Perhaps you’ve lived your life not realizing that prior to all the
conditioning and conditions, there is an unconditioned presence that is
totally and vibrantly free and loving. Maybe you’ve been locked in
roles, job titles, beliefs, religions, or thought-based identities. This
unconditioned presence is what you are — right now — before you think
about who or what you are.
Thought might respond, “There is
nothing here.” The mind is so busy looking for something other than
simple presence, so busy thinking about life and complicating it, that
this unconditioned presence is missed.
Thought places conditions
on your experience: “If my wife would stop nagging, I would be happy.”
“If my boss would appreciate me more, I would be satisfied with this
job.” Do you see the game the conditioned mind plays? Don’t judge these
thoughts. To condemn thought is just more conditioned mind. Thought
says, “If I could only quiet my conditioned mind, I would be at peace.”
Don’t
make an enemy out of thought. Notice that the conditioned mind is doing
exactly what it is supposed to do. It is thinking. Simply notice the
space in which all of that is happening. Notice this unchanging presence
that is always and already September here ‘under’ all that
conditioning. This presence is unconditioned because it has no interest
in placing conditions on your experience. It is naturally and
effortlessly at one with what is — regardless of what the conditioned
mind is doing.
~ From: Reflections of the One Life
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