Awareness Even Prior to Declaring ‘I Am’

Feel that awareness is not just the ever-present background but also the medium, container or field within which all experience arises. Imagine awareness as the physical space of the universe with the added quality of knowing. You are essentially this aware space that is background and container of everything. Allow anything that appears to be exactly as is, but don’t turn allowing into a practice, a mind activity. Allowing is the space’s nature. Awareness illuminates experience, rendering it knowable. Prior to anything arising within, this aware space is silent, at peace. No objects, no activity, no agitation. When the mind pauses normal activity, it conceives awareness’s innate wholeness as ‘happiness’. When the mind pauses in dividing everything, shining awareness filters through, and the mind labels it ‘love’. All that remains in our experience is not how the mind sees awareness, but how we, awareness, experience our self, even prior to the declaration, I am?

Feel that awareness is not just the ever-present background but also the medium, container or field within which all experience arises. Imagine awareness as the physical space of the universe with the added quality of knowing. You are essentially this aware space that is background and container of everything. Allow anything that appears to be exactly as is, but don’t turn allowing into a practice, a mind activity. Allowing is the space’s nature. Awareness illuminates experience, rendering it knowable. Prior to anything arising within, this aware space is silent, at peace. No objects, no activity, no agitation. When the mind pauses normal activity, it conceives awareness’s innate wholeness as ‘happiness’. When the mind pauses in dividing everything, shining awareness filters through, and the mind labels it ‘love’. All that remains in our experience is not how the mind sees awareness, but how we, awareness, experience our self, even prior to the declaration, I am?