Awareness and the Dream

photo credit: Michele Catania

Awareness

There is awareness. There is awareness.

For some reason there is the belief in the human mind that physical reality is what’s real, but it is nothing more than just a belief. It’s the illusion.

When awareness gets amped up and it’s realized there is nothing but awareness, the content that awareness focuses on feels so… empty and light.

Everything is nothing.

What’s the difference between physical reality, imagination, the dream world we visit at night, wherever we go after we die, locations experienced when astrally projecting, experiences that arise in deep states of meditation, and everything else?

The rules are different. Certain laws, like the laws of physics, may apply in one place and not another. Certain colors and forms and shapes appear in one and not another, but that’s about it. They’re all just different illusions appearing within awareness. They’re all like different movies that awareness can watch.

Awareness is.

and awareness is SO much more real than any observable reality.

Finding Yourself

Who you are is not found in something that can be observed, but in what does the observing. (Yet a deeper realization is that the observer and the observed are one and the same, for there exists only one presence.)

It is what can not put into a box because it is that which witnesses the box.

Your true nature can not be labeled because it is that which is aware of the label.

It is what the mind can not wrap itself around because it is the infinity in which the mind does the wrapping.

It is not found in thought because it is that which watches the thoughts.

It is not found in form because it is the formless spaciousness that allows form to be.

It is not your consciousness because it is that which is conscious of a “you” who could be conscious or have a consciousness in the first place. Rather, it is consciousness itself, directly.

It’s All One

The Infinite are One. The One is Infinite.

We experience synchronicity, where we see the same thing showing up repeatedly in multiple times, in multiple locations, and in a variety of ways.

We experience the Law of Attraction, where we see the correlation between our thoughts and what manifests.

We experience the world reflecting back to us our own state of being and our own level of consciousness, much like a mirror.

Why is this?

Because it’s ALL ONE.

See Awareness

This. This.

What is in this moment, right here and now, exists everywhere and is everpresent. The eternal presence of Here.

The awareness behind the thought.

The awareness behind the mind that looks for truth in beliefs or in evidence.

The awareness that witnesses scientific reason and religious faith.

The awareness that is so close that it’s so easily overlooked.

The awareness that witnesses the ego.

The awareness that witnesses the seeking and the clinging.

The awareness that is “found” during spiritual awakenings and “lost” if identification with form resumes.

The awareness that is aware of unenlightenment and the awareness that is aware of enlightenment.

The awareness that witnesses the most unconscious of actions and states.

The awareness that witnesses the most conscious and loving expressions.

Awareness.

Is awareness aware of itself?

Allow awareness to be aware of awareness.