Lost and Found by Julee Bergstrom

The mind eschews simplicity. Complexity feeds its needs. It peers into the past and reviews the wrongs, unaware that it is recreating them, drawing them into this moment. Memories of trauma or happy events with their associated feelings are merely thoughts carried through time. All experience is thought/feeling evoked by imagination—playfulness on the screen of consciousness.

It is fantastical that What Is has created the ability to lose itself in a world of thought and feeling projected onto apparently solid objects.

What Is is a clear screen. Everything appears on, in and as this screen. Objects arise in consciousness. Nothing can arise without this presence. This is science’s first mistake—missing the fact that nothing can be seen, felt, heard, touched, tasted, or thought without the presence of consciousness. It is so obvious, it is overlooked. The only real truth we know is the screen itself. All phenomena are simply manifestations arising from this ground of being.

It is a mystery in plain sight. Every person acknowledges his or her own existence, the sense of awareness. Who and what you truly are—this sense of being—cannot be denied or avoided.

Awareness has no shape, size nor color. It cannot be touched. And it has no distance from you. It does not have moods. It cannot be sick. It cannot be born! It cannot die. It is always there. It cannot change. It has no feelings. It is open and spacious and full and empty. It cannot turn back to see itself. Any attempt to do so renders the sense of it even more spacious and empty. It does not know time. It has no past, future, nor even present.

It has only here and now. But as it has neither time nor location, it is more accurate to say it only has this.

Everything can come and go within it. It has no resistance to any thing or thought or feeling. It can thus be everything and yet remain completely undefined by anything, as all that it dreams is temporary and other than itself.

It was not created by you. But you cannot find any distance between yourself and it. It is you!

It is whole. Nothing is missing from it. No experience is it, yet all experience happens within it and is made of it. But no experience can change it. It is the dreamer of the dream, and it is also the dream. It is a holy dream. All is made of it, as it. There is only it. It looks upon itself and sees itself. How can it not be good? Only if it does not recognize itself!

The game is to be lost and to be found. And yet it is never lost. What a beautiful and holy dance!

Julee Bergstrom is enrolled in The Living Method Continuing Student Program. She lives in the UK.