
YOUR eternal essence is timeless Love/Awareness that has no opposite.
YOU are not a thought, but rather what sees or is aware of all thoughts.
Confusion/suffering happens when we mistake (mis-take; to take in error) a transient thought for who we are.
Imagine a table mistaking itself for the items that are temporarily placed on it!
In fact, looking at the above photo it’s easy to not really notice or be aware of the table because our eye is natural drawn to the food upon it.
Likewise, we become so transfixed with our thoughts that our attention goes right to them and we forget/don’t notice that we are the pure nondual Awareness in which they appear in!
In other words, the table ALWAYS remains the table, regardless of what is or is not on it. Whether its a cherry pie, a leaf, a fork, an arm, a glass of beer, etc., the table always remains 100% table. And it so sweetly holds the food for us, even when we “forget” about the table completely because our attention is on the food.
Similarly, YOU always remain as 100% pure Love/Awareness, regardless of the thoughts, feeling, sensations, emotions, and perceptions that come and go.
–Michael Jeffreys
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