' Identity '...

Our actual true nature is an empty awareness that has no location in space or time, and nothing can improve it or damage it, it’s like vast empty space with no personal characteristics. It’s the emptiness from which and in which, all appearances appear.

The mind always has some kind of material or spiritual identity that it defines itself by. If one has the least identification with a body, a subtle body or a spiritual form, or personal self; then to that degree that dreamed and fictional identity will suffer. Our Natural State has no material identity or location in the universe of space and time. Our Natural State is not caught up in an identity of its own making, its not caught up in anything. How can an infinitely empty space that doesn’t move get caught up in anything?

As the Natural State, you are the “context” in which all thoseholographic dream characters appear. They are no more real than the drawn characters in a cartoon playing on television. The mind draws and paints all those fictional players in the dream.

Any concern about what happens to “your” personal body or mind is a manifestation of identification. It’s not resolved by “you” becoming free of all identities, because that “you” is a momentary and impermanent, holographic projection arising from and within the pure and unchanging Emptiness that you actually always are.

The cognitive qualities of your Natural State are its knowing awareness. Seeing and hearing is the Natural State seeing and hearing . Is seeing and hearing occurring as experience already? Yes? Welcome home!


-Jackson Peterson