Application...

How is it that we intellectually know but can't seem to wrap our selves around this knowledge and live it in our daily lives?

    Spiritual knowledge comes in the form of a clarity of knowing, an unshakeable certainty, application of this knowledge takes place effortlessly when one is no longer attached to the idea of a separate, independent self. Dig deep, deeper to see where we hold on to for dear life to the me, the personal I...and know that this is not you. There is no separate independent self...from here (non duality) life flows through you with ease, even when a crisis is at hand.

        Awakening, Enlightenment, Self-Realization are all concepts too within the framework of the personal I (ego) identification. These concepts are to be dropped as well.What one has relied on will not present the truth, it can not because the personal I is dependent on a dualistic construct (hot-cold, right-wrong,etc.), it can however bring a deeper understanding of how the mind works...and that is all.

       Drop ownership of all thoughts. If you have me, mine, your thoughts running then you are identifying as a separate, individual self and full on in the game of suffering & fleeting happiness. See how you are dependent on concepts and decide from there...truth or illusion. Drop ownership of thought and place your attention on the present. It is a mind trap to think that one concept or idea is better or worse than another, all thought lies only in the construct of the personal I (ego) separate , independent self. Separation is a concept, drop that too!

Believe????

      For too long we have believed that we are a separate self, independent, an individual, etc. A belief that is built on conceptual thought...that is all. Lean away from conceptual thinking, lean away from the "I" stories, lean away from duality(something with its opposite). Tilt your attention to the present now, your breath, sound, watching (without judging or labeling). This is the place one can catch oneself leaning towards thought and tilt the other way, to the present moment.

     It's simple, only mind (thoughts) complicates. Stop believing that your seperate, stay present, tilt away from thought. What reveals is your true nature that has always been there. You have gone nowhere, only the belief that you are separate makes one feel like there has been a journey.

Bottom of the well...

Do you really want to know the truth of who you are?
Is it a deep burning within you to know "Who am I?"
Is it an emergency to know the truth?

       It will arise within you to know the answer to these questions without a shadow of a doubt...there will be no wishy washyness about it ...you will reach the bottom of the well and know that none of this can be real...so what is there if none of this is real...start from here. Life will show you what is real if you lean your attention it's way. If you cling to thought you are living behind the veil where it is impossible to know truth.