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Originally Posted by sky123
' Consciousness and awareness is there though. But no ego type stuff.'
I think of this as ' Awareness without consciousness ' a state of pure awareness, been there many times but unfortunately it doesn't last  |
Some plays on words based on your post comes to my mind...
Are you sure
you were there when pure awareness was present?
If it is present, are you?
Maybe you have never been there, but the absence of "you" manifests the experience of it.
How do we know we are not always there?
How do we know it doesn't last?
If we are awareness, then we are there always if we are awake. But then why do we not experience it always? Why are we aware of other realities. Why does awareness focus on thought, beliefs, ideas and not the emptiness and peace and mystery of now? Why is reality contracting instead of expanding? I would guess it's because awareness is preoccupied with the things in the ball that make up the self. When awareness takes it's attention off of these things they cease to be a part of experience and so experience changes. One finds themselves there. But then we are always there just choosing to make here about self and not about what it is. We make it about the self and not about what it is without self.