To realize implies something that exists being discovered. The Self or pure consciousness is. We may not have heard of enlightenment, the Self, or pure consciousness, but this does not negate the fact of its existence.
The discoveries of Einstein and other great minds were not created by those minds, they were just the first to uncover them. They already existed.
It is the same with enlightenment. The Self exists. Some discover it. Many do not. We don't need to do anything to bring the Self into existence. It is. It is existence itself. It is the awareness, the space in which all experience occurs. The space in which all objects, thoughts and feelings appear.
We spend most of our life caught in the web of experience, thinking and feeling. But there is the possibility of discovering that we are beyond all that we experience. We may discover that we are beyond and prior to any experience, or any object. We may discover the awareness in which all we know appears.
We may discover the space, the awareness, in which all things appear. This discovery is enlightenment. It is the noticing that one cannot be other than the space in which all experiences obtain.
Like the discovery of gravity, or the speed of light, enlightenment is the discovery that we are the container of experience, and not the experience. We are the awareness that allows the appearance of a person and all it may experience.
There is nothing we can do to become that. We can only realize that. With that realization we discover our true identify. What could be more grand than to realize we are that Self which contains the whole universe. Outside of time, outside of limitation. Eternal existence, consciousness, peace.
6 comments:
Thanks a lot Maury for your clear blogposts, I just finished reading all of it, but it took me a couple of years... your perspective has inspired my brain to change, or something like that :). It’s ongoing. Thanks!
Appreciate your comment. We are all unique personalities and awakening doesn't occur in the same way for everyone. The paths may lead to home, but they are all different. I try to write as honestly as possible what I see, feel, or come to know. In the off chance that the way I have discovered awakening is helpful to anyone else, it is satisfaction for me. No monopoly on truth here, just one path
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My ego was happy to see the confirmation of my thinking by reading your posts. It is great, that i stumbled upon your blog. I myself wanted to do the blog of the same type, but feels like there is no need for it. There is so much wisdom out there and inside of us to tap in. My prefered medium of expressing it is through painting. Maybe in the future i will wright for others, right now, it is just for myself. I will look forward to you future posts.
Thanks. You should do your blog as your contribution. It might help someone. Who knows? Is there a place where I could see your paintings?
Write for yourself. Write what you would want to hear. Then share it.
Maury
when it will flow it will flow. The blog.
www.lauraspringart.com for artwork.
Thank you.
laura
Nice. I liked "In Fields of Gold" and "Mandalay."
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