tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329640441018281006.post5389370726970338116..comments2023-10-26T01:36:26.222-07:00Comments on Self discovering self: Who is enlightened? - Part 1Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329640441018281006.post-46596081600376596772009-01-26T19:02:00.000-08:002009-01-26T19:02:00.000-08:00That's ok. If there is difficulty at seeing yourse...That's ok. If there is difficulty at seeing yourself as the awareness, see the difficulty. What sees the difficulty?<BR/><BR/>You see you can't avoid it. Whatever you do and whatever you say, the you who is doing it is aware of the doing and the saying. <BR/><BR/>The mind simply raises objections to knowing yourself as the awareness because that is its job -to preserve the separation. Look beyond mind's objections. Who is looking? What registers mind's objections? <BR/><BR/>There is no escaping this awareness that we are. Even despite the strongest objections. Something registers the objections. <BR/><BR/>You are the awareness. Even when you don't 'know' it. Drop the need to know - go directly to being that which you are.Ameetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17726173698731133947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329640441018281006.post-31491017174858818622009-01-25T22:38:00.000-08:002009-01-25T22:38:00.000-08:00"When we feel separate and unenlightened, it is th..."When we feel separate and unenlightened, it is the enlightened awareness experimenting with feeling separate and unenlightened."<BR/><BR/>Ameeta, I love the way you put that! Sometimes the I who I take myself to be just wants that hiding game to stop :-) I'm guessing there must be a higher reason for this playing at being separate?<BR/><BR/>There is some difficuly here at seeing that this awareness is what I truly am...<BR/><BR/>Many thanksChrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09877103029493137269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329640441018281006.post-21621991298614098942008-11-05T09:59:00.000-08:002008-11-05T09:59:00.000-08:00Thanks for your post Ron. As usual, you touch my h...Thanks for your post Ron. As usual, you touch my heart.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to reply late but I wanted to wait until I posted Part 2.<BR/><BR/>When we feel separate and unenlightened, it is the enlightened awareness experimenting with feeling separate and unenlightened. <BR/><BR/>When we are the unlimited everpresent, silent awareness, we are free to experiment with being limited, temporary, and argumentative body-minds. :-)<BR/><BR/>It feels restricted only when we see the restriction from the restriction. But see the restriction from the vastness of who you are, and all restriction shows itself to be only a shape and a play of awareness. <BR/><BR/>How to see the restriction from the vastness? Simply observe the whole truth of your experience. Yes it is true that you are feeling separate and unenlightened. And yet, is that the whole truth? What else is here? Notice the everpresent silent awarness in the background. Is this not your experience also? Mind tends to skip that part of experience. But we need not. We can see this background to everything. And we can see that we are that.<BR/><BR/>Thanks<BR/>AmeetaAmeetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17726173698731133947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5329640441018281006.post-9448192449229577472008-11-03T10:11:00.000-08:002008-11-03T10:11:00.000-08:00Reality must already be enlightened because Realit...Reality must already be enlightened because Reality fully cooperates with Itself. How could it not? Surely nothing stands outside of Reality....<BR/><BR/>Yet when I'm feeling separated and unenlightened, I DO feel that I am standing somehow apart. Or I may project my feelings onto 'other' and blame the devil for standing apart. How ridiculous! How could I or the devil ever stand outside of Reality? So I must be enlightened, and the devil too! And these difficult feelings that I must become something other than I am must also be enlightenment. Every apparent 'part' of ONE cannot be other than ONE.Ron Marsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15593363364209491583noreply@blogger.com