The Relationship Between Experience and Awareness

What is the relationship between awareness and one’s experience – is awareness prior to experience or does it arise with it? Rupert says: ‘Is it your experience that your thoughts arise? Your sensations? The sound of my voice? Is it your experience that awareness arises? To whom does it arise? If you claim it’s your experience that awareness arises, whatever witnesses that appearance must be present and aware. How many awarenesses have you experienced during your life? There’s only one awareness, only one self, only one being – either clothed in experience, in which case it seems to be a temporary finite self like a human being, or naked, in which case it’s no longer a human being but pure being, infinite being, God’s being. My experience is that consciousness is completely free, not bound or conditioned by anything. The freedom I sense as an apparently separate individual is borrowed from the freedom that properly belongs to consciousness.’

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

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