The core of your existence

An Eternal Now SG · 2012-11-16T23:16:08+00:00

I am here thanks to my ignorance and cravings. I will continue to exist until these are extinguished.

Ozean SG

Jui said: Ozean, it will help to check and observe the actual "feeling" of this experience of "behind the eyes".

Thanks Jui,

Haven't really looked at that. I 'v read on it one time on some non dual site. The eye balls friction is sensed which is another experience of feeling which happens on itself. Thanks.

I don't rely on thoughts as they are coming not from me.

thanks AEN for the link.

Ozean SG

Quote Frrom Rupert Spira's website:

"Nour: I feel that I am that which sees through the eyes of this body, hears through the ears of this body.

Rupert: It is true that you are that which sees, hears etc. However, you, Awareness, don’t see or hear through a body. In other words, Awareness is not located in a body, looking out through the eyes, or behind the ears hearing.

The idea that we see through the eyes or hear through the ears is simply another mistaken interpretation by thought superimposed upon the reality of our experience.

Let us take the experience of hearing. Normally thought conceptualises a ‘me’ inside the head hearing a sound that is considered to be outside the head. Take a sound that you are hearing now, for instance, the traffic. And take the experience of the head, in which hearing is supposedly taking place. Our only experience of the head is a tingling mass of vibration.

Now is it your actual experience that the sound of the traffic is taking place inside the tingling vibration we call ‘the head?’ Go directly to the experience. Or rather is it your experience that the tingling vibration called the ‘sound of traffic’ and the tingling vibration call the ‘head’ both appear in Awareness?

Or we can ask ourselves, do we experience the Awareness that is hearing the sound of the traffic as being located in the tingling mass of vibration called ‘the head?’ In other words do we experience Awareness inside a sensation but outside a perception?

In order to find the answer try to look at this Awareness…..do you know where to look for it, can you see it or find it? No! Whilst Awareness is undeniably present, it cannot be located anywhere.

Therefore it is our simple, direct experience that Awareness is not located in the sensation we call the head and therefore it is also our simple experience that hearing, which takes place in Awareness, is also not located in the head.

Our only experience of the head is through sensing and our only experience of the sound of the traffic is through hearing, and sensing and hearing both take place in the same place, that is, in the placeless place of Awareness.

In fact, it is not even true to say that hearing and sensing take place in Awareness. Rather, Awareness as it were, takes the shape of sensing and hearing from time to time.

Awareness then takes the shape of a thought which conjures up a fairy tale about an individual entity that lives inside the head which hears a sound which supposedly takes place in an imagined space outside the head.

However, this fairy tale doesn’t change the fact of our experience which is that there is only Awareness, which sometimes takes the shape of thinking, sensing and perceiving, thereby giving birth to the appearance of the mind, body and world.

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