Being Consciousness
At some point in your life, a time will come when the silent Presence and Stillness in the surrounding space becomes so profoundly intense that a separation will occur between your conscious thinking mind and the sense of simply Being/Existing.
When that separation is clear, it becomes obvious that the Presence is deeper and more profound than any sense of a separate individual “me”. Spontaneously the question arises, “Who am I?… Am I the person I thought I was, or am I this unbounded field of timeless Presence?”
If the time is right for you, the mind will stop completely (if only for a second) and an instantaneous shift will take place, beyond the intellect, in the innermost core of your being; it’s a shift from being the person you thought you were, to being the unbounded field of pure Awareness in which everything is contained. The individual separate self-sense disappears and you awaken to your true, boundless reality.
The awakening dawns with such a bright light of clarity that, in spite of any beliefs or experience you have ever had, you cannot deny that who You really are is that unbounded field of pure Awareness itself, not the person having the experience.
The sense of Being reclaims its true, boundless reality through the vehicle of your body/mind. You become pure Awareness itself, the underlying source of all experience and the ultimate basis of all existence. It can happen when you least expect it. It can happen while reading this post.
You may think what you now know, perceive and experience is real and undeniable. But as your consciousness expands, your sense of reality changes. When the shift to being Awareness itself happens, an entirely new dimension of life opens up—one that the mind could never have imagined. It is the dimension of the boundless reality of your Being, and it has been right in front of you all along, unknown and unseen. It is from this hidden-in-plain-sight dimension of unbounded pure Awareness that, for the first time, you see through the veil of concepts, beliefs and perceptions that have been clouding the ultimate truth of your existence all your life.
Many transcendental or spiritual experiences beyond the mind and senses (such as expanded awareness, waves of bliss, witnessing the body, visions of divine light, oneness with an object of experience, etc.) can happen before the real Awakening.
Anyone who has ever had a spiritual experience cannot deny its reality. Profound spiritual experiences can be life-changing and are never forgotten. However, it is very easy to get caught in the phenomena of the experience and miss the grace-given opportunity to awaken to the true unbounded reality of the experiencer underlying all experience.
When the real Awakening happens, it is the sense of being the individual separate self you thought you were that is forgotten. It is found to not exist. It was only a deeply ingrained idea, a habit, not a reality. You awaken to being the unbounded pure Awareness in which all experience, no matter how spiritual or profound, happens. Spiritual experiences are only temporary whereas true Awakening is permanent.
But this Awakening is not the end. It is the beginning. It is the basic platform upon which Consciousness (your real Self) can begin to unfold the finer, more comprehensive realities of itself. Consciousness continues to shift to broader and broader perspectives and perceptions of itself as it opens to the greater expanse of its infinite wholeness. It reveals finer, more divine dimensions of itself, which have been right in front of you, in the appearance of the body, surroundings, nature, world and universe all along.
To discover the treasure chest of unbounded pure Awareness is one thing. But opening that treasure chest, to reveal the divine majesty of the treasure within, is quite another.
Priceless gems and precious jewels of divine knowledge, wisdom, beauty, richness, abundance, love, joy and bliss are found therein. Consciousness continues to reveal incomparable divine subtleties of itself within the finer interstices of its process of experiencing itself. There is no end to the infinite treasure within.
