A:  Reality is inescapable.  Therefore whatever aroma is followed with honesty, not conceptual but real brutal honesty, will reveal itself.  Nothing false can be applied through any sort of teaching or pointing, simply because the false, even false pointing, reveals itself in honesty.  And reality cannot be hidden or difficult, simply because whatever Reality is, it MUST be already here and now.  It MUST be already the case, or else it wouldn't be reality - it would be more concepts.

Therefore pure, peeled back reality is pointed to.  That's it.  Reality without the overlay of concepts, which is what "relative reality" or "identified reality" really is.  It's reality, translated by mind.  And in this translation, the primary concept is "I AM".

The obvious and clear reality, you KNOW you ARE, you are self-evident - THAT is translated by mind into "I AM" - but that becomes "I am so and so".  I am this body, I am thinking, I am jeff.  This insistence on the TRANSLATION as reality MUST, by definition, insist on the opposite of this translated "I AM".  The opposite of I AM is WORLD.

Therefore look at this I AM - what is the nature of it?  The certainty of BEING is translated as BODY-MIND, as "jeff".  The body-mind-jeff is a translation in mind of the already-present certainty of BEING.  Then that leads to the subject/object equation - I AM seeing a tree.  There is no "I" seeing a "tree".  There is only BEING, absolutely certain BEING - and the story is "I am seeing a tree".

There is no such thing in direct experience.  Look right now - the only place "I am seeing a tree" can come in, is through thought.  Through concept - requiring assumption of a separate "I" seeing a separate "tree".  It's false, already. 

Reality is just THIS, right here and now.  THIS contains no "I" and no "tree".  THIS is wholeness.  Seeking wholeness requires the conceptual formation of an "I" who seeks.  There is no such thing.  Wholeness IS, already.  Wholeness is THIS - nothing is needed, nothing can be added, to MAKE THIS whole.

This is the core teaching of Advaita Vedanta - THIS, right here and now, is Advaita - not-two.  One, without a second, even if the "second" arises in concept - it's known to be only a concept, only a translation, which can never divide the wholeness of this very moment.  So the mirage appears to be water until it's seen that it's only water in appearance - the mirage still seems to be water yet the falseness is clear - the belief that it IS water has fallen away.  What IS, remains as it is.  Only the belief in "water" is gone.