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“RETURNING TO THE TRUE NATURE OF EXISTENCE”

The enlightenment and insight that emerge through self-observation and self-inquiry effortlessly liberate us—from various our own unconscious assumptions—into its true nature of existence: a pure and perfect being that is happiness itself, impersonal, unconditional love as openness (which is entirely different from the “love” the mind conceives, which is merely attachment), and wholeness itself.

It is not about memorizing the words of sages, accumulating intellectual or conceptual knowledge and understanding, nor is it merely performing doings based on such interpretations.

Much less is it about adopting some new spiritual identity.

Such things are merely mental images—constructs born of dualistic interpretation—and are not what the non-dual truth conveys.

Nor is it a matter of the mind (the ego, the “I,”mere thought)—which is inherently incapable of understanding non-duality—judging whose words are correct.

And it is, of course, not at all about changing the world.

It is entirely about dedicating oneself to looking within; it is not about the mistakes of others or the wrongs of the world.

Everything is oneself.

There is nothing else to be done.

For it is precisely true, impersonal enlightenment and insight that will be able to burn away not only unconscious burdens but all the darkness in the world.

This is by no means a worldly judgment of whether something is “good or bad” or “right or wrong”; on the contrary, it calls for the complete letting go of all such judgments.

For what is actually revealed through clarity is, ultimately, the unconscious itself.

In fact, once you actually experience how much lighter life becomes—and how much easier living feels—simply by illuminating even a single assumption you had never previously considered. you will begin to understand so much.

You will also see how much your perspective had been narrowed and how you had unknowingly confined yourself within an invisible cage because of those very beliefs.

It is about systematically uncovering—one by one, yet thoroughly—the astonishing number of “false selves” (such as assumptions and beliefs like “This is who I am”) that lie hidden in the unconscious, deep beneath the surface-level “I.”

Through this process, all false selves inevitably collapse and vanish (so-called as the collapse of ignorance or purification).

This “collapse of the false self” occurs inevitably when unconsciousness is brought to light—revealed by seeing the way of being exactly as it is through the openness, the clarity of the innermost stillness.

It is not something achieved through effort of doer as the “I”, such as struggling against oneself, suppressing, or forcibly removing these aspects.

After all, the “false self” is merely a collection of thoughts—thoughts that simply arise and vanish based on various conditions within the awareness; who could possibly remove or suppress such thoguhts by another thought?

If one claims, “I am the one who has done that,” that claim is itself just another thought—and the belief that that thought constitutes “me” is, in fact, yet another assumption.

In short, it is about realizing oneself that is being fixated on a particular perspective, like, “the problem lies outside” or “the problem lies within myself,” and failing to see what truly needs to be seen, remaining instead at the mercy of mere phenomena and thoughts.

It is realizing that the “I”—the thing you are trying to protect or improve—is, in the first place, an illusion.

It is fundamentally needed to turn attention from outword, “doing,” including thoughts, which is the surface level, toward inward, the very essence of existence—“being.”

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What is stripped away by such enlightenment and insight are merely unconscious illusions; uniqueness of existence and its sensibilities remain intact.

On the contrary, it is, without resisting reality as it is, and while experiencing its pure existence, the impersonal unwavering presence of it based on true realization grows ever stronger effortlessly.

In other words, it is the simplest and most authentic way of being: resting in a constant presence, unencumbered by the impermanence.

Furthermore, through its Beingness, purely by the presence, without needing to do anything at all, because of its true nature, one comes to impart a sense of calm and peace to those around them. (OM 🙏)