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Feb 11 (edited) • Presence & Awareness
REMEMBERING THE SOURCE #∞
This article continues the seven previous pieces in the series.
If you are not familiar with them or need a refresher, please read the following articles first.
Part 8 – Final Part
THE FINAL REMEMBRANCE
In this very moment, as you read these words, the awareness that is listening is not separate from the source of all awareness. The seeker is the sought. The knower is the known. The one who asks, how do I enter the source? is already the source, or the Monad, temporarily pretending to be separate, playing hide and seek with itself.
But let this recognition not breed complacency. Yes, you are the source, the Godhead, but you are the Godhead that has forgotten. The practices matter. The commitment to awakening matters. The daily discipline of meditation and self-inquiry, these are the means by which the amnesia is cured. Awakening is a gradual process, but it can also happen in a flash. However, the gradual process is much easier to digest and is also the most natural way.
It is not about enlightenment as you may hear it described in New Age circles. And if you think you already are enlightened, think again, because awakening is not a mental realization. That belief is often the last trap before full awakening, and it is one in which you can remain trapped for a lifetime. For this reason, I call it the greatest illusion, because even the mind, and certainly the ego, can convince you that you have arrived.
To become who you are going to be, you must betray who you were. As you try to do this, your mind will scream. That is how you know you are growing. Growth is not comfortable. Growth is a violation of your previous identity.
Sit in silence each day. Question every thought that claims to define you. Investigate the sense of being a separate self until you can no longer find its substance.
The Church could burn the books, but it could not burn the truth. The Inquisition could torture and even kill the body, but it could not touch the Monad. Every attempt to suppress this knowledge only proved its power.
And now, in this moment, the ancient wisdom finds you. Not by accident, but through the recognition that draws like to like. You are reading this because the Monad is calling itself home.
This realization is only the beginning. The Monad is vast, and there are many more veils we must lift together.
If this message resonated with the spark within you, do not let the feeling fade. If you found value in this remembrance, follow this series.
Stop seeking.
And see.
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EPILOGUE
Every story needs an ending, but what has been pointed to here does not end. Words can only carry you so far. At some point they must fall away, like scaffolding removed once the structure stands on its own.
If something has shifted while reading, even subtly, trust that. Not as a belief, not as a new identity, but as a quiet reorientation. What matters now is not understanding more but noticing more. How you listen. How you move. How you meet yourself and others in ordinary moments.
Nothing needs to be added. Nothing needs to be achieved. The recognition does not belong to this text, nor to any tradition or teacher. It reveals itself wherever attention softens and the need to become something loosens its grip.
This series ends here, but what it points to does not. It unfolds wherever you are, in whatever form life takes next. The remembering continues, not as effort, but as living.
There is nowhere else to go. Nothing else to become. Only this, as it is.
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It was no accident that this series unfolded in eight parts. Turn the number ∞ on its side and it becomes the sign of infinity. That is what you are. Infinite. And yet, to remember this, it sometimes takes a sudden jolt. A gentle shove. A sharp awakening. The unexpected tap of the Zen stick.
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