That Which is Real...

Emptiness feels free and liberating and serene, and the concept of "I" feels like a tight fist. The oscillating from I am free to I am bound is a beautiful opportunity to look afresh at your experience and inquire anew: What doesn't come and go? This leads to a deeper awakening, a deeper experience of what doesn't come and go. All experience comes and goes, no matter how sublime, but the source of these experiences, the Awareness, doesn't come and go.

By going nowhere, continue to experience having arrived. By not taking one step in any direction, you arrive instantly. You arrive by not going anywhere. Just stay there. Just see that you are always That, even if the mind creates a story line telling you that you are other than that.

Most people fret about losing this state or that state. They get caught up in what's not present anymore. That which comes and goes is not real; quit chasing it. It doesn't matter. What haven't you lost? That is what is important. What always is? What is there in bliss and mystery? Who you are is always present and is always the same. That which doesn't come and go is real. That is where Freedom is found- nowhere else.
~adya