![]() ![]() Simply cease valuing and chasing illusions, and the source will reveal itself. Liberation is the end of seeking, and the realization of the false self that is trying to attain something.ĭo not seek enlightenment or extraordinary states of being, since all seeking is the activity of the ego. If you are not careful, the mind can lead you down a path of endless seeking in an attempt to add more to yourself. Prajna or wisdom of the truth is waking up to what is always already present. The mind might ask “how can I realize myself as this pure awareness?” The desire to capture the truth always comes from the egoic mind which wants to acquire awareness, but it can never acquire it because it is the very thing that has to surrender for it to be realized. It is always aware and yet is not separate from what is observed. In Vedanta it is called turiya, the fourth state, the ground of your existence. Primordial awareness is aware of the coming and going of these states, but it does not come and go. In so-called “normal” life we are aware of three states of consciousness waking, dreaming and deep sleep, and these states come and go. Primordial awareness is not what we normally refer to as consciousness it is what is aware of consciousness as it changes from one state to another. The ancient mystics, yogis and seers have said that everything is primordial awareness, or non-dual consciousness which is simultaneously emptiness and form (all that is ). The path is a stripping away of illusion, a letting go of identification with a limited self, so that one wakes up exactly where one is. The path to Samadhi is not the sort of path where one puts one foot in front of another in order to get to some destination. ![]()
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