Affirmations of the natural mind,
Number 8.
One is the vast neutral sky,
Empty,
Whole and spacious.
Whatever storms may appear on the surface of the sky,
The sky itself remains untouched,
Still and vast.
Once one recognises that they are consciousness itself,
Then the compulsion to change,
Fix or control begins to relax,
As does the belief in the one doing.
One is prior to the story of an identity.
One does not need the lamp to be the light.
Awareness does not become worried when worry appears within it,
For it is the unmoving background of all seeing.
The body-mind will experience difficulties and pain,
But that which is real,
One's imperturbable awareness will never be affected by these.
Awareness can hold both joy and sorrow,
Equally perfect without preference.
One is consciousness itself,
Without content,
For one is pure existence,
Naked and unknowable,
Requiring no validation or label.
That which requires validation is an ego-insecure mind of need and desire.
What one has done,
Or what one is,
Has not touched the wholeness perfection of one's being,
Pure imperturbable awareness.
The formless self,
The screen upon which the characters in life appear,
Remains untouched regardless of all of the character's circumstances and experiences.
Freedom and joy are one's essential nature,
Effortless,
Uncaused,
Impersonal and eternally present.
The sense of a me in the world is the play of ego-identity and its need for validation and a story.
The quiet presence of being prior to becoming anything is the awareness of a harmonious life.
One's light of being cannot be dimmed,
No matter how strong the storms of life or mind may be.
True seeing is not a belief,
It is the collapse of the believer identity.
What one is cannot be named,
Found,
Known,
Identified or claimed.
Meet life where and as you are,
The unmoving background,
Still,
Relaxed and present.
The spiritual life is not one of finding or adding,
It's about returning inward to recognise the inherent truth of one's abiding being,
One's formless self.
And this is the real work of an aspirant,
A return to one's natural unborn presence in separable awareness.
The person one hopes to become is a creation of the separate self,
For it implies effort is needed.
There is more that has to be done,
Effort through doing.
That person will never be found,
For he or she does not exist,
It exists only in one's insecurity through a belief of lack.
The spiritual path is not about being better,
It's about clear seeing,
Seeing through the one who wants to be better.
For this one is the false sense of the limited identified human mind.
The seeker,
The striver,
The one keeping score,
Putting labels on everything,
And it's this one that the path starves.
We are not on a path to awakening.
We are on a path from delusion,
From false belief,
From the never-ending narratives.
And this comes as a collapse of what we have created to protect ourselves.
And as it collapses,
There is nothing new to take its place.
The path begins when you stop seeking,
For here there is no doer,
Trying or wanting,
No you wanting more,
Rather that which is present is the goal.
We are perfect as we are.
Now it's time to recognise this quietly.
Beneath every state,
Every thought,
Awareness is that in which all appears.
You cannot become that which you are.
One's beingness does not need a spiritual path,
It doesn't need improvement,
For it is whole and complete without a you.
Move past awareness as an idea to that fully recognised.
Once this recognition is reached,
The whole structure of one's reality shifts.
For there is nowhere to go,
One is fully present,
Timelessly held in the now.
The egoic mind cannot survive without purpose,
And awareness has no purpose,
Has no reason,
Requiring nothing.
Before the individual identified itself as a person,
There was the unborn presence of open freedom,
The light of being,
The stillness before thought.
One's pure awareness as unborn silent presence,
Eternally.
The ocean recognising itself as the ocean,
Nothing more is needed,
For if there is more thought,
Then there is someone striving,
Seeking,
Wanting.
Always be aware,
You are the one,
Timelessly,
Independently watching,
Regardless of what continues or collapses.
The one who wants to continue,
And the one who wants to quit,
Are both appearances in the one awareness silence,
And that silence is what one timelessly and eternally is.
One will drop the belief that one is the seeker.
That is the last thought,
The last egoic hold.
There is no road that leads to enlightenment,
No path that leads to higher awakenings,
For one is that which one is searching for.
And when one recognises this,
There is no seeker that has taken any journey or any path,
And no ego that now has any need of doing.
Dissolve the seeker.
What is then recognised is a lightness,
An expansiveness,
A fullness,
And a wholeness.
