Awareness and consciousness – same and different?
Today’s Delight:
In daily aware living, aka ‘meditation’, a delicious joy and wonder lingers in simply sitting quietly sipping a warm cuppa and tasting one of my favourite, non-dual ‘chocolate’ makers! – Nisargadatta. Enjoy! 🙂
“Awareness is primordial; it is the original state, beginningless, endless, uncaused, unsupported, without parts, without change. Consciousness is on contact, a reflection against a surface, a state of duality. There can be no consciousness without awareness; but there can be awareness without consciousness, as in deep sleep. Awareness is absolute; consciousness is relative to its content; consciousness is always of something. Consciousness is partial and changeful, awareness is total, changeless, calm and silent. And it is the common matrix of every experience…
There is awareness in every state of consciousness… Interest in your stream of consciousness takes you to awareness. It is not a new state. It is at once recognized as the original, basic existence, which is life itself, and also love and joy…To know the self as the only reality and all else as temporal and transient is freedom, peace and joy. It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things as imagined, learn to see them as they are.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
* Meditation is simply the immediate choiceless experiencing of aware living, nothing more, nothing less. Love what is, and be well 🙂
