Meditation – Does Awareness Imply Duality?
08/04/2022
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welcome everyone lovely to see you
hello rochelle mark holger frank chris holly ron and jenny
okay
so notice that you are aware
and that awareness is not something that you are doing
but as awareness there is no separate entity no person who is engaging into any particular activity in order to be aware
you don’t need to be someone in order to be aware
awareness is effortless
and effortlessly awareness is aware that it is aware
so in this moment you may perceive a sensation you’re hearing this voice maybe the singing of the birds in the background
and one could say that awareness is aware of hearing these words
effortlessly
one could also say that awareness is aware that that it is
without the singing of the birds and without hearing these words
5:13 because awareness is not like a a picture that you need to fill with water or with milk
it has no shape no form no phenomenal or objective qualities yet it’s undeniable
there isn’t a separate reality that is hearing these words
these these words this hearing arises spontaneously as awareness takes on the form of hearing in this moment
it takes on the form of breathing
takes on the form of a thought a memory
it is via awareness that there is such a thing as a hearing
awareness taken on the form of hearing
it is not the other way around it is not sound or hearing which gives rise or creates awareness
this is why we say awareness is complete freedom and complete creativity
it is not subject to what appears within it
it is not subject to that which it perceives
although there is no separate
person who is actively being busy getting busy being aware
it is undeniable that it is i which is aware
but this i is not an activity
it is not a process
10:19 i am aware means that i am awareness
aware that i am meaning aware that awareness is
and aware that i am aware
meaning aware that awareness is aware
in ignorance meaning in unhappiness
we believe that i refers to a limited consciousness a personal body mind
in ignorance we believe that i is somebody who exists in time and space for the past and the future
in ignorance there is a physical reality overlook
the true reality the one reality the reality of awareness of consciousness
so in awareness in the fact of being aware there is no duality because there is no separate entity that is performing any activity
the creativity is the creativity of consciousness of awareness which loves to create
but creation does not mean that there is a separate reality that is being created your thoughts are not separate from awareness
the world you perceive meaning your perception is not separate from awareness
although you may imagine that the world is outside of awareness outside of yourself
it is not because your imagination is intimately one with awareness
it is consciousness which chooses
15:01 to believe itself to be a woman or a man a person
it is i consciousness which decides to define myself
as a son as a daughter
as a good person as a bad person
it is i consciousness who decides to play the game that it’s impossible to be without being a person
not in order to be i need to become a person that exists in time and space
and it is i consciousness who decides to realize in this moment that there is only one reality which is i consciousness not a male or female form but the formless invisible reality of being
you can never experience anything outside of awareness in fact it is awareness itself
which is taken on the form of a perception sensation a thought
there isn’t a separate thinker or a personal creator
this this belief in this feeling of being a person is an appearance that appears to you but it is not that which you are
that which you are you cannot know via your mind via your thinking and your feeling that which you are you know it intuitively via the understanding the understanding that i does not refer to refer to a male body or a female body there are no problems with bodies of female male bodies but the world the body and the mind there’s no problem but you don’t need to define yourself meaning defining you don’t need to define awareness or consciousness as a perception or a sensation or something
because in any way you define yourself your true self your only self is a reduction is a some form of illusory reduction limitation
the veil of ignorance is simply this belief and feeling that i am a person i’m a man a woman a son and a daughter existing in time and space
20:04 it’s a download that somehow we bought into it then we maintain it believing that it is essential
and so we are worried and concerned about this me this illusory structure illusory entity
the pro preoccupying we become preoccupied
concerned sometimes worried and sometimes afraid as a separate entity
we feel there is something really important at stake for for for this me and so we we do our best to to protect this this me we were wired to do that to protect you know the body is wired to protect itself from danger but here we we wire ourselves to to protect this illusory me the story the story of me the feelings about me my past my memories we feel it’s really important and sometimes we realize
no no no we can let it go we can relax we can simply be enjoy enjoying the company of a friend without wanting anything without defending anything
that we can be exposed naked in our being open we can we can be with a friend and and be in a listening space in a sharing space and a sort of a fresh discovery by moment of the friendship of the love of the of the sameness of the sameness because
that’s what we truly love is is this recognition of of myself as yourself you know the one one the one one being one one is the one self the
like drops of water like two drops of water in the ocean
our essence is this this sameness this borderless impersonal consciousness awareness brahman whatever words you want to use you see that’s really what we love
