Longing for God Is Inverted Suffering

Be knowingly the space-like presence of awareness that contains all experience within yourself. Just as the sunlight renders the world visible, your light of pure knowing renders experience knowable. There is nothing spiritual about longing for God or searching for enlightenment. Although stated in the positive, these are inverted forms of suffering based on the assumption of separation. Instead of escaping discomfort, just turn towards the feeling. In fact, you, awareness, are already indiscriminately open. What is the nature – not the content – of the feeling? Is the feeling really unbearable or unpleasant, or does resistance confer these qualities? In the absence of resistance, what remains of the feeling? We go deeply into the discomfort, or we allow the feeling to come deeply into us, and we find only the peace of awareness. Now remove the space-like quality from awareness, and just be the awareness we eternally are. And now just be.

Be knowingly the space-like presence of awareness that contains all experience within yourself. Just as the sunlight renders the world visible, your light of pure knowing renders experience knowable. There is nothing spiritual about longing for God or searching for enlightenment. Although stated in the positive, these are inverted forms of suffering based on the assumption of separation. Instead of escaping discomfort, just turn towards the feeling. In fact, you, awareness, are already indiscriminately open. What is the nature – not the content – of the feeling? Is the feeling really unbearable or unpleasant, or does resistance confer these qualities? In the absence of resistance, what remains of the feeling? We go deeply into the discomfort, or we allow the feeling to come deeply into us, and we find only the peace of awareness. Now remove the space-like quality from awareness, and just be the awareness we eternally are. And now just be.