13. Just As You Are.

Recognizing one's inner peace and happiness
 need not involve any discomfort or effort at all.

From the Temple at Adi Annamalai.

Does a fish know that the water in which it is swimming is the reason it can exist?  It lives out the entire little drama of its life quite unaware of this fact.  In the same way, we live, move and have our being within 'awareness' and yet never acknowledge it or are even aware of our dependence upon it for our very existence.  If there is a purpose in life, it must surely be to find out who and what we really are.


The mind is supreme in complicating what is the most simple and in this way deflects attention away from its source.  If we carefully and methodically investigate the nature of our thoughts; the nature of our minds, we can very soon understand that these thoughts have no basis; that there is no mind.


It is not enough to merely to hear this, one has to make an investigation with intention and focus.  For eons we have let mind rule our existence and it has run us a riot! The ocean of samsara is vast and it can enslave us with its facination for countless eons. Anything that the mind is capable of imaging is possible, because in samsara the mind is king. 


But focus the light of attention on this thing we call mind, and it just dissolves.
We can not pin point it, we can not see it, we can not find it.  


Are we the thoughts that arise in our minds? 


Or are we the nameless from which the thoughts arise?


This is not something which is far away from us, out there, and  beyond our reach.


We are that.


Ineffable peace at the heart of Awareness
You are Myself
In You we live, move and have our Being.