How Does One Become Awakened?
Here’s the secret: right now, right where you are, come to a full stop. Rest in awareness, rest in being. Rest in your certainty of existing. Notice that you are existence itself, and that everything arises within you. Recognize that, under all circumstances, under all seeming change, you are unchanging existence itself in which all change arises. You are always already That in which the entire universe arises. Stay with that understanding. For anyone who hears that message clearly, awakening is truly simple and immediate. Just be and understand that you are Being itself. That you exist is the only certainty, the only unchanging reality; everything else is change, which always takes place within you. Existence is your true nature, and if you understand that, nothing more needs to be said. Your true nature is already complete and completely obvious in every moment. To be awakened means nothing more than knowing your own true nature, here and now. The doorway to awakening is understandin
