The Small Switch to Vast Awareness

Just as an ocean never resists a wave because it cannot be harmed by what it is made of, make the small switch from believing you are a finite consciousness located in the body looking out at a separate world, to understanding that you are the vast borderless awareness within which mind, body and world arise as modulations of your self. You see through the finite mind, not with it. Remove labels from bodily experiences and narratives from emotions, and all that remains are neutral sensations like currents in an ocean made only of water. It is your resistance that makes sensations unbearable. You, this ocean of pure awareness, cannot resist your own modulations – they are made of you and cannot hurt you. Understand yourself as luminous open space and allow sensations to move within you. This is devouring your emotions: bringing them so close that their apparent objectivity dissolves in pure knowing.