Stroke of Insight

Gilbert Schultz aka Willy Richardson

What is wrong with Right Now, if you don't think about it, somehow?

What is the answer?

Gilbert's site is Seeing-Knowing.com

Can you locate your Self?

Are we there yet?

There is nothing outside of this moment, this present, this presence... this WHAT-IS...

What IS doesn't move, doesn't go anywhere, didn't come from the future and go into the past. Nothing arrived, nothing departed. There is and ever was only THIS, this unchanging Reality.

How long is the present? When did this moment start? When will it end? Let's wait and see.

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Will it ever?

Time is only a conceptual measurement, only a mental idea. This present isn't going anywhere. It is endless and beginningless. And what is the reality, the only true reality of this present?

It is YOU. Not "you" the individual. YOU, this ever-present presence, this singular IS-ness. You are timeless.

Become the Sky

A Video Poem called "Become the Sky" by Jalal ad-Din Rumi, who was a Sufi mystic, born in what is now Afghanistan. His writings are some of the most beautiful expressions of freedom.

Notice the unmistakable freedom in what is being expressed. It doesn't say there are conditions for this freedom. It doesn't say there are special ones who "get it".

It simply says - do it now. There is no need to seek it, for you already are that freedom. Find it right in this very moment.

Become the Sky

Inside this new love.....die

Your way begins on the other side

Become the sky

Take an axe to the prison wall

Escape

Do it now

Walk out like someone suddenly born into color

Do it now

You're covered with thick cloud

Slide out the side

Die...and be quiet

Quietness is the surest sign that you've died

You're old life was a frantic running from silence

The speechless full moon comes out now

Wakefulness

Right now, there is a wakefulness, you might know it as "awareness" - it's a simple and ever-present presence, an effortless knowing, a cognizing which seems to contain objective content, yet upon investigation the very content of wakefulness is wakefulness itself.

It is the mind which attempts to divide this wakefulness into inner and outer, into here and there, into now and then.

This wakefulness is the most obvious aspect of reality - It is, what IS. Efforts to "find" it take place within it. Efforts to "seek" it overlook it's inherently present nature. The "seeker" is also a state or experience or idea or thought within it, although in differentiating what IS by the words "state", "experience", "idea" and "thought" is part of the mechanism which seems to divide the wakefulness.

Therefore there is no reaching wakefulness - there is no attaining wakefulness. This pure "state" is already fully present, fully already the case. THAT which the word "enlightenment" or "nirvana" point - THAT IS your true essence or nature already.

Another quote from the author, Ken Wilbur, from the book A Brief History of Everything:

"Every experience you have is already nondual, whether you realize it or not. So it is not necessary for you to change your state of consciousness in order to discover this nonduality. Any state of consciousness you have will do just fine, because nonduality is fully present in each state... recognition is the point. Recognition of what always already is the case. Change of state is useless, a distraction... subject and object are actually one and you simply need to recognize this... you already have everything in consciousness that is required. You are looking right at the answer... but you don't recognize it. Someone comes along and points it out, and you slap your head and say, Yes I was looking right at it..."

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