A fingernail can hide the sun.
The finger nail is insentient.
The sentience of the finger I know without looking at it.
When I look, the finger appears sentient – to me.
There are apparently two principles operating.
The sentient principle and the insentient principle.
Science teaches us about insentience.
Spirituality teaches us about sentience.
I believe there are two realities.
There can’t be two realities.
What I need is a way to remove my ignorance of this fact.
Not an experience of something but knowledge of what I am always experiencing:
- insentience reflecting/manifesting sentience;
- unmanifest sentience appearing in/as insentience.
The fingernail never hides the sun for/from the sun.
Whatever I see isn’t in the way of my seeing.
If I identify with something I see, then there is something better to see. If I identify with an object, a moment, a like or dislike there is something better somewhere else.
When I know my true identity as awareness, nothing can hide anything from me – I am always aware, and everything I see IS me.
You can find this in your experience right now. Is there anything you aren’t aware of? You like the weather you don’t like the weather, sun or no sun, I am.
The fingernail may point us to seemingly special attachment and impact of what’s close. No matter how close (intimate) an experience, if I am aware of it, it’s not the real me.
In this way the fingernail reveals awareness.
The message:
enjoy the fingernail!
How magnificent
to be alive,
to be aware,
to see a finger nail.
Grow it, cut it, grow it again.
Hallelujah, praise the Lord!
I see the fingernail.
I am the Sun.
I shine and the world shines after me.
Om tat sat.
