This is what needs to be realized, if you don’t get this you’re wasting your time. This is radical. If you do get this then you get everything, this is all or none. Freedom is when the tiger can attack you and pounce on you but you know it’s not real. You know it’s all a projected world of mind And this is fundamental. If you get this you get everything if you don’t get this you get nothing. Self-knowledge is radical on one hand and it’s the ultimate simplicity on the other. A common theme that you’ll hear is the importance of understanding the nature of your experience and the reason he’s saying make no effort over and over again is because whatever effort your making is in your world of experience which is your projected world of knowledge and belief. It’s your imaginary world. Whatever effort you’re making is in your imaginary projected world of experience. So a common theme in the various traditions is understanding the nature of experience, understanding the nature of mind, and that what we’re seeking is prior to the mind or beyond the mind or not in the world of experience. That’s really the one point that if you get you get everything else. It doesn’t matter if you make an effort or make no effort because you know it’s in the world of experience and what’s being pointed out is what’s aware of the world of experience right here right now. It can’t be experienced its right here right now so your search is done. You’re free of it, that’s it and once you discern between the world of experience which is everything that you experience and that which is aware right here right now, this aware presence that’s always with you as you, then you can no longer be fooled by the mind no matter what its saying. Freedom is not in the mind its prior to the mind it’s that which is aware of the projected world of mind. It’s not freedom to have a nice mind or to have a nice story or to have a nice tiger that leaves you alone. Freedom is when the tiger can attack you and pounce on you but you know it’s not real, you know it’s all a projected world of mind. That’s it there’s nothing more to do or stop doing, there’s no more effort to make and no need to stop any effort. All experience including effort or no effort is in the world of mind. What is aware of that world of mind? On one hand it’s the ultimate simplicity on the other it’s the ultimate radical realization because it’s all-inclusive there are no exceptions its solid black or its solid white, there are no exceptions. There is no part of the world of mind that is absolutely real or absolutely true it has relative truth and it’s all a projection of mind. What we are seeking cannot be experienced; this is why waiting for an experience is a waste of time. What we are is not an experience its prior to experience. It’s the ultimate simplicity because all you have to do is realize all you are experiencing is not the fundamental truth, it’s not the realization of the spiritual teachings. Whatever you are experiencing you can negate it as this is not what I am seeking, this is not the truth of what I am, this is a projection of mind. I am prior to this mind, I am aware of this mind here and now. I’m the witnessing presence, the consciousness, the awareness right here right now. I’m watching this dream world that’s projected. He says don’t make any effort because any effort is in the world of the mind. If you’re trying to turn a mean ugly nasty tiger into a nice sweet tiger you’re still dreaming, Wake up from the dream. So I tell them there dreaming a tiger is pouncing on them Wake up your dreaming there’s no tiger pouncing on you. Wake up from the dream. This is a radical realization because it applies to every moment of experience is not the truth of who you are. It’s a dream world. You will find this in all of the spiritual traditions repeated over and over again that your world of experience is a projection of mind, it’s not the truth and it has no reality, and this is what you need to understand. It doesn’t matter what spiritual philosophy is being used because they are saying the same thing. This is what needs to be realized; negate every moment of your experience because it’s a projection of your own mind. Even if you have an idea of awakening or enlightenment it’s a projection of your own mind, it’s not the truth. If you’re waiting for an experience of awakening or enlightenment it will be another illusion and you’ll still be asleep in your dream. You’ll go from dreaming that you’re suffering and seeking to a dream that you’re awake now. You have always been watching the dream so you didn’t wake up, you watched one dream change into another dream but you never changed. This is why nothing ever happened, nothing ever happened because nothing is happening absolutely, it’s all a projection of mind. You have to understand this if you don’t understand this you’ve not understood anything and you’ve wasted your time. This is the foundation of the spiritual teachings; to be able to discern between the world of experience as a relative truth or an illusion and the fundamental truth the absolute truth the absolute reality that I am aware here and now. If you get this you understand everything and if you don’t get this you understand nothing, it’s as simple as that. If you don’t get this, you’re wasting your time trying to get something because you’re diddling around in the world of experience and diddling around in the mind trying to turn a mean tiger into a nice tiger. The tiger has no independent existence; the tiger has no reality apart from my knowledge and belief in this projected tiger. There’s no good and evil, no right and wrong, no birth and death, no me or you, no us or them, no suffering, no freedom from suffering, no ignorance, no enlightenment, as I am. It’s the ultimate simplicity and the ultimate radical Realization too because there is no experience that you can have that is the truth of who you are, ZERO, NONE. Self-realization is not an experience you cannot experience yourself because you’re alive, your one and one cannot experience itself. All experience is a projection of mind creating an experience of duality me and you, us and them, good and evil, right and wrong, ignorance and enlightenment, all a projection of mind. It’s the ultimate simplicity because it excludes all experience. All knowledge and experience is negated. The only truth is I am aware here and now, consciousness is, and I am that. What is aware right now? There is awareness here now, this is the only truth.
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