We Cannot Become What We Already Are

Consciousness is that to which everything appears; within which everything arises, and out of which everything is made. First, we separate our self, consciousness, from the content of experience – all thoughts, images, feelings, and so on. We ask ‘What is aware of my experience?’ This invites the mind towards that which is aware. We are not attending to the content of experience, but to being aware of being aware, or simply being. Eventually, the distinction between subject and object collapses and leads to the recognition that consciousness is that within which everything arises and out of which everything is made. We are this borderless, loving presence of awareness, and all experience appears and disappears in this openness. We, awareness, are always luminous, never modified or changed by experience. We cannot become what we already are, nor be what we are not.

Consciousness is that to which everything appears; within which everything arises, and out of which everything is made. First, we separate our self, consciousness, from the content of experience – all thoughts, images, feelings, and so on. We ask ‘What is aware of my experience?’ This invites the mind towards that which is aware. We are not attending to the content of experience, but to being aware of being aware, or simply being. Eventually, the distinction between subject and object collapses and leads to the recognition that consciousness is that within which everything arises and out of which everything is made. We are this borderless, loving presence of awareness, and all experience appears and disappears in this openness. We, awareness, are always luminous, never modified or changed by experience. We cannot become what we already are, nor be what we are not.