In the Ground of Being, all self-descriptions must be left behind, otherwise we cannot enter fully. We must be as spiritually naked and empty of self-orientation as possible.

Taking Responsibility for Your Relationship to Experience

Awakened awareness practices focus on dis-identifying with the conceptual mind, specifically the false self or ego that we imagine ourselves to be. To call the ego a “false self” is not to disparage it or even judge it. It is to name it as what it is: a psychological process with which we have become overly accustomed to identifying. The false self

Each human being is an embodiment of the paradox of Being and becoming or evolving.

With heartfelt devotion and focus, yet without referring to a thought, image, or idea to tell you who you are, rest in the always and already existing silent and dark void—the mystery of Being.

Look at everything and everyone today from the empty eyes of awareness abiding in the silent presence of the Spiritual Heart. Every form you see is a manifestation of the formless. Every perceivable being is an expression of the unity of existence—universal Being.

notice and acknowledge that there is background quietness and wakefulness that is already present in your experience before you search for

It is the experience of waking up from the dream of the separate “me” and the way it experiences life, to the reality of universal Being and non-separation.

Therefore, from the Ground of Being each moment is experienced directly, with no distorting lens of past conditioning and no sense of time. Because it is a timeless state of only the eternal Now, the Ground of Being sees through the eyes of eternity and feels through the constant renewal of the senses. Each moment is as a birth moment, with all its