Three Categories of Teaching

If I were to suggest come back to being aware, I would imply there is a second self other than awareness who had left and needed to return. Not only have you never left awareness, but there is no self other than the self of awareness. However, for those for whom awareness has become mixed with experience and acquired its limitations, it is legitimate to suggest come back to yourself. There are three categories of teaching. The first is resting in and as the presence of awareness – a silent non-practice, self-abidance. The second consists of affirmations that describe the qualities of awareness – statements whose purpose is to evoke recognition. The third consists of practices if the first two don’t work. See that you are the ever-present background of your changing experience. By ‘ever-present’, I mean eternally present.