The emptiness of non-egoic desire...

In this emptiness you start to taste the experience of being. This is being before
you are something or somebody. And this mystery of being is what's awake and alive. It
is the only thing that doesn't need the mind to conjure it into existence. You don't have to
think at all to be this awakeness.

Everything about you changes except this one fact of
consciousness. The body changes. The mind changes. Thoughts change—much more
quickly than most people would like them to. And no matter how much knowledge you
acquire, that knowledge is not going to get you here any faster. Being is the one
constant—that which is always awake.

Now the mind, if you go back to its knowledge, has all sorts of ideas about what
your true nature must be because you have read about it so much, have heard spiritual
teachers talk about it, and there is a whole mystical mythology created around Truth. Of
course it's quite a shock to realize that's not it. Whatever you think you are, that's not it.
Even if your concept is very spiritual, mystical, and other worldly, you are not that
concept.


Adyashanti from Emptiness Dancing