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#3745 - Monday, December 8,
2009 - Editor: Gloria Lee
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Paul Brunton
Everything remembered is a thought in
consciousness. This not only applies to objects, events, and
places. It also applies to persons, including oneself, he who is
remembered, the "I" that I was. This means that my own
personality, what I call myself, was a thought in the past,
however strong and however persistent. But the past was once the
present. Therefore I am not less a thought now. The question
arises what did I have then which I still have now, unchanged,
exactly the same. It cannot be "I" as the person, for
that is different in some way each time. It is, and can only be,
"I" as Consciousness.
— Notebooks Category 8: The Ego > Chapter 2:
I-thought > # 3 posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
Awareness Is Everything
wareness/Being is Everything. Whatever you
experience, you are always aware of that experience. Awareness is
always part of every experience. There are not two things:
Awareness and the experience. The experience is the energy of
Awareness manifesting as that energy event. The experience is the
Awareness of it. We are nothing but the unfolding events of
experience as Awareness. We are everything in that everything is
Awareness being everything.
Being a separate self is Awareness being that experience of
separate self-hood. There is no separate Awareness that is
viewing the experience as the experience is itself Awareness. You
cannot separate the waves from the ocean. Experiences are waves
of Awareness and one cannot separate the Awareness from the event
as the event is itself Awareness eventing.
In whatever we say, do or think, all of these experiences are
just Awareness manifesting as those thoughts, words or actions
without any separation between the Awareness of and the
experience. In such a dimension how can we not be free in each
moment? There is no personal Awareness as my Awareness or your
Awareness. Who is there to be liberated? There is the experience
of the thought “my Awareness” and “your Awareness”…
but these are also experiences of a non-personal and universal
Awareness appearing as those thoughts of “my” and
“yours”. In this way the entire ocean is present in the
smallest wave.
Just noticing and being Aware as a practice, is Awareness arising
as that. In such a practice Awareness has nothing to gain. In not
practicing being Aware, Awareness has nothing to lose. All
experiences are equally Awareness appearing as those experiences.
Awareness is not more present in some experiences and less in
others. No matter the size of the wave, all waves are still
equally ocean.
In that our Awareness is unchanging and perfect as it is, without
need of learning, remembering or realizing anything… when
appearing as our ego-consciousness we search for enlightenment,
trying to find the exact magic technique or unique realization.
Awareness, our true nature, as our actual awareness and
witnessing perceivingness, is not affected by any realization or
insight that may arise through the apparent efforts of the ego in
its attempt to discover some new view of reality. And those
efforts of the ego to realize something are also not originated
within the ego but arise as well from Awareness. Even the newly
arising realization is just another experience that arises in a
momentary witnessing without benefit or harm to the already
present witnessing Awareness. That Awareness is present while we
are thinking, before thinking has arisen and after thinking has
ceased. Be clear here, thinking is Awareness appearing as
thinking. Since there is no benefit to be found from any ego plan
or strategy, wouldn’t it be better to just abandon all
efforts and relax completely into the pure moment of simply Being
Aware as is?
by Jackson Peterson
from Way of Light
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
"It is the perfume." -Francis Lucille
photo by Alan Larus http://www.ferryfee.com/bluesky/Stream_4.htm