Kindle Notes & Highlights
Direct experience is what you are experiencing without effort, without thinking, without belief.
Living from your direct experience simply means acknowledging every moment that you're alive by giving your full attention to every moment.
the peace that you are can never really be touched.
The experience of 'I' is that of an impersonal witness that is aware of the present moment.
When you first shift from the world of knowledge to the world of the unknown, you will be taking on the role of the witness. Once this shift is almost completed, the role of the witness will be the last thing to go.
Remember: 'I' itself is already here throughout all activities and experience, so 'you' are not introducing a foreign element into what's happening. What's really happening is that 'you' are being revealed to be what's foreign. 'I' alone is your true nature.
Your daily life is now going to become a fully alive science experiment where you acknowledge truth (the one and only truth of 'I') in *every* situation, circumstance and interaction you encounter. Your daily tasks may stay the same, but your experience of them will radically change.
As a result, all activities will happen within the spaciousness of 'I', as if the 'I' is witnessing everything that's happening.
You are waking up now. You only care about what’s actually real.
When you pull the covers off, you pull the covers off only. When you put on your slippers, you put on your slippers only. When you brush your teeth, you brush your teeth only. In this way, complete and total focus on *everything* you’re doing makes silencing your mind an effortless practice.
Through your total focus, your busy dream-generating mind will gradually become unemployed because your attention will no longer be on its content but on the content of what you’re experiencing.
Acknowledging truth continuously just means acknowledging what’s right in front of you and nothing else. After all, there IS nothing else – right?
Acknowledging that there is nothing else can be made easier by deeply recognizing that it's impossible to leave this moment. It simply can't be done. This moment after all is the only thing that’s real. I’ll say it again: this moment is the only thing that’s real.
what more is there to think about once you acknowledge that past and future are an illusion? There's obviously no need to think about the present, so what need is there to think then? The more this becomes apparent the more you will awaken.
Self-realization after all, is the realization of eternity... the truth that exists outside of thought.
The awakened state awaits you in eternity - not in time. Eternity has only...
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Your trust in this process of dissolution will be reinforced by your constant returning to what's actually real, to your primary knowledge of 'I' where no suffering is possible.
Existence is dualistic, silence is not.
The human bridge to absolute truth is absolute silence.
What started out as a practice: proving what's real, putting what's real first, confronting the dream, and allowing yourself to end has become an automatic process. Those steps are no longer steps for you; they have become the way of sanity.
Needless to say, this last step is a non-step. When the time comes for you to be let go of, it will be completely without choice. You will have finally surrendered your will completely to the will of life.
This is why enlightenment happens through grace; a refined space where life is no longer opposing itself, trying to live itself, trying to be itself.
Resting as the witness is not about witnessing your thoughts (because when you’re resting as the witness there are no thoughts) it’s about recognizing the space BETWEEN thoughts and rooting yourself there as often as you can.
The more you root yourself in that ‘gap’ the easier it will be to go back there when thinking finishes itself.
The ‘journey’ to freedom comes into play when you as the ‘me’ begins to want to remain in th...
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You can't witness your thoughts… you can only rest as the witness when thinking isn’t happening.
Surrender is simply the present moment aware of itself and nothing else.
The moment of awakening is a moment of complete and utter let-go; a total willingness to let go of all knowledge. You realize that you are the source of knowledge and that knowledge itself comes after you.
