AWARENESS-NOW.ORG !
Be FREE and discover how you are not your thoughts and beliefs…
Welcome friend,
Humanity has created religious, political, tribal and nation based belief systems for thousands of years. Is it possible that our clinging to beliefs is the main cause of all the division, conflict and violence happening in the world every day? Throughout the ages various people have addressed the destructive effects of taking beliefs very seriously, while also pointing to the boundless wholeness and openness of “BEING” which is always already present, beyond what you happen to think or believe right now. That’s what this website is about…
“In the course of the 21st century more and more people will realize that our beliefs and the duality, division and conflict we experience are self-created realities. Freedom and happiness have nothing to do with attachment to thoughts or concepts. To realize you are not your thoughts or beliefs, is the beginning of awakening…”
(from the Awareness now! website)
ARTICLES & STORIES
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Knowing without Thinking
Most people assume that in order to exist or to be; one needs to “think”. René Descartes (a French philosopher and scientist) has suggested this in 1637 in his famous statement: “cogito, ergo sum”. ...
95% of what you think…
Have you ever witnessed your own thoughts for a while? Truly, really do this for one hour or so and write down all that comes up in your mind. Then read it back.
Have you...
Seeking for what?
Try this experiment; find a quiet place, take some quality time for “introspection” and then simply notice what happens…
For some moments there may be stillness and quietness, but at some point an inner movement...
Awakening and the subject-object dynamic
What happens when all of your thoughts fall silent? When thinking, finding, judging, evaluating, reacting, wondering, worrying, expecting, defending, rejecting, accepting and so on, simply stops? What remains? Does it mean perception goes blank...
Video – interview with Jim Newman
Virtually all people seem to have a fundamental assumption or belief regarding Existence which is the conviction; "I am a person".
Most people generally assume that this "me" lives somewhere in the body and thus is...
Does tomorrow exist?
We are convinced somehow that there is a "me" who has a past and who is moving towards a future. Somehow we never question this. To question this is considered to be silly and...
Love is not personal?
Nobody knows what Love is exactly, but most people agree it is key to happiness somehow.
Obviously the word "love" as a noun does not point to a thing we can get or buy anywhere....
Seeking for what is un-graspable
What are we looking for? Isn't there a widely shared belief which is that you can get or obtain some-thing, which is real and will make you happy? Somehow that also seems to imply...
The danger of beliefs
We all carry beliefs around and take them very seriously. For instance: "I am a reliable person", "I am a christian/muslim/atheist", "I am an American, European, Chinese", etc...
Actually such beliefs exist nowhere but in...
Awareness vs Experience
The only moment you can be aware of anything, is right now. Awareness is not a memory or a thought. Somehow it is different from thinking, isn't it? It does not require thinking.
Imagine that...
