Awareness Unaware of Itself

[justlikeyou]

"Why Are We Unaware of Awareness?" - Wei Wu Wei

There is nobody and nothing to be aware of Awareness,
Awareness, I cannot be aware of myself,
For I know no self of which I could be aware.

I am no thing of which to be aware,
As a thing 'you' cannot know awareness,
For 'you' can only be aware as 'I',
When there is no 'me' of which to be aware.

Divided into cognising subject cognising objects,
I cognise all that can be cognised,
Every conceptual thing save what is cognising,
Which, as such, is not conceivable, since it is no thing,
And is no thing, since it is not conceivable.

This is all I am, so simple am I,
Devoid of mystery, majesty, divinity,
Of any attribute whatever.
Being no thing,
How could I have the attribute of any thing?

Why try to glorify me?
I am neither glorious nor not-glorious,
I am neither anything nor nothing,
Neither the presence nor the absence of any thing.
I am this total phenomenal absence
Which is all that phenomenal presence can be.

Then how can I be known?
I cannot.
How can I be experienced?
I cannot.
Only 'God' can be experienced,
And He is my concept, my object.

But when conceptualising is in abeyance,
Time is in abeyance also,
And space, together with all concepts.
Then all that you are I am.
You are my 'self'. I can have no other.

[zendancer]

"Why try to glorify me?"..........well,

"I saw the truth for fifteen seconds, and I became a servant for life."

"To abide in the splendor, perfection, and wonder of The Self is the greatest of all gifts."

"God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there."

"There is a Secret One inside us; the planets in all the galaxies pass through his hands like beads. That is a string of beads one should look at with luminous eyes."

"I can't explain the goings, or the comings. You enter suddenly, and I am nowhere again. Inside the Majesty."

"He who finds the truth is free; he has found himself. Whole, he enters the Whole. His personal self returns to its radiant, intimate, deathless source. As rivers lose name and form when they disappear into the sea, the sage leaves behind all traces when he disappears into the light."

Indeed!

[justlikeyou]

At 14 months old conscious existence sprang into beingness. Out of a dark unknowingness "knowingness" of the world suddenly WAS...perfectly still, wordlessly alive, pure perception perceived the existence of a strange, new world...yet one giving rise to the other. The room, the furnitire, the flooring, open windows, sounds of spring beyond, sun filled sheer curtains billowing gently on warm breezes, wordlessly, silently witnessed...completely undivided, virginally undifferentiated...Wholeness.

[zendancer]

Oct 5, 2015 8:37:17 GMT -5 justlikeyou said:

At 14 months old conscious existence sprang into beingness. Out of a dark unknowingness "knowingness" of the world suddenly WAS...perfectly still, wordlessly alive, pure perception perceived the existence of a strange, new world...yet one giving rise to the other. The room, the furnitire, the flooring, open windows, sounds of spring beyond, sun filled sheer curtains billowing gently on warm breezes, wordlessly, silently witnessed...completely undivided, virginally undifferentiated...Wholeness.

Yes, and the doorway to THAT is always open.