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.<\/p>\n
Imagine that you are looking at a tree, with thousands of green leaves slowly waving in the wind. The sunlight shines on the leaves and a complex pattern of shadows moves on the ground below. You hear the leaves rustling. Suddenly you are aware that there is a squirrel watching you from one of the branches. You didn’t notice him before, but NOW you do! The squirrel looks at you for a while and then suddenly jumps off the branch and is gone…<\/p>\n
Did it require any conceptual thinking or beliefs to be aware of the squirrel, of its colour, its moving tail, its piercing black eyes?\u00a0 No. It did not, right?<\/p>\n
Now that the squirrel is gone, you may begin to think and say to yourself; “That was a cute one! I hope I will see him again, it was such a nice experience…”<\/p>\n
But was it an experience at the very moment you were aware of the squirrel? No. It became an experience when you started to think about it afterwards, right?<\/p>\n
Do you see the difference between awareness and experience? Awareness does not require thinking or any concepts. It is direct.<\/p>\n
Would it possible to be aware most of the time, instead of constantly thinking and having ideas about everthing?<\/p>\n
(PS: welcome to awakening)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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