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The First Instant
by Gilbert Schultz
All there is - is Knowing
A guide to a direct, unmediated Knowing of your own true nature â Wakefulness Download a free copy of this e-book
consisting of excerpts from the complete book: http://www.shiningthroughthemind.net/pages/TheFirstInstant.pdf
What is the First
Instant?
The first instant can be described simply as
this vast unbounded presence. It is completely
indescribable yet all talk
is not about anything
other than this presence.
The first instant is all there is. There are actually no limitations to this space of knowing (which you are). If you explore it,
it simply opens up more
and more as this
unfolding first instant of
knowing.
As this moment unfolds before you, there is a âspace of knowingâ in which
everything unfolds.
We call this unfolding, âtimeâ.
If you stay quietly present to this subtle unfolding of time, you may notice that
everything of this
unfolding is registering
clearly within this space
of knowing. It
never budges. It has no qualities
of coming or going to
it. It is as if this space of
knowing is absolutely
still. The scale of these
movements or unfolding vary
from large and
obvious movements down to
very subtle
impressions of change.
All of these impressions are registering on awareness without
causing any change to the
space of knowing.
This clear open cognizing is the first instant of knowing.
Without a thought or story being attached to this open cognition, it remains
clear and without
hindrance.
When the mind latches onto some movement in
this unfolding, a fixation
takes our attention into
a mind realm. This can
be called inadvertence.
We tend to be less present
to the unmediated
registration of direct
cognition. In retrospective
analysis, it appears that we
had gone into the
mindâs matrix.
However, in the first instant of direct cognition, what we truly are has never gone anywhere.
We are the first instant of cognitionâknowing. There is nothing that is not of the first instant. This instant right now is it. All moments from
the so-called past are it. All moments of the
so-called future are
it.
It is One momentâthe first and only instant. What is this first instant? You are this first instant. Unmediated knowing.
There is no âotherâ here in this first instant. You are the center of your world. Start from the fact that YOU ARE.
This immediate being-ness is not negotiable. It IS.
Everything else is belonging to this flow of
unfolding phenomenal
changes.All that
appears in this flow
will disappear.
The free e-book is eighteen pages printed.
With love
Ragna |
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