Existence Has No Cause

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[00:00:00]You don't need a second flashlight to see the light of the first flashlight.

[00:00:06]Light reveals itself by shining.

[00:00:09]In the [snorts] same way, awareness reveals itself by being aware.

[00:00:14]It doesn't need to step outside itself to know that it is.

[00:00:18]Right now, without effort, you know that you are.

[00:00:23]You know that you are aware.

[00:00:26]You didn't [snorts] reason your way into that. You didn't need a concept.

[00:00:31]You just checked.

[00:00:33]This points to a radical possibility.

[00:00:37]Existence is self-luminous.

[00:00:40]Its very nature is to shine, to know itself as everything that appears.

[00:00:47]So, in that sense, it has no cause or external explanation.