The Highest Truth Is a Simple Recognition
The recognition of being is not an intellectual exercise or an emotional experience. It is the simple act of resting as awareness, this unconditioned “I am” that precedes and accompanies all experience. There is no need to analyze it, to understand its mechanics, or to evoke it into existence. The highest experiential truth is an ordinary, everyday experience. It is the simple experience of being consciously aware.
The mind will try to make sense of this recognition, to categorize it, to use it to further its own separate agenda. It will compare this “resting as aware presence” to different spiritual pursuits, judge its worth, and fortify its own identity.
But with time, the need to define and defend a sense of separateness begins to soften.
To recognize the nature of awareness is not the result of a quest to find something that was absent. It is a simple and gentle turning of attention inward to see what is always already undeniably present. It is the direct apprehension of that which illuminates all experience.