MOSTLY UNRECOGNIZED

   Looking again and again at what’s happening with our own mind it will be noticed that there is no place from which our thoughts come or any place to which they go.   There is no specific locatable source from which thoughts are projected into our awareness, and when we look for such a source we don’t find one.  The obvious conclusion is that thoughts come from our own subjectivity.   When watching for thoughts to arise, we are in a state of active attention, and no thoughts will come. When we again lapse into a state of passive attention, then the thoughts start appearing again; this is the waking dream state.   When no thoughts are appearing because our attention is directed toward their potential arising, we are in the space, the gap, between two thoughts.   This is the gap of attentiveness and in this gap we find our own pure subjectivity, our pure consciousness, our inherent true nature that does not undergo birth or death experience. Countless cycles of time come and go but our primal subjective essence does not come or go anywhere, and although it has inconceivable existence and everyone is in it, it persists mostly unrecognized.    Our own present awareness, in its immediate luminous being can never be an object of meditation.  Pure consciousness ever remains subjective; phenomenal objects are condensations of consciousness energy and as such are limitations of consciousness energy that have taken form.    Everything is of the same one essence and to recognize this and understand it is the pinnacle of inerrant intelligence.