Awareness and Qualities

How can one reconcile the experience of awareness as neutral with feelings of joy and love that arise during meditation? Rupert says: ‘Strictly speaking, we shouldn’t attribute any qualities to awareness. If awareness could speak of its own experience, it would only say “I am” or “I am aware” – nothing more. It wouldn’t say “my nature is love” or “I am peace”. These descriptions arise when the mind, informed by awareness, notices the absence of agitation, sorrow or separation in awareness. It’s legitimate to describe awareness as peace, happiness or joy as a concession to the mind, but in awareness’s own experience, it is a fullness, a plenitude. If you want to speak the highest truth, “I am” is as good as words get.’

From event 05 - 12 April, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 5–12 April 2025

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