Since my retreat with Dan in Boston in March, many insights have continued to blossom

as the Natural State reveals its many facets spontaneously. All of this is due to the
profound Awareness that Dan’s approach to Mahamudra opens up to us all. I found
especially significant the practice of alternating between the event perspective and the
vantage point of Awareness. Eventually the dualistic polarities of the mind begin to
collapse and one finds oneself in a condition of non-dual Awareness. Keep up the
practice…by diligently doing so, your success will be assured. I thought it might be
useful to share some more of my writing on this topic that I have shared with some of my
friends. I hope there may be something interesting or even perhaps helpful to others on
this path…

Awareness is Everything. Whatever you experience, perceptions, feelings or thoughts,

you are always aware of that experience by definition. Awareness is always part of every
experience. Awareness and the experience are not two separate things. The experience
is Awareness manifesting as that experience. The experience is the Awareness of it. We
are nothing but the unfolding events of experience as Awareness unfolding. We are
everything in that everything is Awareness being everything.

Appearing to be a separate self is Awareness being that experience of separate self-hood.

There is no separate Awareness that is viewing the experience as the experience is itself
Awareness. You cannot separate the waves from the ocean. Experiences are waves of
Awareness and one cannot separate the Awareness from the event as the event is itself
Awareness “event-ing”.

In whatever we say, do or think, all of these experiences are just Awareness manifesting
as those thoughts, words or actions without any separation between the Awareness of and
the expression or action. In such a dimension how can we not be free in each diverse
moment? There is no personal Awareness as my Awareness or your Awareness. Who is
there to be liberated? There is however, the experience of the thoughts “my Awareness”
and “your Awareness”… but these are also experiences of a non-personal and universal
Awareness appearing as those thoughts of “mine” and “yours”. In this way the entire
ocean is present in the smallest wave.

Just noticing and being aware as our practice, is Awareness arising as that practice. In
such a practice Awareness has nothing to gain. In our not practicing being aware,
Awareness has not been diminished. All experiences are equally Awareness appearing as
those experiences. Awareness is not more present in some experiences and less in
others. No matter the size and shape of the wave, all waves are still equally the ocean.

Metta,

Jackson