Awareness   Beingness

The Teaching:

I’ll share with you something that made things a lot easier for me.  It’s the very simple teaching of John Sherman, which you can find on his website http://www.riverganga.org/  But it’s so simple that I can just summarize it for you here and you can use it just from that. 

The Practice:

The practice is to simply notice something that you can be absolutely certain is true — that you exist.  Your being.  Not an idea about being.  Just the obvious fact that you’re being.  The direct experience of simply existing.  If we will do that as often as we can, over and over, it will gradually dissolve the belief that you are your life story, you will more and more directly experience what you really are, your life will become easier and easier, and you will experience less and less suffering. 

What’s Required:

All that’s required is that you have the intention to taste the reality of what you are.  If in each of those moments that you stop to look, if you have that intention, you’ll see it, because there can’t be anything more obvious or easier to see.  That’s why it’s easy to miss.  It’s so obvious that we think that that can’t possibly be it.  But that is it. 

What Never Changes:

No matter what’s going on, there is always that same unchanging background reality that you exist, that you’re here.  You are here when ego is raging.  You are here when ego is dissolved.  Everything else that you experience changes, but the simple raw fact that you exist never changes.  It’s nothing more than the direct immediate experience of being, that continuous experience of being that is the most obvious thing in the world.  It’s that unchanging sense of presence that is always here and about which nothing can be said.  Nothing is more obvious, nothing is more certain, nothing is more ordinary, nothing is simpler, nothing is easier to notice.

Dissolving the False:

The ultimate result is the replacement of the false belief about what we are, with direct experience of what we really are.  But what happens in order to make that possible is that the repeated act of noticing our beingness gradually dissolves the false belief we have about what we are automatically, without our being aware that that is happening, without having to have any idea about what that false belief is, or was, without having to understand how or why that happens. 

Expressing the True:

Your life then falls into harmony and ease in a thousand different ways that you don’t deliberately orchestrate but happen on their own, with your part in the whole thing simply being that you more and more act intuitively instead of from thought or belief, spontaneously; you more and more spontaneously act from intuition, and you’ll just naturally end up doing whatever expresses the reality your directly experiencing.  This is not a theory.  I have directly experienced what I’m talking about.  And so have many, many others.

Direct Proof:

Go ahead and do it for a couple of weeks, you’ll then have firsthand direct proof that it’s right and that it works.  Continue doing whatever else you do.  Just add this.  Simple.