Right here, right now, I’m conscious, I’m aware. Literally.
That’s it. Anything more is an Abbot and Costello routine. Who’s on first? I am. Who am I? And so on.
There’s many stories about this consciousness, this awareness. But no story can really encircle this consciousness. Awareness always encircles any story.
Similarly, there are many descriptions of this awareness. They usually revolve around space and light and purity and love and omnipresence and other like metaphors. Good stories, all.
Here’s another story. Son looked into the mirror one morning and suddenly realized the mirror was looking at him.
True story. But still, it’s a story. It cannot do justice to the truth of that moment, but only point to it. The truth of that moment was an intuitive apperception.
Ultimately, it’s absolutely intuitive. And it’s absolutely always there. And it's absolutely so obvious.
Who'd have thunk?
(to be continued?)
Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
June 8, 2010
that light
There comes a point when the idea that ‘everything is consciousness’ is actually seen on a level other than thought. It’s suddenly understood on an intuitive level, or in Nisargadatta’s terminology, it’s apperceived intuitively. It dawns, and that light is you!
Of course!, the mind says, when it returns from its hiatus. And then it goes about creating the story in which it owns that understanding. Business as usual, but this time, the apperception is there, and it sees the mind for what it is. Just thoughts arising within the apperception which is consciousness, the omnipresent intelligence-energy of awareness.
And so the mind is instructed to tell that story.
(to be continued)
Of course!, the mind says, when it returns from its hiatus. And then it goes about creating the story in which it owns that understanding. Business as usual, but this time, the apperception is there, and it sees the mind for what it is. Just thoughts arising within the apperception which is consciousness, the omnipresent intelligence-energy of awareness.
And so the mind is instructed to tell that story.
(to be continued)
June 4, 2010
the sea of god
“The person is not the experiencer; the person is experienced.” ~Greg Goode
Lovely quote. Thus everything is just a ripple in consciousness. Waves come and waves go. The wave we call the personality is rising and falling constantly, never the same. Although I once believed it to be one wave. And I believed I was that wave.
But now, I ride those rising and falling waves, knowing there is no ‘I’ riding, but just a wave riding another wave. It’s like a pliable surfboard riding an oscillating wave. It’s quite free when it wants to be.
When relating with other people, the wave pretending to be a person appears. And even when the wave that believes it actually is this person makes an appearance, there comes a time when a wave that knows it’s not that person reappears. Not only free, it’s quite the fun ride.
Moreover, look at every wave around me! I’m a dream-rider surfing on the sea of God. How lovely is that?
Lovely quote. Thus everything is just a ripple in consciousness. Waves come and waves go. The wave we call the personality is rising and falling constantly, never the same. Although I once believed it to be one wave. And I believed I was that wave.
But now, I ride those rising and falling waves, knowing there is no ‘I’ riding, but just a wave riding another wave. It’s like a pliable surfboard riding an oscillating wave. It’s quite free when it wants to be.
When relating with other people, the wave pretending to be a person appears. And even when the wave that believes it actually is this person makes an appearance, there comes a time when a wave that knows it’s not that person reappears. Not only free, it’s quite the fun ride.
Moreover, look at every wave around me! I’m a dream-rider surfing on the sea of God. How lovely is that?
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