When you step out of what you are not, what remains is not something you have to become, but what you always already are. That is why there is nothing you have to do, or become, or learn, or practice, or work at, or purify. It is completely effortless to be in your natural state. What is full of difficult, constant effort is maintaining this false and unnatural idea of being somebody, of being an individual, a separate something. You are a non-entity! Let it go! When it is let go of, you rest in the effortlessness of All That Is, of what could be called your natural state.
Effortlessness is not something that can be attained by effort. No-mind is not a state that can be achieved by the mind. Peace cannot be achieved by striving. Trying to be aware of 'just being in the present moment' is a contradiction in terms; being 'self-consciously' aware of it takes you out of it. Trying to be aware of "I Am' is a similar contradiction, and for the same reason. You can't try to be happy any more than you can try to go to sleep or try to act naturally. You only act naturally when you're not trying, not thinking, but simply going about life. People would come from all over India and the whole world to see Ramana Maharshi and ask him for advice on the spiritual path. His advice? "Just be yourself."
Perfect Brilliant Stillness, by David Carse
Of course, there is no 'you' with a 'self', but just Self, Being. Reality is Fun:)
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Isn't it funny how so often we think we have to get something more to get to where we want to get to. But it seems to me that it's almost always having to let go of something to realise we're where we are anyway, it's just a few layers down :)
I feel like I talk about that stuff a lot, but it's fun repeating myself about it :)
I seem to have deleted your email address. I was going to send you an email about how I'm finding chlorella, so I will just rave on here for a bit if you don't mind :)
I've started off on it slowly, as I have taken note that some people don't do well on it. Have just upped the dose because I'm finding it fine. It's helping my digestion, and I'm feeling a lot lighter, somehow. I am very glad to have come upon it; I think it's going to be a really really good thing for me :)
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