The Art of Life: To Remain as We Are

Ask yourself: what am I in the absence of experience – when no thought, feeling, sensation or perception is arising? All that remains is the fact of being, but not aware of anything. We haven’t suddenly become the fact of being. We are always essentially that but don’t notice it because of our exclusive attention on experience. It’s like getting undressed at night. When we take off everything, our naked body is revealed. We haven’t suddenly become our naked body – we are always that. In the morning, when we dress again, we don’t cease being our naked body. It’s the same when we even imagine taking off the layers of experience – we don’t become our naked being, it is simply revealed. When experience reappears, the great art of life is to remain as we are amidst experience. Meditation or prayer is just to remain as we are knowingly, absent of and amidst experience.

From event 12 April, 2012 Live Webinar (167)

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