Stop thinking just for a moment right now…
That clarity, that alertness, that presence which is easily recognized if one stops thinking for a second or two, is what is there always.
Like the ocean is there whether waves are active or not. Like pure sky is there even when clouds gather.
You are the clear light of open awareness at all times. It’s right here as the background of all things moving. Like the canvas is always there to constitute the painting and that which it pictures.
Your completely open nature is like space. Space can exist without anything in it, but nothing can exist without that space for it to exist in.
Similarly, all that you believe and feel to be YOU, could never be here without that spacious open lucidity for it to arise in and be known by.
This open nature is not just lying there like a dead objectless presence, it’s actually completely self-aware since it knows all form to arise within itself.
It is thanks to this completely, indestructible self-awareness that you know every moment of your life whether you recognize it or not.
So just take that moment of recognition, that moment in which you become attentive to the open nature that is bound to be the direct essence of everything you perceive.
You are the open nature of all perceptions. Abide as that peaceful timeless lucidity that is completely natural, simple and always already here. Abide whenever and wherever, again and again, until open awareness becomes your primary way of being.
This, is enlightenment.
Love,
B.