Discrimination, Distinction, and Dissolving the Distinction

Just as every object shines with the sun’s light, although the sun never appears as an object, so experience shines with the light of awareness, although awareness never shows up as an object. All you ever know are modulations of awareness. The person does not experience – it is experienced. These are the three recognitions. First, you recognise you are not content of experience; you are that which illuminates it. You can only be what you are knowingly. Second, you recognise you are not only what illuminates experience, but the space within which it arises. Empty of content but full of knowing. No experience leaves a trace. You are already whole. Pure openness, defenseless but not wounded, vulnerable but indestructible, involved but free. Third, you are the ocean in which everything arises as modulation of yourself – distinction collapses. There is one appearing as many. This absence of twoness is love. Discrimination subsides in love.