Our Being Contains the World

It’s a tiny shift from believing ‘I am this bundle of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations’ to the felt understanding that ‘I am the space in which these appear and with which they are known’. Once we have disentangled from experience content and come back to our self, we only need abide in that, as that. Only another thought judges the content of our thoughts. Just as however far a bird flies, it always flies the same sky, however far your thoughts travel into past or future, they always travel the space of awareness. We are the empty, luminous space of awareness, open without resistance to everything. Our being extends way beyond the limits of individual body-mind. It contains the whole world. The felt recognition that we share what we are at the deepest level is the experience of love. Love is our nature. Only because it’s temporarily obscured by feelings does it seem intermittent.

It’s a tiny shift from believing ‘I am this bundle of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations’ to the felt understanding that ‘I am the space in which these appear and with which they are known’. Once we have disentangled from experience content and come back to our self, we only need abide in that, as that. Only another thought judges the content of our thoughts. Just as however far a bird flies, it always flies the same sky, however far your thoughts travel into past or future, they always travel the space of awareness. We are the empty, luminous space of awareness, open without resistance to everything. Our being extends way beyond the limits of individual body-mind. It contains the whole world. The felt recognition that we share what we are at the deepest level is the experience of love. Love is our nature. Only because it’s temporarily obscured by feelings does it seem intermittent.