Awareness

Awareness

There is something present that is seeing these words right now. Whatever this ‘something’ is, it is undoubtedly present and it is also aware. Let us call it Awareness.

The presence of ourselves as awareness is the most fundamental aspect of experience. We all know, ‘I am.’

In the experience, ‘I am,’ we know ourselves to be and, simultaneously to be aware.

Awareness and Presence are both present as one, in the experience ‘I am.’

Awareness is by definition aware and therefore aware of itself. It knows itself. Awareness’ awareness of itself is ever-present. Awareness cannot not know itself nor can it not be itself.

The mind, the body and the world are continuously appearing and disappearing, but this Awareness/Presence that is our fundamental nature never appears, disappears, moves or changes.

Awareness is like a dimensionless space in which all appearances of the mind, body and world take place, and if we look closely at our experience we find that it is also the substance of these appearances.

Normally we associate Awareness with our body or our mind and in this way we shrink it, that is, we shrink our self, into a tiny, vulnerable entity located in time and space. The experience ‘I am’ becomes, ‘I am the body.’

In this way the peace and happiness that are inherent in Awareness are seemingly veiled and the great search for happiness begins as a result.

This search eventually finds its resolution when it is seen clearly that we already what we seek, that we are already this present Awareness which is both the witness and the substance simultaneously of all things, and the true abode of peace and happiness.


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