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How To Live Informed By Consciousness? (Another Story)
This is one of those questions attention ponders without any particular clear understanding. Typically recognition doesn’t happen for me, only conceptualizing. Conditioned mind is alive and active. Seeing through the body’s conditioning is only a sometime happening. Clearly there’s no deep awakening here.
Except, this “not-seeing” is part of consciousness too because everything is as it is. Expectations actualized or not, when seen as mental filters, are seen as such by formless presence. Any sense of knowing or not knowing is because of consciousness otherwise there’d be no sense of anything.
Okay, then what? “Then what,” is that presence informs my apparent separate life every minute of every hour of every day. Sometimes knowing this happens, many times not. Somewhere, sometime, somehow, one moves beyond talking about, thinking about, obsessing about consciousness and what is real and what is dream (I’m speaking for myself here).
Mind doesn’t awaken; it overheats and totally exhausts the body, and momentarily stops. There is no conceptual breakthrough “just” a momentary shift in perception acting as an ephemeral consciousness place marker. Thereafter recognition and familiarity of how presence presents and is experienced in the body grows and deepens. Or not.
There seems to be less thinking and being, more feeling and doing until some balance makes itself felt and known. And if I am lucky, or touched by graced, or happen to have the “activating awakening consciousness” gene, I come to “know” without knowing how “informing” happens with every inhalation and expiration of the breath.
Thank you Tony~
It seems that one of the "drivers" in the search is a desire to have an experience called "peace of mind"... and this may or may not happen upon awakening to our true nature, but with all "experiences", it too shall pass~
It is the mind's very nature to be active, in movement and to divide~ It has been said that mind *creates* the world we see~ So Let's Let It Do Its Thing~ :)
It is important, methinks, to really dissect (using this mind), one's expectations around the Enlightenment,Awakening ,Realization paradigm~
Most seekers have a false belief around the "result department", in that what we have read or heard about these things quite often leads one to believe that states of bliss, peace and serenity are a direct byproduct of a successful search~
This goal orientated journey always leads to frustration because the experiences, sensations and feelings are Not who we Are and will Always come and go, come and go, come and go~
One may actually think that they have finally "Got IT" and with this realization, great and yummy feelings may arise in the body/mind, but when these feelings pass away, as feelings Always do, one is left even more frustrated than before and will spend countless hours trying to get back to that *sense* of peace and bliss... to no avail~
Do we think that Consciousness or Awakening are not big enough to include ALL passing states, even Anger or Frustration?
Let us examine this "me" character and its expectations or beliefs, First about its own validity (as a separate entity or thing) and second, about its expectations or beliefs around this seemingly elusive *Awakening*~
Passing states, spiritual experiences, human experiences, ALL experiences will come and go~~~~ Who or what we ARE does Not come and go and allows All things to pass before It, in It or on It~
TRYING to be present or TRYING to stop thoughts is like a finger~less man, untying knots~
Love to you~
Thank you for sharing. Some impressions: Satprem33 appears to have done much thinking, cogitating, ruminating, and contemplating about many things. It seems Satprem33 was a seeker of peace of mind and enlightenment. And somewhere along the line he learned that desires come and go. And thought perhaps he would be better served investigating the drive for desired outcomes . . . having got “it” and lost “it” (glimpses of awakening?) numerous times. And so he deeply examined “me,” its character, expectations and beliefs and came to see or know or understand or learn that who or what he is never comes and goes. Query: now what?
Thank you for your response, Tony~
Now what is whatever is happening~ I am drinking some "green drink", sitting at the computer and listening to my youngest Daughter singing in the other room~ The search for "my" identity no longer happens and life goes on Exactly as it did before~
Love to you~ :)
Satprem
Thank you for your response, Tony~
Now what is whatever is happening~ I am drinking some "green drink", sitting at the computer and listening to my youngest Daughter singing in the other room~ The search for "my" identity no longer happens and life goes on Exactly as it did before~
Love to you~ :)
Satprem