Radiant Mind: Awakening Unconditional Awareness

There is no way of telling whether or not it will happen, since there is nothing we can do to make it happen, or stop it from happening. Doing anything to make it happen—including doing nothing—is quite immaterial to the emergence of the final phase.

The only choice is to try to be composed and quiet, savoring the essence of our being, or else be caught up in the lives and work of others. There is no middle ground.

The nondual experience can be spoken about in terms of three parameters: purity, depth, and duration. By purity, I mean the absence of conditioned structures of understanding and interpretation. By depth, I mean the extent to which the unconditioned pervades or infuses our conditioned existence. By duration, I mean the length of time we can rest in

Every experience is deeply profound yet totally meaningless. We are not sure if this is the most real thing we have every experienced or if it is a total illusion. The Lankavatara Sutra expresses this dilemma this way: “Reality is not as it seems and nor is it otherwise.”

unconditioned bliss.

We recognize the distortion of our personality that has been caused by accommodating the needs and concerns of other people. We also see the possibility of living in respectful and mutually empowering relationships. This signals entry into the phase called coexistence.

Whatever it is that we need, we get others to do it to us—be it to hate us, love us, dominate us, or ignore us.

If we are, by nature, introspective and self-satisfied, the fear is still there that we will lose our footing if we throw ourselves into relationships and projects. We will make forays into the world but rush back to the still point within for nourishment. We can’t see how we could be nourished by our work.

There is nowhere to be other than where we are. There is no one to be except the person we are. We come home to who we are and where we have always been. This