Awareness is not something you can see, touch, or taste. Awareness sees but cannot be seen. Awareness hears but cannot be heard. All your thoughts, ideas, judgments, and images about yourself are arising within and being witnessed by awareness.

The human heart can be fickle: it opens then closes, it loves then hates, it accepts then rejects, it trusts then fears. If it is not grounded in the vast Spiritual Heart, the human heart feels like an orphan, like a child without its mother. The human heart is never separate from the Spiritual Heart, but by attaching to its emotions it becomes unc

Look at everything and everyone today from the empty eyes of awareness abiding in the silent presence of the Spiritual Heart. Every form you see is a manifestation of the formless. Every perceivable being is an expression of the unity of existence—universal Being.

Therefore, from the Ground of Being each moment is experienced directly, with no distorting lens of past conditioning and no sense of time. Because it is a timeless state of only the eternal Now, the Ground of Being sees through the eyes of eternity and feels through the constant renewal of the senses. Each moment is as a birth moment, with all its

Taking the one seat begins with taking complete responsibility for your relationship with your experience. I didn’t say “taking responsibility for your experience,” because you don’t create your experience as much as it happens to you.

You can think of Being as synonymous with the Tao, the Infinite, reality, the absolute, noumena, emptiness, the Godhead, pure consciousness, awareness (if not understood in its limited, conventional sense), and perhaps Spirit.

In other words, your relationship with a current experience will determine how the next moment unfolds. It’s a way of removing or taking back a projection, so that we’re not making people responsible for how we feel, we’re not making life responsible for how we feel. Instead, we’re noticing that it’s our relationship with any moment that determines

Enlightenment is a way of viewing and experiencing life. These practices are meant to be one part—although a powerful and important part—of a comprehensive devotion to truth, love, and wisdom grounded in a moral and ethical landscape of selfless commitment to the welfare of all beings and undertaken in a spirit of appreciation for the great mystery

Awakening to this aspect of Being happens when awareness spontaneously dis-identifies from the content within awareness and becomes conscious of itself as your self-nature. In other words, awareness is not something that you do, it is that which you essentially are. You can experience this for yourself if you begin by recognizing that everything yo