Searching for me part 2

The IS-ness of everything is SO simple
and yet
contains within it
infinite potential

The most profound discoveries
are of those things
that are right before our eyes

We can never find that which manifests effortlessly
by exertion

As an example
this sound called OM
the sound of the universe
spoken about by sages past, present and future
is here
right now!
Do you hear it?
Listen carefully, and you will hear
It's right here!
It's always been here
but just because it has always been here
we miss seeing it

There is a very high pitched sound
like an "eeeeee..."
listen...
can you hear it?
It's always been there
your entire life
yet we missed it!
OM
the sound of the universe
permeating all beings
all the time

In the same way
IS-ness
simply
well, IS!

The true nature of who and what is you are
is this IS-ness
that goes beyond all states
It is there when you are awake
and when you sleep
My teachers have always taught me
that it is like a stainless mirror
that perfectly reflects all appearances on it
yet itself has no appearance

appearances
whether "internal"
such as thoughts or feelings
or "external"
such as cars, colors, sounds, birds, people

all appear on its pristine surface
perfectly

yet we ourselves
are not any of these appearances
indeed when we mistaken ourselves
to be "internal" appearances
such as thoughts or feelings
then we can become misled into normal mundane views

The mind is infinite in its potential
WE are infinite in our potential
but we just don't experience that infinite
rather we experience the finitetude
of ourselves trapped under this skin

We are not foreign from OUT THERE
that is just our mistaken idea

If we continue to seek answers in concepts
we shall forever be trapped in a solutionless problem
caught in the attachment to thoughts scurrying by
but if we simply allow concepts to quieten
let go, truly, truly let go
and dwell and center in just the silence
the silence which encompasses both sound and silence
we will feel integrated
like water pouring back into itself
for even ideas, thoughts, concepts and beliefs
are the very same essence
no different in quality than this IS-ness

This is indeed a revolutionary thought
depending on "nothing" to answer our deepest questions
letting go of conceptual mind
and trusting the quietness
the mind that is beyond ideas
that takes care of beating our hearts, growing our hair
growing every single cell in our body,
doing a million and one things
without the conscious mind being aware

The greater intelligence within us
manifests spontaneously
and in so doing
synchronizes us to the rest of reality
This is because this greater mind
manifests everywhere and in everything

We are not separate from IT
never have
and never will be

Let go of attaching to the conscious mind
these thoughts
they only emerge spontanously anyways
like everything else that emerges spontaneously
let go and expand into that natural state
which you already know so well
but haven't yet recognized it for what it is
that state which is simply quietness
that state where everything arises spontaneously
without any effort from "you"

"You" aren't  watching the world from this state
In this state of no-thought
there is no thought of "you" nor of "the world"
that state
that encompasses both poles naturally
is your true nature
and naturally
it is beyond concepts

If you recognize that
the next thing to recognize
is that concepts and thoughts
emerge right within that state itself!
so cannot be any different from that state
in this way
thoughts themselves self-liberate
and our mistaken view vanishes
like morning mist once the sun is fully arisen

We are like a hologram
Within each of us
is a jewel
that reflects perfectly
the jewel that is everything else