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Friday, August 13, 2010

Raising the Window...

In window sitting, late at night, in the dark, there seem to be many questions that arise out of curiosity, like: Is Consciousness/Awareness aware that it is aware? Can Consciousness/Awareness be aware of ItSelf? Is it true that Awareness/Consciousness is all there is? After all there *are* apparently “things” here… I mean I see trees, and houses, and plants, and animals, and people driving cars while sitting at the window every night… Then there was a “question” posed to me yesterday from a fellow “window sitter” who emailed me and said: “Sometimes in these meditations it seems there can be this seeing of this space identical with divisionless existence… but there is still the experience of something ‘other.’”

I gave a preliminary, rambling answer and then pondered a while.

And later, what arose was this:

The “seeing” is the recognition that there is no “thing” *separate* from the Essence or Essential Nature of Being; that certainly Beingness ItSelf – Spacious, Awake, Aware Presence - can and obviously does manifest ItSelf *as* many different “things”: trees, people, animals, thoughts, flowers, music, art - dark and light, pain and joy. And yes, even our personalities, our egos are not “other” than, not separate from this essential Nature of all that is. It’s like seeing that there’s an alive flow of energy through it all. And so the *idea* of separateness, of “other”, of duality, doesn’t really matter anymore, because you realize that what you see is this all-pervasive Beingness morphing ItSelf into many forms. And – it is realized that there is only a *sense* of ‘other’ that isn’t essentially real…

Later that night, during “window sitting” I couldn’t help but continue to ponder this. And once again the window of Seeing was raised, or is that the blinds: Being-Self sees ItSelf in and as everything. It Sees ItSelf as tree, as cloud, as us – no separation - as everything that exists… Being ItSelf has no sense of “other,” has no concept of separation, or duality. It only sees ItSelf…

~*~


7 comments:

  1. Hi Christine,
    Thank you for this lovely post :) There are glimpses of this 'seeing'-- the transparency of things -- of everything. The Self 'morphing' seemingly into the all. What seems to cause the wound of separation to re-occur over and over even after many glimpses of this One?
    XOXO
    -Leslie

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  2. Hi Leslie ~ "What causes the wound of separation even after seeing?"

    The continued *belief* in separation, the identification *as* a separate self - which of course I still do too... The *idea* of a separate self seems to fluctuate in and out of awareness...

    Lovebeams...

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  3. Dear Lovebeam Christine,
    First of all...my deepest thanks for all this lovebeam 'time'...
    I'm not a big advocate in manipulation of externals for freedom (as any 'external' situation would neither create nor prevent freedom)but are there cases where it might make things easier?
    XOXO
    -Leslie

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  4. Leslie! What are you talking about! As you say: "any 'external' situation would neither create nor prevent freedom". I think you answered your own question, as Adya would say.. :)

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  5. :-O --> :)
    XOXO
    -Leslie

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  6. When Being looks out, it sees nothing but the contents of its own heart. All the time. :)

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