The real unchanging you
Q: when you use the ancient analogy of space like awareness, what are you really pointing to?
Jean-Pierre Gomez: The ancient Saints and Sages used the analogy of space like awareness for a few good reasons, first of all that everything that we perceive is contained in space, wherever you go, there is space and it is infinite. It is no-thing for the mind to grasp. It is always untouched and unchanging.
All objects need space to be present for them to appear, space is always the primary, the unchanging background where all objects appear in. With pure awareness or consciousness, it is the same principal, every objects and every things are contained in the ever present unchanging pure awareness, it is always untouched by time and things, like a mirror is always untouched by the objects being reflected on it.
Unless someone comes along and points out to us that space is the very first thing that we see, when we open our eyes, and that everything appears in this unchanging space. We may never notice that space is the primary or first thing that we see. To most people the focus is solely on the content of space, the objects and movements appearing in it.
With pure presence awareness it is the same, unless someone comes up to us and points out the obvious, we may spend our life time focusing on the objects and movements on the unchanging ever present awareness that we truly are. It is the primary, it is unchanging. All objects, forms, shapes, images, thoughts, feelings, emotions etc... they all appear and disappear on the unchanging presence of awareness. Just like all objects appear and disappear all day long on the unchanging space outside ourselves.
Simply notice what is always present as your true nature, the unchanging presence of awareness that is always the real unchanging you. That is what you really are. All so called good or bad thoughts and pleasant or painful feelings are always cognized and registered on the presence of awareness that you are. You are always aware of what arises on you, if it is so called pleasant or disturbing thoughts or feelings, you know.
Everything appears and disappears on that unchanging presence that is so familiar, the true you or your Natural State. Realize or notice that are conscious and alive, that is the obvious living presence or pure awareness I am pointing to. It is not a thing or an object to be grasp, simply the recognition of your familiar presence of beingness, or livingness, the presence of existence. The pure cognizing and registering presence, living intelligence or awareness.
Your true nature is always present like an ever shining sun, like the unchanging sky or untouched and ungraspable space. It is the ordinary everyday primary presence of existence, that lights up the world, that you see through you eyes right now.
Could you be aware of anything at all going on in you or outside of you without your beingness or awareness present first? You have to be conscious for anything to be registered by you. You are that ordinary consciousness or wakefulness. That is your true nature.
Just like space is the primary for objects to appear in and on, without that primary presence of livingness or pure awareness, you could not have anything arise on you and being cognized by you. You have to be present and conscious, alive and aware for anything to be registered and appear to you as this or that.
It is not difficult to notice the unchanging familiar presence that you truly are, your true nature or Natural State. It is always aware of everything, like a video camera is registering everything that appears and disappears without thinking about it. Your true nature is registering all the rising thoughts, feelings, sounds, images etc... It is simple, ordinary, so familiar that unless it is pointed out to you, it is easily missed or overlooked. Yet it is the real unchanging you, nothing more to it.
You are already that unchanging presence of existence or awareness, like space you cannot ever separate yourself from pure presence of awareness or your true self. Pause thoughts for an instant and notice that you remain as that obvious and yet ungraspable pure cognizing and registering awareness or existence.
Realize right this instant that you are already home and always were home. You cannot be anything other than pure presence awareness or pure consciousness. That is what you truly are, this obvious and familiar presence or space like unchanging awareness that is the primary you.
Don't fall into the trap of trying to become something special or extraordinary in time, that is the trap of the mind. It is what keeps you from recognizing the ordinariness of what you truly are. Drop all erroneous acquired ideas and beliefs that you have, all the years of false conditioning, just drop it all off right now and be mentally naked from the dead past, from dead memories and dead beliefs.
Realize that all beliefs and conditioning you accepted to be true over the years, is only acquired knowledge from others. It only appears to exist in your memories, in the past, in time, in thoughts. Be mentally naked to the ever new and ever fresh moment of existence, of now, that is the reality or your true moment of existence, there is no other moment of existence than right now. Drop the looking or seeking outside yourself in time for something to be different or something more to acquire than the ordinary presence that you are, and always have been.
