Neither Forgetting Nor Remembering; Just Here

Freedom is neither forgetting nor remembering; Just here. Just here doesn't need that extra step of forgetting, nor that retrieval of remembering. This invitation, to remember who you are is misleading. The invitation to forget who you are not is also misleading. The idea that you have to locate something or throw out something is just wrong. This is too many steps. Just here is no steps. Just here is no rejecting, no reclaiming.

For a long time there was this misunderstanding that although I had woken up, I had to reclaim hereness, moment to moment. Simple moment to moment living, seeing, being became moment to moment remembering. It became a moment to moment inquiring, a moment to moment efforting or sensing within.

There was within and without. Through a preference to remain within, the outer was rejected. Just as previously the preference to remain without rejected the inner. There has since been a re-examination of the usefulness of these words inner and outer. The very word inner creates outer, and the very word outer creates inner. Through use of these reference points separation of inner and outer begins.

Here doesn't need reference points. There is nowhere that is not here. For a long time, I thought the teachers were saying, "This inner vastness is what you are." But that inner reality only became separate from outer reality, because prior to awakening the body was the only reference point. After awakening, inner vastness became the reference point. The reference point was the exact opposite, but it is the same mistake.

Holding to "I am inner vastness" is no more free that holding to "I am the body." It is still inner versus outer. This is the mistake. "Just here" doesn't create the distinctions inner and outer, or emptiness and form, matter and spirit. Just here doesn't try to forget or remember. Just here doesn't say, "I am not this but I am that." Just here is truly non-dual.