes to play hide and seek with itself!
