The Book of Undoing

Consciousness is not something you have, it's what you are.

Nothing can hold you! You hold everything! You are the aware space that everything appears in. THIS aware space! The ONLY aware space there is! You permeate all humans, every single one of them, inside and out. You've

You have always been awake, always will be, cannot fail to be awake. Awakeness is not a trait of yours, it's what you actually are. Back to the attention exercise. What do you see when you turn back and look for yourself? What do you find? Can you actually find yourself? Check. Really look.

Everything is as it must be, because there is no alternative. There is only What Is. See how simple that is? This is what the mind can't wrap itself around. And in order to have this present as it is, everything that ever happened must have happened precisely as it did. Once again, there's simply no alternative. Reality is actually much simpler tha

If you're interested to learn more in the philosophy that spawned these teachings, you might want to read Beyond Recovery. Present or former addiction is not required. It's a structural teaching with some practices thrown in, whereas this book is almost entirely experiential.

For all I know, I'm writing myself out of a job! If so, so be it; I'll be shown another function. I'm not married to this one. Also, I've discovered that when I push myself to the limits of what I know, and teach that without fear of giving up the goose that laid the golden egg, then what I know suddenly expands. I wish you well. I really, really d

I have the choice to stand as awareness,

We need all functions until we don't, even the ugly and unpleasant ones. How do we know? We have them. Let us be clear from the outset that What Is rules. Anything opposing What Is can only be of the imagination—pure fantasy. These debilitating flights of fancy, which bear only suffering, are what we might call what isn't. Frankly, this is where th

here's a more accurate statement: everything is as it is. There's nothing to argue about with that statement, is there? We can argue about whether things should be as they are, but there's no arguing with the fact that they are as they are.