The key to awareness.
~* This morning’s delight: for those who wonder about awareness, perhaps here’s a key to a crystal clear recognition of this nothing that IS, that may further introduce you to yourself, as life itself: 🙂
“We know what time is, we know what space is, we know what experience is. How could we know these things if we did not, in some way, also know what timeless, spaceless, experienceless means? Can we know white without reference to black? dark without reference to light? We know impermanence because in some way we “know” permanence. This permanence is not an experience in time and space. It is not a condition. It does not belong to existence because existence is in time and space.
It is essentially nothing, yet in some way, we refer to this nothingness very often. It is the background from which we function. It has nothing to do with succession, with past and future. It is causeless and cannot be born…when this timeless awareness from which we function unconsciously becomes aware – aware of itself – then we know that what we are is timeless and spaceless. We know what life is, and it does not enter our mind to even think of death because we live knowingly in this timeless background, in the now, and succession is only an expression of this now.”
~ Jean Klein: Listening.
~ In aware living, I’ve noted recently that there’s a gentle moving into, as it were, the silence of being. Indeed, there are less noisy and chatty occasions in the head and heart, and there’s an abiding recognition of actually, factually, only – ever and always – living in complete unknowing. Only in silence can the mind really be transformed; living in the unknown happens. An unknown that’s free and freeing; empty and full. Never contradictory, always paradoxical. There’s a deep and deepening urge, (aka, the peace of one’s self-nature) that can and must only be responded to, by, and with, silence.Â
What has the most transformative power? Study, practices, teachings? Rest in quiet inner space, let flow, listen, in silence. 
