The Imagining of Separation

Separate people are only separate from the point of view of the thought that defines them as such. 

Where is the seeming experience of separation without thought to claim it is being experienced? Utterly non-existent!  

Moreover, where is the experience of separation during the appearance of the thought that claims it is being experienced? Utterly non-existent!

Thoughts like 'I am a separate self,' 'there is a separation between this and that', or 'reality is made of two essential components,' are simply temporary superimpositions on the Reality of experience; imaginary overlays that vanish the moment they are examined. They are not essential to Reality, but rather only claim to be.

Imagine writing in the sand: 'These words have always been here.' Clearly, the beach was already fully itself before the letters appeared. The sand does not depend on the written message; rather it is the opposite; the message is dependent upon the sand, for the message is made of the sand. The sand is, therefore, not limited to the words. Likewise, the mentally written concepts of 'limited entities', 'separation', 'relationship', 'interaction' and any concept you can think of do not limit Reality. They only appear to exist within the imaginary domain of the mind, and pertain to the activity of the mind alone. Without reference to thought or memory, we have no direct experience of any such concepts being essential attributes of present Reality.

Check now the truth of this in your immediate experience.

Without referring to thought or memory, what do you know about the Reality of you?

That it is present? Yes.

That you are aware of its presence? Yes.

Is there any evidence of it being separate? No!

Is there any evidence that you, the Reality of Awareness, are limited? No!

If you think that separation or limitations are being experienced, notice that in order to come to that conclusion you had to refer to thought. Set those thoughts aside, by understanding that those thoughts are not essential to this present experience. They appear subsequent to the already-here-ness of present Reality. And check again.

You are here, now, unmovingly. The concepts 'separation', 'limitations' and 'independent entities' are all temporary. They appear, move and disappear. They are not intrinsic, ever-present features of you, of Reality, the Presence that is present prior to their appearance and after their disappearance. Thusly, they cannot be used to identify or define you, for they have no access to the unmoving Presence that transcends their domain of movement.

Just as a character in a movie cannot identify or define the screen, because the character is limited to the domain of the movie, the mind cannot climb out its movement to fixedly define or identify the immovable Reality of experience. The character cannot transcend the movie, step outside of the movie and come in contact with the screen. While the character appears on the screen, made of the screen, she can never find the screen using the tools and techniques accessible to her in the movie world.

Likewise, thought cannot identify or define the Reality of Awareness, the presence within which it appears, using its imaginary tools and techniques. Only Awareness can know itself. You, Awareness, know that you are present, now. This knowing is unmediated by thought. This knowing is the direct knowing of Awareness itself.

Leave thought aside and ask yourself, what am I really?

Am I separate?

Am I limited?

Am I bound by duality?

Now, simply abide as this unavoidable Presence of your self, Reality, and allow the belief in limited and separate entities to dissolve in the Presence of that which disproves such a belief, for there is no intrinsic evidence in Awareness to validate the belief in it being limited or separate.

There is only Awareness knowing itself; silently, effortlessly, beyond subject and object, as the seamless wholeness of what is.