Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are

If children can have a natural clarity, you might too, even if you remember no operatic enlightenment experience. There might be no good reason for this clarity; it could be something that just is the case, like a tree, like life. All you would need to do is to notice that things are clear, or to throw overboard the idea that things are not already

Everything we do—our discipline, effort, meditation, livelihood, and every single thing that we do from the moment we’re born until the moment we die—we can use to help us to realize our unity and our completeness with all things. We can use our lives, in other words, to wake up to the fact that we’re not separate: the energy that causes us to live

It’s a little harder for most people to realize that not only is the mind that I’m trying to escape the only mind I have, but that the mind that I’m seeking is also the mind that I already have. The perfection that we’re so busy pursuing is to be found nowhere but right here in this very moment, regardless of its content. This is the most basic spi

it’s possible to function as the mere I, as one devoid of misconceptions about the self and liberated from erroneous views—especially from the misunderstanding that the compilation of parts adds up to something real and independent in its own right, not contingent on narratives and circumstances.