Have you ever noticed how experiences and thoughts arise, how they appear and then disappear?<\/p>\n
Have you ever wondered who or what is aware of that?<\/p>\n
Have you ever noticed that in between thoughts, what you tend to call \u201cme\u201d does not disappear?<\/p>\n
So apparently you are not your thoughts!<\/p>\n
When thoughts arise and disappear, what is it that remains in the gaps between thoughts and experiences?<\/p>\n
What you call \u201cme\u201d is still there, but without thought and without experience, isn\u2019t it? Aware of\u2026<\/p>\n
So apparently you can exist without thought and without experience?<\/p>\n
Yes!<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t it clear then that what you truly are, is not dependent on thought or experience, but is prior to them! Always already.<\/p>\n
Isn\u2019t that an astounding discovery?<\/p>\n
Some call it \u201cBeing\u201d or \u201cyour true nature\u201d or \u201cawareness\u201d or \u201cconsciousness\u201d\u2026but those are just words…<\/p>\n
What you are does not need any words!<\/p>\n
It is prior to words and thoughts and concepts.<\/p>\n
To be, it does not need thoughts or experiences; it simply is. It knows, it sees, it senses, it feels. Life!<\/p>\n
And you are that!<\/p>\n
(Tat Tvam Asi)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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