The finite mind, necessarily, is a one way street going outward toward objects. Necessarily, thought cannot turn around and go back to its source.

Realizing this, the finite mind relinquishes all attempts both to find the Self as an object or to wait for that Self to appear as an object.

What does this realization amount to? It amounts to total surrender, utter relinquishment, naive and vulnerable openness, natural wonderment. It means that the finite mind vanishes, leaving only what remains.

The pointer–“Be here now”–is indeed a thought, but that thought disappears in the source from which it emerges. The thought may seem to go outward while the energy, from which the thought first arose, naturally pulls one inward. Therefore, to experientially understand “be here now” is just to be here now: to be the aware presence that, prior to and beyond the finite mind, one always already is. The finite mind, finally yet also naturally, comes to a halt.