In the apartment complex where I live, there are signs that state, "NOTICE: This property is under video surveillance". This prompted a bit of pointing that might be useful:
Notice: Are you awake? Notice: Is there Awareness here now? Notice: Is there Presence here now? When (during wakefulness) is there NO Awareness, NO Awakeness, NO Presence? Find a "time" when there is no wakeful aware presence. Can you? (Don't say deep sleep; sleep is not present NOW, is it!?)
Consider the obviousness of Wakefulness, Awareness, Presence. Does that ever change? Is that ever modified or altered in any way shape or form? Does that HAVE any "form"? It is Formless, isn't it? And yet it is SO obvious when pointed to; this Unchanging Wakeful Aware Presence. As a friend, Gilbert, like to say, "The first instant is Wakefulness. Who is there to argue about that? You-AS-Wakefulness must be present and aware to mount a challenge. Look: This is not a philosophy, not spirituality, this is pointing only to the Reality that NEVER changes, and proposes that YOU look to see if maybe, just maybe, THAT is what YOU really are.
Have a look. What do you have to lose? Only any perceived or imagined limitations on your actual Being. Might as well see what can be seen, in looking BACK behind the ubiquitous sense-of-ME and notice. Just NOTICE. YOU have never changes and never will. Noticing That any search for wholeness, God, or enlightenment is over, in this Wholly Instant Moment outside of space-time, ever present, here now. That thou art, as the ancients reminded us over and over.
And That's THAT.
