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Originally Posted by aphorist  Anything we point to of time/space is an experience. Realization is beyond those bounds, it's the container of those bounds in a way. Experiences come and go, the 'emptiness' is all that is ever there.
The pointer to the OP is to not focus so much on the experience |
Right. Experiences are temporary. Experiences are not the permanent eternal presence of what you are. The ego would hope for a single everlasting experience of presence or joy or bliss or love or happiness or enlightenment or whatever else, and that
must be what the goal is. But it's really not.
It's about seeing what you ARE, the spaciousness that gives rise to all experience. The silence that exists prior to experience, during experience, and after experience. You are the unchanging presence that manifests as all that changes. You are BOTH all that changes and all that doesn't change, but the mind wants to seek to make a particular changing experience not change, thereby invalidating the change that is inherent to the very nature of experience.
What changes changes. What doesn't change doesn't change.
Awakening is about seeing yourself as what you really are and allowing all aspects of the Self to be itSelf, not about trying to make something be something else or needing something to show up a certain way.