The induvial wants to experience; it is what it does. It is from a knowing; it wants to know; it feels like it has to. The experience is one in which I am in control of my life, and by interacting with the environment around me, I will gain or solve this innate desire more and more. More knowing, more experience in gaining something or another. It is looking, searching for something that it will never find. It will never happen because it is from a reality of separation, me and the other. This seeking, in the end, is what the search in life is trying to overcome—the apparent separation—and will never happen because it is an illusion. If you are in the dream, life will appear separate from the self. There is no separation—this is the illusion. Self-realization is waking up to the illusion of separateness.
Nothing is hidden; it just appears to be by the apparent illusion of living life. The illusion is the mystery defined in an obvious 3D timeline and is only the continual present moment. There is no past or future; it is just now—even though the present moment appears to be modulating through change. It is an apparent movement forward in time, as seen from the dream, every split second. It is the ‘now,’ the present moment in a new perception arising in consciousness instantaneously.
The contracted energy of here-I-am-ness is the illusion of separation, and what is that knows this as a reality, or truth—nothing. It cannot be conceptualized; it is not the mind, and saying it is beyond reason is not it either. In the end, everything is nothing appearing as something. It is an ultimate paradox. Nothingness is direct and obvious, and there is no knowing or understanding. You cannot know it, but you can be it; it is evident and immediate, as is the illusion. Paradoxically the illusion realizes completion at its origin, in nothingness, even though the dream continues its multi-faceted journey. This is it, right here, right now, you are it.