Adyashanti - You Are Awareness 

I love that!

❤❤

Yes, that which is not conditioned. Awarenes itself. Rest in that. Live from that. That which is beyond description, and which is always present and here. You are not a human being having a spiritual experience....you are a a spiritual being having a human experience. 😊

@@josephoutward Obviously you haven’t experienced it. You’ll never believe it until you do. Nothing I say can change that. Personally, last May I was having an anxiety attack, I searched RU-vid for a random meditation and accidentally ended up discovering that I am not the mind. Not only am I not the mind, but the mind in itself is not an entity. I saw this directly, and walked around for 8 whole days in clear knowledge of this. I had no idea that this was even a possibility until it “happened” to me. I’ve never felt so peaceful in my life. Now I’m just trying to get back there. I’ve had at least another 5 experiences every bit as reality-shattering as this since last May. So, do I believe this stuff? Belief has very little to do with it. I have experienced the truth of the matter directly and whatever beliefs I held at the time had absolutely no bearing on it.

@@josephoutward The meditation that led to my initial discovery is called Natural Noticing, by Mooji. I was only trying to calm my anxiety. I got more than I bargained for, lol. It changed my life completely. I was an atheist up until that point, too.

I am seeing the magic of these insights played out beautifully in the dark souls one universe. The initial prison cell, the walls and halls of the asylum, and the asylum boss all as images of the doing mind and the ego awareness as the "chosen one " It holds up all the way to the end game and new game plus. What a fabulous zen koan they snuck into adolescent minds

@@SuperVancelot it’s true, this is why I have the nondualistic dark soul/humanity as my avatar :)

@@SuperVancelot you’re the first person I’ve ever met that picked up on that. Funny, with the whole Dark Souls lore community how this has gone unnoticed.

@@josephoutward Like cognitive scientists John Vervaeke says, there are several types of knowledge, but the vast majority of people are hooked only on "propositional" knowledge. This is the kind of knowledge you’re encoding in symbolic statements. But however important, and it is important, this type of knowledge is very shallow. As a caricatural example think of someone who has read some new age article and took from it the following propositional knowledge "I am the universe!" (It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not, it will serve my point regardless). This knowledge won’t change them one bit, except giving them the temporary "good feels" whenever they think it. But give them cancer or just steal their bike and they’ll wail and mourn exactly like any other egocentric individual. Funny thing seeing the universe wailing that it got cancer. Might as well take that proposition and write it on a piece of paper and put it in the shirt pocket, instead of your memory, and it will have the same effect on your identity and experience. But then there are other types of knowledge like procedural, perspectival and participatory. The first one has to do with the non-explicit non-propositional instinctive way in which we know how to behave and integrate with the world-knowing how to swim, how to drive, how to kiss (your child, your wive, the one with which you’re having an intense sexual relationship). The other two are very hard to explain. Perspectival knowledge is also a knowledge that is NOT coded in language. It’s the instinctive knowing you have that changes the internal attitude/orientation you have within your experience, thus changing the "geometry" of experience. I remember being in the kitchen with my extended family reunited for the holidays, and even though we were all exactly in the same environment, due to their particular personal perspectival knowledge, everyone was experiencing that same environment as a different reality-each was relating to the same context in different ways based on their inner perspective. Important note here: you can educate these types of knowledge but they aren’t under your conscious will; most people don’t even realize they have these aspects of their minds. My nephews and parents had no idea about themselves deploying perspectival skills, just like an armadillo who has rolled up in a defensive attitude doesn’t have any idea that it deployed an evolved instinct-they just engage in those things reflexively, without any meta awareness. And the last one, participatory knowledge, is how you see/feel/know yourself to be part of Existence. Some feel themselves to be nothing more complex than "workers and family men" (like my dad), others feel themselves as children of God, others feel themselves to be manifestations of God, or one of the endless forms bustling forth from the great Dao, or physical mechanisms evolved by darwinian evolution, or being no one (having an enlightened allocentric conscious experience instead of an egocentric consciousness), etc. Imagine how different JD Rockefeller’s experience of who he was, was to Thich Quang Duc (the monk who immolated himself in protest of vietcong persecution). This fundamental way of experiencing who/what you are influences all other stances, goals, desires, reactions, etc you have. Participatory knowledge does evolve or changes drastically but to a much lesser degree. Precisely because these types of knowledge aren’t verbal types of knowledge, you cannot easily convey them to other people like you convey propositional knowledge. If someone enlightened tried to convey their participatory and perspectival knowledge to someone else they would have almost no other options besides language. And the minute they would engage in language they would be constrained by language. They would have to make a mockery of their experience by saying things like "i feel like i am the universe" which is a very misleading sentence. I’ve heard teachers that these teachings are like constant nudges, none of them individually accurate, but collectively trying to orient you towards realization-and once you have it you know that all the words used were terribly wrong. The best way of using words to point to these things is by being poetic, by trying to point to things beyond the words themselves. But people are habituated to clear concrete shallow straightforward propositions, so this vague nebulous poetic stuff appears as nonsense. Alan Watts said: *The Teaching is like a finger pointing to the Moon (which in eastern literature symbolizes the metaphysical truth/or mystery). But in order to see the moon your gaze must let go of the finger and see beyond it. The point is not in the pointing. People though are captivated by the finger, they admire it intensely, suck on it for comfort-that’s what Christians are doing with their bible and rituals. They never suspect the beyond to which those things are pointing.*

He is the real deal. I agree.

No2Blame chill. :)

That’s like the sun trying to escape its own light. Just observe the mind, it’s thoughts, and rest as THAT which observes all. You are THAT. When you try to THINK.... of THAT, your back in the mind. You are THAT in which everything arises.

Rest As Awareness

Look up Rupert Spira

u can find all on his website (official one)

Great.

Awesome

the ego wants to pull things it likes toward it and push things it doesn’t like away from it, while awareness is the space in which the process of push and pull happens. so to answer your question, the ego tries to get rid of the parts of itself it doesn’t like while holding on the the parts it likes.

In short, ever freedom!

Bliss, which has no polar opposite.

But even with all that, we still only have awareness. You are not senses or thoughts but they are there.

panzerd18 , he simply is. labels engages ego, separation. you and him and I are part if the same isness, oneness.

He says Rest As Awareness not in Awareness which would connote a separation of you. As he also said you are not just the observer or witness, you are indeed the Awareness. Blessings…

@@renakmans3521 Yes the awareness of awareness.

Listen to a lot of Rupert Spira videos. Maybe do some of his guided meditations. Listening to Eckhart Tolle is also very helpful too.

@@brianlittrell797 thank you 🙏🏼

@@mokuho You're welcome.

Brilliant

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