Colleen Loehr said...
I read this post yesterday and I read it again today and the
words bring me home to myself, to this very spot. Your words for me
are a guided meditation that heighten the quality of awareness in
this moment. When you say, "Don't focus on anything for a few
seconds,"... there is a sense of relief and relaxation and opening.
I start to realize that much of the time I am focusing on thought
without being conscious that I'm doing this. I'm narrowing
attention by habit, and this habit of constricting awareness is
exhausting, and blocks out so much of the presence of life, blocks
out awareness of my own presence, blocks out awareness of the one
presence in which we are all united.
It is clear that your words are written when your consciousness is
in the space of awake awareness, and therefore your words carry the
charge and power of this consciousness. I am genuinely grateful for
the spiritual nourishment you offer through this blog!
Perfect Awareness said...
Thank you Colleen. I am very happy to read of your experience.
This is helpful or me since my only interest is to find ways to
offer ways fro people to recognize their own true nature. I know
for you this is already the case and that is great. I like how you
say a "guided meditation" Yes, this is the truest meditation, just
recognizing your already present aware essence.
Yes, when we stop focussing on appearances, which is mostly
self-concern, our already present essential aware nature blazes
forth openly. It is like a light switch from off to on.
As all the sages have said, to just continue to recognize this in
every moment is all that is needed to be done. More and more we
just come to know this as our home, our true freedom as we continue
on in this way.
Thank you very much for you contributions!
yoga said...
Why does the seeking begin in the first place? In my case, I
suppose it was because of suffering, then I read something about
enlightement, nirvana, moksha etc, and then the trip started. I
interpretated I had to do all those practises to get enlightened
then, I would be eternally happy.
Do you think if someone had told me what you explain here then I
would have been able to appreciate it? I dont think so... So, maybe
its not that we have been told wrong paths, maybe that was what we
were able to understand... Honestly, I wish I would have met you
earlier... but who knows... I bet I wouldnt have take
advantage
much love, Paula
Perfect Awareness said...
Hi Paula,
Actually, you have been seeking since you first came to have the
concept that you were separate. When you were born you were not
seeking, then they gave you your name and you finally, after much
convincing, began to believe that you were a separate individual.
From them on you were seeking, unconsciously, in the world of
appearances for fulfillment and satisfaction, feeling alone and
isolated. Suffering. When you finally realized that doesn't work
you began to look elsewhere.
You heard about the ultimate fulfillment, one that would reunite
you with yourself, and it was called enlightenment. Now you began
to seek consciously, you knew you were seeking. But of course,
enlightenment is just another object to seek outside of yourself.
So, just like in worldly seeking, you come to find out that that
doesn't work either. Then the suffering may be even worse.
Good.
Most of us seem to have to exhaust all external possibilities, all
of the lofty or incredible ideas we have heard, before we are ready
to recognize that ultimate fulfillment is simple. Incredibly
simple. It is as simple as noticing that you are aware right here
and now, and abiding as that in the face of anything. But we have
to be ready for that. This slowly cuts through the belief that we
are separate and that fulfillment is to be found in appearances.
More and more the light of our essential aware nature blazes and
that becomes our natural habitat.
It doesn't matter whether or not you might have been ready in the
past. We are ready when we are ready.
Now, you don't have to wait for something called enlightenment.
Every time you recognize the open spaciousness of your essential
aware nature, seeking is over, in that moment. Notice that. See it
for yourself. Why is that? Because your essential aware nature is
the same now as it was when you were born, before you were trained
to seek. You haven't lost that or changed at all. You can always
notice what has always been present and free from seeking, whenever
you choose to. Abide there.
I do believe that more and more people are coming to know their
true nature far more easily than in the past. Maybe in the future
it will be even more prevalent.
Thank you for sharing!
