It’s Easy

This is not difficult. There is only a noticing, right now, that there is awareness present – beingness present – and no “me” has to be involved for this to be going on. No individual entity is required to account for this awareness that is present right now. 

So there is not a personal mental understanding at all. It is a dawning of the truth – like the fog lifting, you could say – that there is no personal anything going on, but simply a universal knowing, with no “one” doing the knowing, until we make up a story and invent someone. The fog lifting is simply a result of noticing that the present awareness – the undeniable certainty that there is awareness here – is all that is ever going on. The dream story of “me” and a whole world is drummed up within that awareness, but the awareness that you are is never touched by any of that story and drama. Awareness simply reflects it all, and remains unclouded, untroubled.

This doesn’t happen over time, and you don’t acquire it, not gradually nor suddenly. There is only this present-time awareness, which is present right now and experienced by you as your normal state of noticing that you are here. There is nothing else going on. There is no individual “you” to make any other discovery about. There is a story that appears, from a misunderstanding that this “I” you sense refers to a person you think of as yourself. But in fact this “I” does not refer to a person at all; you only assume that it does.

Why live a life full of pain that is just due to a false assumption? Find out what the truth is about this. Look and see that “I” only refers to simple, present-time, neutral awareness with no doer, no thinker, no knower. The whole “self” business is something superimposed over what is really there: simple awareness. Just notice right now that “I am aware” is the only thing you are really certain of. No figuring out is required for this at all. It’s already here, always present.

Stay with "I am aware," and the mind can keep coming up with clever questions all it wants. You can't help that. You aren't in control. There is no you to control any of it. Just come back, over and over, to "Right now, there is just this awareness." Right now, in that, where is the question? All questions vanish. It’s easy.