We are all aware of moments in life when nothing is happening in our imagination to project upon or expect. We are here, present, and listening with nothing to add or subtract. There is a sense of freedom and completeness. When we go back to the conditioned habit of seeking an experience, however, we restrict our attention to a fraction of the whole.

Experience is just a mental process, and when we stop searching for one, the lack of an object of awareness brings us back to awareness itself. We are simply open to life with no need for an experience. In such moments, the lack of any object of awareness brings us back to awareness itself. There is no one to be and nowhere to go. An object does not exist separately, for it appears only in relation to other already-known objects. To really know something, there must be no reference to anything else; simply awareness, aware of itself, as awareness. Home…