[Gem]

Hello

I have to be in a 'right mind' to begin, and as I'm not perfect, good enough is as good as it gets.

It's important to understand that I don't come with something I know which another can learn, because if it is perceived I have acquirable knowledge, the readers attention will turn to me in hope, the hope that something might be acquired, and as such, be distracted from the self awareness required for the meditation.

Secondly, in that I have nothing that another person can acquire, there is nothing that can be taken from here and used later on. There is no instruction to learn and remember and obey as a practice.

This is the meditation, already, it has no commencement, but should the reader have arrived here with some expectation, to commence, to learn, or any other future oriented notion, that expectation will not be met.

It doesn't commence. It is what is already the case, so what we do here is explore things carefully, to find out what is already actual, for what we call 'the truth' is of all times and places. It is not something that happens. It is here and happening, so there is no pause, no preparation to commence, no duration between not meditating and starting to meditate. There is no event that one can identify as 'this is meditation'.

So understanding, may the attention be 'here already', not because you brought it here to 'be in the moment', but because it is actually here and that's just how it is.

If the reader is trying to make sense of these words, then something is distracted, trying to figure out, coming to a conclusion with which to agree or disagree, rather than looking to see where/when one's attention exists.

If indeed the discourse is followed in self observance, we are meditating together, not with a method we all conform to, but according to what already is the case, and let us see for ourselves, just as I myself as look to see.

I am not ahead of the pack and leading all you followers to where I am already and you have not yet reached. This is ridiculous, because if one looks at what is true, we are here and I am not in a another desirable place where other folk might hopefully arrive upon some longed for future occasion.

I have to look to find out, just like anyone else - not because that's what I have to do - but because this looking is the way it is already.

At this point, the thought stream ends, and having nothing further at this time, I wish the reader every happiness.