The Awakening of Awareness..... The average human being, regardless of his intellectual capacity, is far from conscious. It is not mental acuity or the ability to solve complex problems that makes us conscious, but the light of I am. Artificial intelligence can perform highly intelligent functions, yet itself has no consciousness. A mind that is not grounded in clear presence lacks any true center to which it could refer its thinking processes. Unless we realize the unchanging background of all thoughts, we cannot meet our own existence, our inborn presence beyond thinking. Awakening to the state of presence is beyond any relative experience of becoming more and more aware of something external; it is a profound existential shift to objectless awareness. The light of attention is the foundation of each act of perception and cognition, and can either be dispersed in the semi-conscious activities of the mind or focused in a one-pointed way upon itself. Ordinarily, we center our attention either through objects external to the mind or within the activity of the mind, as in conscious thinking. In order to channel our awareness in the service of self-knowledge, we must shift our attention from object to subject. When attention becomes aware of itself, it gives rise to the state of self-attention, or pure-attention. To be just attentive without any kind of object is awareness. Awakening to this pristine consciousness, we experience the miracle of regaining our true center.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 02:27:57 +0000
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