Very few goals are easier done than said. Awakening as our essential nature is an exception to this generality.
We are all aware. If we were not aware, we could not read this post. Furthermore, a simple reflection reveals we can immediately be aware we are aware. This recognition of being aware of awareness is fundamental to awakening. The next apparent revelation is noticing there is no ‘me’ aware of this awareness, there is simply Awareness aware of awareness. Our recognition existentially as awareness is termed as awakening.
Put another way, try not to be aware. We cannot find any time when we are not aware. Even during deep sleep, there is an underlying awareness. When we wake, we know we slept well or poorly. During deep sleep, we are simply aware without an external object of awareness contained in and as Nothing. Awareness is the single “thing” pervasively expressing through/as life.
Recognition as Awareness is an unremarkable, non-phenomenal recognition. Generally, we are focused on being aware of some phenomenal object. Awakening is recognition as Awareness—a universal recognition of an expressing movement/experience. Once more to quote St. Francis, “What you are looking for is what is looking.” What is looking is not a phenomenal object or individual entity. What is looking is Awareness emanating from/as Nothing.
Enjoy, Bec and Steve