The Unborn Nature of the Path

The fundamental nature of reality, is not some dull, stale empty thing.
Very much the opposite, even though it is not a 'thing' at all, it is full of liveliness, presence, a supreme aware 'intelligence' that pervades everything, and 'Is' everything without being a 'Thing' at all.
It is the force behind the blooming of the flowers, the change in seasons, it is the singing of the birds and the sound of the wind.
Some call it God, some call it Shiva, some call it the supreme source or fundamental ground, primordial wisdom..some call it the ultimate Self, others call it  no-self , but what is is, has no name. And whatever such views come associated with those names, are but pale and conceptual ideas. In a very simple way we can just call it Pure Wisdom-Love.
Later, people come, create ideias, philosophies, religions, based on what someone's discovery of this, all to try to explain and create ideas around that which cannot be put into words. Some create philosophies that are very elaborate and somehow get very close to describing 'what is', others remain a little more distant and less accurate - but they are all just ideas and none is the truth of what is. It is like the traditional example of the finger pointing at the moon. It is the moon we must see, not the finger, and there are so many fingers!

Abiding as what is, there nothing else that can be said, just that, 'it is That', 'All is That', and there is no 'me-self' at all in this entire affair that people call world. 

This is what we can call - great peace. In this, there is nothing missing, so it is total perfection, great perfection. You do not need to think to know this, in fact, thought is what blocks you from seeing what is already there. Knowingness is something direct, it needs no middle men. Just be silent.. be here, where else can you be?
But it does not mean there is nothing to be done. If we do nothing, and just remain distracted, following after ordinary mind, unaware, not doing what needs to be done to discover our nature, then it will be very difficult to break this hard shell of conceptual mind. Understanding is not enough! We need to learn a special kind of 'doing nothing', a type of 'doing nothing' that is full of awareness and presence, we need to learn what it means, in practice, to go beyond mind... and in this we can discover...There is a specific path to discover this.... do not believe that if you just stand around casually living in normal distracted way, this it will just happen...

In this way we can speak of three aspects: a base, a path and a result.
The base is your own unborn nature of your mind. Which is itself the ultimate nature of reality. The path is how we can go about recognizing and fully integrating within that space of this nature. The result is the total peace, complete awakening into the nature of how things are.
When you are sleeping at night and you have a dream, no matter how real the dream feels, when you wake up, immediately you awaken to a different state, where you know the dream was unreal, yet it was experienced. Recognizing that your 'person-self' is a dream-like experience is no different.

The path itself is unreal, as unreal as the person that walks it - and yet, it is necessary to go beyond it - this is the great paradox!

with love - Aja Das