No experience ever hides Consciousness. Nor could it.

To say this is to embrace the Direct Path of nonduality: “Not a thing from the first”; “The Self is always realized”; “Since our original nature is always clean and pure, how could dust ever alight”?; and so on.

If what’s been written is experientially understood, then there can be no more suffering. Nor can there be any more “purification.”

However, if the truth–“No experience ever hides Consciousness”–is only intellectually understood and if suffering does seem to be real, then the teaching invites one to explore this contraction–(a) No experience ever hides Consciousness, yet (b) this experience of suffering is not only intense but also real and thus it certainly seems to hide, obscure, or veil the pristine nature of Consciousness–until it’s clear that there never was a contradiction.

To be sure, one cannot fudge, bypass, fake, or dupe the teaching because “the reality” of suffering will remain, will keep kicking up until the matter has been definitively resolved. Only then will it be totally clear that not a single experience could ever hide, obscure, veil, or taint Pure Consciousness. In fact, not a thing was ever here in the first place.