Sunday, April 21, 2019

Being Aware of Being Aware








Introduction to this book.. 
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=pBJHDgAAQBAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PT10


Jenny Beal: co-host of discussion on the last chapter of Being Aware...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niPBzHnRNkk&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3IFMfVF9Pf3B39jBjvJcK2XBKaj6QbxgZ7oD7CzeOX17Ko3saMWR9Rzas

Everybody is aware, all seven billion of us. We are aware of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions. All people share the experience of being aware, but relatively few people are aware that they are aware. Most people’s lives consist of a flow of thoughts, images, ideas, feelings, sensations, sights, sounds, and so on. Very few people ask, “What is it that knows this flow of thoughts, feelings, and perceptions? With what am I aware of my experience?”

The knowing of our being—or rather, awareness’s knowing of its own being in us—is our primary experience, our most fundamental and intimate experience. It is in this experience that all the peace, happiness, and love we have ever longed for reside. The happiness we have sought for so long outside of ourselves, in situations, objects, and relationships, turns out to be always present, always available, in the simple knowing of our own being as it is.

The knowing of our own being shines in each one of us as the experience “I am” or “I am aware,” or simply as the thought “I.” Because this simplest, most obvious, most familiar, and intimate experience is to the mind not a thing, or nothing, it is overlooked or forgotten by the vast majority of humanity. The overlooking of our own being is the root cause of all unhappiness and, therefore, the root cause of our search for happiness. What is the nature of this experience of being aware? The contemplations in this collection will lead readers toward their own experiential understanding of that which we all call “I.”

Being Aware of Being Aware is the first and introductory volume in the Essence of Meditation series of collected meditations on the fundamentals of non-duality. Each volume will include six essays, compiled from contemplations led by Rupert Spira at retreats.
 


RS...Awareness and Experience (collage, music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uk8B5h1gRE

RS...The Intuition of Our Shared Being
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER_oZHWefAI

RS...The Body is Made of Awareness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3Ms0WfGdY

RS...Questioning the Matter Model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnziYdLR1Ww

RS...I am Something Nothing Everything
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-51TQCaGH6k




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