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Excerpt from A Vastness All
Around: Awakening to Your
Your natural state couldn't be more obvious.
Back up, back up! You are overlooking your
everyday, self-shining awareness. Your thoughts, body and
consciousness are only appearances in that awareness.
Or to re-phrase it in the form of a
question: What is it in which your thoughts, your body, and your
sense of being awake (or drowsy) are appearing at this very
moment?
Pointers help you to see what you
already are. In addition to being verbal, they can be musical
(e.g., Mozart's "Agnus Dei" in his celebrated Requiem)
and visual (e.g., 17th-century Zen artists Hakuin Ekaku and
16th-century swordsman-samurai Miyamoto Musashi both produced
bold, elegant, and thought-stopping masterworks that should not
be missed).
Even silence can be a powerful pointer--when
it is completely natural, and there is no imagined person
attempting to be quiet.
Finally, there is the stillness of being in
the presence of the self-realized. That, perhaps, is the grandest
"pointer" of all. For in such a setting, you feel the
depth and resonance of the speaker's words and pauses. Something
stirs within you. It is not a surface emotion at all. It is
something pristine and intuitive--a heartfelt knowing that
unequivocal clarity is at hand.
--Rodney Stevens
from A Vastness All Around: Awakening to
Your
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