Beautiful from Kip Mazuy and parenting with presence is quite lovely, feeling the peace and energy as you move through your routine...... Feeling Consciousness It is often said that the main cause of suffering is identification with thinking. But if you do not use thinking to perceive this moment, what is left? If you close your eyes and notice what is here without using thought, you are left with feeling. Feeling not as emotion, but as subtle sensation. With your eyes closed there is the undeniable feeling that you exist; the undeniable feeling-recognition that awareness is, that you are awareness itself. It is through resting your attention on this feeling that you begin to realize what you are. You begin to feel yourself as awareness, feel yourself as peace, feel yourself as energy. No thinking is needed to realize what is truly here, what you truly are. And in that you begin to see that the world born of thought is what is overlaid on top of what is here. And even further, the world of thought arises out of this consciousness that you are. From the perspective of thinking, this experience of feeling-consciousness may seem like a state that you go in and out of, because the mind is certain it is indeed made of thoughts; it is exists in definitions of being a person with a name and form. But through continuous immersing yourself in feeling what you are beyond thinking, or simply resting as awareness itself as the witness, the mind comes to realize that it indeed is not of thought, but is of emptiness itself. The mind confesses and surrenders to the self-evident realization that it indeed is consciousness itself. And that the idea of a person is overlaid on top of consciousness. The person does not enter into a state of consciousness, but rather there is only consciousness and that consciousness contracts into identifying with thought and in that becomes a person. (Yet never stops being consciousness) Once you realize this, then meditation mostly becomes about surrendering this identification with thought and resting in your natural, essential state-less state of consciousness. Much love, Kip
Posted on: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 04:08:09 +0000
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