🌿 CHAPTER FIVE (continued)

THE 31 CORE QUESTIONS — EXPANDED INQUIRY (11–20)

❖ Question 11 — Who or what is aware of the smile and softening?

This question turns awareness inward.

Most people stop at noticing the smile.
But the deeper path begins when you ask:

What is it that notices the smile?
What is it that senses the softening?

This noticing is not the thinking mind.
It is the awareness behind the thinking mind.

PureMind is this awareness noticing itself.

When you ask this question sincerely, you may feel:

a widening in the chest
a shift behind the eyes
a sense of stepping back into spaciousness
a dissolving of effort

This question unveils the witness — and the witness is PureMind.

❖ Question 12 — Does PureMind feel like a place, a presence, or a knowing?

PureMind can be experienced in three primary ways:

1. As a place

A quiet inner sanctuary, unshaken by thoughts.
A space you can “rest in.”

2. As a presence

A warm, loving, stable field around and within you.
Not a person — a gentle presence.

3. As a knowing

A silent clarity that recognizes itself.

Over time, these three begin to merge.
PureMind becomes:

a knowing presence that feels like home.

❖ Question 13 — When the phrase appears, does it feel like remembrance or discovery?

This is precious.

When you say “Pure Mind,” does it feel like:

“Oh yes… I remember.”
or
“Oh… this is new”?

Most people experience both — discovery at first, then remembrance as the practice deepens.

PureMind is both:

ancient and ever-present
fresh and alive
familiar and surprising

The mixture of remembrance and discovery is one of the signs that you are touching something real.

❖ Question 14 — Is PureMind something I am entering, or something that is being revealed?

This question clarifies effort vs. grace.

If PureMind were something you “enter,” you would feel strain — trying, reaching, grasping.

But when PureMind is being revealed, the body softens automatically.

You can test this:

Say “Pure Mind” with effort — you will feel tension.
Say “Pure Mind” with receptivity — you will feel opening.

Revelation is grace.
PureMind reveals itself.
Your role is to allow.

❖ Question 15 — What happens when I rest in PureMind without using the words?

This is where the practice matures.

At first, the phrase is a key.
But eventually:

the door stays open
the room is familiar
the body knows the way

When you rest in PureMind without the phrase, you begin to sense:

a natural quiet
an effortless awareness
a warm clarity
a sense of being held from within

This is PureMind becoming your default state.

❖ Question 16 — Is the feeling of PureMind related to the sense “I AM”?

Yes — and this is a powerful doorway.

“I AM” is the primordial sense of existence before identity:

Before “I am worried”
Before “I am anxious”
Before “I am this person”

PureMind arises from this same place.
It is the I AM without attributes.

When you feel the smile, the warmth, the widening…
you are touching the “I AM” beneath the personal story.

This question connects PureMind with the deepest spiritual roots.

❖ Question 17 — What part of me recognizes PureMind as “home”?

This question reveals the inner child and the inner mystic.

It is often:

the innocent part of you
the unburdened part
the loving part
the timeless awareness

For many, it feels like:

“Something in me has always known this.”

This is not an idea.
It is recognition.

You are not discovering PureMind.
You are returning.

❖ Question 18 — Does PureMind feel personal, impersonal, or both?

This question reveals the paradox at the heart of awakening.

PureMind feels personal

because it brings warmth, intimacy, and tenderness.

PureMind feels impersonal

because it is spacious, universal, not limited to a separate self.

PureMind feels both

because it is awareness feeling itself.

This blending is one of the most beautiful aspects of the path.

PureMind holds your life intimately
while revealing the larger field that holds all beings.

❖ Question 19 — Where does love show up in the experience?

Look softly.

When you say “Pure Mind,” where does love appear?

In the warmth in the chest?
In the release in the belly?
In the softening behind the eyes?
In the smile?
In the sense of being held?

Love is not something you “produce.”
Love is what remains when contraction relaxes.

PureMind is clarity — but the moment clarity opens, love appears.

This is why PureMind feels kind.
Awareness without fear always feels like love.

❖ Question 20 — Is PureMind closer to silence or clarity? Or both at once?

Another paradox — another doorway.

PureMind is silence.
But not the silence of absence — the silence of presence.

PureMind is clarity.
But not the clarity of thought — the clarity of seeing.

As the practice deepens, you will feel:

the silence is clear
the clarity is silent

They are not two experiences.
They are one.

The silence is the love.
The clarity is the awareness.
Together they form PureMind.

🌿 SECTION A — PART 4 COMPLETED

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