Awareness-spira

Our True Nature is Immediately Available
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Go back to your basic experience. See that you are That which is aware. First of all, see that your mind is just the current thought and image. Your body is just the current sensation and (if your eyes are open) perception. Now, having Seen that, See that You are That which is aware of the current thought, image, sensation and perception.

It’s easiest to see it with your thoughts. A thought has yet to appear. You are Present. The thought appears, You know it. It disappear; You remain. The next thought appears; You know it. It disappears; You remain. The next sensation appears; You know it. The sensation disappears; You remain. The sound of the airplane appears; You know it. In time it will disappear, but You remain. You, the knower of your experience, always remain. Thoughts are intermittent, images are intermittent, sensations and perceptions are intermittent, but You remain throughout. You are not made out of an intermittent thought, feeling, sensation or perception. You are just made out of this pure ‘substance’ called Knowing or Awareness.

You’re present and You’re aware; hence, Awareness. That’s the name. But don’t go too quickly to the name, don’t just pay lip service to the name. You really have to go there in your experience. Try not to give it a name. See, in your experience ‘Yes, I am obviously That.’ (Let’s just call it ‘That.’) ‘Whatever it is, I am That which knows or is aware of my experience.’ It’s not made out of a thought; it’s not made out of a feeling or sensation or perception. All these are coming and going. But That has always been with you. In fact, not ‘with’ you. That Is You. You’ve never ceased to be That. Although you may have mistaken yourself temporarily for a cluster of thoughts, feelings, sensations and perceptions; but even when you were mistaking yourself for that (or rather, even when thoughts and feelings were mistaking you for that) even then, You were still only That which is aware of those thoughts and feelings.

That’s the first step to realize: I Am That which is both Present and Aware. And that is not made out of sensation or perception.

Then, you pause there. Put thoughts and sensations at a distance; just for a while. Put them at a distance, which gives you the time and the space to really look at this that you have discovered that You Are. ‘I’ve discovered that I Am Awareness, I Am That which is aware. Now what are Its qualities? Its qualities are My qualities. What is essential to It? What cannot be removed from It? Thoughts can be removed from It; feelings can be removed from It. What can’t be removed from It?’

Being and Knowing are the first two. It is ever-present and It’s a Knowing Presence or an Aware Presence. But then, we have to go further than that and discover these three essential qualities that it has:

It is ever-present.
It is unlimited.
It is im-perturb-able.

Those are the three. Take time; pause here. Put the body/mind/world at a distance; give your attention to the Knower of the experience, not the known, and discover that in Its experience of ItSelf, is ever-present, it never finds a limit in itself and It cannot be disturbed. Its nature is peace or happiness.

That’s the most important one: Its nature is peace.
Your nature, under all circumstances, is peace.

Then, when or as that becomes clear, then go back to the thoughts, sensations and perceptions and explore them in the context of this new-found discovery.
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Rupert Spira
From compilation video entitled: Our True Nature is Immediately Available
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrzCqkcDljw&t=18s
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