You Do Not Appear

Don’t pay attention to this thing you think of as yourself.

What you think of as yourself is a pattern of matter/energy. That’s all it is.

It has no feelings, no ideas, no creativity. All of those things you perceive about yourself are generated as part of the pattern, like a snowflake.

There is nothing special about you.

You are not “an expression” of Oneness. Nothing is being expressed. It is just a pattern – energy/matter that comes together and behaves in a certain way. It can behave no other way. It obeys the laws of physics, and that’s all.

Is this all about physics – physical laws?

No, only what appears obeys physical laws.

What you are does not appear. What you are is before all that appears.

What you are is unborn.
What you are is empty.
What you are owns nothing.
What you are contains nothing.
What you are knows nothing.
What you are never existed and never appeared.

So why pay attention to that which appears?

"Know yourself as you are – a mere point in consciousness, dimensionless and timeless. You are like the point of a pencil – by mere contact with you, the mind draws its picture of the world. You are single and simple – the picture is complex and extensive. Don’t be misled by the picture – remain aware of the tiny point – which is everywhere in the picture.”

- Nisargadatta