What happen when we detect an error? We cannot just delete it, leaving a blank. As with spell-check, errors in spelling is high lighted and replaced by one with correct spelling. To make sure the label 'sugar' is on the right jar, we must check the content against our taste for confirmation. If it taste sweet, then we know the goods match the description. In doing so we are not manipulating the content to fit the label, we just placed the label where it should be or as it is.
Now we know, the label 'I' we used to point to our body and/or mind is in error. Guided by the wisdom of the kithab, we now know the TRUE identity of 'I" to be the field of Awareness and is consistent with its ONE "taste". Sugar have always been sugar with sweetness as its essence. The confusion arise only due to error of sticking the label on the wrong jar[containing other than sugar].
Now that we have no doubt, we have been Awareness all these while, the simple hindsight show up the silliness of the past when we mistook our selve as humans with a body that display a certain personality and are gender and raced based. Our True Identity is that Ultimate Subject which is aware of objects within its field[consisting of sights, sounds, taste, odour, sensation, thoughts and feelings.] Objects are mere data base that appear and disappear within the field call "I" Awareness itself is unchanging and unmoving and itself indivisible as one cannot cut up space. The appearance and disappearance of object are dependent on awareness as sound can only be known when there is hearing. However in the absence of sound[object],hearing is still present. Otherwise, what is it that note the silence?. In fact this presence of awareness is not dependent on anything and is Truly sovereign. Awareness have no source[creator] and itself a prior condition for the appearance of objects.
In the primordial state of awareness on the very First instant, appearance manifest within it, there can be no movement or change in appearance[post activities that follows with the first appearance]In this absolute stillness, there can be NO time as time record events of change. No change mean no event and therefore no time. In the absence of light, the form of space cannot be known, be it a tight space in a room or out in the wide open space of the cosmos, it cannot be discerned.
Human knowledge is memory on a collection of experiences. No experience translate to no memory[record of memory]and result in NO knowledge.
In some scripture knowledge is represented by the forbidden fruit and ingesting it breaks the primordial peace[as in the garden of Eden]
If one can leave thoughts behind, by seeing through them as illusions appearing and disappearing there is the realization of intrinsic wisdom. By abandoning thought[forbidden fruit],our discriminating mind of duality such as good and bad is stopped in its track as its very function depends on thought. In a flash, we are back in the garden of Eden which we never left, but merely intoxicated[confused] by our mortal mind[intellect].
Everything remain as it is and nothing change. The earth remain a sphere even the whole world believe it to be flat.'
'I' have always been awareness, as God told Moses 'I am that I am'. 'I' is Awareness which is inconceivable and non-perceivable and cannot be known as with object. Isn't this an attribute of GOD.
Perhaps, GOD, Buddha, Tao, Brahman. Johovah, Tuhan are but different name for this ONE ultimate subject which is omnipresent, eternal, the only knowing there is[omniscience] and the source of everything[making it omnipotent]Immutable and indivisible. Jesus is full of clarity when he declare 'me and my father are ONE'. On other occasion he express the same thing from a different view as 'BE Still and Know I AM God'. If we take a snapshot of space and its content. The contents are the phenomena or appearances[comes and go and never still]while the context, the space itself is an unmoving[Still]field which in reality IS the Noumena [True nature] of everything and its essence is VOID.
All the confusion evaporates when duality of subject and object are erased as all objects are merely manifestation[Illusions] of ONE awareness. The hindu in advaita just conclude all as 'om tat sat' meaning All is That[Awareness].So our True identity 'I' alone is, and there can be no others. Once we know the world to be illusionary, we must purge all our data banks from error entry[delusions].In our daily operation, depending on past memory, we must not continue with the wrong view that the world is real and we are individuals collectively known as human. The mirage[dream] continue,but we see the dream as dream and enjoy the show like a movie, knowing full well all that is up on the screen[2-D representation of space] are illusions.
For the very first time we awake TO[not the usual From]the dream, meaning in the midst of a dream, one know it to be a dream. Like a movie, it can be story of tragedy, human drama, comedy cartoon, supernatural and paranormal celebrating pain and joy and yet the actors and props are only the projector light caught on the screen and in reality there is no sufferers and enjoyer, while there is suffering and joy in the story. What we treat as Reality are in fact fiction. The confusion being just a simple error introduced into the sixth consciousness.
Holy cow! I being awareness is not borne and will not die so there is no fear of death. Also in awareness there is no other and as all is myself there is no who or what that I should fear or love as there exist none, other than me[awareness] is REAL .The love and aversion for mirages stop. Time and space are the story board from which fiction spring to life and all collection of past event are term HIS[story] which means story of GOD[as in thy will be done].In clarity history are fictions, the movie house that never rest[Samsara, never running out of new film from 'karmic' production]
Sakyumuni wisdom is in this simple observation. 'If there is no unconditioned[Awareness or Nirvana],there will be no escape for the conditioned[phenomena or the world of samsara]'. Both Nirvana and Samsara share the same space and Nirvana is not to be thought of as a heavenly place outside of samsara. Awareness is the substratum of everything including space.Space in modern physic actually change 'shape' as it warps in the vicinity of gravitational force and in region of strong field[in the vicinity of black hold]the distortion is very noticeable.
It has nothing to do with effort of the individual,one of the many dream characters, but simply BE the awareness that is witnessing the on going dream within its knowing apace. Awareness is already perfect and need no addition or subtraction to enhance it.
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