Presence-Awareness
August 15th, 2007 by Pete
Question: Does any appearance (thought, feeling, sensation, object, state or experience) exist independent or separate from presence-awareness?
Comment: Everything that we ever know or experience appears within presence-awareness. You have never had a single thought, feeling, sensation or any other experience outside of awareness.
In other words, this presence-awareness is the necessary precondition for anything else to be. Without this conscious presence nothing else is.
Because objects of experience and the presence of awareness are never known independently of each other, they must be, in essence, the same undivided substance or principle.
Just as waves are nothing but water or gold ornaments are nothing but gold, so are all appearances nothing but that one undeniable beingawareness. All that appears, including the seeker him or herself, is only that.
From, You Were Never Born by John Wheeler
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