No Intermediary Needed

Just as a jar is neither empty nor full until contrasted with its opposite state, awareness simply is – beyond all qualities or descriptions. When asked about thoughts, feelings or perceptions, attention moves outwards to know these objects. Yet in knowing awareness itself, no outward movement occurs; there is only awareness knowing itself by being itself. This knowing needs no intermediary, no contrast, no description. The simple statement ‘I am’ comes closest, though even this is a concession to language. Like a screen that never becomes other than itself while displaying countless images, awareness remains unchanged while modulating into all forms of experience. Nothing exists outside it, nothing is added to or removed from it. Simply rest as this empty luminosity, this space-like presence that lends itself to all experience while ever remaining itself.

Just as a jar is neither empty nor full until contrasted with its opposite state, awareness simply is – beyond all qualities or descriptions. When asked about thoughts, feelings or perceptions, attention moves outwards to know these objects. Yet in knowing awareness itself, no outward movement occurs; there is only awareness knowing itself by being itself. This knowing needs no intermediary, no contrast, no description. The simple statement ‘I am’ comes closest, though even this is a concession to language. Like a screen that never becomes other than itself while displaying countless images, awareness remains unchanged while modulating into all forms of experience. Nothing exists outside it, nothing is added to or removed from it. Simply rest as this empty luminosity, this space-like presence that lends itself to all experience while ever remaining itself.