How the ‘Story’ Ends

How the ‘Story’ Ends

Amun:

If you are a male, you know you are a male: you don’t find yourself half of the time walking into the women’s restroom.

Likewise, when you know that you are the ever present Self, rather than the manifest-form “self,” you don’t maintain that “I am That” when you’re happy, and “I am me” when you’re not. To “abide (meaning; “go on being”) as you are,” for an awakened person, means to abide as the Self. Remaining as the me is not a “shift in perspective.” The awakened person has died to the me: therein, the me’s past and future also have no continuing relevance. What now survives is an impersonal witness: it doesn’t identify with what it witnesses. For example, the witness does not identify with the person who is feeling sorry for himself. It is what is aware that someone is feeling sorry for himself. It doesn’t identify with the person who is recalling his painful past. It is aware that someone is recalling his painful past. The self-less witness, in the awakened, is not holding a part-time position with a terminal me. If the me hadn’t thoroughly died, Self-awareness would not be there. The presence of Self-awareness is a consequence of knowing that there is no me.

It isn’t Self-awareness which is, for example, feeling sorry for itself, or cursing its past. When you know that you are the Absolute, as surely as you know that you are a male, whatever apparent “disturbances”

arise will be witnessed without self-identification, passively. Goodbye to “Oh, woe is me!” When a “personal” upset is experienced, you can’t trace it back to the dispassionate witness. Look for a me who is not abiding continually in his true nature. No whining, please.