Oneness: the destination you never left by John Greven

Author:John Greven [Greven, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Non-Duality Press
Published: 2005-11-23T23:00:00+00:00

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Presence/Awareness

Presence of Awareness

Awareness of Presence

Look closely at these.

Who are you? Do you know?

The answer to the question seems to make more sense if it is asked: what are you? The answer is that you are the real. You are the reality that gives validity to things. You are the unchanging reality in which the temporal reality moves across and through.You are the constant in an ever changing appearance. Every-thing appears within spaceless awareness.

You are a presence, which cannot be defined by the mind.You are presence/awareness in which everything, including the mind appears.

Presence cannot be any more or less present than what it is. It is pristine, untouched, and undeniable, regardless of life’s circumstances and the thoughts of the mind. Awareness cannot be any more or less aware than what it is while allowing everything to effortlessly appear across its surface. Presence of Awareness, Awareness of Presence—whole and complete, untouched by time, space, events, or thought. Everything that is, appears in awareness. Awareness does not pick, choose, or judge what appears upon or within it. It does not matter what happens, awareness contains it as it is.

The mind then gets involved and suddenly things appear as what you think about them, but prior to, during, and after that, awareness lovingly embraces all that is, including the lies about who you are. Even while the mind is rebelling against something, awareness shines its light on that rebellion. Some use the analogy of a mirror to describe awareness. It reflects every-thing clearly without being changed in any way by what it reflects.

You may think, “Okay, I am presence/awareness.” Once you begin to look at this and take it into the mind—the mind will want to turn it into something that it has. Adding that concept onto the “I” thought. “I am aware.” “I am present.” But, if that is what is happening, you’re not “tuning in” so to speak to the actual presence/awareness that is readily available to be seen. Presence/awareness is not in the mind and it cannot be contained in the mind.The thought of presence/awareness, as with the rock, is not the actual. You don’t have awareness; you are awareness.You don’t have a presence; you are presence.The thought of it turns what you actually are into a concept to which the mind can relate. While that is happening, you are the presence/awareness standing in the clear waiting to be discovered. This cannot be stressed enough, everything is just an appearance within the awareness that you are; without exception, everything.

Only the thought of presence/awareness can be brought into the mind for consideration. While you are thinking about presence/awareness you are present and aware.You can’t objectify what you are.

So how do you stay with the presence/awareness that you are? How do you “tune in”? It is effortless because it is always on... you don’t have to try, just see. If you’re trying, then you’re just not noticing that it is inescapable and functioning all the time; or you’re trying to become something that you already are! Presence is effortless.

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