whereof, thereof.

In the original state, I prevails, without any knowledge or conditioning, without attributes, without form or identity.

then, for no apparent reason (other than that it is its nature to do so), arises the thought “I am”, which appears as the living-dream of the manifest world. 

conciousness, in order to manifest itself, needs a form, a physical body and its five senses, with which it identifies itself and thus starts the concept of individuality, with the imaginary conceptualization of “I” as an object of thought or knowledge (e.g., “I know I am”) . Whenever one thinks and acts from this standpoint of self-identification, one can be said to have committed the ‘original sin’ of turning pure subjectivity (the limitless potential of being) into an object, a limited ‘actuality.’

no object has an indepenedent existence of its own (for it exists provably only in the congition of the subject) and therefore an object cannot awaken itself from the living-dream; yet — this is the joke — the phantom individual (an object) seeks some other objective experience as “englightenment” or “reality” or whatever.

if this is clear, one must reverse and go back to find out what one originally was (and always has been) before conciousness arose, as in dreamless sleep or before one’s birth.

at this stage comes the ‘awakening’ that one is neither the body nor even the consciousness, but the unnameable state of total potentiality prior to the arrival of conciousness. in conciousness that state, with whatever name, can only be understood as concept pointing to the reality, for the reality is beyond and before all understanding and concept.

and so the circle is complete; the seeker is the sought.