Come Back!

Where did you go? Off into a story in your head about rejection and approval, fear, and enlightenment. Come back! Come back to right now, what you know as yourself, as just this awareness. Do you see right away that all of that mind-stuff is simply floating, not attached to anything? It's not real! There is no "you" there for it to apply to.

Even the recognition that this is what's going on – all of that is just part of the story, too. Do you see how every thought is a story you are telling yourself? Even the most focused and insightful analysis causes a re-circling back into the story to look for a solution. There is no solution in the story. The only solution is all the way out of the story, out of the dream.

There is only this present-time awareness. It's neutral. Just let the awareness take over. The solution you are looking for is always this, and it's already what is, right now. Keep seeing the story for what it is, and see how it operates at subtler and subtler levels. No level of the story is truth. There is no half-way, no compromise. It's radical. It's all the way out of the dream or not at all.