It can seem as though we live in two Worlds, one with eyes open (the "real" world) and the other with eyes closed (an imaginary world). But a pawn closer inspection of how our brains render our sensory input, it can be possible to see that both of these are actually the same. Playing between the two with eyelids filtering just a small amount of light in can reveal the illusory quality of our visually perceived reality. The knowing of not only visual perception but all experience as being illusory in this way is similar to realizing that you're sitting in a movie theater watching light on a screen. Settling back into pure awareness is like noticing you're watching a movie but the movie is your moment to moment experience. Then the practice becomes maintaining contact with that awareness even when the script of your life twists and turns and ways that would otherwise completely suck you back into believing in the solidity of phenomena.

The danger with thinking is that it easily becomes the primary lens through which we experience reality. The advantage to thinking is that it's a powerful tool with which we can navigate the world. The time to think is only when it's necessary, on an as needed basis. The rest of the time we can luxuriate in the experience of whatever's happening, which will include the bubbling up of random thoughts.

The feeling of rushing is a signal that "the factors of enlightenment" are out of whack. And so it can help to slow down and be with the pressurized feeling of purposefully slowing down.

This is a guided meditation in which we use labeling to extract ourselves from identification with the six aspects of experience: sight, sound, body sensations, visual and linguistic imaginings, and emotions. Once freed of identification with the above, we abide in/as the space beyond it all.

You would still be you, because everyone is always "I" and feels just as much "me" as anyone else. We all are this mysterious "I" in different costumes.

How will I know if I'm fully enlightened? I think it can be a strong signal that the finger is pointing at the right moon if, during hard times, the mind remains as beautifully joyous and radiantly happy as during easy times.

If you worked out yesterday, how can you tell you worked out? If you have no memory of the experience, what of that experience leaves residue on the present moment?

Reality is already perfect in every moment exactly as it is, it's only when I bring my own preferences and desires into the picture that any unsatisfactoryness at all is capable of existing. But prior to all of that, everything is perfectly okay.

Nothing whatsoever is to be clung to as "I" or "Mine". Those who have heard this have heard all the teachings. Those who have practiced this have covered all of the principles.

When we ask the question, "Who am I?" and wait in the not-knowing of the question itself, not turning to thought for an answer, the not-finding itself becomes an experiential resolution to the question.