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“MISTAKEN IDENTITY”

Realize that you are completely confusing the voice in your head with awareness.

The voice in your head appears and disappears, whereas awareness is ever-present to perceives everything that appears and disappears within its field—those voices, external events, and all else—exactly as it is, without making a single judgment.

There is nothing wrong with the voice in your head; the problem—the source of suffering—arises when you identify with it, believing it to be “yours” or thinking that it is “who you are.”

By identifying with these thoughts, the true you (awareness) are lost alignment with “pure being” as “The Self,” trapped in a self-hypnosis where you mistake a narrative—one that portrays these thoughts as an unshakeable reality—for the truth.

However, this loss of “The Self”—so-called “ignorance” (an unawareness of the essence of existence)—is a state everyone inevitably falls into. It is a fundamental, essential condition required to directly know awareness as awareness—the essence—as absolute reality.

Therefore, in non-dual truth, there is no separate individual existence, thus, this “ignorance” implies absolutely nothing about personal, or superiority and inferiority.

In addition, this “ignorance” can never be wiped away through doings of “doer-ship”—such as acquiring knowledge—unless awareness itself directly sees through the falsity of misidentification.

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Cultivate the habit of questioning what you take for granted. (Note, however, that this is not a matter of judging whether something is right or wrong. Ultimately, it is not something that you strive towards a goal at all, like reaching a final, fixed state as a doer; rather, by inquiring the roots of each element, the “self” based on misconceptions is revealed and thereby gradually false-self is stripped away. In doing so, the awareness can eventually discover the immovable reality that remains.)

While a person assumes their actions, perceptions, and way of being are correct without ever examining them, they are—no matter how clearly they see things visually or how much spiritual knowledge they possess—effectively sleepwalking through a dream created by self-hypnosis.

So, turn attention inward and ask yourself: “Where did it come from?” “How true is it?” “Why is it so?”

By piling up such questions, you inquire each roots, and simultaneously you can deepen its inquiry towards the very core of being without intention of the mind, “I.”

In time, you will likely come to see that most of these things you found such as assumption, belief, or identification within unconscious were simply adopted out of necessity—before you ever had the chance to examine them—within the environment where you were born and raised.

It wasn’t something that the awareness saw through directly, and it wasn’t until now that the awareness realized it wasn’t true.

Whenever the moment you see through this, the awareness naturally liberates itself from the assumptions, beliefs, and taken-for-granted notions that had been embedded in the unconscious mind.

That said, it is important to remember that this is not a one-time event—it is not something that is “finished” once achieved. Only by “being in the present moment” can the awareness become aware of unconscious assumptions or misidentification, question them, and inquire their roots.

In fact, this is the ultimate meaning of “cherishing oneself.” It is not about attachment to the personal “I” by doership, but rather about purely cherishing the wholeness of impersonal existence—openly embracing it as awareness, “The Self,” not a separate entity at all.

As the awareness comprehends this, that profound comprehension allows you to naturally cherish others in the same way. You do so without the “doership” of personal effort or intention, and without clinging to any idealized image of how things “should” be; instead, you act most naturally through a state of pure being—as “non-self.”

For instance, you will come to be able to let people and the world alone—just as they are—to the natural course of things with deep trust, depending on the depth of self-inquiry and comprehension of The Self; furthermore, when the time calls for waiting, you will not only understand the need to do so but also be able to wait with a sense of peace.

As you will no longer be playing a role; rather, you will genuinely come to embody that way of being, as pure awareness, with each practice.

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Incidentally, “being in the present moment” does not refer to physically “being” somewhere; rather, it describes that the pure awareness is directly sensing itself as “being” right here, right now. (OM 🙏)