Nothing Ever Happens to You

This room didn’t exist a year ago – only vast space existed. When walls were erected, nothing happened to space. It never acquired limitations. When demolished, space won’t be liberated because it never assumed limitation. Exactly the same is true of you. You are infinite aware being, temporarily clothed in thought and perception. This mixture constitutes the separate self you seem to be. But just as nothing happened to space, nothing ever happens to you. You’re ever-present, dimensionless. Thought confers time, perception space. You never acquired limitations of thought and perception, never became a finite self. Your being never acquired properties of mind and body – no liberation needed. Already unlimited, perfect, whole, free, at peace. This is recognition, not practice – recognising what you always are. Not becoming. Enlightenment as extraordinary experience is misunderstanding. At most there’s forgetting and remembering. Forgetting happens by mixing yourself with content. You never acquired limitations. You’re already free.