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“THE IDENTIFICATION WITH ‘I’ IS INSTINCTIVE, AND THAT’S WHY IT BECOMES UNCONSCIOUS ATTACHMENT AND THEREFORE THE MOST DIFFICULT TO SEE THROUGH.”

As an awareness, carefully inquiring into “I” and “mine” reveals that, in reality, there was nothing but only thoughts.

The “I” that needs to be recognized by others is simply a collection of assumed notions of “this is ‘me’,” merely an interpretation of experiences and memories—‘mine’—that constantly shift through comparison and judgment.

This “I” believes its unhappiness is due to human malice and ignorance, and has continued to fight the world as if eliminating them would bring peace to the world, and that it would make “me” happy. At the same time, it has strived to overcome its own ego. (The world will surely recognize “my” worth for the first time then. Therefore, I must keep trying.)

However, in reality, the “people” or the ego that “I” consider (judge) such evil “beings” are nothing more than illusions that “I” unconsciously project values acquired through past experiences, that is distorted interpretation, onto reality, unknowingly accepting it as reality and mistakenly believing that such people actually exist.

The truth, raw reality, while difficult to be seen through because of its simplicity, has never been hidden in the history of humanity and remains always open.

On the other hand, within this “I” and “my” world, there is a pervasive “ignorance” stemming from misperceiving of the essence of existence (not a lack of knowledge, but rather an unawareness of the facts that “I” mistake visible phenomena for unchangeable facts without question, and confusing the body, emotions, thoughts, and experiences as “mine”), and an “unconscious” clinging to the “I-thought.” (i.e., ego-attachment).

Yet, this “I” cling to only certain thoughts from among countless thoughts that merely appear and disappear, and it continues to whisper, such as “‘I’ (because I am special) understand the truth,”or “Therefore, I am right.”

In this way, the narrative that allows the illusion of “I” (thought, ego) to continue existing as reality (not malicious or intentional, but simply born from unconscious fear) is repeated in the head, and because we also have lost connection to the essence, the awareness unnotices that it is merely thought, we fall into this (self) hypnosis again and again.

This is because familiar patterns, even if they are in fact illusions and disguises by the mind, give us a (false) sense of security through repetition, even if only temporarily, and even lead us to expect (delusion) that they might even grant us permanence.

However, all desires—such as the desire to connect with others, to be recognized, to “be right,” and to protect the illusion of “self”—are all merely reflexive reactions (unconscious psychological defenses) of the mind (ego, thought) that fears isolation, denial of existence, and ultimately, death, rooted in the misperception of “separation.”

Thus, when the awareness sees through “ignorance,” the “unconsciousness,” and the fact that in all phenomena, the perceived experience varies depending on the various interconnectedness and interrelatedness, simply as facts, without any judgment, then it realizes, no matter what kind of reflexive reaction of “I” it may be at any given moment, that it is simply a matter of conditions, and that it is by no means proof that a personal “I” exists and that they are characteristic of “I.”

This insight even dismantles the attachment to the thought that we need to deny or correct our own or others’ words and (re)actions

Thus, when seeing through the facts about “I” from the perspective of transcendent awareness as a non-self, eventually, a profound sense of compassion and awe as The Self itself naturally arises—infinitely expansion of the universe, openness, unconditional love, compassion (embrace), and vast, elusive abundance—far beyond any imagination, speculation, or conception of “love,” “compassion,” or “oneness” as conceived by the personal “I” until then.

However, this is by no means the result of the “I” (the mind, the ego, the thought) attaining enlightenment.

On the contrary, it is the truth that becomes apparent at the moment when that “I” is completely surrendered and is totally absence.

At this moment when the truth is revealed, the awareness that has been trapped in illusion by identification with thoughts is liberated without any effort.

What is needed is to see through, through the clarity of innermost stillness, the fact that the awareness had only identified thoughts such as biases, assumptions, emotions, and memories—that is, thoughts that merely appear and disappear impermanently in the realm of consciousness—as “I” or “mine,” and that it is that the truth, The Self, raw reality had also only been hidden by them.

Awareness is always ever-present, unchanged, inseparable, always complete, transcending time and place, and always omnipresent.

There is no past or future; there is only this “now,” this moment.

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Life is never a series of obstacles to be overcome: there is neither evil or misfortune to avoid, nor must we be successful or improve ourselves. Nor is there any sin at all in even not being aware of unconsciousness or ignorance.

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Non-dual truth cannot be taught or learned by anyone through words.

This is because the mind (ego), trapped in relative duality, can only interpret the unknown—the non-dual truth—in a dualistic way.

Therefore, even if the doership, the “I,” tries to grasp the truth literally, word for word, it cannot actually understand anything.

This is because enlightenment is never something achieved by the “I,” but rather something that an impersonal awareness sees through.

On the other hand, the insights or enlightenment that emerge through self-observation and self-inquiry by the clarity of innermost stillness (awareness) inevitably bring about the following transformations.

• The intention and effort to gain insight or attain enlightenment had, without even realizing it, effortlessly been surrendered.
• Enlightenment was completely different from what “I” had imagined; the truth was incredibly simple, to the point of being astonishing.
• Everytime the awareness realizes something, makes life simpler than “I” had ever imagined.
• Good and evil do not exist; in fact, it is impossible to judge any temporary phenomena that appear as a result of various factors overlapping (interrelationships, interconnections) in any single (biased) way.
• being able to live a vibrant “now”.
• The “I” that the awareness mistook in as real until then has disappeared.
• No longer trapped by good emotions, thoughts, experiences, and possessions. Or, at least, without resistance, being able to observe them appesr and disappear.

However, realize that the mind (ego), fearing making mistakes, being failure, or wasting time (out of fear of death), constantly tries to become someone by acquiring knowledge and skills, and thereby protecting its mistaken self of “I.”

And we will often make mistakes.

Nevertheless, we will come to believe in the entire process from the heart as openness increases.

When you find yourself trapped by something, then listen to the innermost stillness each time.

Carefully seeing through the truth and facts lies beneath each aspect of “I” and each phenomenon with the clarity of that innermost stillness.

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Finally.

The idea of ​the “I” of separated entity, a being that chooses and experiences things, is something a person acquires very early in life. Through the painful memories encountered in various experiences, “fear” is unconsciously generated, and therefore, one instinctively clings to this “I” as something to be protected.

This belief in “I” (identification, ego-attachment) and “fear” become intertwined, permeating deep into the unconscious, reaching every corner of it.

In fact, in spiritual awakening, this unconscious attachment to and identification with the idea of ​​“I” remains unnoticed until the very end.

This is because the familiar narrative unfolding within the head as “I,” becomes too commonplace, and the unconscious strong dependence on this habitual narrative, combined with the unavoidable influence of the societal misconception of existence itself as a “separated self,” inevitably influences.

Therefore, without seeing through the unvarnished truth through self-inquiry and self-observation with the clarity of innermost stillness, the awareness can never recognize its identification with and attachment to the thought of “I” through, for example, no matter how much “I” have spiritual knowledge, rituals, or the good environment in which one was born and raised, and it becomes the last obstacle to the truth, the most difficult to see through. (OM 🙏)