All Is Inside This Awareness of Being - 18th August 2016

In this way, we see that there is this phenomenal oneness of all appearances. All appearances are one; all appearances are my being. All experiences are God. That is why then God is everywhere, because it is one being. If this being was just within the body, then how would God be everywhere? What about the space within bodies? Where is that experienced? Within the same being. The movement of your attention is also experienced within the space of your being. That is why I can even say something like, with your eyes closed, see if you can bring your attention to the top of your head and maybe even a little more than the top of your head. Moving within you, I can say bring your attention to the sounds which are happening at a distant place. Is there a way for attention to move out of you? Can it move in this way? What media would it use to travel? How can you hear the sounds which are seemingly at a distance from this body? And only that which gets my attention seems to exist. That is why the sense of existence and attention are so strongly intertwined.

Therefore, that which we so easily accept about the dream state—now that we are in this waking, so-called waking state—we so easily accept that the entire dream was within me. Why the resistance to a waking state which is nothing but the dream state? How is it possible that the entire dream was within you, in which case, what does this direct experience rely on? You're seeing now. See how your attention is just moving within you, yet it is getting new objects from outside the body. This contemplation, this inquiry into the sense of being, is the inquiry into your own God presence. You are discovering yourself as God, and you are discovering what is meant when it is said 'I am that I am.' To the same God which is everywhere, which is everything, is this I am consciousness. There is no separation.

The only presumed separation is when you believe a thought. If separation was real, then there would be separation even without labeling, even without thinking. There is only the experiencing of sensations and energies. This is true limitlessness. It is this limitlessness, timelessness, which the mind is trying to mimic through ambition and achievement. The mind is trying to mimic its Father, which is limitless, through its version of these. But the mind is too restrictive in its perspective to make us limitless or to recognize the limitlessness. Find out: where is this I am? Where does it start and where does it end? Even if it seems to emerge from a physical center like the heart, see the boundaries of the body, see if it actually comes to an end.

And as you are finding this limitlessness, you will find that the coverings within this, small vibrations of suffering or grief, are being experienced here where there is no 'for me.' Here, the sufferer is presumed, just like the doer is presumed, the thinker is presumed. And although there is no rush to make any proclamations, move on this ocean of real consciousness that is playing as 'I am,' and our life will become universal. No longer constricted by this question, 'What's in it for me?' in everything that appears. What am I gaining or losing? Because we let go of this 'me.' Once you see for yourself that you are everything, you cannot want anything. Everything cannot want anything. And once you see that you are everything, then there is also allowing of everything because you are no longer pushing an aspect of yourself away or trying to push it away.

Once you find this infinite space within yourselves, then nothing is pushed away. All is welcome. And in this way, we move away from this circle of desire and aversion, from 'what's in it for me' and 'what do I avoid.' All of it is linked like this. Only when I consider myself to be an object in the appearance can I say that I want another object. Once I see that I am this in which everything is coming and going, I am that which gives existence to existence, then what can I want? So then the Master's pointing, 'Offer your existence to existence,' takes on a different meaning because now existence gets its existence from you. And it is my feeling that although these words may not make sense to the mind, yet somewhere these words must be being recognized intuitively as pointing to the truth of you.

And even if all of this fails, and you feel like... because I have been like this for a few years actually, that I could not find the 'I am,' you see. I felt like that for a few years. If all of this fails, you cannot fathom this being, then stick to the question: Who is the 'I' that cannot find even 'I am'? It is enough. This will reveal everything to us. As you come to a recognition of this 'I' which is without attributes, then even that which has the attribute 'am,' 'I am,' will reveal itself on its own. So if it cannot be recognized, this space of being, this beingness, forget about it and ask yourself: Who is it that can't find even this 'I am'? Who am I? Who is this 'I' which is struggling with this 'I am'?