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Consciousness is a time-bound state. Before you were born, you did not have any consciousness or sense of being present. The same is true of deep sleep or after death. The world and everything that is experienced in it only exists for us when consciousness becomes manifest. Consciousness itself is a temporary appearance with no substance or enduring reality. Therefore, all experiences, knowledge, and activities that appear in consciousness (this includes everything perceivable and conceivable) have no final reality whatsoever. Some say that everything that appears is all "the oneness". But what the appearances are one with is consciousness, which is not the final reality. The core issue is — what is the source from which consciousness emerges? Because consciousness comes and goes as an appearance to me, the source of consciousness must be what I am. Many assume that consciousness, being or presence is your real nature, but what you are is beyond all of these.

 
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  My true nature is that which was before the body and consciousness came into being.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
 

It is not that we are cognizing emptiness; it is that emptiness itself that has the capacity of cognizing.
~ "Sailor" Bob Adamson


John Wheeler
John met "Sailor" Bob Adamson (friend of Nisargadatta Maharaj) on a trip to Australia in 2003. Bob pointed out our nature of non-conceptual awareness and the absence of the limited self we imagine ourselves to be. With this heart-to-heart sharing, the spiritual search ended. John enjoys sharing the pointers with those sincerely interested in self-knowledge and the ending of seeking, suffering and doubt.