Effortless, Self-Luminous Awareness

Just as the sun illuminates itself simply by being itself, you, awareness, know yourself just by being yourself. Notice that you are effortlessly aware – whatever you’re experiencing, you are aware of it without effort. You are the light illuminating your experience but are not yourself an experience. Like sunlight that touches all objects but remains unaffected, you touch all experience intimately yet are never affected. The awareness that knows your deepest sorrows is identical to the awareness that knows your greatest joys. The awareness that illuminated your experience as a five-year-old is identical to the awareness that knows your current experience. You do not evolve, age, or become tarnished. In your own experience of yourself, you are without boundary or limit, infinite and dimensionless. You experience this in deep sleep as your own ever-present, infinite being. Effortless, eternal, unchanging, self-luminous, infinite – not abstract concepts but your actual intimate experience of being awareness itself.