What Does “Look Within” Mean? Where Is In?

We’ve all heard the famous instruction to “look within.” it comes in many forms.

“The Kingdom of God is within you.”

“All Truth is within.”

What on earth does that mean? Where is in? How do we look at it? How do we find it? Our eyes can only look outside of us. How are we supposed to look within?

Awareness Watching Awareness

When one begins to ask themselves, “What am I?’ the question will ultimately lead to the dissolution of the very person asking the question. The “I” that I’m seeking does not exist. The only aspect of “you” that is always there no matter what is the non-personal awareness. You are awareness.

Now awareness can be focused on what’s part of the illusion including thoughts, ideas, other people, my own body, the world, and so on. When we watch our thoughts, we can use our awareness (what’s real) to simply watch the thoughts (what’s unreal) pass by without identifying with them.

Alternatively, we can point the awareness (what’s real) directly at itself. Let’s try this now.

Notice the aspect of you that is aware of these words, the location you’re in, that’s aware of what’s being seen, heard, and felt. Notice that there is something that is aware of these sensations.

Next, actually become aware of the fact that you are aware.

By doing this, by being awareness watching awareness, you are now TRULY looking at your Self. By doing this, you are not going through the mind or engaging in any ego illusion. The illusion is being pierced straight through. When one loses focus on the awareness itself, the awareness is now focused back on the illusion and has lost touch with Reality.

Spirituality and Self-Realization Is That Simple

There’s so many distractions along the path of Self-realization. All enlightenment comes down to is realization your true nature. Things like crystals, manifestation, chanting, brain wave altering, channeling, and all other sorts of practices may certainly help you experience phenomena, but they will not give you the realization of the Self.

Realizing your true nature involves seeing through the illusions and keeping your attention focused solely and squarely on the Self, the awareness.

By doing this, the mind will begin to grow quieter and quieter as it progressively unravels. It will still kick and scream from time to time and continue to flare up occasionally, but when it does, simply surrender away the juice the mind gets from those experiences and it will lose its grip over you. By seeing yourself as awareness, this will progressively weaken and ultimately dissolve all identification with thoughts and with the mind.

You will then start to have “spiritual experiences” whereby you have glimpses of your true nature, and these experiences will be more real than anything of this world. These experiences will increase in frequency and duration until they become your permanent state.

There ya go. Self-realization.

It’s Awareness Watching Awareness.

All else is to be surrendered to God.

Are You a Truth Seeker? Can You Look Within and See Yourself?

Many people who are seeking Truth, be they scientists, spiritual seekers, or religious practitioners, are looking to find how they fit into the world and what their purpose is.

At the core of this search one finds the question “Who Am I?”

Once you figure out who you are, then you know how you fit into the puzzle of life and what your role in it is. So… who are you?

Can you ever actually see yourself?

Can you look outside of yourself to see yourself?

Let’s allow Adyashanti to take us on an adventure. Let’s see if it’s possible to actually “look within” as so many masters have told us to do. Read More …