IT is always after us - IT is the apparent cause of our unhappiness, our joy, our hindrances and our liberation's. IT is the outside and the inside, the other and the you. Each of us manifest the IT uniquely within our own special life stories yet IT is common to us all. IT was the parent who didn’t understand you, IT is the love that must be reconciled, IT was the IRS or the homeless child. IT is the feeling of being lost, confused and without meaning - IT is suffering and temporary happiness.
Buddha was asked: "Which is first, awareness or knowledge?"
He answered: "Awareness arises first and then comes knowledge. One can then say, Because of my awareness, I know this as a fact.”
The ‘fact’ that Buddha is referring to is that no-matter how deeply ignorance (IT) has penetrated our being the essential nature of the mind, our Center, will never, never, never change. We are a glass full of cloudy water that, when allowed to be still, clears naturally into luminosity.
A friend recently told me that if only our consciousness would drop eighteen inches from the head to the heart suffering would cease. Know that this Center, this Aum-base, is always within reach, always the touchstone of your reality.
‘Center’ will appear differently for each of us but it’s nature is the same. It may be a god or goddess, a sound, a place, an image or retreat. When ‘IT’ becomes real enough to make chase - turn and stand smiling at IT’s sneering, IT’s red faced frustration and anger for you are within the safety of your own awareness, your own knowledge, your own Aum-base.
- Richard Rudis
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