Identity Does Not Die - By William Samuel

"A Guide To Awareness and Tranquillity" By William Samuel

IDENTITY DOES NOT DIE

Awareness will never experience non-awareness, death. The one who is already dead (not the one who appears to die) is the one who says, "Life is mine. God is MY life."

The "my" who says "mine" is the possessor, the liar from the beginning. This one can be loosed and let go here and now if one will simply, consciously, be what he is already. What is that? Unencumbered, unjudging, unpossessed, motiveless, opinionless Awareness ITSELF. No effort is necessary.

What is the activity of Awareness? To BEHOLD, WITNESS, SEE - ACKNOWLEDGE, LOVE and BE!

Does Awareness have authority to judge? Awareness is awareness, not an evaluator. It makes distinctions, not judgments. "This is a hickory tree," it says. "That is a mountain." It is the poor judge who agonizes over bad hickory trees.

THE CONDITIONS FOR "DEATH" ARE IMPOSSIBLE

"Death" is supposed to be the absence of Life. The dictionary says Life is "conscious existence … the vital force" of being. Death, then, is the absence of conscious existence, the absence of the vital force.

Well now! The vital force is a term denoting Isness being self-conscious; there is no other vital force in all existence. Before it could be absent, Reality would have to be absent. If "death" is intended to mean that this vital force has gone out of a body, we would have to picture a universe having areas (within inanimate bodies) where Reality is absent. Foolishness! "Lift a stone and I am there," said the Christ. "Cleave a piece of wood and I am there!" He stated, referring to Identity. There is no spot where Isness is not, no place from which the vital force has or can exit. The conditions for death as "real" are impossible. Obviously, then, death is not what it is generally believed to be.

The "vital force" has never stopped being the Awareness reading these words, nor can it. Does this mean "I" will never appear to experience a funeral? It means Awareness will never be buried!

Does this mean the one I see buried has awakened from the misidentification? It means that appearing is included within this Awareness I am! This seeing is not "their" seeing. There is no seeing going on out there. What "this seeing I am" is ever experiencing is an event, divinely correct, pure and perfect in every respect, but in which there is neither good nor bad! And, because no value is there, no power is there.

One is tempted to be grieved at the "loss" of a loved one, but grief is the old man's self-pity, directly proportionate to the value he has given the image. Where is the value? In the Godhead, Isness, being all images. Tangible images are the infinite appearing of all-comprehensive Awareness in action. "Tell us how our end will be," has been asked so often. "Then you have found the beginning that you should wonder about the end?" Jesus asked in reply. This Awareness, right here, right now, is deathless. It never had a beginning. It is for us to identify as God's function, Life, and no longer to identify as a potty piece of poppycock that claims to contain Life within it, and then worries for fear it will lose it.

Awareness is embodied as the entire universe of "things," seen and unseen. It is not in anything, even the body that professes to have the eyes that do the seeing and the ears that do the hearing.

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