You Are Free, Whole and at Peace

Just as the space in which you are currently sitting is already the vast space of the universe, apparently limited by the four walls within which it seems to be contained, so you are the one infinite, indivisible being, temporarily clothed in experience, and seeming as such to be a temporary finite self. But just as the vast space of the universe never really becomes the temporary space of your room, so you never actually become a temporary finite self. You are always infinite being, free, whole and at peace.

Only a year or so ago, the room in which I am now writing this did not exist. The space of course existed; it was the vast space of the universe. And then, a year or so ago, this room was built, and the vast space of the universe seemed to become a temporary finite room with a certain shape, size, dimension, duration and so on. But before the room was built, the space had no size, no shape, no duration.

In fact, nothing happened to the space. When the four walls were erected, the space remained as it always is: vast, borderless, no shape, no size, no duration.

What we now know of as this room is a mixture of the four walls, each with their own shape, size, duration and so on, and the vast borderless space that they seemed to contain. But nothing ever happened to the space. It did not suddenly acquire a limit. It remains now as it always was, as it always is.

And when one day the room is demolished, nothing will happen to the space. It will not be liberated from a limitation that it acquired from the walls, because it never assumed that limitation to begin with. It will remain as it always is.

Exactly the same is true of you.