Awakening to the Natural State by Wheeler John

Author:Wheeler, John [Wheeler, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Non-duality, Advaita
Publisher: Non-Duality Press
Published: 2013-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Waiting for the ‘Final Recognition’

Questioner: I notice quite often that I am aware, simply aware; and that awareness and the content of awareness is all there is. Most of the doubts are gone. I often experience the arising of joy or peace; and negative emotions arise too, but without much bite. And sometimes I get lost for just a little while in the content but never do I forget that I am the still, spacious awareness in which all of this happens.

I am very grateful to have been in the presence of a few very clear teachers for the last few months and feel that the ‘blood and bones’ connection with them has made the difference in the (apparent) unfolding that is occurring. But I will have to leave these teachers soon and while there seems to be a lot more clarity, the final recognition has not yet occurred. My question is this: Is it necessary or helpful to maintain physical presence with a clear teacher until the final recognition occurs?

I appreciate so much your website and your sharing with me about this matter. It has helped to bring it all into sharp focus for me.

John: Waiting for a final recognition is a subtle concept. If you take that approach, you will wait forever! It is just mind stuff, really. There is no future event at all. This is the mind perpetuating its old tendency to look for something ‘out there’. Present awareness is totally present, totally free, totally clear in this moment. You can never deny your being and awareness. It is here. It is now. Everything, including concepts of recognition, is just thoughts appearing in this. Those thoughts are totally irrelevant to the vivid, living actuality that is being pointed to.

There is no such event as awakening. There is only seeing the fact that you are already awake, as that undeniable presence-awareness. It is only the vestige of a separate one who continues to dream of the final seeing. Question that concept thoroughly. What are you waiting for? Who is waiting? What is the truth that is being pointed out? Is it something that is not here and now in all its fullness?

Continue to question and challenge these subtle beliefs. They are the only thing that appears to keep us bound. Our interest drifts into these conceptual positions and we overlook the essence. The essence is always here.

It can be helpful to be around someone pointing to this. It brings you back again and again to the obvious. But that should not be the focus. Make use of the presence of clear pointers while they are available. But, more importantly, come back to the seeing for yourself. No one can do it for you. There is no chance of loss or gain because this clear truth is always shining right at your centre. All doubts and questions spin out from the imagined ‘I’. See for yourself if you ever have been a separate ‘I’ and you are left with the understanding of your true nature‌—‌presence-awareness.

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