Understand that only the false belief in this illusory, dualistic and continuously changing world is what keeps you missing the unchanging real you, like the eye cannot see itself, you cannot deny that there is a living presence of awareness seeing through your eyes. You are not blind! There is pure seeing or cognizing of the world going on effortlessly, all day long. You are that living presence or cognizing intelligent-awareness. That ordinary everyday presence of awareness, that is effortlessly and naturally registering everything and looking through your eyes right now, this very instant. That is your true nature Seeing.
Understand, you are totally whole and complete already, that is the truth about you. There never was a separate"me' or an individual entity running the show with any power to do anything of it's own. There is no entity called "me", mind or ego that can exist at all, even for a second apart from your true nature. Your true nature is the real and only power of existence, it is always with you right now. Living your life for you, functioning and growing your body every moment, effortlessly and subtlety.
Again it is so obvious to you, so effortless. Your true nature is seeing through your eyes right now, hearing through you ears, feeling through your body, all your thoughts and emotions are simply just another expression of your true nature. Realize that there is nothing to get rid of, nothing to attain, nothing to become or to hold on to. You are total oneness just as you are. You are that ungraspable presence of existence that is experiencing itself through you as you, right here and right now.
Pure presence of awareness or existence is the real unchanging you, the mind just labels or translates for your true nature. The mind is simply a tool of consciousness to express itself with itself. that is all the mind's function is. All that needs to be realized is that we took the mind to be the real power, we took a shadow to be the real, that is all.
The mind is not an enemy or something bad to overcome or destroy, for in essence it is also pure awareness, or you. You are the totality of everything that appears and disappears on awareness, like all objects appearing in space are also made of space or like all waves arising on the surface of the ocean are nothing other than the ocean.
With or without the labels or names from the mind, you still function perfectly, effortlessly, as pure awareness. Just like nature functions perfectly without a mind. Recognize your true nature, notice that familiar presence of existence that is so familiar to you and always present, always timeless, it is the you that never grows old. As far back as you can remember, It always as been present with you as you. No matter what size and age your body was, it never changed or grew older in time. Once you recognize that ever present sense of beingness, you will recognize the infinite oneness that you always have been and always will be.
Jean-Pierre Gomez
http://www.you-are-that.com/TheNaturalState_Here&Now_YOUareTHAT_dialogue83.html
Jean-Pierre Gomez: The ancient Saints and Sages used the analogy of space like awareness for a few good reasons, first of all that everything that we perceive is contained in space, wherever you go, there is space and it is infinite. It is no-thing for the mind to grasp. It is always untouched and unchanging.
All objects need space to be present for them to appear, space is always the primary, the unchanging background where all objects appear in. With pure awareness or consciousness, it is the same principal, every objects and every things are contained in the ever present unchanging pure awareness, it is always untouched by time and things, like a mirror is always untouched by the objects being reflected on it.
Unless someone comes along and points out to us that space is the very first thing that we see, when we open our eyes, and that everything appears in this unchanging space. We may never notice that space is the primary or first thing that we see. To most people the focus is solely on the content of space, the objects and movements appearing in it.
With pure presence awareness it is the same, unless someone comes up to us and points out the obvious, we may spend our life time focusing on the objects and movements on the unchanging ever present awareness that we truly are. It is the primary, it is unchanging. All objects, forms, shapes, images, thoughts, feelings, emotions etc... they all appear and disappear on the unchanging presence of awareness. Just like all objects appear and disappear all day long on the unchanging space outside ourselves.
Simply notice what is always present as your true nature, the unchanging presence of awareness that is always the real unchanging you. That is what you really are. All so called good or bad thoughts and pleasant or painful feelings are always cognized and registered on the presence of awareness that you are. You are always aware of what arises on you, if it is so called pleasant or disturbing thoughts or feelings, you know.
Everything appears and disappears on that unchanging presence that is so familiar, the true you or your Natural State. Realize or notice that are conscious and alive, that is the obvious living presence or pure awareness I am pointing to. It is not a thing or an object to be grasp, simply the recognition of your familiar presence of beingness, or livingness, the presence of existence. The pure cognizing and registering presence, living intelligence or awareness.
Your true nature is always present like an ever shining sun, like the unchanging sky or untouched and ungraspable space. It is the ordinary everyday primary presence of existence, that lights up the world, that you see through you eyes right now.
