Kindle Notes & Highlights
Humanity is only important to humanity. Or more precisely, people are only important to other people that they come into pleasurable or beneficial contact with. In the grand scheme of things, the universes energy will always be there, taking whatever form it takes, and whether it happens to take human form or not is quite irrelevant.
If we know that when people seem to do things which affect us, in reality there is no separate person choosing to do those things, there’s just life living and experiencing itself, then we stop becoming angry or unhappy with situations as they arise. We just accept and experience them as they are.
If we know that the future is going to unfold in a mechanistic way, we no longer have anxiety while considering the possible outcome of things, and we no longer desire things to be different that they are, as we understand that they’re always going to be what they’re going to be, irrelevant of any personal feelings.
The truth is, there is no awareness or consciousness separate from experience. They are one and the same. ‘You’ are the experience. ‘You’ are nothing other than experience. ‘You’ are the experience of sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and thought in the present moment. Without those six experiences nothing, including you, exists.
Thoughts arise, feelings arise, sounds and sights arise, smells and tastes and touch sensations arise, but nobody owns them because there’s nobody to identify with them. They are all just mind formations that come and go.
If we can’t possibly experience anything other than the mind formation, how can we know if anything other than it exists?
Enlightenment is our natural state of being when all illusions of dualities and conceptions are done away with, and so enlightenment is available to anybody who is willing to take a small amount of time to open their mind to what really is.
