About Awareness Being Aware of Awareness - 26th Sept. 2016
Saar (Essence)
Ananta guides a seeker to recognize that awareness is inherently aware of itself, even when the sense of being becomes incredibly subtle or transparent in deep meditative states.
Awareness is aware of itself; it is not blind to itself.
When awareness is in the foreground, beingness must be very subtle, otherwise it would be deep sleep.
The I is seen to be not separate from awareness itself.
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Transcript
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Hello. No, I wanted to check with you on about awareness being aware of itself. Yeah, um, I don't know actually what to what to say, but something was pushing here to come up, how it is experienced. Yeah, I just, you know, I just have that trust somehow that you jump in when something is not right here, you know. Um, so awareness being aware of itself, it's experienced here somehow that when the attention is going to awareness being aware of itself, only this is, only there's no nothing, there's no content can be experienced actually.
Can we make it even simpler? Can I help to try and make it simpler, easy? Yes? So like we were sharing earlier, we can say that I am aware of the sense of being, easy. So for you, you can make a statement like that. You can say, 'I am aware, of course I'm aware of the sense of being which is here.' But in that statement, what are we really saying? We're really saying that I am aware of this awareness which is aware of the sense of being. So awareness is aware of itself. Yes?
Yeah, um, in something not itself, and yet not itself in some attributional way, but just to be able to see I am aware of being, it means first I must be aware of what awareness is, isn't it?
Yes, of course. Yes, yes. Therefore I must be aware of this awareness. Therefore this 'I' is seen also to be not separate from awareness itself. I say awareness aware of itself, yeah? Is that so? I forgot... okay, you're not the last sentence, the sentence before the last sentence was that strange? Oh my god, this is all actually so... actually so when you see awareness aware of itself, it is not through the sense of duality, although in the words it can sound like it's a bit dual or something, yeah? But it is just with the simplicity of seeing that there is awareness of something, including awareness of being, already implies that awareness is aware of this awareness which is aware of being, easy. It is not blind to itself in that way. No? Yeah, yeah, that's my point.
Yeah, I want to jump in. Um, this awareness by, I don't know how, awareness by itself is everything, yeah? It doesn't need this content of beingness. Yeah, and this is what the experience, yes, somehow flowing, you know, flowing from that's just a flowing going on. You cannot... awareness and beingness as such are not separate, you think that sense, and yet like you always say, the quality is very, is very different. Um, as awareness doesn't have any quality, beingness has quality and that, and there's a flowing going on, you know. When this awareness here, it is in time, there are times where there's really only awareness without even beingness. Yes?
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And okay, can we pause on this one for a second, just to clarify this? Yes, there are two types of experiences where we can say something like that. One is that which we call deep sleep, that there is just awareness here, there is no content, there is no being, there is no quality, easy. So of course within the sleep state we cannot say anything at all because there is no being, but it is our experience of sleep there. You can see there is another experience which is called Turia or some very high levels of meditation where it can seem like there is no being, but actually what is the difference between this Turia state and the sleep state is that there is a glimmer, there's this tiny strand of beingness which is still there, you see? So it doesn't seem like I'm asleep, you see? Like I'm unconscious, but it does still feel like there is no being, there is only awareness here. This is what the sages in the past have called the Turia state, a highly meditative state where even the sense of being is very, very transparent, easy. You cannot really find it, it's a very thin strand, and yet it is different from sleep. Yes?
And this is, you know, there was something now when you are, when I listen to you now, it gets very clear. If there was, there must be even when the awareness is totally in the foreground somehow, the beingness must be very, very subtle there before, because when it's not that, you were just like I said, yeah, but I'm not keeping that, it is just... yeah, yeah, this was somehow a clarification which... and in this, you know, it's flowing, you know, it's just... no, it's not something stable. So it's just from this awareness, well, it's just flowing to neutral beingness and yeah. Yes, yeah, yeah. Thank you, thank you so much. Nice day, thank you.
You.
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