Could you be aware of anything at all going on in you or outside of you without your beingness or awareness present first? You have to be conscious for anything to be registered by you. You are that ordinary consciousness or wakefulness. That is your true nature.
Just like space is the primary for objects to appear in and on, without that primary presence of livingness or pure awareness, you could not have anything arise on you and being cognized by you. You have to be present and conscious, alive and aware for anything to be registered and appear to you as this or that.
It is not difficult to notice the unchanging familiar presence that you truly are, your true nature or Natural State. It is always aware of everything, like a video camera is registering everything that appears and disappears without thinking about it. Your true nature is registering all the rising thoughts, feelings, sounds, images etc... It is simple, ordinary, so familiar that unless it is pointed out to you, it is easily missed or overlooked. Yet it is the real unchanging you, nothing more to it.
You are already that unchanging presence of existence or awareness, like space you cannot ever separate yourself from pure presence of awareness or your true self. Pause thoughts for an instant and notice that you remain as that obvious and yet ungraspable pure cognizing and registering awareness or existence.
Realize right this instant that you are already home and always were home. You cannot be anything other than pure presence awareness or pure consciousness. That is what you truly are, this obvious and familiar presence or space like unchanging awareness that is the primary you.
Don't fall into the trap of trying to become something special or extraordinary in time, that is the trap of the mind. It is what keeps you from recognizing the ordinariness of what you truly are. Drop all erroneous acquired ideas and beliefs that you have, all the years of false conditioning, just drop it all off right now and be mentally naked from the dead past, from dead memories and dead beliefs.
Realize that all beliefs and conditioning you accepted to be true over the years, is only acquired knowledge from others. It only appears to exist in your memories, in the past, in time, in thoughts. Be mentally naked to the ever new and ever fresh moment of existence, of now, that is the reality or your true moment of existence, there is no other moment of existence than right now. Drop the looking or seeking outside yourself in time for something to be different or something more to acquire than the ordinary presence that you are, and always have been.
Understand that only the false belief in this illusory, dualistic and continuously changing world is what keeps you missing the unchanging real you, like the eye cannot see itself, you cannot deny that there is a living presence of awareness seeing through your eyes. You are not blind! There is pure seeing or cognizing of the world going on effortlessly, all day long. You are that living presence or cognizing intelligent-awareness. That ordinary everyday presence of awareness, that is effortlessly and naturally registering everything and looking through your eyes right now, this very instant. That is your true nature Seeing.
Understand, you are totally whole and complete already, that is the truth about you. There never was a separate"me' or an individual entity running the show with any power to do anything of it's own. There is no entity called "me", mind or ego that can exist at all, even for a second apart from your true nature. Your true nature is the real and only power of existence, it is always with you right now. Living your life for you, functioning and growing your body every moment, effortlessly and subtlety.
Again it is so obvious to you, so effortless. Your true nature is seeing through your eyes right now, hearing through you ears, feeling through your body, all your thoughts and emotions are simply just another expression of your true nature. Realize that there is nothing to get rid of, nothing to attain, nothing to become or to hold on to. You are total oneness just as you are. You are that ungraspable presence of existence that is experiencing itself through you as you, right here and right now.
Pure presence of awareness or existence is the real unchanging you, the mind just labels or translates for your true nature. The mind is simply a tool of consciousness to express itself with itself. that is all the mind's function is. All that needs to be realized is that we took the mind to be the real power, we took a shadow to be the real, that is all.
The mind is not an enemy or something bad to overcome or destroy, for in essence it is also pure awareness, or you. You are the totality of everything that appears and disappears on awareness, like all objects appearing in space are also made of space or like all waves arising on the surface of the ocean are nothing other than the ocean.
With or without the labels or names from the mind, you still function perfectly, effortlessly, as pure awareness. Just like nature functions perfectly without a mind. Recognize your true nature, notice that familiar presence of existence that is so familiar to you and always present, always timeless, it is the you that never grows old. As far back as you can remember, It always as been present with you as you. No matter what size and age your body was, it never changed or grew older in time. Once you recognize that ever present sense of beingness, you will recognize the infinite oneness that you always have been and always will be.
Jean-Pierre Gomez
http://www.you-are-that.com/TheNaturalState_Here&Now_YOUareTHAT_dialogue83.html
