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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3323, Saturday, October 18, 2008, Editor: Mark
Starting right now, this moment, I am asking you to become the
Buddha. I am asking you to take your stand, to stand absolutely
firm in your intention to awaken to the Truth of your Self.
This is what the Buddha did. He didn't say, "I'll try."
He didn't say, "I hope I'll find the Truth." He didn't
say, "I'll do my best." He didn't say, "If not in
this lifetime, then maybe next lifetime." He came to the
point where he didn't look for anyone else to tell him the Truth
or show him the Truth. He came to the point where he took it all
on himself. He sat alone under the Bodhi Tree and vowed never to
give up until the Truth be realized.
The power of this very simple, yet unshakable intention and
absolute stand to be liberated in this lifetime propelled him to
awaken to the simple fact that he and all beings are liberated -
that all beings are freedom itself. Pure awakeness.
The Buddha was no different from you. No different. That is why
he serves as a good model, because he was as you are nw. So don't
worship the Buddha. Don't put him on a pedestal. Don't even look
up to him. Become him. Have the same intentions, take the same
stand. Be the Buddha now! Put an end to all delaying, to all
excuses, to all bowing down to saintly figures of the past or
present. Stand up! You are the Buddha! You are freedom itself!
Stop dreaming your dream! Stop pretending that you are in bondage
- stop telling yourself that lie! Stop pretending to be someone,
or something! You are no one, you are no-thing! You are not this
body or this mind. This body and mind exist within who and what
you are. You are pure consciousness, already free, awake, and
liberated. Stand up and walk out of your dream. I am here to say
that you can do this.
Step out of the dream of your concepts and ideas. Step out of the
dream of what you imagine enlightenment to be. Step out of the
dream of who you think you are. Step out of the dream of
everything you have ever known. Step out of your dream of being a
deluded person. Stop tellingyourself those lies and dreaming
those dreams. Step out of all of that. You can do it. Nothing is
holding you back. There are no requirements and no prerequisites
to awaken. There is nothing to be done, nothing to think, nowhere
to go.
Just stop all dreaming. Stop all doing. Stop all excuses. Just
stop and be still. Effortlessly be still. Grace will do the rest.
At each and every moment from here on out, have the intention to
directly experience Truth, your true liberated Self. Don't think
about the Truth - directly return to your experience here, now,
moment to moment. Experience Truth. Experience your Self. Dive
into your experience. Your experience! Your experience of
hearing, of seeing, of tasting, of breathing, of your heart
beating, of your feet touching the floor, of the birds, of the
wind.
Experience the vastness of who you are. Experience the freedom of
who you are. You are the Buddha - experience that. You are the
Buddha.
- Adyashanti, posted to SufiMystic