Inside and Outside, It’s the Same Being

If everyday life were like watching a movie and believing the landscape we see is real in its own right, then meditation or prayer would be like seeing only the screen. In meditation or prayer, the content of experience becomes transparent to the being that shines behind and appears as it. If you go inside of your self, you find the amness of your self. If you go outside of your self, you find the isness of things. They are the same. Infinite being shines inside us as the amness of our self and outside of us as the isness of things. For the person we seem to be, there’s an inside of our self, which we call ‘me’, and an outside, which we call ‘the world’. But for that which truly is, infinite being, there’s no inside or outside, there is just itself unceasingly. Be only that. Know only that. Love only that.

If everyday life were like watching a movie and believing the landscape we see is real in its own right, then meditation or prayer would be like seeing only the screen. In meditation or prayer, the content of experience becomes transparent to the being that shines behind and appears as it. If you go inside of your self, you find the amness of your self. If you go outside of your self, you find the isness of things. They are the same. Infinite being shines inside us as the amness of our self and outside of us as the isness of things. For the person we seem to be, there’s an inside of our self, which we call ‘me’, and an outside, which we call ‘the world’. But for that which truly is, infinite being, there’s no inside or outside, there is just itself unceasingly. Be only that. Know only that. Love only that.