The way before us is created moment to moment, always in this moment. This moment is where we have the power to shape our lives. This moment is where we may be involved in shaping our lives and our world. It is not anywhere else or any when else. We have what power we may have in this moment and this is it. If for what ever reason, whatever attitude, thought or belief, we do not face the reality of this moment, we will deny whatever power we may have to act fully in our own best interest. This moment is where our power is. It is where our life is. It is not any thought or perception in our mind, it is what is happening right now. This moment demands action. By being present with it, we can respond to it. By noticing our mind and our thoughts, we can learn to keep ourselves from being consumed by our thinking and imagining. We can get better at keeping ourselves in the present and seeing it more clearly.
When I see what is, I often feel that there is nothing I can bring with me from one moment to the next. I feel that all my plans for acquisition have little to no value. I sense that it is good to be skillful in practical matters, to build a sturdy life for ourselves, but that there is no value in being attached to this. Being attached in this way is actually quite burdensome. I sense that what I am is not who I am personally, or what I personally have, but the being from which these things and all things arise. This is the power I speak of. From this wisdom and virtue are born and by it they are sustained. I see that there is nothing I can do to gain myself. What I am has nothing to do to with my ego. Who I am is Reality which always is devoid of ego, it cannot have it by nature. Egoic consciousness is an illusion and non-reality. Reality is simply what lies beyond conditioned perspectives, what we call Infinity or God. This is what I am. This Reality is already full here, obviously because it is reality. This is why it is said that the world that we know does not exist. The deeper you go, the more you realize how deeply immersed one's consciousness is in delusion and how utterly annihilating it is to wake up. But then you see that you never really had an ego because everything is always Reality and Truth. Truly there is no ego anywhere at all. There is only God. Everything that happens to us is Him
All of this is God's life, God. God is not distant. God is all of this, and all of anything we experience or perceive. We truly do not need anything, not even our own mind, or our own will. The Way is where we are, we cannot attain it through effort. It cannot be attained. Our desire for things is misled, our desire to improve ourself is as well. We are not anything that may be improved or that needs improving. The Way is Perfect, it is already here, and already all that we are and all we experience. The One. When we recognize this truth, we see how to prioritize our time and energy. We see how incorrect our views were about what is real and what is important to focus on. Our obsession with fulfilling our own lives for instance, does not come out how we imagine it to. It is not our individual self that finds fulfillment and is freed forever from suffering. Fulfillment is not a thing to be attained or posessed, it is the truth that is already fully manifest which reveals the non-reality of a self who can be fulfilled. Enlightenment is not something that happens to anybody, it is what is and always is. The journey of the self to enlightenment is an illusion, it is a convention that eventually ceases to be necessary. When I AM I may rest and no longer need to go out .
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