1. the material

as long as one believes that consciousness arises from the material, one will be lost in the material.

spiritual inquiry is all about investigating what one really is; am i material? if not, what am i?

when considered, it becomes obvious that what i think i am is obviously a thought. and i am not a thought. what am i?

the best answer the mind can give to the question ‘what am i?” is ‘i am.’ only pure existence is immediately undeniable.

but i am not the mind’s ‘i am.’

some indefinable pointers to what i am: being, consciousness, energy. all in awareness! feel them; don't think them.

when resting in what i am, it is intuitively experienced that the material arises in what i am, a dream of subject & objects defined by mind.