One Reality

When we first locate awareness in the background of experience for some time we feel that we go back and forth from the background of awareness to the content of experience, back to the background of awareness and then forward to the content of experience. And for some time these two seem to be mutually exclusive possibilities. But in time we discover that our essential nature of pure knowing, being aware or awareness itself, does not just lie back in the background of experience. It pervades all experience. And now having seen that our essential nature of pure awareness lies both in the background of experience and intimately pervades all experience, we can look even more closely at the relationship between awareness and experience. Can we really find these two elements of experience? One: experience, thoughts, images, feelings, sensations, perceptions, and two: awareness, or knowing. Is not our experience always one thing? Which is of course not a thing—One reality?

A man asks Rupert to clarify the analogy of the actor John Smith playing the character of King Lear and wonders if the essence of John Smith comes through King Lear. Rupert clarifies John Smith as pure consciousness.

A woman asks Rupert to elaborate on the statement, 'There is nobody here'. Rupert explores different interpretations of the statement.

A woman who experiences the presence of awareness as located within her body asks Rupert to define the term 'the presence of awareness'.