Reflect on the essence of your being; your true nature is unchanging, timeless, and always present. It is consciousness itself, the sole reality that endures. The world, your thoughts, and emotions are like shifting waves on the vast ocean of awareness. Beneath them, the ocean remains calm, unmoved, and unaffected by the surface turbulence. Similarly, consciousness remains steady and constant, while everything else—thoughts, feelings, and experiences—flows in and out, transient like the tide.
Consider the nature of thought: it arises and fades like clouds drifting across the sky. Some thoughts bring joy, while others bring sorrow. Thoughts about your worth or self-image may rise and fall like changing weather patterns, yet you can change them. When you change your thoughts, you change how you feel about yourself.
Recognize that the world is like a mirror, reflecting the images you project upon it. Shift your perception, and you shift your reality. You are not your thoughts; you are the witness to them. As the witness, you can observe them without attachment, allowing them to pass by like the breeze.
Your conditioning, beliefs, and concepts are constructs of the mind, built upon past experiences, culture, and learned patterns. But none of these are the truth. They are not the reality. They are like clouds that shift, disperse, and form again. In fact, anything that changes is not real in the ultimate sense. What is indisputable is that which does not change—pure consciousness, the stillness beneath the movement, the silence beyond the noise.
Observe your body—its health, its appearance. It is in a constant state of change. In fact, every seven years, your body's cells are constantly renewed.
What you once were as a child, as a teenager, and what you are now as an adult—all has transformed. Even your body, as solid as it may seem, is in constant flux. And yet, the "you" that observes this transformation remains unchanged. The body may age and grow frail, but you—the witness, the consciousness that sees all—remain timeless and unchanging.
Your relationships, your work, your passions—they, too, evolve, grow, and eventually dissolve. What you once held dear may change into something else entirely. Your career, the people in your life, even the world itself—they are all constantly becoming, changing from one form to another. But the essence of who you are—the awareness that all these changes occur—remains unaltered. The external world changes, but that which observes it does not.
Consider the world around you is always in motion. The seasons ebb and flow, the sun rises and falls, and the tides continuously shift. Nature’s laws evolve, the weather fluctuates, and animals are always on the move, adapting and thriving through constant cycles of change.
Science is constantly evolving—what was once regarded as truth is often updated with new discoveries. As research advances, our understanding of the best path to health is redefined. However, amidst all this change, one thing remains constant: consciousness. The awareness that observes the passing of seasons, the changing weather, and shifting ideas remain unchanged.
Notice how birds carve invisible paths through the sky, airplanes leave no trace, and clouds—like wandering artists—create storms that erupt in bursts of light. Yet the sky itself remains timeless, an eternal canvas untouched by time. It holds nature's dramas—clouds, storms, sun, and stars—but never changes. Unmoved, it mirrors the nature of consciousness: thoughts, emotions, and sensations come and go, yet consciousness remains constant, unchanging, and always present.
Think about the space within a cup. That space never changes, regardless of whether the cup contains water, tea, milk, or coffee. The contents of the cup change, but the space inside remains constant. The cup may be filled with different substances, but its space is always the same.
Similarly, consciousness is the space in which everything arises—thoughts, feelings, perceptions. The contents of your experience change, but consciousness remains the unchanging space in which they appear and disappear.
Consider darkness a fitting metaphor for the eternal. Darkness does not change. It cannot be turned on or off; it simply is. When you light a candle, it appears as though darkness disappears, but darkness never truly vanishes. It simply recedes in the presence of light. When the light is extinguished, darkness reappears—not because it went anywhere, but because it is the ever-present backdrop to all seen.
So is consciousness: it is ever-present, the unchanging backdrop upon which the play, the drama of life, unfolds.
The images that flash on the screen of your consciousness constantly change—one thought gives way to the next, and one image dissolves into another.
The writings on a chalkboard or the pages of a book change with the passage of time. Yet the chalkboard, the paper, and the space upon which these words appear do not change. The words may come and go, but the surface upon which they are written remains the same. In the same way, your thoughts and experiences change, but the consciousness in which they arise remains unchanged.
Life itself is a dance, a play, a cosmic drama. The actors come and go, the roles shift, and the names change. The plot twists, the circumstances evolve, and the stage is continually re-set. But the audience—the consciousness that observes the play—remains untouched by the performance. The actors may change, but the one who watches remains constant.
All things are constantly changing—your body, your thoughts, the world around you—but one thing remains the same, unchanging, and eternal: consciousness.
It is the truth that is beyond birth and death, beyond time and form. It is pure and untainted by the layers of conditioning and belief that obscure it.
This is the reality, my friends, the absolute truth—the consciousness that is the source of everything.
You are that consciousness. You are the witness to the dance of life, the observer of all change. The world may shift and appear in endless forms, but you, the eternal witness, remain the same.
Recognize this, and you will see that you are beyond the fluctuations of thought, beyond the passing of time. You are that which never changes. You are the pure, unchanging awareness in which all things arise and fall away.
This is the path of awakening—the recognition of your true nature, the realization that you are not the changing phenomena of the world but the eternal consciousness that witnesses it all.
In this recognition, you will find peace, for you will see that the only thing that is real, the only thing that ever was or ever will be, is consciousness itself.
And that, dear seekers, is the untouched truth—the unchanging within the changing.
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