What
you are is simply a boundless witnessing. It is what is
aware of the words on this page, it is aware of your
thoughts, feelings and body. That pure sense of witnessing
is what you are – and it is ever present, free and empty.
You cannot attain it because it has always been here and
will always be here. Nothing you say, think or do can
change it, create it or destroy it. There is no escaping
it. There is just this empty witnessing presence. The rest
is fiction – a story invented by thoughts. What we are,
quite simply, is this luminous seeing – in it everything
comes and goes. The witnessing itself is empty – a
mysterious shining nothing.
What
you are is what the imaginary story of your life happens
in. It has no location and no form, yet everything arises
in it - like a mirror, it reflects everything impartially.
Like a mirror nothing sticks to it. It is clear and utterly
non-conceptual. Fortunately your mind doesn’t have to
understand it, or somehow ‘get’ it, because you already are
it.
While
it is interesting to talk about – it also possible to
notice directly in your own experience what is being
suggested here. The only qualification required is - being,
existing or awareness. When it clearly seen that you are
not the life story you are seeing, but the seeing itself, a
sense of peace and freedom becomes apparent that is always
available and always has been available - because it is the
very basis of all experience. What also arises is a sense
of raw living, a vibrancy that fearlessly encounters
reality as it is, because it is understood there is no one
here who can control anything.