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CONSCIOUSNESS and AWARENESS
Reconciling the “I AM” and the “I AM THAT”
To review, one attribute of conscious-energy is just that: conscious-of-ness or an ability to be conscious of something. By definition, then, consciousness at its most basic level must deal with duality since an object has to be present in order for a subject / consciousness to be conscious of.
During the manifestation, it is at the second witnessing stage (called “Pure Witnessing” only for the sake of discussion) where duality can be transitioned as the Oneness - as “the non-dual reality and Reality” - become understood.
Yet Awareness is that knowingness which knows nothing / no thing. Knowingness allows consciousness to know, but the knowingness does not know.
Some equate the pure, universal consciousness with awareness since it is unadulterated by being conscious of any phenomenal concepts. Yet even the pure, universal consciousness must be considered to be conscious of something, by definition.
By contrast, the awareness while “in” the Absolute state is, but it is not aware of in that state. Only those attributes lead some to conclude that consciousness and awareness are not one, as if sticky glue and its stickiness could be separate.
The potential knowingness while “in” the Absolute state precedes all consciousness while nevertheless being that which allows consciousness to happen when manifested within physical a space. It is knowingness without knowing “this” or knowing “that.”
Even to declare that “I know I AM THAT” is an act in consciousness . . . an act made possible via knowingness, yet it is an act in consciousness nevertheless. The wise understand that the word “am” is never to be followed by anything:
That which precedes even the knowing of I AM THAT is that which is knowingness but which is unadulterated with any knowledge of anything / any thing, without any concepts, without anything supposedly “known.”
Recall the message behind the lyrics of “Nowhere Man” as written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney:
He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody.
Disparaging? Not really. The lyrics continue with:
Nowhere man don’t worry,
Take your time, don’t hurry
Leave it all ‘til somebody else
Lends you a hand.
[Thus the call throughout history from the wisest to spend a brief time with one that has traveled the non-dual path to nowhere and can now “lend a hand” to facilitate “your journey to nowhere.”]
Ultimately, though, there is no knower. To say “I know the knowingness” is duality. To say “I know the knowingness but there is no knower” is still an exercise in consciousness and is thus dualistic.
Why do those that "Realize the Reality" function in ways that are considered “moral” even when there is no belief . . . including any belief in definitions of morality?
In the absence of a knower or “decider,” there are no decisions made and there is nothing that is known. (In fact, that is exactly what is known: nothing.) From that stance, all that happens merely happens, spontaneously.
With no concepts or dogma or body or mind or personality identification that is driving persons, there are no fears and no desires. In the absence of concepts and ideas and beliefs that generate fears and desires, no “others” are attacked out of perceived fears and no “others” are manipulated, abused, or used to fulfill imagined desires. Peace (or the ability to handle interruptions to the peace without becoming emotionally-intoxicated) can then happens.
This “no-concept, non-dual Reality” results in an appreciation of the void and the nothingness. "Nowhere" suddenly takes on a more comfortable connotation, yes? As does reaching the end of “the journey” along a “path” and then “sitting in nowhere land” and then making “nowhere plans for nobody.”
Then “the nothingness” and “Real Love” and neti-neti can be understood:
The Italians have an expression: il dolce di fare niente (“the sweetness of doing nothing”). Since the non-dual understanding makes clear that there is no do-er, then the Advaitin pointer could more accurately note, il dolce di niente: the sweetness of nothing, the essence of nothing / of the nothingness / of nowhere-ness.
Remember the earlier point: sugar is elemental; sweetness is not. Sweetness is the essence of the sugar. A child eating a candy bar does not care about the elements involved. The child is enjoying the essence, period.
Realization is about enjoying the essence, the sweetness, which is the essence of the void, of the nothingness, of the nowhere-ness, of the no-concept, no-thought, no-mind, non-dual Is-ness which is the essence which can be enjoyed until the current manifestation ends.
To be continued.
Please enter into the silence of contemplation.
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