Cut to the Chase Your latest letter was written over five days, you said. I’m required to be more brief. There are a couple of aspects of the nondual realization which seem to be discovered only with the greatest difficulty, by most everyone. The first is that the revelation, of the empty truth, is discovered to be unimpeded by time. Why? Because the seeker is that which is sought. There is nowhere you need to go, and nothing you need to do in order to be connected to that which is the source of all that is. This omnipresent actuality, this unbroken Presence, is so thoroughly immersed in everything that it is everything. Therefore you—despite who you purport to be—are That. Being That, you will not, at any other time, be nearer to That. Whether or not you acknowledge your “true nature,” you are That. So, being That this very moment, time is irrelevant. You need not, if you awaken to the fact, occupy yourself with a pursuit for the presence of the limitless actuality any longer: you cannot even escape That! The second matter is a recognition which is implicitly entwined with the first. Described as being “nowhere that it is not,” it is effectually the actual essence of all that is. All formulated identities (each of which is merely a differentiated thought) are superficial, synthetic. No matter what we point to, its fundamental identity is reduced to That. Not anything comes into existence apart from infinite Presence, so the identity of all forms is subsumed in the formless Presence out of which they arise. Your assumed identity disappears,
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