What is Self-Realization, Awakening or Enlightenment?
September 11th, 2007 by Pete
Awareness is peace. It’s prior to, during and after all experience. It’s the constant underlying state — The Natural State. It’s the underlying essence of everything. If you’re reading these words then you are aware right now. In your daily experience, you’re always aware of something — whether it’s your daily activities, or it’s a series of thoughts about your career, your relationships, your finances. And you are always present as awareness watching, noticing.
What we want in life is peace, love, and the sense that everything is okay, isn’t it? Find out for yourself. Because if that’s what you want, it’s already here. It’s free. There are no requirements. No requirements at all. You don’t have to make any money. You don’t have to have any relationships. You don’t have to have a career. You need nothing! Absolutely nothing. It’s free! It’s absolutely free. It’s what you are — awareness.
Just notice, I am aware. Notice the awareness that you are — not the concept of awareness. If you can hear anything, see anything, feel anything — it’s the awareness that’s hearing, seeing, and feeling. Awareness is timelessly present. It’s not yesterday, it’s not tomorrow. It’s always now. You don’t have to wait five minutes, nor can you go back in time five minutes. It’s this point of timeless, spaceless awareness that’s always seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, smelling.
The experience that arises in awareness is absolutely irrelevant — it does not touch the peace. Whether I lose every penny I have, or I win the lottery — I am untouched as awareness. Because I am here watching, feeling, sensing.
This awareness is absolutely free. It doesn’t cost anything. You don’t have to invest time manipulating your relationships, your career, or your finances. You don’t have to do anything! It’s free. This is the resolution to all psychological suffering. This awareness is what I am. So, knowing what I am, what we are — we are the peace, the love, the sense that everything is okay — this is what I am. This is what we are.
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