Here’s a question I answered at one of my online community events:
Q: How do we remain as impersonal Awareness? It seems that when I go into impersonal awareness, it seems like nothing is happening. Does it mean that maybe we should really commit our entire day to it, or is it just up to Grace?
A: Impersonal Awareness is already fully known. It isn’t obscured in any way, and it isn’t experiential. It’s the awareness within which all experiences arise. What the mind does is try to make you believe that impersonal awareness is experiential, and that you’ll know it as impersonal awareness experientially.
But actually, it’s only the mind that’s putting forward that proposition because it’s giving you glimpses into a deeper sense of awareness. So, there can be things like silence expansion, joy, euphoria–those kind of experiences.
The mind’s saying, “Well, actually, until you stabilize these experiences, it isn’t really impersonal awareness, is it? It’s only still personal awareness.”
And that’s what the mind’s trying to convince you of.
What the mind doesn’t tell you is that impersonal awareness is actually already its totally without content. It’s the infinite field that arises within from which the forms appear.
It’s like an ocean which is always silent. There might be a few waves on the surface, and the mind is saying, “Well, this isn’t very interesting is it? This ocean is just a silent ocean so there’s not much going on. Let’s get a bit closer to the surface where there’ll be some experiences going on here; and if we play with these we’re probably going to be able to find the depth of the ocean where it’s silent and impersonal.”
In truth, though, it’s already there. What you’re knowing in this moment you’re the Infinite impersonal, timeless, omnipotent, indestructible Being knowing itself already. Whatever tries to convince you of anything other than that is just the shenanigans of the mind.
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With love,
David Bingham
