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“CONTEMPLATION”

Contemplation is not a doing performed by “me.”

It is not about making judgments regarding “good and evil,” nor is it about self-reflection aimed at improving the (separate) self known as “I,” nor is it about weighing matters based on societal opinion.

Of course, it is not a matter of consulting one’s conscience, either. Incidentally, such a conscience is merely a set of separate values—“my” values—acquired through one’s upbringing and environment.

Furthermore, it is not about striving, seeking toward some specific, imagined state.

All of these are merely images, thoughts generated by the mind—nothing more than illusions. They arise from the mistaken perception of the “I”—that false self constructed from assumptions—as the center of existence. They serve only to obscure the light of the clarity, and to obstruct the innermost stillness.

Instead, it is about completely surrendering the ego—the “I”—(that is, recognizing and embracing the fact that “‘I’ can never see things as they truly are; rather, ‘I’ unconsciously distort and interpret them to suit myself”).

It is about observing everything—all experiences, events, and one’s own reactions to mere phenomena—exactly as they are, in the light of clarity, without any emotion, subjectivity, judgment, mental imagery, or spiritual concepts.

In short, it means abiding in “pure being” (non-self—a state of purity that is prior to the thought, the “I,” or all the other) and illuminating the entirety of the self as it truly is, for example, how ‘I’ react to phenomena or how ‘I’ perceive things, as they really are, with the light of that impersonal clarity.

It is not about seeking the answers that the mind (the ego, the “I”) secretly expects; rather, it is about consciously observing—as pure awareness without the “I”—every aspect of raw reality of the self, including facts that the mind (the ego) would never wish to see, without flinching in the slightest.

Consequently, the moment the awareness clearly perceives—exactly as it is—that the “I” (which one had previously and blindly believed to be the “center of existence” without any realizing or questioning it) is actually nothing more than a “construct” born of the illusion of separation, that “false self” inevitably collapses. Through such practice, the awareness—which is ever-present unchangingly—comes to be liberated from its imaginary cage, enabling it to rest effortlessly in it as “pure beingness,” not only during moments of contemplation but in every aspect of life.

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In other words, contemplation is the practice of abiding in pure awareness—that sees everything purely by awareness itself—without the false-self-sense of the “I,” any thinking of awareness, or even recognition that it is a practice.

Sooner or later, this practice of “pure, impersonal observation” will inevitably lead the awareness into a moment of directly experiencing “The Self,” what Divine Self is.

That is the pure, direct experience of Oneness, The Truth of Non-duality, while the “I” is completely absent, so to speak.
(OM 🙏)