Q: I have seen some of your videos on YouTube and because they have touched me, I have read your book "From I Am to I Am with Love". Thank you!
C: You are very welcome! And thanks for purchasing a book. It all helps to keep the message Live and On Line.
Q: You wrote that there are two sides: 1. Absence of a separate "I". I understand that. I have investigated and search for an "I" but I haven't found one. It is obvious that there isn't one.
C: So far so good my friend... THAT IS the KEY Insight!
Q: 2. I am Presence-Awareness. I understand that. E. g. I receive the picture at the wall. I am aware of it. Without this awareness the picture wouldn't exist. So the picture and all is awareness. I understand that (but just with my mind).
C: See below.
Q: You wrote: "Do you exist? Are you aware? That simple awareness of being is "IT".. your true nature". I don't understand the point. :-( My mind says: "so what? OK, I am aware and I exists but so what?" :-((
C: First off: These are pointers to SEE beyond language that indeed, EXISTENCE IS AND NO ONE CAN POSSIBLY DISPUTE THAT! Secondly, I address "the mind further below:
All the while that "your mind" says "so what" (and a whole lot of other
irrelevant stuff) YOU remain, as You ARE, Present and Aware. That
Presence-Awareness is empty, meaningless, and clear. All the words,
thoughts, mind-stuff, emotions, strong sensations and feelings occur IN
that Present Awareness. You identify as a word, thought ... namely "I"
or "me"; that is the ONLY error. Stay with That which allows everything
and anything to appear, come into being, remain a while, and fade away.
You are That which allows all the manifestation t appear. Take your
stand as That!
The "I" (mind) is a mere fiction, yet so long as the energy of belief goes into
that concept it will appear (ONLY appear!) solid and separate from
Totality.
There is nothing that the "I" (or "me") need do; indeed there is nothing it CAN do (remember that it is a fiction!)
The natural unfolding of the seeing consists in the absence of that
energy of belief in the fictional "me" or "I"; and that can only happen
as a functioning of the Totality, which is happening there (clearly).
Only other suggestion I might make is, relax and allow this to happen as
it happens without goal, resistance or striving ... as best you can.
You say you understand with mind. Take away that qualifier "with mind". The Understanding IS THERE.
The
simplicity is that YOU ARE. Period. Full Stop. That You-Are-Ness is
forever aware of all relative states, waking, dream, deep sleep. I
repeat, take your stand THERE, in what is Eternal and absolutely
unchanging. THAT never changes. You are That. That's all!
