You Are This. There is Not Other Than This.

Exhausted by the "To-Me" trap? Discover why life isn’t a personal attack, but a spontaneous eruption of being. When the "Target" vanishes, the struggle ends, and effortless homecoming begins.

What then should one do?

You are not a wave on the ocean. You are the ocean being waves. Have you ever held a conversation in a dream? Do you suppose that the person with whom you spoke was an independent, self-directed individual? Or do you suppose that your conversation partner, your self, and the entirety of the dreamscape was a cohesive manifestation arising from a common source? The difference between a dream and waking experience is in content, not in fundamental nature. Seeing is the realization that the ocean does not have waves, but rather the ocean is waves. A fire does not have flames, a fire is  flames. A tree does not have leafs, a tree is leafs. There is no actual separation of ocean/wave, fire/flame, tree/leaf and thus neither object in each respective set is of itself actual. Seeing is the realization that I do not have experience, I am experience. I do not have an experience of you, I am an experience of you. The nature of the separation of I, experience, and you is that of the separation of fire and flame. I am void (no thing) being experience and experience is not other than me. I am this being that and that has no self identity, no will, no volition and no power in an of it self. Flames do not burn the fire. Waves do not move the ocean. You are not a wave on the ocean. You are the ocean being waves.

You no more have experiences than does a tree have leaves. Life no more happens to you than do waves happen to the ocean. You no more move your body than does a river move its current. See the actual nature of reality and the actual relationship of you and the world will arise. +++++++++++++++++ An Invitation to Play "I move my hand". The sentence suggests that "hand" is other than the movement that is activated upon it. The sentence suggests there is an "I" that is other than the "hand" being claimed and which is independent of the movement activated on the hand. The "I" is each the owner of the hand and the doer of the motion. If it pleases, hold your open hand at eye level and examine it. Now, close the hand into a fist. Where is the hand that was open? When you re-open the hand, where is the fist? Is the movement of open hand to close fist something that was activated upon the hand? Where was the movement prior to it being activated upon the hand? It may arise that the "hand" is actually not other than "what it is doing". Staying with the hand long enough it may arise that actually the hand is doing nothing and that the movement is all that is actually present. The game is a doorway, an invitation, to seeing.

All practices, methods, and techniques are evidence of the freedom you are. There is no path to regaining that which you never lost. There is only the expression of the freedom you are. Seeing is seeing. Only a way of looking at can be taught. Any action you take is an expression of the freedom you are to take the action. If you were not free to take the action, the action could not be taken. Each action in which you engage is other than all other possible actions - every "that" is different than every other "that". When you are running, you are not walking. When you are holding your breath you are not breathing. Every behavior is its own distinct and singular set of conditions. No behavior results in no conditions. The concept that performing any action (ie meditating, yoga, praying, studying, chanting, stopping thought, thinking positively, deep breathing) results in freedom is a falsity. Each of actions occurs because you are free to do undertake it. Each action is a unique set of conditions that is other than all other possible sets of conditions. No conditions result in freedom, rather freedom, that which you are, arises as conditions. There is no action you can take to gain Freedom - No worries, Freedom was never lost.

Q: There is no personal enlightenment? Response: Enlightenment is enlightenment. Enlightenment is associated with a person only in stories. Where I am enlightened and you are not is not enlightenment. Where you are enlightened and I am not is not enlightenment. Enlightenment is creation informed by the seeing. Creation in which one person is enlightened and another person is not enlightened is not informed by seeing but is informed by looking at. When a concentrated stream of water is poured into a large pool the water level does not rise only in the spot where the new water is being introduced. Nor is the water more wet in the point of introduction due fresh water being added. The water is the totality of itself and is indivisible. Enlightenment is a state of creation and creation is without edges, borders and divisions. When creation is informed by seeing all of creation is infused with enlightenment. I am not enlightened, you are not enlightened - This experience is enlightened and neither I nor you are other than this experience. We are not individual waves on the surface of the water, but we are the water being waves and each is equally wet. "I am an enlightened being and you are not" is a demonstration of knowledge and separation (Creation informed by looking at). Enlightenment does not arise from knowledge.

Shall we think that the current causes the river to run? Shall we think that the rays cause the sun to shine? Shall we think that the world causes you to be? The world is your ray. The world is you manifest. You are not of it, on it, in it nor because of it. The world is you being.