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“Your wanting to realize buddhahood as quickly as you can is useless to begin with. Since the Buddha Mind you have from your parents is unborn and marvelously illuminating, before even a single thought is produced, all things are recognized and distinguished without resorting to any cleverness. Without attaching to [notions of] ‘enlightened’ or ‘deluded,’ just remain in the state where all things are recognized and distinguished. Let things take care of themselves, and whatever comes along will be smoothly managed—whether you like it or not!

That’s the [working of the] Buddha Mind and its marvelously illuminating dynamic function. Like a mirror that’s been perfectly polished, without producing a single thought, with no awareness on your part, without even realizing it, each and every thing is smoothly dealt with as it comes from outside. Not understanding this, you people take all the credit and act as if you managed everything yourselves by means of cleverness! That’s why you can’t help remaining deluded. If you clearly grasp that thought is something you produce yourself when you get involved with things that come along, and keep from switching [the Buddha Mind] for some ‘thing,’ why, that’s the basis of religious practice; and it’s also what’s meant when we say that the Buddha Mind is unborn, our own intrinsic and marvelously illuminating dynamic function.”

- Bankei, quoted in Bankei Zen by Peter Haskel

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"From Self to Self: Notes and Quotes in Response to Awakening to the Dream" by Leo Hartong -

"The only ‘shift’ that needs to happen is to see that nothing has to happen for this to be as it is. The Presence, that is aware of the reading of these words does not come or go. Everything appears in it, including the idea of a ‘you’ that is not ‘there’ yet. YOU are this Aware Context in which it all arises. The waiting for a shift is effortlessly seen by something that does not wait; IT simply is. Turn around, away from the observed towards the observing. This observing cannot be an object to itself, just as light cannot shine upon itself. However, this doesn’t prevent the light, or the Observing-Awareness, from shining forth. YOU ARE this Self-Shining-Awareness to which these words appear. Now dive deeper and it will be clear that Awareness and its objects are one and the same Presence, just as object and form cannot be separated. This Self-Arising, Self-Observing, Self-Shining Presence is all there is. IT appears to itself as apparent separate points of consciousness, but THAT which says ‘I AM’ in and as all these points, is the One-Self-You-Are. No amount of waiting for an experience will make this come closer, as IT is not an experience, but the inexperience-able experiencing it self. Waiting for a shift, not waiting for a shift, this text, the feelings in the body, they are all ‘objects’ appearing in and as the light of Presence-Awareness. The Self Originating Mystery that appears AS this Awareness will never be reached later on, by a non-existing separate character. YOU, expressing as such a character, are the Presence that IS. "

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So called teachers or gurus that prescribe a method or practice for achieving awakening imply that there is someone who can do something, but folks like Nathan Gill never lose sight of this, which is why resting as awareness is only action that can happen that isn't a practice, because in it the doership is lost. But until that becomes a regular occurrence, what seems to occur is that thought comes in as a reminder to the character to release attention, so that it isn't glued to the thinking process. But the character doesn't do that, it just happens, and it seems here that it happens more frequently when there are succinct and nicely expressed reminders like this one by Nathan Gill scattered throughout what's happening in daily living, and so it can't be helped but passed on to the other seeker type characters :)

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From "The Book of No One: Talks and Dialogues on Non-Duality and Liberation" by Richard Sylvester -

"Many people are desperate for a story that says there is a reality here that will continue beyond death. It doesn’t matter whether the story is Christianity, Islam or Clairvoyance, there will be a desperation to find a story that provides that meaning. Other people might really envy someone who has accepted one of those stories. It can provide a complete answer to everything. Until it doesn’t. Then you’re in trouble. If there’s a person there and the story that has provided meaning falls away, then often the person is confronted with all the existential issues. If meaning drops away but there’s still a person there, then you’re likely to be left in the desert or in the dark night of the soul."

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Nuff said